He is single handedly responsible for this war lasting as long as it has. The alliance goes in, decimates the Zandalari fleet and city, kills its king and when the time comes to finish the job he’s all “But we can’t lose sight of who we are! Muh honor! I want to look good for papa Saurfang!” Okay that last bit about Papa Saurfang I made up, but it might as well have been in the game.
Jaina is no better. She flip flops so many times on her stance on the war I’d swear she was an N’zoth fish. “Kill the horde! Ohhh but not while they’re mourning their king…that would be bad!” “Baine you monster did you set us up the bomb with my brother? gets ready to kill Baine”
Anytime an alliance leader is in favor of absolutely destroying the Horde they are immediately swept under the rug, with the exception of Tyrande who actually had the balls to say no, I’ll take care of the Horde myself and for that I commend the writers for actually doing the NElves some justice there.
Writers, you can’t have a peace loving hippy and his “aunt” run a WAR themed expac. I mean you can, but you’re not capable of it. We all know the main baddy this expac will probably be some old god and we’ll have to band together to kill it, but none of the leaders shows any implication of knowing this and are working to band together to fight it off eventually. They’re just peace loving to peace love and it’s getting in the way of those that want to finish this war.
Give him a chance, he is young, father just died ,involved in a big war, he just proved he is humble and needs help with banshee witch, think he is handling himself quit well.
He’d still be alive if he didn’t take his sons wuss advice and spared the horde in SoO.
Edit: Assuming that they’d bring the rest of the Horde into their rule, it would’ve made the Broken Shore fight a lot easier to communicate since apparently yelling “Hey im about to be overrun up here I gotta dip out” is hard when you’re on the other faction.
He should be at home focusing on his potty training instead of standing in the way of a gritty Alliance vengeance story by having the naive morality of a child foisted upon my gameplay that demands blood sacrifices and civilian carnage of the Horde.
How many times have the writers given alliance characters plot armor this expansion? Yah dont complain bout the alliance story atleast you guys are allowrd to kill things
Which, in the dev’s eyes, makes him the perfect Alliance leader. His bones literally cause him pain if he tries to have a spine and be anything but a doormat for the Horde.
This way they can have the Horde commit any atrocity they want and the Alliance has a reason to never be allowed to strike back in a meaningful way.
Another reason why I can’t wait for this stupid war theme to end.
Alliance vs Horde only leads to terrible writing due to the nature of the game requiring both factions. Horde is written terribly, Alliance is written terribly, nobody wins at all. So time for this war narrative to be finally put to a close.