Skoll Shorties

One thing I see some take issue with is "Why is he out in the frontlines?" he was out in the frontlines during the start of BfA and Bolvar is involved this time around. Anduin has already lost Varian and I don't think he wants to lose another. (2/4)

Doing a stupid thing in the past doesn't suddenly make it okay to do another stupid thing. It's nonsensical 'rule of cool' writing.

They've been writing Anduin to doing reckless things since Mists of Pandaria. It's nothing new. And they usually reward Anduin's reckless behaviour with him getting broken legs or nearly dying to Sylvanas' shenanigans.

Going, "Anduin's always been reckless" is generalizing the complaint so much that it's lost all meaning. That's not the complaint. The complaint is them writing him as suddenly some front-line battalion leading warrior after years of establishing him as not that.

I honestly just don't take an issue with the High King taking charge and going to the front lines and being active. How dull would it be if all Anduin would do is stay back in Stormwind and do nothing? He did that during most of BfA and it wasn't good.

...because he's not a warrior and never has been. And we've had more than a few examples of Blizzard reinforcing that. But because the modern writers just give no shits, they have him smashing a tank with a sword in bfa and charging into battle on the front lines as a priest.

They've made him into a Warrior-Priest hybrid since the start of Battle for Azeroth. He now wields Shalamayne, he now wears plate. They've been gradual with it since Legion this is a development not a: "Anduin is suddenly a druid."

Where was the gradual? It was "Cataclysm/MoP/WoD/Legion strict priest, bad at sword fighting" and then BfA was, "NAW DUDES IMA FIGHT A TANK!" It wasn't gradual at all rofl Where did they ever say he was a "Warrior-Priest hybrid" either? You're just excusing shoddy writing again