Originally Posted by
Florena Emberlin
How is it any worse than WoD? Yes there's a lot of elf stuff, but I'd say there's more variety of elf stuff than there was a variety of orc stuff in WoD, at least from the point of view of an alliance character. And there's also plenty of non elven stuff.
The tauren get a whole zone.
Blue dragonflight lore.
Kirin Tor/Dalaran stuff.
Vry'kul/itatan construct stuff also fills a whole zone.
The druid stuff, while heavily night elf, isn't entirely night elves either as there are other druid races such as green dragons, Cenarius and other playable druid races.
Artifacts and class hall stories give closure to a good deal of lingering plot threads as well as giving some cool characters a few minutes in the spotlight.
A continuation of the Forsaken and Gilneas plots, which is likely to continue in patches.
The Draenei/Velen stuff which is also likely to be followed up on in patches as well as the army of the light stuff being brought in with Turalyon and the holy dreadlord whose name I forget off hand.
Yes, three of the five zones have heavy elf influences, but they also show different aspects of elven culture, unlike WoD where the clans just kind of melded together for me. "This clan uses void stuff, this clan is jungle crazy, this clan has paler skin.' We get to see glimpses of the highbourne, druids, their military from the WoA, the wardens etc. To me at least it feels like there's more variety than in the WoD orcs.
Sure the demon hunters are an elf focused group due to only being night/blood elves but really their whole identity is less about being an elnd more about their methods and drive to end the legion. The fact that only elves can be demon hunters doesn't really affect things much, if you swapped blood elves and night elves with dwarves and tauren it wouldn't really affect them very much. And the Illidari as a whole, while lead by a DH player charcter and illidan in general (though he's not there to do so at the moment), are not en antirely elf group either, consisting of naga, demon and broken forces as well.
And even then, just as it made sense to have a lot of orc stuff in draenor, this location also lends itself to ancient night elf lore. Is there a bit too much old night elf stuff going on? Maybe so, but considering they scrapped a patch zone that was going to be more night elf ruins for something cooler, I don't think the entire expansion will be just about elves either.
As for the Legion being underplayed, I agree it is a bit odd we don't see MORE of them, but they probably want to avoid 'demon fatigue' like how there was some orc fatigue people had in WoD and they even redid some places like Gorgrond and changing the end raid to compensate. But keep in mind that the main antagonist in Stormheim is working for the legion and we see demons towards the end of that storyline, the demon has a strong presence in Azsuna, the legion is secretly behind some bad stuff going on in Highmountain (though I forget if it was tied to the main bad guy we kill in the dungeon or not), it was because of Gul'dan that black rook hold went all undead, and that the legion is behind everything going bad in Suramar and demons even walk the streets there. They definitely have a strong presence even if they're not everywhere across the isles. Though it is possible they'll get usurped by N'zoth or something in the last patch similar to the Legion usurping the warlords in WoD, but we'll have to wait and see on that.