can understand eachother perfectly but when i try to talk to some alliance player just in vladdraken we can’t understand each other or ride each others mounts?
why would you wanna ride a mount with the Alliance?! let alone talk to them… Gross
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Ok but does not cross faction fix this? Maybe Anduin and Thrall were cross faction before cross faction was a thing😦
Okay, but were they bnet friends?
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chilly air awkward silence 🫨
Short answer:
https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GameplayAndStorySegregation
Longer answer:
Within lore, outside of main characters, some races just do NOT speak common at all. Hell, there have been quests in the game that mention orcs speaking broken common, or humans having trouble speaking orcish.
From a gameplay and RP perspective, I hope they eventually break things down and make it so that at bare minimum Horde can learn common, and Alliance can learn orcish, especially with cross faction barriers getting knocked down more and more. The language barrier is archaic relic from the early years of the game when players proved in the original beta for WoW that they couldn’t be trusted to not be immature (back in the original beta, forsaken knew common)
The peak of that nonsense was blood elves that couldn’t speak common (keep in mind they were Alliance back when they were high elves) and pandaren that suddenly became unable to talk to one another upon leaving the Timeless Isle (which was later fixed due to the sheer ridiculousness of that situation)
I honestly think having languages learnable would go a long way towards making the overall gameplay better in those situations where Horde/Alliance players with no shared guild affiliation or previous friendship come across one another in a non-PvP situation and decide to help one another out for a bit.
It would also be amazing from an RP standpoint.
“Goiben uden lo!”
“Uden danieb!”
“BUR!”
Thrall went to night school to brush up on his Common.
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I love this, hes been working at it, 2 jobs, night school, farm in Nagrand isn’t doing so well.
It’s hard to farm land that floats away from you.
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Aggra, she left me…NOOOO
Thrall over here
Oh right
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Because Thrall has been Alliance all along. Garrosh did nothing wrong. Miss having a leader with actual balls.
Thrall was raised by humans. The common tongue was his first language, not orcish.
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The story has moved so far away from Thralls origins I wouldn’t be surprised if there are people who have forgotten he was raised by humans.
Plot
thrall being picked up by humans aside, there’s also the potion to speak the other language too lol. my common sense thought he simply learned it like anyone else could lol
My favorite is humans who, of course, speak common. But they die, are raised as undead, and now they no longer understand common but speak orcish.
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While we are the chosen murder hobos, we are still red shirt chosen murder hobos.