Happy for Durak he already seems cooler then His father. I was afraid they give him the Cairne Treatment.
So I didnât realize Trigore was an actual rare mob in WC because I havenât been there in centuries.
So Durak is a real one for soloing a rare mob, solo, while underleveled.
And I appreciate his âOkay, I killed the beastie. Can I now take the actual omâgora?â like he didnât just do half the trails on a whim.
Thrall should have just gave the boy Doomhammerâs plate and said good luck young blood.
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This wasnât my favorite story either, but my takeaway is that, even after Garrosh and Sylvanas, the orcs are still repeating the same patterns; Thrall is potentially lecturing into the void.
The story would have worked better if it focused more on Durak, and his motivations for revenge and how revenge/violence fit into being a orc,nature, the right of passage, etc. That would have played off Thrallâs speech better imo.
I found myself glossing over the Thrall/Aggra parts.
Moira does revenge: itâs good
Durak does revenge: evil, only the dirty horde seeks revenge.
That wasnât said at any point?
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I didnât get that at all?
He was reckless but wanted to avenge a friend.
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Im confused by this takeaway.
Didnât the story end with with Thrall and Aggra upset that he rushed off to his potential death without telling them but acknowledging he was a real one for besting a rare mob solo and avenging a friend?
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Yes. Thrall was worried about his son being Zug Zug but also immensely proud his son was Zug Zug.
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Since i never played horde for real i didnt knew the Hydra was a rare.
So the average warrior cant defeat a rare mkb, what does that make PCs then.
These kids are like, valley of trials orc equivalents. Level 1, no kills, no skills.
Its dumb that they tried going after that specific hydra because theyâre teenagers, not actual blooded soldiers. Theyâre still 200 lbs of muscle but I assume the trial is usually for more mundane targets, like a raptor that mauled a traveller or broke into a pig farm and slaughtered a few.
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Likewise.
Teenagers can be really dumb. Plus as Trigore claimed more lives, killing Trigore meant the killer would have greater glory. So it became a vicious cycle, where orcs kept coming in the hopes of personal glory, only to die, and then add to Trigoreâs infamy and the glory itâs death would bring.
Iâm just curious on how that whole chain started. Like did one of the orcs decide to kill Trigore in vengeance for a past loved one being killed by the hydra or something? And then it just spiraled into what it became before Durak killed it.
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Could be that WC was a popular spot to explore and hunt a stronger beast than the usual scorpid/raptor fare and Trigore started hunting orcs as it noticed them coming deeper into the caves
Really, this is our fault, absolutely nobody full cleared WC, the beasts were gonna breed and come back eventually.
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Orcs are adults byt the age of 13. âTeenagerâ orcs is something that was introduced specifically for Thrallâs children. Even at Durakâs age, orcs like Durotan had already killed packs of Garns on Draenor, fueled by the raceâs bloodlust.
Also Varian had a full set at the age of 12 and was already a warrior.
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Since Thrall married during cataclysm, his kids are younger than Wrathion, so Thrallâs oldest son might be in the late stage of orcpuberty into adulthood.
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I would say Durak is a warrior already too though? Heâs almost certainly trained with his father in combat, he just wasnât a blooded one (outside of hunting) because thereâs really not a pressing threat they need every orc they can get to handle.
Durotan and Varian had to be warriors early on in life because their individual peoples were one bad day from ruination, meanwhile the current generation of orc boys had to go all the way to WC to find threatening prey, which makes it sound like even the Quillboar have quietly figured out the âand let liveâ part of âLive and let liveâ.
I want to say orcs usually age a bit faster than humans, even without warlocks.
But I have no idea what my source is for that, be it âthe vibesâ, the defunct RPG, or some actual lore.
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iirc Trigore spawns outside the actual dungeon in the water. So my headcanon is that no-one paid attention to it as it was not on the path to the dungeon proper, nor was it a quest target.
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I still cant get over how he soloed a rare mob while underleveled and treated it as an attunment to the actual trials.
I thought Magni was the one made of stones here.
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Lord of the Clans and Rise of the Horde establish orcs start training with weapons around 6 and are just about the same size of an adult human by that time. By 12 they can join hunting parties, and thats around the same time they can start the Omgora
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Theyâre really knocking it out of the park with all of these stories. Great characterization for Thrall and his entire family, as well as a good framing of the balance that the Orcs have to maintain between their warlike nature and the honor they try and maintain.
What surprised me, though, is the lack of shaman-related angst on Thrallâs part. It doesnât seem like heâs struggling with the same sort of self-doubt that he was experiencing during Legion, which was the initial impression given by the Shadow and Fury trailer. I wonder if something else occurs in TWW that causes Thrall to not necessarily be the voice of reason, for once.
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