For pvp, yes.
For pvp, yes.
I'd say that whether Blizzard "favors" one faction over another will be seen best in SoO. To the situation now I won't have a non-biased opinion. Glory to the Alliance!
After years of treating the Alliance badly, and even making a part of the world a Horde Logo. Blizzard is finally giving the Alliance a little bit back.
Lets see, Destroyed Theramore Had the horde murder several prominent characters in Dalaran, had Jaina so mad that she asked the Horde to move out of Dalaran, when they refused she locked up a couple of them to show she meant business.
But the way they presented the events Jaina looks bad. So no still a ton of Horde Bias.
horde is just better. i feel sorry for the alliance players and their weak, lackluster story telling. you chose poorly.
I play both factions, ALL the horde leveling quests revolve around killing the Alliance. So if you think it's alliance favoritism that the Alliance gets nothing but go here save them quests and the Horde has go here and kill alliance quests. Than you misunderstand what Blizzard has done, they teach the Horde players to hate the Alliance and to Kill Alliance players, while teaching the Alliance players to do raids and nice things. this has been the not to subtle storyline for the last 8 years.
you can't just say that because it was before wow that he wasn't alliance, the past matters, the LORE matters.
Human makes him more RELEVANT to the Alliance
No, blood elf and tauren 'paladins' belong to different orders. Blood Knights and Sunwalkers (though the human/draenei overtones are nauseating)
Again, mostly Alliance, roots and history -in the alliance-, a dwarf or human or heck, even worgen player can go through the argent crusade and deal with Tirion and feel relatively at home. This is a guy tied to their themes and their past and they should 'care'. An orc or troll would feel kind of out of place and have a kind of 'wtf'? vibe.
Nelfs at least deal with argent stuff in their earlier zones, but again you're ignoring sliding scale and making this binary. Ultimately Tirion and the argents are far more relevant, more thematically consistent, and more historically, politically, and culturally -tied- to the Alliance than the Horde.
Could you explain what you mean here? I'm not sure I get it. You're saying that the fact that Tirion went with the Alliance and hung out in one of their towns doesn't suggest he has a closer tie to them than the Horde?
This isn't a 'bias' thing. Some content is just far more relevant to some races, and rather than Blizz shoving orcs and trolls into medieval european aesthetics and going "Oh this is just as relevant and fitting to you as the other guys that used to have a monopoly on these themes" when we flat out know it's not, they ought to give the Horde their own things, and the Alliance can keep their stuff instead of making us share and having this -weirdness- where Malfurion stands around while the Horde murders his wife or Cenarius never says an odd word to the orcs, and Tirion doesn't bat an eye at the forsaken.
Twas brillig
You are completely missing the point of everything I said. My whole point is that surface details like him being human doesn't mean he is Alliance lore and that him being in Wrath made the expansion centered around the Alliance. Not once did I ever say that was of equal relevant to the Horde, only that he was not completely irrelevant as people have implied time and time again. I make the argument that things aren't as one sided as people make them out to be and some how I am the one that is making a binary argument. o.O Every argument made for for how Tirion is all for the Alliance is looking at extremely insignificant surface facts and completely ignores the details of the story.
No more posts from me.
They're not surface facts they're the history that made the character...
Twas brillig
First, everytime I come into one of this dude's threads he's always banned. Is he posting while banned, is this a necro, or does he just have that many accounts?
Anyways, I think the issue is the horde story so far this expansion is childish in writing and a story we all know OVERLY well. So its rather boring and predictable. The alliance side is more interesting and is a less often told story. The good guy loosing it and crossing the line mixed with who will take their place on the throne. While horde is Leader is crazy lets replace him. And that is really the horde story is the hellscream tale part two. While alliance has a little more pizzazzz this time around. Either way the story this time is pretty simple and dull even for warcraft, not their best writing to date. Wraithion is really the only quest chain I like this time and he's really more interesting than Garrosh, Anduin, Varian, or Jania.
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That is a pretty expansive definition of ask you have there.
Man, "Blizzard favours Horde/Alliance" is the second most stupid type of thread you regularly see on the forums. After bitching sessions over sub numbers.
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Tirion was neutral in the Plaguelands back in Vanilla, long before Wrath. And his quest chain makes a BIG POINT about how he's seen monsters and heroes on both sides. He has a whole backstory about going into exile from the Paladin order because he was sympathetic to an Orc.
Seriously you couldn't imagine a human more neutral and cross-faction than Tirion Fordring. He's been like that from the moment he was created. It's a major part of his character.
Yeah I remember I did the whole questchain, god THOSE were the days.
It doesn't change the fact that the light and paladins and his aesthetics and history -still- make him, and thus the argent crusade more relevant to the Alliance than the Horde, he's 'the alliance guy that's nice to the Horde' again, in his story he literally uttered the words "I'll be loyal to the alliance until my dying day."
It's not a 'bias' thing
You -literally- cannot make the Horde fit as well in the argent aesthetics and thematics as the Alliance.
Twas brillig
My biggest gripe is that the Alliance has a good story in the books. There it's written well and actually doesn't make you feel like you're fighting a losing battle while you read it. Tides of War, Jaina goes batshit crazy and almost levels Orgrimmar with a flood of Water Elementals. We see Thrall fail for the first time when he can't stop her wave of Elementals. What did we see in-game? The Horde actually did something and the Alliance killed a few stragglers and we are told by a relatively calm and placid Jaina "Hey, thanks for helping. I need time to think". At which point in Cata you were mailed a Tabard with a thank you note.
Nothing else. No epic scene of someone from the Alliance taking it upon themselves to show that they're not all pushovers. Not even a glimmer of anything remotely resembling a character with a spine. Same thing happened with Varian and the Worgen. He leads them into battle, almost kills Garrosh and... None of it gets shown in-game. Hell, the Trolls even managed to take their homeland and the Gnomes were sent packing yet again. It's also a laugh that the Horde have more interaction with a proper faction of Worgen (Bloodfang Pack/Gilnean Liberation Front) than the Alliance do outside of Gilneas, the rest of the Worgen are either settlers (Blasted lands area) or random NPCs or throwbacks to Vanilla (Sven in Duskwood). Goblins don't fare much better, but hey at least you're mentioned somewhere for your own faction (Revamped Aszhara, Pre-TLHL Quests)
That's the biggest issue with the in-game story telling; it's generally only written into the game from a Horde's perspective.
SSM wants a word with you
Last edited by Matt0193; 2013-02-08 at 02:24 AM.