Really just awful leadership on both sides. They have world ending technology, the ability to create machines from our future, and yet they decide to send some goat with a robe and a stick to go fight their major battles.
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Blizzard have this issue of giving Alliance overpowered things (lore wise) then purposely forgetting about them or underwriting them because the Horde would feel bad.
Ironforge being 1 shot by a flying space ship laser, Jaina flooding the entire Orgrimmar, Tyrande doing (literally) anything with the Night Warrior or Malfurion kinda just like calling down the fury of the elements to blow up half of Kalimdor might not leave the majority of players too happy.
So instead we get awful awful AWFUL writing. Steve Danuser sucks, sucks so bad. How he has a job blows my mind honestly Shadowlands lore is the most damaging content I’ve ever seen in any franchise ever to the established lore.
WoW Lore cannot recover from it, ever. If you’re ever having a bad day just go visit reddit warcraftlore and you’ll instantly feel better about yourself and/or your situation. We’ve been having daily meltdowns for years at this point.
edit: SUCKS MAN HE SUCKS SO MUCH SUCKY SUCKY SUCK SUCK
edit 2: ROBOT GODS?? WTF SUCKS DUDE
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I don’t think the leadership from either faction has ever really been described as “intelligent.”
You feel better now?
I mean, I agree, but I thought I would ask.
Cheers! 
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“Wow, that was a weird dream, wasn’t it Adventurer?”
—Leaked line from the opening cutscene of WoW 2
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I actually cracked up when Nimox was responding to the Blessing of Summer feedback and actually said, almost out of nowhere for no relevance:
“Also, Shadowlands and its story doesn’t stop existing after Dragonflight launches.”
yea bro we know and next time just @ lore fans you coward.
Space Laser vs Mecha-Scorpion
Coming to theaters Summer 2023.
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Yeah but we’re like the wrath of The Emperor or something. Y’know, long live The Imperium. Inquisitors and whatnot. Or Space Marines. Or Battle Sisters.
Right?
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Sure it can, opening scene of DF just have everyone wake up in the back of a cart.
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or the big cannon on the horde side when is that going to be fired
because tipple chin has not be found yet.
To be fair people on reddit aren’t really people they’re just congealed masses of fandom anger whom somehow learned to talk
Scientifically speaking
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Alliance leaders have been flat out more powerful than horde for like, ever
What, we got Thrall who doesn’t do anything anymore?
Meanwhile alliance got Jaina, Tyraleon, whatever his void wifes name is, Velen technically, and the giant space ship
I think this explains everything. Whenever something in Lore doesn’t add up, just wave your hands in the air and shout, “Robot gods!” and people will go, “Ah yes!” and smile knowingly. It just makes everything else that doesn’t make sense, suddenly make sense.
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Unironically a better expansion premise than what Shadowlands turned out to be.
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Can you point me to like, any example of the Alliance using their infinite power? If the writing was even remotely resembled the actual power of our leaders Horde would have been wiped off the face of the planet years ago.
Instead we get these insane power level heroes who just do nothing and Alliance are written as incompetent buffoons in order to move along the story and set up SWEET CINEMATICS and ACTION SCENES.
The absolute best example to this day is the Battle for Undercity scenario. Blizzard really tried to pretend that the entire intelligence and might of the Alliance faction did not for a second think that Undead would use Blight when there is two towns which were literally blighted to the floor in a zone over and Undead have been using blight offensively since Wrath of the Lich king.
Like, no masks? There are quests in Howling Fjord as Undead where you put on a mask and go blight things. We have a supposed spy network which is apparently supposed to be the cutting edge and at no point did any of the spies pick up a *@#$ing mask and look at it and go “hey maybe this might come in handy?”
Like the HILARIOUS thing is the Horde version of that scenario you just pick up and mask and go blighting.
Like really? REALLY?
ROBOT GODS
Ahhh Anduin they used the blight ? ??? WHAT DO WE DO??
I guess it’s over guys… sorry the Alliance has fallen
Wowwwww JAINA OFF THE TOP ROPE WITH A FLYING BOAT TO BLOW IT ALL AWAY WOWW THAT WAS SICCKKKKK
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The Alliance has a lot of toys that they should use in the story but they can’t because of the balance of power. There is no way the Alliance can not steamroll over the Horde with their technology, characters and power.
If the Horde had a comparable power level you could really see some crazy spectacles in combat but we just don’t.
The Horde could really use a cosmic race.
Do you have any idea how much those things cost just to operate for a day?
Much cheaper to send in the meat puppets. And all it cost them is some shiny trinkets.
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I would kill to see some giant robot fights.
so true its like that destiny meme with the voice actor saying excuse me
we get to be told they have good loot and we go and kill the bad guys lol
People still relate using a mana bomb on a war port as the equivalent to a decay bomb on a city. I think the usage of weapons is on par with general understanding of their strategy. lol ak47s don’t ruin lives cause nuclear deterrents exist.
We need someone to shop Velen into Admiral Holdo and crash the ship into the scorpion
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