Am I only Player who plays Alliance alot sees that the Orcs as a Race is doing pretty well over the years in terms of lore and identity besides what people within the WoW Community sees them now in days?
I mean they got pretty much nearly all of the Clans Stuff updated as heck with the Shadowmoon Clan, Laughing Skull, Blackrock, Warsong, Frostwolf, Burning Blade, Thunderlord, Bleeding Hollow, Shattered Hand, and etc with updated buildings, art assets, and even the armor sets too. On top of that is also the Character Customization Options, Lore, Heritage Armor Sets, Better Heritage Questchain and more?
So why do most people who play orcs make posts about why they donāt like the Orcish Race anymore or atleast with the Thrall side of the Orcish Horde?
I have zero issues with the current orc race since they are healing together as a Race with all the Orcish Clans coming together as one in the lore, they have cool stuff and they are basically the face of World of Warcraft at this point besides Humans of the Warcraft Franchise.
Unless you could say that they still lack Character Customization Options with the Green Blackrock Skin Tunes, Mokānathal Orcs, Dragonmaws, and Fel Orcs. Then yea I can understand that. Shadowmoon, Laughing Skull, and Thunderlord Clans being ether inactive or just abandoned and destroyed in the lore. Yea that too I would 100% agree that needs to be address.
But other than that Orcs are doing pretty good in my books.
Because time of peace is the worse time for orcs. Orcs like many barbarian type of race look for challenges and fights to prove themselves. They start in the āvalley of trialā, a fitting name for those that wants to become warriors. Garrosh brought that side back up and it felt good for many people that liked that side more of the orcs. And while for sure shamanism can calm them orcs still look for opportunities to gain honor and glory on the battlefield.
and highest esteemed figureheads like the warlords
ā were pushovers (save except Blackhand perhaps), and their entire culture was garbage along with their āshamanistic cultureā being between miniscule to nothing. Heck, NerāZhul was a dungeon boss ā and only relevant in the Allianceās quests & lore. I get that it was āan alternate timelineā - however thereās still handfuls of vitally important stuff that shouldāve still remained, and continued to be relevant.
Personally, to give the orcs more flavour - I feel they should emphasise more on their shamanistic culture & ties, other than the whole āwarriorā culture for awhile. Spice things up.
It just depends how far back you go. According to the WOW movie , orcs are creatures from another planet/dimension than Azeroth ( I donāt think that is a spoiler, that is pretty much how it began). If you go back to Tolkien, orcs were made by Sorcerers that were human and were being controlled by Sauramon at the time of LTR.
You wanna get in to orc lore with me , it is presumed Tolkien had created orcs from enemy soldiers from WWI
I like the idea of how orcs were created, in the two stories mentioned.
In WoW, in particular, I like that orcs came from another planet.
I liked the brutality, in WC3 I loved samurai orcs, orcs that used wolves and fought on top of them and I imagined having a character like thatā¦
Butā¦ in WoW initially our orc was hunchbacked and nowadays they are flat. WC3 orcs seemed to be more vertical (taller, less flat).
In WC3 they seemed to be more barbaric and fighting was part of the culture, I loved itā¦ nowadays this peace thing is disgusting.
And the orcs currently lack a leader. In the Heritage Armor quest line, we saw some that can be developed further. But Iām worried that the writers will kill them off again, and weāve lost a lot of good leaders in history, and Garrosh was one of them.
To be fair, more than half of what dealt with orcs was left out.
