Skoll Shorties

Honestly was more worried about them NOT focusing on older characters & instead focusing on the new Shadowlands one. I have like no care in the world about these Covenants or their Leaders. What does interest me is the characters who're in these realms that we're familiar with.

Well yeah exactly that's what I mean. When you're waving signs and making billboards going, "ZOMG GAIZ KAEL'THAS IS BACK! UTHER IS BACK! DRAKA!!!!" then that's what the discourse will be about. Nobody is talking about Kyrestia or the Winter Queen or Prince Whateverhisnameis

When the whole realm is the Land of the Dead it should be entirely expected to see old faces again. It would be a crime to not have them be a major focus of some kind in the story or zones. At least they're choosing the more obscure characters or characters who got done dirty.

I'm not saying bringing back old characters isn't in theme for what the expansion is. I'm saying that when you're flatout pandering to nostalgia by doing so, it makes it way harder for people to become attached to NEW characters because they only care about the returning ones.

I think it's extremely hard to care about characters in a Realm of the Dead in the first place. This was my biggest reason why Shadowlands concerned me. In Legion and BfA new characters were added in a reality that is our own. Talanji and Thally being really good examples.

Which is why its confusing that they keep teasing all these returning characters and then basically don't have them around (outside of cameos) until the max level Covenant campaigns. It also feels kind of scummy because unless you have 4 max levels you won't see them all.

It looks a lot like Legion's Order Halls then. If you care enough about [X Character] you're going to have to make an [X Class] to see what happens to them. Just instead its Covenants and not Classes.

I'd argue its worse because there's less and they're exclusively where the returning character nostalgia that they're constantly pandering about the expansion having is. I thought it was bad in Legion too. I hated having to level 12 classes just to get my end-game story content.