I’ve been listening to podcasts, particularly the Tauren and the Goblin on Mash Those Buttons, and there seems to be a lot of hate for Genn Greymane. They really treat him like he is one of the most objectively bad people in World of Warcraft, and they talk about Sylvanas like she is just a little off-track. I just want to know if this is a pervading opinion among Horde players? I’m Alliance, so I have my side of the story. I just want to know what the other side thinks.
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He’s Alliance so of course I hate him.
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Was Horde, can confirm it’s jealousy.
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Honestly, my biggest issue with Genn is that he let Anduin neuter him. The Alliance needs some more aggressive characters.
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If Genn hadn’t stopped Sylvanas from taking control of the lead Valkyr, we could have avoided the whole story line of Sylvanas embracing the lord of death.
If Jaina hadn’t abandoned Arthas at Stratholme, she could have kept him from abandoning the light and falling into the LK trap.
The Alliance is a bunch of jerks.
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I don’t care for him or his dumb dead son.
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Genn bailed on the alliance when they wouldn’t go for his mass genocide plan.
Genn let refugees die en masse at his gates without even trying to help.
Genn started the incident which could be effectively called the start of the fourth war despite orders not to do so.
Sure, there’s more objectively evil characters, but not many that continuously slide by consequence free.
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I don’t think much of him.
Kind of meh presence in BFA.
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“I’m only doing bad things because you made me do them” makes it sound like the Horde and Alliance are in an abusive relationship.
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All joking aside, I agree. I like Genn and Tyrande (now) because they don’t want to hold hands with us. Sylvanas actually said it best when she pointed out that Genn is Anduin’s dog.
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I don’t “hate” him, but I do think he isn’t the greatest character in the Alliance. I love Worgen as a whole, but Genn is just a little too over the top for me.
The scene with him in Stormheim against Sylvanas was heckin awesome though.
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So it’s incumbent on Genn to fix Sylvanas? The Horde were right to be weary of Sylvanas when they first joined.
Jaina would’ve just helped Arthas do exactly what he already did anyways. What would’ve changed?
The start of the 4th war was Azerite and Sylvanas, not for retaliation. That’s just a forum myth that people made up in their heads “Why would the Horde attack the Alliance??? Hmm. We can’t say we started this… ITS RETALIATION! Lore doesn’t say it, but use your head silly…” Well. There is a problem with that. We know why the war was started…
Sylvanas, for no stated reason, wanted to make sure the Alliance didn’t get Azerite. Burning Teldrassil only happened because she changed her plan to occupy and turn Teldrassil into a Horde Azerite port after Malfurion was left alive.
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I can’t stand either of them.
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Genn Greymane gets away with instigating a lot of crap.
He expected Varian to respect him and embrace the Worgen because they were what remained of the Human Kingdoms, but was shocked when Varian initially refused.
Once he was apart of the Alliance, Genn insisted on wasting the Worgen on his own personal vendetta under the guise of keeping tabs on the Horde.
Genn is a constant foil for every plan and yet doesn’t get reprimanded for it. He attacked Sylvannas in Stormheim and threw away a vital airship and lucked out that she was actually up to no good.
Genn Greymane is super irritating in that regard. Without him, the Worgen would much like be the Vulpera in the way that their more nomadic and operate pragmatically, rather than being utterly loyal to an aging pack leader.
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Yes, and the only reason she was able to sell her plan to the rest of the horde was the fact that the Alliance launched a surprise attack on the Horde and refused to punish the perpetrator.
They broke the peace agreement that was in place during the broken shore.
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Genn fell into the same hole as the other Alliance leaders sadly, they just submitted to Anduins word.
In Legion I was absolutely glad to see Genn just straight up ignore Anduin and go after Sylvanas, him breaking that lantern and securing her and the forsakens fate to rot away was the most proud I had ever been to be Alliance.
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I liked Genn up until Before the Storm and BFA. Before, he was a hard pro-war, anti-Horde (especially Sylvanas and the Forsaken) member of the Alliance. He almost sacrificed our chance at gettin’ the Aegis of Aggrammar due to his beef with Sylvanas.
The Legion has invaded and we need the McGuffin to stop 'em? Screw that, I’mma kill this banshee.
He was setup to be a real, tangible threat to the Horde. It gave me, as a Horde main, someone to point to and say - “There’s the bad guy for me. Time for war.”
Now, though, he’s bein’ smoothed out. The edges are bein’ sanded down ‘cuz Anduin says so and now Genn is fallin’ into - “It’s all Sylvanas” instead of “Death to the Horde!”
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Do, I hate him nope. Now ask me me if I hate how the writers, write his storyline
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Nah, can’t have any characters on our side with any backbone anymore. Everyone on the Alliance side has to be best friends with everyone on the Horde because if we aren’t we might make our Princess Anduin cry.
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Tyrande has been pretty outspoken about not following anduins orders unless he caves into her demands. Genn usually goes where she goes because he feels shes right. Those are at least two leaders who will do their own thing regardless of what Anduin has to say.
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