Baine gets caught yet again in Shadowlands intro… Come on man. He hasn’t done ANYTHING except getting a medal of participation in ingame events. Stop it. Making him a spirit champion which is something that still doesn’t exist in game. Give him something to at least be able to be meaningful as a character. Those powers reflect the need of him fighting in shadowlands AND related to Tauren ancestors. Get on it.
Mayla is a direct descendant of one of the legendary warriors from the War of the Ancients. She has a black dragon by her side. While she isn’t used in the story as much as I’d like, she certainly took some thunder that could have went Baine’s way.
That’s less Baine’s issue and more Sylvanas is apparently somehow able to kidnap him, Jaina, Thrall, and Anduin with no repercussions whatsoever. Feels more like a her problem than a Baine problem.
Nobody “made” him useless. He was useless his entire life. From warcraft 3 rexxar campaign, to cataclysm where he betrays horde for the first time and it just keep going
He never betrayed the horde… lol. Also He fought and saved Garrosh hellscream from the quilboards using the fearbreaker. HE CLEARLY has paladin’ish tendencies when it’s needed. He’s also dabbled into shamanism in game through pandaria. At this point the character needs to stand out. It’s that simple.
How about we just execute him instead? He’s already a traitorous alliance double agent, and like you just said he is useless. Why keep him? There are better tauren we can replace him with.
He is useful. As a willing servant of the enemy. He holds the Alliance in higher esteem than his own people, to the point of forbidding them from seeking vengeance - a right of every member of the Horde.
But I like the sound of him being a “spirit champion”. Does that mean we get to kill the shiftless traitor at some point?