Originally Posted by
Florena
Tyrande is still very much Alliance, Malfurion since his return has acted like a neutral character. The way it's working more in practice has been 'Tyrande leads the night elves, Malfurion leads the cenarian circle.' The only Alliance centered thing he's done is Wolfheart, and even there he was chasing after Maiev instead of fighting the Horde. In Darnassus he doesn't even fight when you attack Tyrande.
Also, you would have a point with Arthas if not for the Forsaken and Blood Elves. They, by FAR, have a bigger history and grievance with Arthas than the Stormwind humans or Ironforge dwarves do.
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In Krasarang and 5.3, they used unused space to add the new content. They didn't have to take anything away in 5.1 from Krasarang's questing because they set land aside intentionally to use in 5.1. For northern barrens, it just had lots of empty space they could use without messing up quest flow.
For Ashenvale, to show the Horde being driven out you would have to take away horde quest hubs via phasing, which just seems like a waste to me. Again I'd rather just see them do a better job going forward, or touch up a couple of smaller areas like that one place in Ashenvale that's under siege by npcs and Sentinel Hill than see them redo the zone to remove the orc quest hubs.