I wanted that too.
Well with how wealth distribution goes after a crisis such as the scourge invasion there was probably a lot of unused gold just lying around.
You could probably find a real world comparison with the renaissance taking place after the black plague if you look for it; though it isnât the exact same circumstance.
It doesnât mean theyâre lazy.
Hell with all the golden armor and fixtures they have, it probably took a lot of effort to pick that up and make it into stuff.
Which more than likely resulted in an inflation crisis.
Well this is assuming it was easy to collect.
Though I said âjust lying aroundâ there was probably a couple zombies in the way more often than not.
They still seem to be a problem to this day according to the three sisters comic.
Edit: Maybe silver became more valuable as currency in quelâthalas?
Iâd personally avoid any economic analysis of Warcraft.
Short of Quelâthalas shifting to a socialist mode of production, that much excess wealth combined with such a retraction of production would create an apocalyptic economic crisis.
The word lazy wasnât used, at any point, until you injected it just now. 
A group can most assuredly be predisposed towards a leisurely lifestyle, without being lazy â just look at basically everyone from the Tribeca area of Manhattan.
This is an excellent point.
Iâm still not sure why precious metals are even considered valuable, on Azeroth, when there is an unbelievable amount of magically-infused material to be traded back and forth.
Just the phrase
Which frankly takes more mental gymnastics to claim isnât calling them lazy than the other reading.
Well in d&d valuables such as pearls, diamonds, and I think gold are used as spell components. maybe in wow itâs the same? Minus the players of course.
Not to mention that transmutation itâs something that exists in game as well.
But Iâm expecting to see another acrobatic dysplay to explain this one.
Silly blood elves. Itâs not like they fought Arthas to the end and then did what they had to survive while they fought to reclaim their land.
They just sat around and let Arthas take the sunwell because that was so much easier than just sitting back and letting him take it, and then after they continued to sit on their butts doing nothing.
Oh waitâŚ
Gold isnât used as backing because itâs the most valuable. If it was was weâd use diamonds, uranium or coca to back our currencies.
That the BEâs are seemingly predisposed towards any decision which lends itself to returning them to the most lavish lifestyle imaginable has nothing to do with them being lazy â theyâre clearly capable of tolerating being subjected to various grueling workloads.
It certainly speaks to your motivations, for posting here in general, that the very post you were responding to addressed this qualm (and Iâll include it below, again, so that when you ignore it for a second time people can make their own minds up as it relates to the type of poster you are). As I said before, seems as if any attempt to squeeze in a âgotchaâ is more important to you than intellectual honesty.
But thatâs not what you said before, you said that you view them as universally choosing the path of least resistance at every opportunity. That doesnât match what youâre claiming now as you seemingly pull stupid culture war stuff into it.
If you are making the decisions to try to improve your condition (since who ISNâT trying to do that?) Youâre not just drifting with the easiest path, youâre fighting for what you want. Path of least resistance would be to give up on restoring your lands and find some other group you can join and become part of their society that doesnât need to be restored.
Mmhmm, because doing so gets them back to leisure quicker. Itâs got nothing to do with them being lazy, and everything to do with them being spoiled to the finer things.
Ok, so weâre back to you passing off your opinions as fact on what the race youâre not fond of is REALLY like.
Ok? I think there may be a misunderstanding here.
I just meant that it could have other uses than as money and spell components have been handwaved for players but in the past there were items players needed to cast some spells and it may be more common for npcs.
Think back to how many times youâve had to gather some kind of stone, gem, metal and skins/body parts for some kind of quest ritual.
This is what you quotedâŚ
This is what I actually said, without cherry-picking anything out of it:
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If you missed it the first time, this was aimed at you:
Has he gone on a rant about how the high elves that didnât return totally follow a completely humble life and are totally hard working yet?
Either it already happened and I missed it or I see one of those coming in the near future.
Yes. And if you limited it to opinion thatâd be fine, but despite your I statement, the discussion keeps going on about how the Blood Elves are apparently taking the path of least resistance back to a life of leisure you havenât actually shown that theyâre striving for.
I mean, if you wanted to actually back up your opinions, youâd be showing how they behave like you think they do rather than making snide insinuations about me.
Well he did throw a tantrum that I pointed out that from the period after Arthas went on his rampage until the reigniting of the Sunwell that the high elves in Dalaran had it pretty easy compared to QT, since there was a short period where they had a similar level of problem. And that snarking about it was me claiming things as hard facts.