Ever notice how no one cares about proof or evidence, in either the horde or alliance? NPCs send you to kill stuff first, then confirm whether they were guilty or not after the fact. “hey that guy ‘looks’ like a bandit, go kill him”
Its strange because investigators/detectives do exist in WoW, at least in the alliance, we saw them in westfall post cata. I feel like I’ve seen a forsaken investigator somewhere too. But their skills dont seem to be of much relevance, because most quest givers sign death warrants at less than a drop of a hat.
Sure some quest givers know who is guilty, and send you after that specific person. Others go “a crime has been committed, go kill people until you get the bad guy, maybe some one will confess”.
Granted, there are many exceptions to this, but the large number of NPCs who take this mindset is what I’m talking about.
Considering the first and only time we tried was Garrosh I don’t blame them for not trying the legal system.
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This is just how most games of this type work. Simplicity, even if it leads to some uncomfortable moments when you think too hard.
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We’re treasure seeking adventures.
Little better than mercenaries that kill for gold or even just for fun.
Forget your faction and loyalties as Blizz will drain it away just to prop up another piñata for us to chase.
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It depends who’s giving the player the quest. If it’s an NPC filling an official capacity, then it’s safe the assume that the order came from up top and was passed down the chain of command.
Also, there is some kind of due process (at least in Stormwind) because we wouldn’t have the Stockades otherwise.
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Well depends, due process and arresting people and shoving them in large prisons are very different things.
For all we know stormwind could arrest people without trial
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Players don’t want it.
I still remember when I insisted that Jaina should have conducted some kind of investigation to identify the actual thieves of the Divine Bell instead of just instantly murdering and imprisoning everyone who had the same eye color as the possibly-responsible parties.
Total incredulity from posters who had apparently never heard of such a thing.
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This why its a joke whenever NPCs refer to our PCs as “heroes” or “champions”. We’re just mercenaries who are willing too murder in cold blood at a whiff of a financial or power reward. In 99% of content we’re colonial mass murders working in the interests of genocidal racial states.
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Jaina didn’t murder anyone. The person who gave out the quest to have specific people to be killed was Vereesa.
edit: Specifically referring to non-combatants.
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She murdered Aethas’s guards, who were not attacking her at the time.
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OH BOY PURGE DISCOURSE
Hold on i need to grab my popcorn
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I was referring to the non-combantants. Sorry I was not more specific.
Aethas’ guards were non-combatants, they were just guards. They had not done anything to cause themselves being murdered in an instant.
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Guards are most definitely NOT non-combatants. Non-combatants are generally civilians and the like.
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One of my first memories was speaking to a young woman in Northshire Abbey who was angry that her grapes had been trampled.
She wanted me to bring her the head of the man responsible.
I…I thought that was a bit odd, but she was saying that right next to the guards, so…I mean…I guess?
Though to be fair, a lot of these people we’re sent in to “deal with” tend to try to kill us on sight. Sometimes running at us with knives when we’re sittin’ down, eatin’ cheese and drinking berry juice.
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Everyone gets all the process due to them. Someone pays me cash and booty and then I kill the mark.
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The definition of a non-combatant is someone is not engaged in fighting (in/during) a war, which guards, especially the guards of Aethas, a member of the netural kirin-tor, would absolutely be classified as.
Jaina came in and merked innocent people.
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In WoW, NPCs usually won’t give you a quest to go and kill humanoid mobs unless it’s proven that they’re outright hostile and will kill you on sight.
These are usually given in the form of bounty quests and exist both on Alliance and Horde questing.
That is due process. NPC commits a crime(s), hides out from sight or within a den of their underlings (who are more than likely complicit) and is sentenced to death- usually for either racking up various felonies or for straight up committing murder multiple times themselves.
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Seems completely reasonable to me!
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