I thought it was pretty awesome honestly,sure the side quests we kinda meh, but getting to see the decendants of the clan,Thrall’s kids growing up,Aggra gettting a promotion after al this time after the being a part of Cata.
I could go on and on with it. And so many familiar faces and their decendants, I mean Rexxar’s is there too.
Ah yes, the Zandalari certainly need a foolish prideful loa who in his own rage walked blindly into an obvious trap set by troll cultists, even after his allies warned against it, rather than an honourable Tribal leader who showcased his loyalty to his friends time and time again and died valiantly in battle against one of Azeroth’s greatest threats.
Yeah he turned against the Zandalari when they wanted to form an empire and hurt his friends, that’s a good thing, would you prefer he betrayed the Horde? Lead the Darkspear to fight against the Horde and inevitably die? Time and time again he has fought for his people.
He did not want to fight the Zandalari, he warned them that if they chose war against the Horde he would fight them, but they decided to fight, so he kept his word.
The trolls simply united to take back what was stolen from them. But instead of supporting them, Vol’jin sided with the alliance and killed his own people to make sure the elves and humans can keep their unjust claimed lands. And yes Rezan is superior in every way. He gave practical immortality to Rastakhan and waltzed his way through his enemies before a deus ex machina took him down.
I will not. She is the reason Rastakhan is dead and I hate her for that.
Already a criterium to weed him out instead of giving him more screentime.
Rastakhan was a pretty terrible king tbh, he listened to bad advisors over his daughter despite her pleas to fight against the growing blood troll threat and it ended up in not only large amounts of his people getting killed but his loa as well.
What reason would he have to join the Zandalari and not the Horde. The other Troll tribes were always cruel to the Darkspear, the Horde on the other hand stood by their side with the exception of Garrosh. He may be a troll, but the Horde is his friends, his people.
He gave the Zandalari the chance to back off from the Horde and they didn’t so he kept to his word.
Yes, the great Zandalari empire used to rule all of Azeroth, before it sundered, long long ago. You know who else used to rule? The Old Gods, and the Elemental Lords, and we don’t like them very much either do we? No, because they want to hurt anything that isn’t them. As did the Troll empire.
Both the Horde and the Alliance only attack the Trolls when they attack them. It’s sad the Trolls have lost so much in all the last few thousand years but constantly waring against these other factions who don’t want to fight them is silly.
The Troll tribes who are allied with the Horde thrive.
Couple of points:
First and foremost, reffering to the trolls as a homgenous people is incredibly, bewilderingly ignorant; as a race they are incredibly fractious and even within the Major troll nations (Gurubashi, Zandalari, Drakari, Amani and Faraki) there are examples of active hostility and wildly different ideologies. The real life equivelant would be something like the balkans.
Second, the Dark spear were originally part of the Gurubashi nation but were effectively driven out at some point in the distant past and effectively wound up on some nameless isles in the middle of the ocean where they were being bullied by Naga and their murloc minions when Thrall and his followers arrived and took them with them to kalimdor.
By joining the Horde the Dark Spear were able to rapidly grown in strength and numbers even as the Faraki, Amani and Gurubashi nations were declining and while the Zandalari had some nominal respect owed to them by the other troll nations due to their “royal” status the Zandalari had done Jack S*** for his tribe who at that point were considered powerful and influential enough to have been directly invited as equals.
Further, this wasn’t even the actual Zandalari Empire, but rather a subfaction that was under the control of Zul, who was an agent of the proto-old god Ghuun.
In summation:
Vol’jin didn’t owe the other trolls a damn thing.
The fact that he succeeded where they failed means that he made the right call.
He was able to see Zul for the slimy manipulator that he was.
Anduin has had lore since vanilla. Talanji is a new creation whom didn’t exist pre Bfa.
Oh no, a faction in a two faction game can’t be deleted. The horror!
That is not what Blizzard says. They make sure even the Horde is forced to care about him which is why Baine can’t shut up about it.
3 people vs the dozens of Hordies who died. You should see the quantity.
He is a race traitor. Nuff said. Him being dead was the best thing Blizzard could do.
Zul had ambitions. Old god is bad but the idea behind it is right.
What did he succeed at? The land his tribe owns is tiny compared to what the jungle trolls used to have in the past.
Being Horde means you become passive. The alliance is the protagonists of the game. And in Legion it showed hard. The Horde has no future with Shadowlands over. All we can do is for the alliance to make the final push and claim dominion over the entire world. Which was always the goal of Blizzard.
And you can be damm sure I will support them rising to power once more.
high elves, Blood elves, void elves, night elves and Nightborne. If you count them all I am sure there are many thousands of them. That is quite a bunch and I doubt after the massacres of Bfa and Cataclysm there aren’t more then a few hundred of them left.
The people returned and now is the strongest kingdom back on Azeroth.
Alterac was the smallest nation. And the syndicate still exists. They can always come back.
Came back too. Human nations don’t stay dead.
If most of the damage done is reversed then your point becomes moot. Which is what happened in almost all of your examples. The alliance stands strong and is the last remaining global power. Metzen even confirmed this on twitter.
In terms of a population “thousands” is really dang small. The Trolls have faced a lot of hardships but they aren’t even close to being endangered, they thrive. The elves are almost always on the brink of oblivion.