Incursion WPvP is fun and other than doing hyper-casual arena for hippo points it’s basically the only thing I log in for. Getting kind of disappointed beating some of our “PvP Guilds” only to have them re-appear surrounded by names from Mal’ganis and Tichondrius and so forth.
Flying will kill this dead, and I’ll hang up my sword until whatever comes next, probably.
I’ve taken a bit of a backseat from the game for a number of reasons. Hopefully the QnA gives me something to be excited about. But yeah minus an rp once or twice a week I’m playing ESO and relaxing a bit. Sometimes you just need to take a break and recharge your batteries ya know and BFA currently is a good time for it lol
On the Darkshore minimap, there’s a little speech bubble. You’ll find a Bronze Dragonflight NPC there that you can talk to that will phase you back into old Darkshore and let you return to Darnassus. Currently if you take a portal from say Dalaran, it’ll drop you off at the Dragonflight NPC.
Not super happy about the Azerite system, I kinda think that Horde got the short end of the stick when it comes to allies, capital and questing zones.
The Instances are pretty cool and the new raid really makes me want to find a raid guild. I like that they’re giving you some degree of choice in some of the plot. Overall though it just feels like a less engaging version of Legion.
I don’t hate BfA but it doesn’t offer me enough to really want to play it.
I managed to level up like one time on one character in BFA content. The theme of the expansion just isn’t for me and everything I read about endgame makes me even less enthusiastic about trying to reach it.
BfA is really no different from any xpac before it. Every time a new xpac goes live, the forums are on fire with the players who think it’s the worst xpac to date and how it’s gonna sink the company and unprecedented numbers of people are leaving blah blah blah. Azeroth goes on and likely will for many years. And in general, every xpac will sell well enough and please some people and not please others.
That macho talk is hilarious in chat, but I’ve never heard it IRL. Now, I was Horde for 14 years so would have been on the delivering end, but it never crossed my mind. Alliance players, in my head, used to either be new to the game or just not into the monster faction.
I’m old af, so tough talk over video games is alien to me. In my day, when we’d walk up hill both ways, nerds were prey. That’s what initially attracted me to the Horde, they used to be the outcasts.
People play Horde fall into three camps, I find. Those who just want to look edgy and cool but don’t care about recent events, those who lie to themselves and believe their continued support and protection of a terrorist queen is justified, or players who like the “evil faction” aesthetic; which I personally think is cool. I’ll not play an evil character, but it is rad for a game to offer the option.
Oh, it happens. I read a story that last Blizzcon, or the one before, a bunch of Alliance players got heckled and harassed pretty viciously, and they had to kick people out, and ALLEGEDLY got the Alliance peeps to sign NDAs in exchange for goodies or something stupid. The second part, I can’t confirm. Doesn’t sound far-fetched, but I can’t confirm.
I’m just gonna say right now, I’m super against categorizing people in any way based on faction choice, so I’m gonna disagree. But to each their own.
That’s like saying all alliance players are either boring LotR “alliance of elves, dwarves and men” fanboys or people who want to erp in goldshire.
I personally like the Horde because I grew up in the 80s and always loved the aesthetic of things like He-Man, The Beastmaster, Conan, etc and the Horde fits this aesthetic far more than the Alliance races. That and really loving the Horde story in WI-III.
It’s funny that all of your categories reference BfA plot shifts regardless of many players having rolled their Horde toons well over a decade ago.
It’s the adult version of waiting on Christmas morning. That was brutal as a kid, got worse the closer it got. That’s how Zandalari allied race got me feeling right now.
I think there certainly are people who play Horde and fit into those three categories. Just like there certainly are people who play Alliance who want to be stereotypically good, who want to have moral authoritative control over people and who believe the story is compelling.
More often, though, I think Horde players are genuinely attracted to the concept of a faction that’s trying its best. They like the idea of being a faction that struggles and has to figure things out and has more emotional context for their story. The game is currently failing them on this front, since the Horde are basically out-and-out villains as of BfA, but the desire is still there.
That said, I do agree that a lot of the apologism for the bad decisions made during the story are a hindrance to the faction.