Yep the horde leaders are basically-common warrior, common mage, another two common warriors, a washed up shaman that barely even behaves like a shaman.
No exceptional feats, no legends, no real strength except maybe thralls old feats from years ago in the game.
All of our interesting characters have either died and/or been turned into raid bosses. Volâjin, Saurfang, Cairne, Sylvanas, Garrosh (flawed but at least an interesting character) all gone. Even Gallywix isnât around anymore! Iâm probably missing some but like, what is going on.
I hope they make Thrall the warchief again because Iâm over the Horde council. And to be honest, I hope Sylvanas comes back too
Not really, but no one can compete with human potential in the storyline. Even other Alliance races. But eventually theyâll let someone else be good right?
I would love an alliance-centric expansion if that also included them being the bad guys for once, with everyone teaming up to go burn down stormwind, only seems fair after sieging orgrimmar twice
I think a part of it is that the Alliance races have been given character after character who have had their personality become âI am a defender of the world, not a representative of a faction of itâ.
Jaina started as that and then did the reverse and became Alliance themed.
Thrall started off as Horde, then became Neutral, then became Horde again.
Alleria always saw herself as a lone wolf who wasnt Alliance.
Khadgar and the entirety of the Kirin Tor had the original concept of them be being the neutral faction.
Magni got turned into a diamond and decided âThe fate of the world is more important than your factionsâ.
The two big characters on the Horde (who arenât thrall) who made moves to go neutral got killed.
Cairne was explicitly always more concerned with the world but oops they killed him off.
Volâjin post SoO literally had a speech about how the world was more important than factions and oops dead.
Iâve only heard the word Alliance one time in thus expac but it has definitely been all Alliance races (and Earthen + Neurbians of course). They should have had Baine join the crew or something. Maybe that one lore Sunwalker for the Arathi zone.
Classic alliance players in a horde alt, talking nonsense. WoD didnât had any horde characters in a spolight. MOP and BFA had as much alliance as horde and Legion was 90% alliance focused
MOP was not a damn horde expansion, lmao, yâall seriously didnât play remix to revive your memory.
The expansion literally culminate in defeating the horde, sacking their city and defeating their leader where the horde is forced to help
WoD had as much alliance as horde, just because you kill evil orcs doesnât mean is an horde expansion
BfA it was the same crap as MOP, as much alliance focus as horde one, but the horde got to be evil villains to be defeated AGAIN
Where is the alliance love where i invade stormwind to defeat their leader?
Donât forget Wrathionâs whole plan throughout the entire legendary campaign hinges on letting Varian sack Orgrimmar and basically genocide the horde, even if you are a horde player helping him every step of the way
Then in BfA when he comes to save everyone, Wrathion heads over to Stormwind to tell the Important Human NPCâs whatâs going on.
Meanwhile, as a Horde player, thereâs an NPC you can talk to in order to watch the same cutscene of Wrathion explaining to the Important Human NPCâs whatâs going on.
Im more convinced than ever the next patch is undermine.
With the ammount of goblins in this patch, the datamined â11.1 goblin raidâ, and the last time i saw gazlowe he was walking off with someone from the venture co to talk about the undermine.
Its almost certain the next patch is goblins goblins goblins.
Ok, so even if I were to accept that there were âHorde centricâ expansions before. Yo guys need to admit that even in those we had Alliance characters in the spotlight as main characters.
The problem with TWW is that thereâs near zero Horde representation. The story so far is literally following a bunch of Alliance characters around, down to serving their drinks.
As a Horde player, thereâs zero reasons for your character to be there doing what theyâre doing. The story is just 100% Alliance.
This isnât just âOh, thereâs Alliance biasâ. Itâs âThereâs no Horde at allâ.
Overall with the faction divide basically going away, I feel like we are gonna continue moving closer and closer to it just being elves and humans. Because the more attractive races always end up getting more attention from players, devs, and writers.
Its like how every lore dragon and dracthyr was always in a hot elf/human/half elf form.
Orcs arent attractive. Trolls arent attractive. Tauren arenât attractive. So the only real options for horde representation is Blood Elves. And the entire next expac has been announced as focused on silvermoon and the blood elves.