showing up neutrally on Amirdrassil.
Clickbait title out of the way: I do not play on a Role Play server (though I do role play with my friends). For all practical purposes do not ever turn War Mode on.
Seeing some erratically moving model with their name in orange does not affect my lore experience. Seeing a character named after an anime character I’m familiar with does not affect my lore experience. Seeing a guild tag like <Hello Kitty Club> does not affect my lore experience.
What do I know of this person playing a Zandalari or Goblin or Orc? Are they story completionsist? Do they even care about the lore? Have they even read the quests they’ve done?
And why would their interaction with the lore even affect mine? Are they a troll that would shout to burn the new tree down? Why would I care about this person? Are they playing their character as a hero righting wrongs? Why would I be against this person?
If anything, given how the quests are written, do these other players even exist to my lore interaction? Most of the quests are written as the character who did it as being the only one who did. Some raid quests do add something along the lines “please bring your allies,” and I didn’t raid with these players (unless it was a pug, and, well, I don’t remember anyone I’ve raided with outside my friends). As far as the lore goes, these other players don’t exist (a quite common paradox in MMORPGs).
These other players aren’t bothering me (as I don’t have War Mode on and I have General Chat and Trade Chat separated onto another chat window that I don’t usually have visible), so why would I impose my feelings onto them uninvited?
Amusingly, the game might soon literally make it so I don’t have to see any other players, as this has been datamined for Love is in the Air:
This is obviously a different experience for people on RP servers or otherwise actually want to engage with other people in the game, so obviously other people will have different opinions than the above.
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I am greatly curious about how things will go down on RP servers mostly.
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You already know there will be a lot of people complaining. The rest of us simply will not care or treat it like the man’ari walking around… We just pretend like they’re not there or our characters just assume it’s some ongoing diplomatic visits.
Personally, I’m excited to sit back and watch the Night Elf rpers and Horde argue over who has had the worst ideas and who has really caused most problems on Azeroth.
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Man’ari are by far harder to get around logistically for my RP brain than anything with Amirdrassil allowing horde visitors.
Ah yes, hello omnicidal demonspawn. Care for some tea?
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I care, sometimes more than I should, but far as the Man’ari goes, I mentally treat them simply as Drunken Draenei who forgot it’s no longer hallows eve
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That… Is a really good idea. Mal will now think all man’ari were draenei that thought they could out drink a dwarf and were so drunk they painted themselves red…
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The permant kind too. So it never washes off and now they have to walk around with red skin. It’s actually really funny to think about.
I did try to RP a Man’ari once, but people sadly made it weird for me 
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Like if an Eredar riding a mount made of several demonic faces can go there, the Horde might as well be able to walk around.
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Definitely. I honestly can’t imagine a legit reason people like the Taurens wouldn’t be universally allowed into every city. If the Horde helps protect it, might as well let them in and give them a chance
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I imagine for a lot of people, whether it’s Amdrissal, or say Gilneas, letting the people in that were responsible for your races series of predicaments the last couple years is kind of gross.
But that’s me
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Probably but at least Blizzard is having both factions openly help one another with these smaller skirmishes to ease in what looks more and more like dissolving the two factions, if not completely, from anything like we know them now
I have no issue with the factions being friendly or even on decent terms with one another. I just think ALL the faction capitals should be off limits. The races still need their own identities and places they can call home without their former murders roaming the place
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I think so too but more and more I’m getting indifferent. I always loved the faction war but I’m slowly getting more curious as to how everything would be without a faction.
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Malphur wants to use tirisfal.
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Correction, wants to use a certain capital that’s in Tirisfal 
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In character, TOTALLY… OOC, I’m excited to see how they pull everything off and it’s been so long since I’ve been excited for anything story related in WoW
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My main excitement right now is finally getting Gilneas back. So, I’ll enjoy looking around the place for a while. Hopefully TWW brings us a decent story too
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I’m excited for the Arathi, the rest I’m just expecting TWW to be a staging point for the stories in Midnight and The Last Titan. I have this feeling that the end of World Soul Saga gives them the perfect place to do a soft reset of the world and maybe, if we’re lucky, update the game a little more.
I don’t think players are the problem. It’s made clear that Amirdrassil is a night elf city whose limited Horde presence (at present, two Alliance-friendly tauren and me, the world hero) is owed entirely to Tyrande’s easily revocable sufferance. Seething over so little as that just seems petty; it could have been a lot worse. I expected it to be a lot worse.
For instance, the Dark Wardens could have raised Horde flags over their allotted enclave, and browbeaten Tyrande into permitting the (still very Horde-aligned) nightborne a district, then she could’ve shown up at the next Alliance leader summit looking like this when it becomes apparent she now represents the interests of a Horde-infested quagmire that’s dragged her new home faction into a neutral flux to the sole detriment of the race whose city it actually is… That would be a problem. Surely Blizzard wouldn’t do something as obscene as that with WoW’s elves…
Indeed. Thankfully Tyrande alleviated the Undead Night Elves’ self-imposed guilt with forgiveness and welcomed them back.
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