I’d assume so. The first time I did it, I killed that priest and my blood elf companion started sniggering over it. On a subsequent run through, I only killed soldiers, and got no special messages.
I’m pretty much done with them due to the offspec loot. For my main, for Enhance spec, the only two ilevel upgrades have been an intellect mace, and a shield. Two things I have no use for unless I change specs.
Perhaps Blizzard is suggesting I switch?
I’ll probably get plate next time
My thoughts exactly. And it is sad that they would actually cave and write out alternative quests lines to protect the sense of loyalty these players have to a literal genocidal maniac. As if the time spent doing so couldn’t have been used in a better way ( I dunno, like improving the writing overall and finding a way to put out the dumpster fire that is BFA’s plot).
So you were running around Silvermoon and heard “Our enemies will fall!” and “Death to those who oppose us!” and thought the Blood Elves were an angelic and peaceful race?
Azeroth is a violent place. So violent, that the Sin’dorei were almost completely wiped out. The Blood Elves will do whatever they need to to survive and win. It’s victory or death, and victory lies ahead.
Well, it’s not exactly a “war crime” to step on a bunch of ants or to wash your hands to clean them of harmful bacteria.
Yes, technically the Alliance are living creatures. No one is disputing that. But they lack sentience and the capacity to feel emotion(s). They’re essentially living calculators who simply respond to stimuli. That doesn’t make it unethical to remove them from the world. I’m sure your character has killed many wild animals while leveling up. Bees, wolves, slimes, etc. Alliance are no different. You did nothing wrong!
I’m leveling my horde toons using archaeology. It goes pretty fast with the rested buff. If you haven’t done a lot of it in the past you can dig up some cool stuff.
As for the Horde story line? Sadly I think I’m going to be keeping up with that through wowhead and youtube.
Actually, firing on a medic in a real life war is a crime under the Geneva convention (1864). Mostly because healing doesn’t take place in seconds on the live battlefield, and a lot of injured soldiers don’t come back to the battlefield. There is no tactical motive for killing a field doctor, and exceedingly little for killing their patients – it’s only really done for shock value and spite.
Obviously this isn’t applicable to a game where combat medics push combatants back to full capacity in the heat of combat. But even then, one assumes there’s a certain delineation in honorable combat – if that monk is treating noncombatants and not punching you in the face, she too is effectively a noncombatant.
And a true one; I still remember all the “Thank you Garrosh for putting the WAR back in WARcraft!!” threads, lambasting Thrall for being a feckless leader.
Yeah, unfortunately, for some reason, when people think World of Warcraft, literally the only war they can imagine is faction wars, because their minds can’t comprehend other types of wars.
That and their just blood thirsty savages… it’s unfortunate, and is really mind-numbingly awful to try to deal with.