Anyone else surprised that this didnt lead to massive changes in Orc Culture?
Its an easy to replicate, powerful if primitive form of engine that has multiple applications. We’ve seen it used as a brute siege weapon, powering dreadnought class battleships, tanks, and even miniaturized for hand held weapons (melee weapons as well for some reason). One could imagine that this could be used to power factories, civilian transports, or even generate electricity if my understanding of the industrial revolution is correct.
While it pales in comparison to Draenei magitech or Goblin/gnome technology, anyone else wonder how this hasnt lead to a industrial revolution in Orgrimmar? Im a little sad we dont see Orcs in Iron Star powered Exo-Armor
The Iron Star wasn’t invented by Orcs, it was invented by Blackfuse. There’s nothing “primitive” about it, aside from its rugged aesthetics.
The reason it hasn’t changed Orc culture is because they’re already exactly as industrialized as they want to be. The only clan that’s inclined to go further is the Blackrock, and they don’t have enough sway to redirect all of Orcish society. (As evidenced by a conversation in Org between an Earthen and a Blackrock orc, who both lament that Org doesn’t have a proper industrial district.)
Orgrimmar does not seem to have the sheer density of mines compared to the regions immediately abutting Stormwind. Can’t run an industry without resources.
A dry valley that was likely under water not that long ago seems the perfect place for mines. Mines are not naturally occurring, you need to build them.
If we ever get an anti Cata it’d be cool to see an Orgrimmar retrofitted with Mag’Har technology.
I’d love to see a train snaking it’s way across Kalimdor with stops at all the major Horde towns. Something useless with flight these days but would be cool for RP and RP/PvP in particular.
Idk something just going across the Barrens like this sounds neat;
Orcs use their smartest civilians as slave labor cruelly forced to work or face physical abuse (Peons are skilled architects, they make Orc buildings, nobody else does), they tend not to acknowledge any advancement that isn’t something immediately conductive to war.
Yeah, and there is a huge lore reason for that as well. Orgimmar was built by goblins twice, Gazlowe both times. The second time he rebuilt it, he offered Thrall to make it more high tech and even grander than Stormwind.
Thrall declined because in his personal view, the way they live, in huts and in the dirt is atonement for what their people did to their own world and what they tried to do to their new home. He believes the orcs do not deserve it just yet.
Hence why you see a higher tech “city” in Azura from the goblins. I suspect this was all written in to keep the “primitive” vibe the Orcs had as a theme without going “they should be better by now”.
All horde technology is built by the goblins. If you see a zeppling, an orc with a gun, tanks, with actual firepower and not catapults, they are goblin.
Sometimes you do see a mixture like the Arcane bomb. Both blood elf magic with goblin tech to make a nuke. Goblin and Forsaken team up with chemical warfare, which is so fun when they do that.
But the backbone any any tech movement the horde has, it is mostly from the goblins.
Yeah I always thought the Barrens would’ve been a perfect place for a train. With some of the innovations they’ve done since vanilla I think it could be done as a world event or BG; train goes from point A to B loaded with supplies; one side tries to rob it, the other tries to defend it. Could have some NPCs on the sides running alongside the train that’ll automatically throw you on a mount if you jump off for attackers, checkpoints along the way to slow the train down, etc. Could set it up as a Dwarven train being attacked by Tauren or an Orc train attacked by Alliance. Would’ve made sense during Cata or BfA but now narratively…eh. Could just make it a thing where the Orcs are trying to actually build something in the lands they hold on Kalimdor, some kind of ground transport between Durotar and Mulgore and the antagonists are Quillboar, harpys, centaur, etc; yknow, give the Horde some kind of story that for once doesn’t include them doing something that the Alliance needs to answer.
