Unpopular WRA Opinions

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So what we’re saying is she’s Tirion jumping in to kill the Lich King after we, the players, aren’t allowed to. We just softened him up for her.

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Mag’har as they were implemented are insufferably annoying, their backstory is baffling, and there could have been numerous better ways to do it.

Something that was common with Pandaren characters when MoP dropped was the trope of “I’m going to be a giggly screechy foreigner and put forth ignorance of Azerothian customs as carte blanche to be extremely rude, but then I’ll break my own character to wax superior-philosophy and shut my victims down!”

So, we got more of that but with an even more belligerent angle when it came from Mag’har. I hated it. I started avoiding most Mag’har characters because of it.

Why they didn’t just bring in the Mag’har we already had from Outland, I’ll never understand. Why they didn’t write the Mag’har as being wary of previous excesses of violence and eager to guide the Horde to a more balanced place, I will doubly never understand.

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For one of several reasons, in my mind:

  1. The game is written primarily by nerds who grew up in the 80s, listening to music and reading stories that treated dominating violence as glorious at best and pornographic at worst, and want to continue the tradition without having to feel bad by thinking about it too hard,
  2. The wanted to have a Skyrim-style “bOtH sIdEs ArE wRoNg” plotline, but were self-aware enough to know that it takes a lot to make side A seem as bad as side B when the audience was introduced to side B by watching them dunk the innocent people of side A into a blender (after enslaving and then sexually assaulting them),
  3. We were always intended to view the Iron Horde as heroes in the end, and the guys who greenlit WoD are going to force us to feel that way, feelings of Alliance players be damned.
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My unpopular WRA opinion is that cats are and forever will be superior to dogs.

Have a cat.

why am i trust level 3 again

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Can’t stand them either.

I personally have concern that if we do actually kill off Sylvannas, it will result in a different character getting a ‘model update’ and being sexualized.

Tell the belves and zandas to hide Liadrin and Talanji

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I think Tirion is the least offensive instance of this, because he doesn’t steal the kill (we still land the final blow), and he helps us by rezzing us after the Lich King’s goes “alright it’s been fun but it’s time to get serious”.

I still prefer the idea that the reason the alliance hasnt taken the vindicaar on the offensive is because its protecting the azuremyst isles from a horde assault and keeping it a safe haven for the night elves and worgen to flee to

Id adore the draenei bringing tempest keep and its satellites to azeroth, though; could you imagine having all four hovering above the exodar???

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sylvanas is raising an army to combat the Black Empire (Horde and Alliance too weak to fight N’zoth) and will lowkey bamboozle everybody at the end

I HATE HATE HATE Tiragarde Sound. I hate the layout, I hate navigating it, I hate all the little twists and turns and how you have to go all the way around to find an NPC hidden in some tiny little room and it’s just utter hot garbage.

Suramar was cake compared to Tiragarde Sound >:(

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The music is hella good though, with whatever those dudes are singin’ about all boss sounding.

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SO, this is new for me since it happened literally 5 minutes ago.

RPing as a DH only now just trying to socialize again and having the rusty social skills you might expect from a former deathseeker and person who was imprisoned for a long peroid of time is actually quite entertaining when it is not done in a cringe manner.

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Death Knights and Demon Hunters occupy an unusual position, legally speaking, under the Alliance.

One is Undead. The other is almost a Demon. And neither are technically recognized as citizens under the laws of the various nations of the Alliance.

Naturally, since Death Knights and Demon Hunters are lethal physical and magical threats, nobody denies them service, goods or aid, either due to fear of what they might do or respect for what these tragic figures have done, and are still doing, for the Alliance, but legally … they don’t have a leg to stand on.

This comes back to bite the Demon Hunters and Death Knights when they try to reclaim lands or possessions they might have left behind. Death Knights are, according to Alliance laws, dead and thus their possessions and lands were divided up according to their wills or, if they had no wills, were reclaimed by their nations under authority of the crown. Demon Hunters, being exclusively Night Elves on the Alliance side, have things even worse since many of their former kind refuse to have anything to do with them and, if not actively driving the Demon Hunters away, will do everything they can to make the Demon Hunter feel as ostracized and isolated as possible to get them to go away.

And then Teldrassil burned down. And now all the Night Elves have no homes to come back to. More than a few Kaldorei Demon Hunters smirked at that.

So while a Death Knight or a Demon Hunter might be granted land and title for their efforts, or do a thriving trade on rare magical goods and items looted from whatever horror of the week rises to challenge the Alliance, all it takes is one ballsy trader to refuse to deal with them, and then the Demon Hunter or Death Knight can either force the issue and run up against the law, and their erstwhile allies, hard, or they have to go out and hope somebody else will deal with them and that this doesn’t become a recurring trend.

Kor’kron Rp was the best time for RP. Instead of getting out of Org and using underused zones for their RP, most of the community just wasted their time complaining.

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I dunno about this. Thassarian was citizen enough to enlist in the mainstream alliance military.

I must admit I never had any trouble with the Kor’kron because I moved my RP to Razor Hill. It made no sense for my then blood elf dk to be in Org. So I wasn’t. Thus I somehow dodged the whole shamozzle.

That said though, even though it made lore sense, it doesn’t excuse the ooc abuse people suffered imo. Keep it IC and ignore the person if they clearly want to RP there in spite of the lore.

Some pretty serious harassment happened during that period. Can you elaborate on what you mean by this?

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Yeaaaah it wasn’t great RP if you were getting harassed OOC about being “not an orc” in Orgrimmar for any reason. It was the period of time that just made me pretty much quit RPing, so while it was fun for some folks…others? Not so much.

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It kiiiinda sounds like people being harassed and bullied are being blamed and labeled as whiny for not leaving Orgrimmar to escape their harassers.

But again I’d like to give Mato a chance to clarify.

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Yeah any ooc harassment was totally unwarranted imo. Even IC it can be a fine line.

I can defs see where Mato is coming from though - there was every reason to take advantage of the lore situation and use it to RP in new and different hubs. It’s nice to get away from SW and Org now and then - I certainly enjoyed the whole Razor Hill thing, on the odd occasion when I’d play Horde (I was an ally main at the time). That’s not to say, the way i read his comment at least, that it should be mandated. This is just an unpopular opinions thread, and actually enjoying Kor’kron era rp is defs an unpopular opinion… I can definitely see the appealing factors though. It was an interesting period to rp in from a story standpoint.