Ever since the end of BFA, we’ve went back to the status quo of Horde characters taking orders from Alliance race heroes. When are Horde leaders going to be allowed to take point and boss Alliance MCs around for once?
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I mean you guys had SL stuff too, you have an entire patch right now with goblins bossing us around…
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It’s the natural order of things.
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This whole trilogy has Alliance at the helm, so probably either never or after this trilogy.
Who knows, maybe a Blood Elf ends up taking the narrative lead in Midnight, but I doubt it. It’s not super-mega-Horde but it’s something.
Not a fan of the whole singular story thing, because it inherently leans Alliance.
Neutral means Alliance apparently, with a token appearance of Thrall being all the Horde really gets.
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That’s how it works. The Alliance saves the world, the Horde sabotages them and helps the villains.
I imagine before the world soul saga ends we’ll get another story where Xalatath tricks the Horde into doing her bidding.
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It seems Midnight Expansion will be Horde led. It does take place in Quel’Thalas, the Blood Elf area.
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I mean have any of the recent Xpacs had any faction driven lore?
All the main xpac characters are from the Alliance but the Alliance itself or the goals of their constituent races don’t seem to matter at all anymore.
The game is more just the personal stories of a handful of characters now, not really a lore driven faction narrative.
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I want to say the last one really was BfA, with the burning of Teldrassil.
I think that one particular moment was so hated (along with War Campaigns), it effectively killed faction-based storytelling on both sides.
Sylvanas basically nosedived the Horde into the ground, and left lol.
The one that features both a Horde loyalist and an Alliance loyalist Goblin and makes it clear that even the Bilgewater Cartel members in Undermine operate independently from the Horde?
That sounds like a very faction neutral patch to me.
Goblins != Horde.
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Annnnnnndddddddd it’s now neutral to all elves.
And this is why we cant have nice things. You keep trying to burn it. burn it all
Burning Crusade
Cataclysm
MoP
WoD
Didn’t all of those have a heavy Horde narrative?
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Probably the expansion in which Silvermoon will be the center of the conflict.
There will be Alliance characters involved however, so you’ll have plenty to complain about still.
Not only that, but there was juicy stuff on both sides if you played them.
I did, because the stories were unique.
Especially MoP, gunning down orcs until the water turns red. Yeesh lol.
I liked how Cataclysm questing had events you could experience as both Alliance and Horde, with different points of view and reasons for doing it.
But yeah, we stopped getting stuff like that after BfA.
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Yes the great turning of Silvermoon into a neutral city will be quite Horde-centric and very interesting for people that want Horde story.
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MoP and WoD were two expansions worth of killing orcs. Horde narrative apparently means loot piñata.
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Well considering they are only a Horde race…They could give them to us too and then it would truly be neutral.
The Bilgewater Cartel is the only cartel affiliated with the Horde. Which means the majority of Goblins are not Horde.
And it is specifically pointed out that the Bilgewater Cartel in Undermine operates independently from the Horde.
Undermine is every bit as much a “Horde patch” as every patch that has ever featured a human is an Alliance patch.
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That is funny since BFA was a Alliance expansion despite the fact Jaina wasn’t (and isn’t) an alliance leader. Then they said SL was Alliance based because you know, Fordragon was an alliance leader. Wait…no nevermind. Just a human. Actually more Horde leadership participated in stuff and led than alliance, considering for the alliance we had a mind controlled former kind prince, and Jaina…which also wasn’t a faction leader still. Horde had Baine, who still is a faction leader. Thrall who is part of the council of leaders. etc.
Dragonflight? Well that was basically truly neutral. Even let you guys try to make up for the whole genocide attempt.
I love the horde, but I also love brick roads.