Night Elf players! What is your price?

Amadis-draka · June 29, 2019, 6:13am

It’s at least a criticism of the story and its repetition, so, yes, at least that’s something more than “I want to kill all Orcs and I hope the game dies.”

Because you seem to very rigidly adhere to what you can tally up on paper instead of the flaws on how the Night Elves are used in the narrative despite how much content we get. Here’s an old summery I wrote up once:

To Writers: From a Nelf fan

Night Elves have been routinely used to start storylines, and then almost always dropped out of the story completely after, and such has been the case for almost all Night Elf related lore since Cataclysm:

Garrosh efforts almost entirely directed towards the Night Elves –> Night Elves not involved in Battle Field Barrens or the end of Garrosh’s invasion of their lands beyond a token appearance at the Gate of Orgrimmar.

Deathwing destroys the “Night Elf District” of the Park in Stormwind –> Left as a carter for years until it’s finally rebuilt as a memorial for Varian.

Night Elves defending Pandaria and welcomed in to the Vale of Eternal Blossoms –> No part of the lore involving them in the defense of the Vale from Garrosh.

All of Tyrande’s and the Night Elves’ presence in Legion and their history with it punctuated with the idea of seeing them at the Legion’s final defeat –> Not even a token Night Elf on Argus.

And of course now the entirety of BfA starting off with a war of devistation against the Night Elves –> Where previously all indication suggests there would be no follow up with the Night Elves’ plight as BfA continued, the Darkshore Warfront narratively is even worse:

As we get the empowering of the Night Warrior and the raising of Night Elves as Forsaken –> Probably leading to a dead end narratively as the Night Elves and Forsaken fight over Darkshore indefinitely with no conclusions if the story moves on to other focuses.

Add Azshara and Nazjatar on top of that, and whatever else we might be left out of for BfA.

The rest of your point I agree with. But the plight of any of the other playable races is also irrelevant to the plight of the Night Elves, no matter how right you are about them.