Hey, so I have always thought it would be fun to play a Horde Druid, their races such as the Taurin are really cool compared to Alliance (which I am an Alliance main) races that can be a druid.
The problem I am running into is it just makes no sense to me how any Druid can be Horde, as I play Horde is constantly just burning down, chopping down or in some other way destroying and/or disrespecting nature… half the quests in nature areas my character would not do as they in some way involve destroying nature instead of protecting it… Is there some Lore background info here that I am missing on why Druids would ever be with the Horde?
If it helps, druids and particularly the cenarion circle are faction neutral. For in game purposes you have to be one faction or the other. Otherwise you’d be a druid doing druid things regardless of faction. Also, just because druids are big on life doesn’t mean they are strangers to death. Plenty of druid quests have you culling and the like and if I’m not mistaken, in the lore, some sort of life force sacrifice has to be made to make use of heals
About half the Horde races don’t really make much sense… Tauren and Blood Elves should have a LOT of beef with Forsaken over their use of Blight and twisting of the natural order of life and death, not to mention personal grudges against the Forsaken for what they’ve done to so many High Elves and such not to mention the fact that the Orcs have repeatedly defiled ancestors both their own and other races’ as well as tried to strong arm the Blood Elves into supporting Garrosh not too long ago to their detriment, same with the Vulpera but from Baine at the start of BFA when he told them to prove themselves by transporting Azerite in their caravans.
I’d say its easier at Tauren. They are a nature attuned civilization and with leaders like Baine generally being opposed to what the more aggressive leaders of the horde had put forth.
I’d say model you play and mentality to that of Baine.
Good tips thanks guys, yeah I basically would just need to play it from the same type of mindset of Baine like you said just making the best out of the situation the world is in. Also I really wish a lot more races were not faction exclusive… It makes sense that Orcs = Horde, Night Elves = Alliance etc… but majority of races I think should just be like the Pandarians where you can choose what faction.
The Forsaken don’t make sense within the context of the Horde.
It’s not that everyone else doesn’t make sense within the context of the Forsaken.
If the Forsaken appeared in current content, they’d just be an NPC villain faction that we wiped out in a raid or two. They make literally zero sense as playable characters with their current narrative. They sort of did back when WOW was new, because we were still primarily running on WC3 lore. But from Cata onwards, they’ve made less and less sense. Unfortunately, the biggest Sylv simps are at Blizzard, and they chose to make her a mustache twirling villain instead of the redemption of the Scourge that she was meant to be.
Garrosh was sacrificed on the altar of PVP, and so added a destructive element that the “True Horde,” has never actually agreed with.
And that’s kind of what you have to remember about playing a Horde Druid. Horde Druids are basically still an embodiment of Thrall, Cairne and Vol’jin’s Horde. Not the thing that’s been beaten with the villain stick in order to justify PVP in WOW.
As Horde druid RPer, you can RP understanding that the Horde is defined by its diversity and the way those highly diverse elements work together. Some parts, like the blight and goblin deforestation, are hard to justify. At best, you can say your character understands that these are temporary and necessary losses that you will be able to heal later but the sacrifices must be made so that the whole may survive.
You could also argue that the Alliance have many other environmentally disastrous actions too. The Draenei crash poisoned Bloodmyst Isle (admittedly you can kind of blame this on the Kael’thas elves), the Gnomes nuked their own homeland, dwarves are quick to mine, exploit, and disrespect the earth, humans deforest as well - there’s not a lot of environmentally friendly races.
I play Rho here as primarily Circle aligned but he understands that he has an obligation to his people and keeping them safe as well. Keeping the Horde strong is synonymous with keeping the Tauren safe.