Meanwhile, the employee service rewards at Blizzard are Alliance-themed.
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I don’t play with my food.
How does that statue impact you? Also do you know that 100% of Blizzard employees are human? Not a single orc.
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Swords and Shields are dominant designs in most Fantasy, far more than Axes. That’s just a common trope.
Plus, that’s a Lordaeron crest, is it not? Maybe it’s a Forsaken set, given the motif of the pommel and spiky hilt.
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those DO look really nice though
Yes, which is the Alliance symbol that shows on Alliance characters in-game.
Like this guy.
That is cultural appropriation!
…when Blizz makes a Freudian Slip…
I keep it handy for whenever somebody brings Baine up in a discussion.
Oh damn, you right. Didn’t know the Forsaken rejoined the Alliance.
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/c/c1/Lordaeron_Ruins.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20100827150252
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/6/61/Ruins_of_Lordaeron_-_portal_room.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20220705085208
https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/0/0d/Throneroom.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181223183453
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You obviously have zero knowledge of the history of WoW’s game world.
You have a completely unhealthy vendetta against a video game faction to the point of poisoning any discussion that even threatens to mention it.
Baine got The Shield because otherwise it would have been bizarre to have an attackable hostile entity in Stormwind for Alliance players. If Orgrimmar ever needed to serve as a meeting ground for Alliance members, they’d probably have The Shield and green nameplates.
I’m honestly wondering; is the fact that the forums background is a shade of blue also indicative of this ‘Alliance Bias’?
Literally click on any alliance faction NPC and that is the symbol used right now by them in game. It was also the human faction symbol in WC3. So trying to claim it as representing Horde Forsaken vs. representing the current Alliance who currently have that symbol on all of their NPC portraits is kind of a stretch.
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I’m not denying it was the symbol of the Grand Alliance. But Lordaeron, the heart of that Alliance, is firmly in Forsaken hands. They haven’t torn down the icon, they haven’t destroyed the throne, so it’s clear somewhere in Forsaken culture the icon is still important to them, even if it’s not outwardly expressed.
Again, it could be an Alliance sword and shield. It could also be a Forsaken sword and shield. It could also just be a cool sword and shield.
Not everything is an Alliance plant, I promise you.
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I mean I don’t see what the Horde could be doing right now? We specialize in warfare and brutality. We can’t be wrecking the emerald dream just to take out the primalists and druids of the flame. Plus we’re still recovering our forces. If anything you should be thankful the Horde gets to recover and help itself while the Alliance has to dedicate more forces to wordly problems.
Plus funny enough as it is the Alliance think they never ever get the spot light and its always the Horde. So take your one questline with baine going on a murder spree for your horde spotlight of the expansion and you will like it!
I like how you can just gloss over all the other problems Horde had in Vanilla-Cata by some very specific travel related points.
Horde was unfinished for a long time, it wasn’t intentional, but after finely crafting the Alliance experience, they had to launch well before Horde was complete. So you had things like the quest gap that lasted until the Mauradon patch where there was a patch in the 40-50 level range where horde could only grind mobs because there were no quests in that range. Or how unbalanced the zone distribution was.
Until a few expansions in (either wrath or Cata I think) there’s only the zeppelins between Org, UC, and the camp in STV, still had to run through the Barrens to get from TB to Org.
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It’s infuriating; if the Horde isn’t actively and without any resistance stomping mud puddles in everyone wearing the color blue, the Horde is being neglected and forsaken.
As a Horde main I don’t feel like my faction is being neglected and forsaken. I feel like we are taking the back seat in recovery which the Horde desperately needs. Why would the Horde itself in the involvement of dragons. We have the dragonmaw clan, and the Horde hasn’t always been the greatest at uh being nice to anyone not allying with us. So just supporting from the sidelines and not upsetting the dragons is a good thing.
Then in this emerald dream patch mostly involving the new tree and the Night elves, do we really want to get involved or near the new tree as the Horde? I don’t think the night elves would appreciate the horde going into the emerald dream regardless if our intentions were to help them out so by leaving them alone and not causing problems is also a good thing for everyone.
Midnight is all about the blood elf lands, and we will have more horde spot light than anyone else in that expansion. So people just needa chill.
Dragonlight as a whole is really not supposed to be an Alliance or Horde storyline, the entire point is that both factions are pretty much demanded to sod off and only explorers and neutral entities are welcome; the PCs are included in this because they’re powerful adventurers that can help handle some of the problems the dragons face without risking them ‘sponsoring’ one faction or the other.
Both factions are too big to isolate from each other anymore, and it makes no sense to only have one interested in a particular event, so it’s natural that storylines and interests converge and align.
I mean it would make sense for the Tauren to be involved but at the same time the Tauren don’t have a military druid organization like the Night elves. The night elves have druids who specialize in reconnaissance, combat, recovery while the tauren druids are just… there existing with no definite purpose other than to say hey the horde tauren druid playerbase makes sense cause tauren have druids.
Dark spear troll druids seem even more rare than tauren, and the zandalari are still recovering but they don’t have a big druid organization either. Tbh i’m kinda of surprised cause the only other druidic race that would get involved with the night elves and helping them would be the worgen but they are no where to be seen either.