The cinematics were cool and all but I dont care about the Horde and their politics. I dont care to save them from themselves again. I dont want to be friends with orcs and forsaken as a worgen player. I would have liked to attack while they were down. I want an option to side with the Alliance leaders who would likely refuse to join hands with the Horde due to the atrocities they have committed. Most of all I guess I would just like the Alliance to actually matter and not just be there to support the horde’s storyline.
Remember Varian’s warning to the horde about upholding honor? “We will end you.”
Yeah they have kinda failed at that and I would like to have the option to remember that and not be forced into just being a background prompt for the next horde cinematic.
If they make out Tyrande to be some kind of vengeance crazed lunatic for daring to oppose the Horde that murdered her entire species, I’m going full #TeamNzoth
I disagree. It’s bad enough that they turned Sylvanas from a seedy, unscrupulous schemer into a full-blown moustache twirling supervillain. They don’t need to assassinate Tyrande’s character into this over the top maniac for the sake of driving conflict. There’s conflict aplenty there already for perfectly valid, in-character reasons.
There’s nothing wrong with liking the story Blizzard’s telling–if it suits your tastes, that’s cool. Personally, I haven’t liked what they’ve done to Sylvanas’s character or the Horde in BfA, especially as a druid main (I have 4-5 druids).
Watching Teldrassil burn out of mere spite–not out of a brilliant tactic or strategy–felt like a wasted moment. So, I suppose the TL;DR here is that I’m not against Tyrande making a big, splashy move, I just want a stronger, smarter rationale behind it?
She wanted to burn the tree from the start, and making it look like she did so in a childish fit of rage because she told Saurfang to do something she knew he wouldnt was a brilliant tactic.
“No I didnt want to commit genocide, I had to!”
She’s made it very clear she wants as much death as possible. Destroying Teldrassil furthered that goal.
Because it disguised her actual motive of intending to burn the tree all along. If you make it seem like you have to do it in retaliation because someone didnt follow the plan, it seems more justifiable than just genocide for no reason.
It was more of a, oh I can’t kill hope can I?
And she did.
She killed it so bad for the NE that Tyrande performed a forbidden ritual as a means for revenge.
If she wanted to disguise her motive, a better way of doing it would be to put the Nelves in such an impossible situation that they were forced to burn the tree themselves. Or to position her enemies so deftly, that Saurfang was killed in an impossible battle with Malfurion, and using his death to whip the Horde soliders into a frenzy.
There were far better (cooler) ways to do this, but Blizzard just picked the laziest one. And it’s genocide either way.