I notice all the other Troll tribes have Dire Trolls, but not the Darkspear.
Is their a lore reason for this?
Canonically, answer is simply “they just don’t”. Whether it be because they thought it was barbaric, or that they lost the knowledge when they split off from Stranglethorn, who knows.
Realistically? Dire trolls were just a meme during vanilla; there was no backstory for them like we have from Zandalar - that is, we didn’t know (read: it wasn’t made up yet) that the process to become a dire troll is a willing one that hones your strengths further. Until then, people just assumed they were brutish mongs with little to no intellect.
That, and the fact that if the Darkspear ever ACTUALLY got dire trolls, players would want them to be playable. But, canonically, I’d say the tidiest reason is that they might have had them, before they splintered off from Stranglethorn.
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There was some trolls that used the dire troll model in the reclamation of the echo isles. Might’ve been Zalazane’s voodoo, but they also could’ve been the remnants of the Darkspear Dire Trolls.
I just came back here to say this. I checked the wowpedia page, which says:
If I tried to logic up an answer, it would be that perhaps those were decorated members of Darkspear society brought along with them from their leaving STV (in urns, or something). Who knows.
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Why don’t we see more dire orcs Horde side? Why don’t we see more spellbreakers or blood mages, or warlocks?
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With their cannibalistic origins, getting beefed up Darkspear trolls with more muscle would have been a smart decision, more food to go around.
Because the horde is only allowed to win via macguffin. Otherwise we might seem like an actual faction with people and a military beyond idiotic brutes.
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Darkspear were canoncially the weakest Troll tribe before joining the Horde.
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