Plus the playable gilneans, bad as their heritage quest was, already had. As did the kul’tiran race
Tbh, the quest itself is good, is the conclusion that undermines it, IMO.
If it ended with: I now know the risks of these powers and I will embrace them. And Tess became a worgen, it would be pretty swell.
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I’m really hoping Gilneas gets revisited properly at some point.
Because the Worgen Event happened during a Civil War so all those beefs were put aside. But I’d love to see them revisted. In the starting zone all the normal Gilneans are wearing what look to be smog stained armor and cloth while the nobles wear colorful finery.
And with stuff like the Harvest Witches you’ve the suggestion that a good amount of it’s population was already nature-worship leaning.
So personally I’d revisit it with the upper class being largely human or closeted Worgen Victorian dandies and the lower rural class being Celtic pagan types who fully embrace the Worgen Curse.
And then you’d have a large working class stuck between them who admit being a werewolf is super helpful for lifting coal carts, but is kind of annoying when you’re trying to relax and any given squirrel is setting off your prey drive.
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If only. Unfortunately, I don’t think Blizz cares about Gilneas that much.
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We possibly have the worst heritage questline in game.
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One of the ugliest heritage armors and not a badass coat like that of Greymane. Wrong colors, as the gold trim is way too vibrant a yellow and has nothing to do with the national colors of Gilneas which were always black in lore.
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Our character gets promoted to a member of the Greyguard but no Greyguard title like the human Lionguard one.
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A severely disappointing, uninteresting and boring reclamation questline after so many years of waiting. After such a long time I was expecting something more epic. (I can assure you that of all the possible scenarios in my head, fighting side by side with the Forsaken in order to liberate Gilneas from the Scarlet Crusade was not something I was expecting)
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Another, kind of heritage armor as a reward, even more uglier than the first one (admitelly that’s super impressive to achieve) and a…fox.
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No ‘of Gilneas’ title.
SO many things I could point out in detail that went totally wrong during the reclamation, but that will take me a lot of time and it’s pretty late where I live. The thing is that I have totally lost my faith in Blizzard to cook something good for the Worgen, they just can’t and it’s been proved time and time again. And that’s exactly why I race changed my main after 14 years.
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I liked it, but I felt like it missed a lot of the nuances. It has all the right ingredients but the orcs weren’t acting like orcs. In fact, they almost seemed to be embarrassed to act like orcs at times. They didn’t have the usual brashness to their speech nor did they usually give off the usual vibe of chronic insecurity that we know and love.
Honestly what I hated the most was how the party at the end that ended up becoming a drunken brawl. That’s human/dwarf behavior, not orc behavior. I’m not saying orcs don’t love getting into fights for no reason, but they’re supposed to be ritualistic about it. There should be at least some token formality before they start beating the crap out of each other.
It felt like a fanfiction written by Anduin. Trying to write about orcish culture as he understood it, but projecting his human logic and mannerisms onto them.
It’s kinda why I been obessessed with my draenei. Again mind you. Especially after how good their heritage armor quest line was.
I’ll always have a soft spot for the worgen, but at some point, you gotta stop torturing yourself, you know?
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That’s very good to hear, as I’ve recently leveled a Draenei in Remix! I am really looking forward to do their heritage questline, I know nothing about it.
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I enjoyed it but I happened to play it on this Priest in Shadow Spec and happened to be randomly paired with a Worgen Warrior I’m pretty sure was Fury.
So my memory of it has Rob Zombie’s Dragula playing over it because a Worgen was tearing apart zealots as I cursed their minds with a torrent of vicious ghosts. And that was metal af.
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Is the actual worgen heritage clothing set really that hated? I thought it was loved at the time it came out; it seemed like almost every single leveled worgen poster was using it at the time it came out.
I see it as the set having fans and those who dislike it. I don’t know where the majority stand, though from my understanding of things most were not the biggest fans of the Worgen Heritage Questchain.
Yes they missed one of my favorites character blade master Samuro, arguably the strongest orc alive. He has been in wc3, hero’s of the storm, and Hearthstone but not wow
I’m cautiously hopeful they’ll get something to do now that their completely one sided beef with the Forsaken is resolved.
Seriously the Forsaken were strong armed into invading Gilneas and the Silverpine storyline it ends with the Worgen retreating back behind Greymane’s Wall. I actually thought there was an Alliance city there until I buzzed it when I unlocked flight and found the whole place deserted.
There’s a lot you can do with both the werewolf and Victorian England angles. Now that they’re no longer homeless and have gloomy ole Not London back maybe something will get touched on.
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I respectfully disagree. If there isa perfect heritage quest it would be the Draenei one.
The Orc one had alot of missing things:
- ALL the old clan leaders not the ones from the reformed Horde appearing as ghosts.
- Some backcall to Outland/Draenor needed.
Show the violent nature of Orcs instead of doing a feast. - more clans from the Fel Horde recruitment to mend bridges like the Draenei did to the Eredar.
- more cameos in the finale, not just one time Questgivers.
- a formal return to the southern barrens.
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I mean that was a pretty violent feast.
The one thing I might’ve done differently is making the monster that’s killing people something from Draenor. Because at the end of the Mag’Har unlock quest you see a bunch of random creatures came through too and run off into the Barrens.
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I’ll be damned! You were totally right…I just finished it and I am shocked of how good it was!
The Orc quest was my top one, but I may have to replace it now. I honestly loved everything about the Draenei heritage questline.
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I’m glad you enjoyed it. The draenei one hit everything I was looking for in a heritage quest. A fractured group of people coming together and building a new future together
Everything the worgen heritage should have been with all they been through.
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The Orc heritage needs a huge rework and end lost threads like the rest of Outland, old shaman rituals regarding Oshu’gun, the fel orc clans and the constant problem of water and food.
Orc and Draenei are both the best of the best, everything a heritage quest should be, you have a respect for the history for the race, fun little RP moments for your character, and the laying down of future plot threads.
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I 100% agree. I was exploring the Exodar for like half an hour, so many nice little details everywhere. Every Draenei related NPC was there and I loved the small interactions with many of them. What a fantastic experience.
I even read that there are special options if you play a Man’ari, imagine that!
And then we have other heritage quests like the Worgen one… 
Anyway. I’m very glad for what the Draenei got and I only wish similar treatment to all the races in the future.
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The Orc history wasn’t respected. Throwing a dinner party and having noname NPCs showing up made it by far the worst of the bunch. Even the Tauren one was better.