Hey, the Alliance got their revenge in the best raid of all of BfA
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not to mention those quotes where the thoughts of tyrande, immediately after it had occured. its not at all surprising that she would be hyperbolic in her outlook after loosing something so important even if the actual long term rammifications are hardly so catastrophic as they might seem at the time.
heck, just look at these forums, blizz even mentions eye color and you would think the apocalypse was suddenly looming on the horizonâŚ
she was in shock and mourning over the loss of her home, it makes sense that she would see things as being far worse than they actually where. even her language âcountless innocentsâ makes no sense for the size of the tree, unless sheâs including like the termites or something. the livable surface area alone looks like it could support a couple hundred thousand at most IF it was fully covered in a metropolis (which it wasnât). in reality, iâd say 5-10k is a more realistic population. which if there where only about 1k left the players had to rescue means the bulk of their population had already escaped.
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Yeah I loved Rastakhan and was really sad.
And the Alliance got away with that and that made me mad
But Iâm not gonna whine and cry over it. Itâs all said and done everyone has to accept and deal with things they disagree with that canât be changed.
Where is that picture of a bird that goes âi am uncomfortable when we are not talking about meâ
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wonder what thatâs like
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Hopefully we find out. I have been waiting to kill Tyrande for a long time now.
which time?
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The only mistake in burning the tree is they missed some elves.
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Lol yup definitely
Same. Canât remember it ever happening in our history,
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I disagree with your assessment that itâs unprofessional and disgusting that the night elves are being tested (via massacre).
The reason being is that itâs fiction.
I hated when my favorite characters were tortured and killed throughout the Game of Thrones books, but I wouldnât call George R. R. Martin disgusting and unprofessional.
When a character or race is tested, it makes it all the more rewarding when theyâre able to bounce back.
The blood elves are a good example. Arthas wiped out 90% of Quelâthalasâ population. He destroyed the Sun Well, leaving the remaining 10% bereft of the very thing that sustained them. He murdered their king.
The sinâdorei wouldnât get their revenge until the next expansion and, afterward, got enough of a population to create void elves.
Conflict resolution neednât happen in a single expansion and it REALLY sucks when it does.
Look at the Emerald Nightmare (resolved in a single raid) Nazjatar (poorly represented as a zone/patch) and Nyalotha (resolved in a raid) as examples.
Each of those could easily have been their very own expansion as theyâd been teased and built up upon for years.
When the night elves get their revenge, itâll be glorious to you; a true blue night elf fan.
People like myself will grumble and mutter that our, âgenocide,â wasnât nearly thorough enough.
At the end of the day, Blizzard didnât revoke peopleâs access to creating a new night elf character; even granting them a new customization (black eyes).
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What is the saddest thing to me in all this was Blizz made a conscious decision to call what happened genocide without understanding the gravity of the word.
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LMFAO, yeah, blizzâs level of writing is nowhere near ASOIAF. Come on, blizz didnât even realize the gravity of what they wrote and are now trying to ignore it.
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I think the word itself is fine, iâm also okay with the characters in universe seeing it that way. the problem is too many players assume that what the characters say happened is the truth of the matter. they donât take into account that maybe the narrator is unreliable.
the battle of the broken shore is a good example of that, we know from the cinematic that the horde didnât betray the alliance at all, their lines where broken, their warchief was impaled and dying, they barely managed to retreat with their lives.
the alliance didnât know that, they saw it as a betrayal, and from an in-universe perspective that makes perfect sense. but we as players should be able to tell the difference. (And yet, despite knowing the truth, many players still parrot the idea that it was a horde betrayal because thats what they get told in game about it)
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I believe that it would be truly unprofessional and disgusting if the whole conflict/revenge was wrapped up in a single patch.
Especially when you consider the gravity of the circumstances.
Anduin told Tyrande to knock it off and not escalate matters, to which she said, âI do wut I wunt!â and escalated the conflict.
So she ignored her king and that shouldnât be easily overlooked.
She then invoked the forbidden act of summoning the Night Warrior.
The kalâdorei are furious and likely amassing a huge host; plotting a nasty revenge.
If this whole thing got wrapped up in a hack meat fashion (ie a single patch/raid/dungeon); now THAT would be unprofessional and disgusting.
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The problem is that it was wrapped up in a single patch. Atleast thatâs what they told us, that 8.1 was our revenge plot.
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The story isnât over yet. Itâs being continued in SLâs.
Canât have been much of a genocide then.
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It wasnât. You can see that in that last cine, where Tyrande walks out on the alliance.
Itâs not over.
That could be an argument if Tyrande didnât die right away in Shadowlands without doing anythingâŚ