They are humans and they’re being added as customization options for humans in the next patch.
Humans are by far the most over used race in the game. No other race even comes close.
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Yeah, Trollbane’s showing up for the lols right Gizolfi?
See this raises a flag…
And that confirms it.
Also annoyed we aren’t getting Arathi ears for the elven forms.
It’s really strange to me that the argument boils down to… “but they don’t come from stormwind… so they don’t count.”
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I haven’t seen any sign of Danath Trollbane in the story so far. Did he just pop in during the fight against Queen whatshername and steal the kill? I ask because the raid’s the one thing I haven’t done yet.
I did specify Alliance humans. By your logic, any inclusion of the Vrykul should count as Alliance content because they’re the progenitors of modern humans, and that would be nonsensical.
lol, that’s a goalpost shift. Thanks for confirming you aren’t interested an honest conversation.
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I agree with what you’re saying, but why a permanent nerf to Thrall? You have so many OP alliance characters m, even Thrall counter part Jaina is OP. Let’s not forget Malfurin, Tyrandre, alleria, Turyleon… I think there are a couple more but horde has none.
It is just not good story telling especially in BFA when 2 NE characters could defeat the entire horde army. Then one of them got another power boost.
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he appears alongside other alliance leaders during the quest where the factions first reach the isle of dorn
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You only make me feel robbed of Warchief Jeremiah Payson.
“My brothers in the Horde, we are despised by the world, like the cockroach! But we are resilient, like the cockroach! We are ever-adaptable, like the cockroach! No matter how any times our enemies seek to crush us underfoot, we shall survive, like the cockroach!”
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Blizzard craming Humans into everything while the Horde was ignored since…BFA? right now? Yeah it shows who their favs are.
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Cockroach chief
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Sit down my brothers and sisters, and you will hear the story of the heroic cockroach. He who saved us many times fighting evil from the shadows, as the rest of the cockroach kingdom went to war to save us all
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Says the person who chose to respond with emojis instead of text, but sure, whatever floats your boat.
Don’t think I wouldn’t be opposed to nerfing them. There’s a reason I don’t shed tears for Malfurion being written out or Anduin “losing” the light. Some of these characters were written like they were in a comic book, and that has been to their detriment because OPness means you have to create ridiculous stakes in the story…or just makes any story with them boring.
That said, I don’t mind certain characters being powerful; Khadgar prior to this expansion has been handled well enough because while powerful (long lived, was the apprentice to the super wizard of his era, and then spent 20+ years around the Naaru), he can’t solve every problem and has limits. The writers also knew when he should back off, which is why he has set places in the story and never took over.
Fair enough. Malfurion is ridiculously powerful in the lore, but yeah I don’t think he would wipe an army by himself. Tyrande I suspect was given the night warrior power-up because the writers probably realized they wrote Sylvannas to be super ultra powerful, forgetting she was the chosen of a moon goddess.
This is an aside, but since no one has answered this question: where is zappyboy? I know he was young based on how he interacted with Saurfang in BFA, but that’s a character that could use some spotlight, for one.
Oh, a token appearance then.
The classic blizzard didn’t invent reasons to include the horde when they made the story so they can’t invent any now
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The story doesn’t really feel like an “Alliance” or “Horde” story so much as it is a story about this new place. The Horde and Alliance are just sort of there, reacting to events as they unfold. The prevalence of Alleria and her friends during the plot kind of skews it toward the Alliance, but not by a lot.
It’s for this expansion but I’m hoping Midnight will focus more on the Ally/Horde divide and giving each faction a different experience.
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No.
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Which is why I like it.
WoW’s story has never been great and I really don’t get the complaint “Horde races not given attention”. Not that I disagree, its more that I cant imagine caring.
I play as a Pandaren, the absolute LEAST showcased race and it really does not bother me.
As for TWW itself? Its fine, i liked DF better though.
that would require work though, and Blizzard is just a small indie company…
It’s a story about a new place, and the crisis that brought us there, and the Alliance dealing with it. If you remove Alliance characters the drivers of the story arc disappear. You remove the Horde, nothing really changes.
For Blizzard, faction conflict is about portraying the Horde as the villians. They have never been able to do anything else.
Because it isn’t happening to your character.
It reduces your character’s involvement to some arbitrary presence. I have never felt more detatched from the plot. I could be playing a stick figure and they would call me “champion” and send me on quests.
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This is the part I really don’t understand hasn’t it always been this way?
Its like with the Pandaren post MoP and DH’s post Legion.
Im not saying its a good thing but on the list of my wow grievances (which are many) it ranks pretty low.
No? cause if your favourite race wasen’t getting screen time then atleast your faction was, but the horde is entirely ancilliary to the tww remove us from the story and nothing changes, anduin and jaina would still fix everything.
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