Draenei for sure. Don’t need an explanation really everyone agrees here. We explored their culture as deep as possible and every named NPC we met before shows up. And the hope of a new capital got all of us excited.
I had to think really hard about this but I think next contender is blood elves. Their tradgedy makes them strong and watching the events unfold to preserve their ancient leagcy was a nice touch. I hope Midnight catches up here and continues this plot a bit since I feel the cast could grow a little.
I go with dwarves since the reminder of their titan origins was very much needed. The set itself also looks cool and seeing Ulduar again gives in to nostalgia.
Trolls here. It was basically just a repeat of the Zalazane story but we got to go back bringing their original Loa back into the fold. I sometimes RP with the shrine we build on the island and man the immersion it brings rocks.
Goblins. I didn’t want to oust Gallywix at first but we got to resettle Kezan maybe one day in the next big revamp the Goblins of the Horde cartel get their chances at Crapopolis becoming a real city.
Worgen. The callback that they are humans and beast at the same time but need to find a balance was a nice touch. Also we saw that Tess will surpass her father and the mistakes he made. ALso ties in to the followup story of getting Gilneas back.
humans. Pretty generic. I was mad the fact the Defias was betrayed by the nobles was swept under the rug again cuz god forbid Anduin gets any faults. In a world where humans can do no wrong this was not surprising but still disappointing. As they are the first threat we meet in the starting zone Vanessa now has the chance on breaking a better deal on a king that is not dominating the narrative.
Night elves. The armor itself looks neat but I see no purpose of setting the quest ina burrow den. Who was their enemy again? I can’t remember the name.
gnomes. Not bad not good. Just Gnomeregan again but without reclaiming it. It is enough tokill an hour but I already forgot what happens there.
almost worst, Orcs. Just a bunch of noname NPCs showing up to hold a feast because everyone else important is already dead. Blizzard did a splendid job of removing every actual cool Orc not named Thrall and it shows. Their story is at a dead point cuz when you don’t have lore characters to carry you you will be ignored. Sorry greenlings you aren’t even good enough to give you mroe customization options or the actual cool clans(Shadowmoon and Thunderlords) join your ranks. You deserve so much better then what you got.
And finally Tauren. Just a tie in for Shadowlands without meaning in it. Like instead of exploring Tauren culture to the highest degree they got shafted and beat up some ghosts. Seems Blizzard doesn’t care.
By the time I post this Pandaren are yet without their own quest. Maybe the Devs will surprise us who knows.
The Orc heritage quest showcases not only thrall’s continuing arc of cultural revival with the orcs it also shows that they do not need naaru to talk to their ancestors. The NPC’s are all characters who have shown up at one point and quested with which you would know if you actually liked the horde post WC2, It pays homage to their past and sets up their future like a good heritage quest does.
No it doesn’t. All Orcs we met there are from the MMO. Not a single legacy leader shows up. That means it is bad. unlike Draenei or dwarf set where Velen and the Bronzebeard family are shown big times.
Mate all the legacy orc characters outside of thrall would be 80 if they were even still alive, did you want the questline to be set in the senior citizens home and never set any new characters up
New characters suck. That is why Blizzard shoves the alliance legacy characters in our faces any time they can. from Turaloyn to Jaina. They are all there.
On those grounds the horde would never get any content at all since it can’t make new characters to fill its roster, I hate have to deal with constant alliance characters as much as the next guy but a thing isn’t bad cause it worked with the cards it was given
Then Blizzard shouldn’t have killed all those other characters to begin with. We should have NPCs from a dozen different clans at best yet it is only like 6 and they are all hammed in Durotar. We aren’t the Horde. We are the feasty few.
I would say Rexxar counts… at least half of him anyway.
Also legacy character tends to mean “character who replaced the original or previous owner of the title / mantle”. At least in relation to comic books it means that. For example, Sam Wilson is a legacy character in relation to the mantle of Captain America.
Therefore you are wrong as all of the leaders that showed up can be argued to be legacy leaders. Well, except Rexxars dad. As he was and still is the leader of the Mok’nathal from when we first met him back in TBC.
“You keep using those words. I don’t think it means what you think it means”
No this is just about the heritage quests really. Orc one is just that low cuz their starting zone is still bad and only relevant leader they have left is Thrall. Tauren still beat them cuz it had nothing to do with Tauren culture in any sense.
Orc heritage had the clans which afaik is far more relevant for orc fans than literally who WC2 heroes, half of whom were just grunts with a special portrait.
6 clans only. The others got destroyed during TBC. The cool ones are not part of the modern Horde. Also unlike the human nations they don’t even get extra land. Totally unfair.
I know them all. Fenris, Tagar, Kargath(has his own fanclub), Kilrogg, Ner’zhul, Grommash, Doomhammer, Durotan.