The broken shore quest has been out for almost a week now and so if you haven't played it yet or seen the cut scenes on YouTube you might want to do that. For the rest of us that have let's talk about it. I know for me it was a emotional experience.
From the moment you get to Stormwind harbor and see all the ships ready to head to the broken shore you know this isn't going to end well. Then you start preparing by shining your armor and eating your last meal, your last fricken meal they don't expect you to come back. How many quests start off like that. I can only think of one maybe 2 other quests that have sent you on a supposed suicide mission.
Once you get to the broken shore things seem a bit more darker when you see all the sunken ships and the beam of fel energy blasted into the sky. If deathwing didn't fuck up Azeroth environment I'm sure fel energy isn't good for the atmosphere. But hey they do give us some hope the horde and alliance working together to fend off the legion. Right? Oh wait never mind the horde retreat (for good reason) and force the alliance to do the same. Though our retreat isn't as clean as the hordes and Varian is left killing a fel reaver and making his final stand.
I played the broken shore quest a bunch of times when it was on PTR but on there they didn't have the cut seances implemented so I had sit there wondering what happen. I knew already that Varian died. When I finally saw it on Tuesday I was not prepared for the manner in which he would die. Being devoured by fel till he just exploded it was just horrible. But at the same time how else could you kill off a warrior like him. It worked how they did it, having him make the ultimate sacrifice not just for the alliance but the horde as well.
The Horde also lost a leader at the broken shore. Voljin was injured at the broken shore which caused sylvanas to call for a retreat. The Horde also gets another cut seance after the broken shore, showing voljin naming salvo is as the new Warcheif of the Horde. Though watching the cut seance I noticed Ban Bloodboof looking a bit more shocked than the other leaders that she was named Warcheif. I think maybe he thought he would make a better Warcheif.
I know for me the death of voljin wasn't to emotional for me. Maybe because I mostly play Alliance or it could be because it feels like he was only Warcheif for like a day, but it didn't make me want to cry like Varians death did. Also their are rumors that Voljin isn't really dead, though that is something I'm sure we will find out in a later patch if that is true.
Overall the broken shore is one of the best per expansion content and could stand on its own but I didn't even talk about the invasions the dredlord infection thing. They really did a good job with this content. We also should be getting he Karazan and uldur quest line soon. I'm excited for that and for the expiation to finally be released at the end of the month.