I will agree with you about the Night Elf thing. Blizzard consistently gives you guys the shaft. I was hoping to see something more come of the Night Warrior/Tyrande plot.
I admit I mostly just wanted to see her flay Blightcaller and mount his head on a stick to parade around Sylvanas.
Hey I’ll be the first one to say I’m sad we didn’t get the option to just throw “boy toy” Blightcaller to the proverbial (and literal) wolves and screw off to the beach to have nice drinks.
The Alliance story started going down the drain the second Varian showed up to consolidate the Alliance story to just him and shove the rest of the Alliance leaders into the background. He was basically a orc in a human’s body, copied some of Thrall’s origin story, and only came back into relevance just to become a Blue Warchief. All because the writers can’t be bothered to think of the Alliance as a council of leaders with their own beliefs and ambitions like it was in previous RTS’s. That’s how little they care about the Grand Alliance, they turned the Alliance into the Horde-lite with a warchief title without the racial diversity.
What was the purpose of High King? To better lead the Alliance military? Wrong, Lothar and Turalyon did just fine not being racial leaders or needing to be “elevated” above others. It exists because Blizzard can’t be bothered to think up a story for the Alliance outside of reacting to the horde’s story. Oh, and per Metzen, its not a title that supposed to be inherited. So why does Anduin have it and why is he behaving more like an Emperor who issues orders off his flower arrangement than a commander of a military?
Oh yeah, because the Alliance story as far as Blizzard is concerned is only about the Wrynns, and maybe Jaina during her bipolar episodes. People who don’t think Lego Disneyworld is the coolest thing ever? You don’t exist in their eyes except as being victims of the Horde, or idiots to show how “smart” Anduin’s room-temperature IQ ideas are.
Rise up? How do you even have the strength to stand at all? Your faction has literally been shafted in every way possible. Blizzard has personally extinguished the light at the end of your tunnel. They also burned the coolest City you had to ash.
Is there anything left to rise up? It is abundantly clear the blizzards answer to the faction problem is everyone just simply switch to horde
These threads are like a child going “Well Billy got this and I want it too”
and Blizz is the parent ignoring the child while they are throwing a tantrum over the whole thing.
Oh boo hoo Arthas ransacked the Blood elf home city killed more than 50% of the people and their king, turned some of their own to undead you don’t see them whining about it even after they never got a shot at him or when it was decided we still need a Lich king in the world.