What's Blizzard doing with The Horde right now?

[Colonel Sandor]

Trolls have no leader.
Baine is doing nothing when he should have been in Highmountain.
Gallywix got a new model but has done nothing.
Saurfang was quietly made leader of the Orcs.
Lor'themar is doing nothing when he should have had a presence in the Suramar campaign/raid.
The Horde is now The Forsaken and friends, stuck following the crazy banshee because the spirits apparently told Vol'jin.
No Horde character beyond Sylvannas is doing anything.
Alliance has Anduin, Malfurion, Tyrande, Velen, Genn, and Khadgar front center stage. (You can say some of them are neutral now, but everybody knows they're alliance heroes.)

Does Blizz plan to balance out the soup sooner or later or is the Horde just a stool for Sylvannas to stand on for now on?


inb4 "Horde players are Salty", I'm Alliance.

[Ryon21]

Trolls have no leader.
Baine is doing nothing when he should have been in Highmountain.
Gallywix got a new model but has done nothing.
Saurfang was quietly made leader of the Orcs.
Lor'themar is doing nothing when he should have had a presence in the Suramar campaign/raid.
The Horde is now The Forsaken and friends, stuck following the crazy banshee because the spirits apparently told Vol'jin.
No Horde character beyond Sylvannas is doing anything.
Alliance has Anduin, Malfurion, Tyrande, Velen, Genn, and Khadgar front center stage. (You can say some of them are neutral now, but everybody knows they're alliance heroes.)

Does Blizz plan to balance out the soup sooner or later or is the Horde just a stool for Sylvannas to stand on for now on?


inb4 "Horde players are Salty", I'm Alliance.

Well at least Horde leaders are true to the Horde. One by one all Alliance leaders are becoming Neutral so... Next expansion you'll see them doing something. Hopefully.

[Rhlor]

Trolls have no leader.
Baine is doing nothing when he should have been in Highmountain.
Gallywix got a new model but has done nothing.
Saurfang was quietly made leader of the Orcs.
Lor'themar is doing nothing when he should have had a presence in the Suramar campaign/raid.
The Horde is now The Forsaken and friends, stuck following the crazy banshee because the spirits apparently told Vol'jin.
No Horde character beyond Sylvannas is doing anything.
Alliance has Anduin, Malfurion, Tyrande, Velen, Genn, and Khadgar front center stage. (You can say some of them are neutral now, but everybody knows they're alliance heroes.)

Does Blizz plan to balance out the soup sooner or later or is the Horde just a stool for Sylvannas to stand on for now on?


inb4 "Horde players are Salty", I'm Alliance.

lady liadrin and rommath are horde characters

[Arrashi]

lady liadrin and rommath are horde characters

Lady Liandrin is generic human paladin number 86336

OT: Nothing. They derped super hard with "garrosh hates jews" storyline of MoP. And had no idea what to do after that.
Then they killed begging guy, and realised cold nips is the only estabilished lore character left so they made her warchief. Not like this position means anything anymore.

[Rhlor]

Lady Liandrin is generic human paladin number 86336

OT: Nothing. They derped super hard with "garrosh hates jews" storyline of MoP. And had no idea what to do after that.
Then they killed begging guy, and realised cold nips is the only estabilished lore character left so they made her warchief. Not like this position means anything anymore.

she is a very important blood elf character

[Mehrunes]

Pretty much nothing.

[Aucald]

Both the Alliance and the Horde are kind of static at the moment while the class Order Halls and the Kirin Tor (in the form of the Legionfall forces) are doing most of the work on the Broken Shore and the Tomb of Sargeras. I'm of the impression the two major factions will take the fore once more in 7.3 with the Argus campaign as I don't think Legionfall can do it alone, though they'll likely remain a very visible faction themselves. We might also pick up on some of the faction-specific plot lines at that point as well (e.g. the Stormheim story, etc.)

[Wildberry]

Well at least Horde leaders are true to the Horde.

Until we need another raid boss.

[StationaryHawk]

Why did Lor'themar personally have to be in Suramar? Liadrin and Rommath were representing the blood elves, both of whom are notably Horde characters. Faction leaders shouldn't be shipped out to every conflict lest we see a repeat of the Broken Shore every expansion.

[Friendlyimmolation]

she is a very important blood elf character

she should just tell Lor'themar to take her out on a date already.

[Al Gorefiend]

It's being transformed into Undead/Blood Elves as the central races instead of Orcs and his tribal bros. it's becoming much more Alliance-y, less spiky.

[Wildberry]

It's being transformed into Undead/Blood Elves as the central races instead of Orcs and his tribal bros. it's becoming much more Alliance-y, less spiky.

It already turned into a multicultural Hellscape the minute that Orcs were put on the backburner with Garrosh's downfall. Look at how schizophrenic our Garrison buildings were in WoD.

[Al Gorefiend]

It already turned into a multicultural Hellscape the minute that Orcs were put on the backburner with Garrosh's downfall. Look at how schizophrenic our Garrison buildings were in WoD.

They weren't gonna go full Orctard with the garrison because the majority of Horde players dislike Orcs. Dumb, isn't it. Even when it was 90% Orc people still bitched they couldn't have their red-gold silvermoon buildings.

[Friendlyimmolation]

Blood elves need to start being the vicious assholes they were in burning Crusade for sure. They don't need to act like humans.

[Arrashi]

It already turned into a multicultural Hellscape the minute that Orcs were put on the backburner with Garrosh's downfall. Look at how schizophrenic our Garrison buildings were in WoD.

The most schizophrenic thing was that clearly blood elf/forsaken buildings were still ork ones with spikes just diffrent color of drapes. Hell, even in legion in stormheim sylvanas builds orc buildings for some reason.

[SeyserKoze]

With the exception of Sylvanas, the only horde character I can remember this entire expansion has been Lillian Voss. If you're an Alliance rogue, she'll guide you through a recent class quest chain. A pretty minor but unique appearance in the story. The rest of the rogue class hall and its champions are nearly all Alliance.

I was considering making a horde character to see their point of view in the story but I imagine there isn't much to see except the backs of the Alliance characters. Supposedly the only thing different is some cinematic I have yet to watch with Vol'jin getting thoroughly wiped out of the story altogether.

This is from a Night Elf rogue perspective.

[Arrashi]

Blood elves need to start being the vicious assholes they were in burning Crusade for sure. They don't need to act like humans.

Nope, with human paladin liandrin in charge, thats not possible.

[Lord Pebbleton]

Well at least Horde leaders are true to the Horde. One by one all Alliance leaders are becoming Neutral so... Next expansion you'll see them doing something. Hopefully.

What kind of logic is this. The alliance is giving up important lore characters exactly because the horde has none left. Who could take Khadgar's place? Or where would the horde go if Dalaran didn't become a neutral city. I for one am certainly not happy to see important lore figures being shared because your leaders get slaughtered left and right.

[elbleuet]

What kind of logic is this. The alliance is giving up important lore characters exactly because the horde has none left. Who could take Khadgar's place? Or where would the horde go if Dalaran didn't become a neutral city. I for one am certainly not happy to see important lore figures being shared because your leaders get slaughtered left and right.

Khadgar isn't neutral. He's an Alliance lore figure willing to work with the Horde for the greater good and because he has a brain. Dalaran is still an Alliance city, and Horde is allowed back only to help pushing back the Legion.
Same can be told about Malfurion, Tyrande and Velen.

[Lord Pebbleton]

Khadgar isn't neutral. He's an Alliance lore figure willing to work with the Horde for the greater good and because he has a brain. Dalaran is still an Alliance city, and Horde is allowed back only to help pushing back the Legion.
Same can be told about Malfurion, Tyrande and Velen.

This is all fine and dandy, but as things stand in-game, all the things mentioned above are accessible by both factions, and thus neutral. If the horde had respective lore figures they would use those instead of using the same excuse every time.