Consider this, as an Orc Garrosh has not himself defeated Mannoroth but takes credit for it by wearing the Tusk over his shoulder. He has slayed no Dragons, defeated no Dreadlords, Lich King's, nor has he ever actually prove that he was worthy of recieving the title of Warchief. Even Varian defeated Onyxia, Jaina Thrall and Malfurion defeated Archimonde, and Vol'jin and Geblin even reclaimed their homeland.
Garrosh just took the credit for everything that Thrall created. Without the other members of the Horde they are just about as weak and defenseless as the Fel Orcs in Outland. Surrounded on all sides and literally digging into their own graves. Consider the Irony of where they hide Magtheridon the source of their power (Underneath their fortress) and where the heart of Y'shaarj is (under Ogrimmar.) History indeed repeats itself. Follow him if you want but bring a shovel, it your funeral.
it would be nice if blizzard would make the game appeal to both sides, those who want the non-stop allaince vs horde antics and those who prefer to put aside differences for a common goal.
Some people really dig the Red vs Blue and that's cool, but others could care less about it and find it completely unreasonable and illogical to waste resources fighting each other when there are bigger, badder, and more evil enemies out there that would kill you all without a second thought. Instead blizzard FORCES every single player to be whatever they feel like you should be at any given time. Sometimes they force you to work with the opposite faction for the greater good, sometimes they force you to slaughter the enemy faction for no good reason. There is no choice involved at all, they just flip flop back and forth all the time.
I've never really openly said it before because I know it's a pointless thing to get into, but i've always been a fan of the whole "third faction" concept that could have members from both factions (all races) join it and work together without all the pointless A v H conflict, then you could dedicate the old alliance and horde to being strictly alliance vs horde first and foremost. Or hell, they wouldn't even have to make a third faction. They could've simply let you sign up for and join your faction's military as aliiance or horde and as a soldier in their army give you rank and such you can advance (similar to vanilla style pvp ranks, not this new rbg crap) and as an official soldier in your faction's army you have strict rules about conduct towards "the enemy" and such, but without making that leap and joining the actual army, you are basically a private citizen and can choose to fight in pvp if you want (like freelance mercenary almost) or put aside differences with the opposing faction and focus on raiding as a champion/hero type. Could integrate cross-faction grouping and such for people who aren't part of the standing military forces.
It really makes no difference to have absolutely no control over how your character acts, thinks, or feels in the story. You simply do the EXACT SAME THING that every other character does, even if it is a complete reversal of your stance and how you would've reacted to it previously (like in a previous expansion). Makes no sense.
I like ponies and I really don't care what you have to say about that.
Has anyone ever considered the Forsaken attacking the Scourge as Scourge Vs, Scourge?
I will say Garrosh should have chose a new name with more "Zazzz" for his faction. But since he likes to take credit for shit he didn't do (cough-Tusks of Mannoroth-cough) What can we expect.
I read it in this forum all the time : "warcraft was about orc vs human", exactly when was that? i am really sorry but i don't recall warcraft ever being only "orc vs human". despite the name of 1st game "warcraft : orcs & humans", in the game there were elf, gnome,dwarf,troll,ogre, goblin. i played all the warcraft rts and there was never a game that i found where there were only "human vs orc". please provide me with proper proof that warcraft was only about "human vs orc".
Warcraft 3 Reign of Chaos was the game that brought me into gaming. I was 17 years old then, I abhorred gaming before this game. From then on, I became a fan of Warcraft and Blizzard. To see it all go down the drain like this is truly sad for me. No king rules forever but at least some of them went down in history as real badasses. I hoped Blizzard and Warcraft would be one of them but it is no longer possible.
Garrosh is the hero the horde needs but not the one it deserves.
Right now (we) they deserve someone loving, caring, and willing to forgive. Because that is clearly what everyone wants.
A family man who the people can "Connect" with and the kind of person you would want to invite out for a pick-nick.
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The 2 factions of the game "horde" Run by >ORCS< and the alliance run by >HUMANS<
If you wanted to join the horde or the alliance you would need to go to the ORC city or the HUMAN city to pledge allegiance.
You had to been living under a rock to not know Garrosh and Vol'jin had a tension between each other. For instance, Voljin's talk with Thrall's image in troll starting area. That was kind of a giveaway that they would be at each other throat sooner or later. Basing on just that is enough to realize that perhaps it is time to pick side dont you think?
Ever seen Band of Brothers? It's an HBO series about the U.S. 504th airborne infantry during WWII. In a few of the different battles, the commanding officers freak out, make bad decisions, and get good men killed. And during those times, the lower ranking officers actually manage to make the best of a very bad situation, cut the casualties from what they could have been, and somehow turn defeat into victory.
That's how I view Garrosh's leadership in Wrath. Sure, under his command, the warsong offensive succeeded. but that doesn't mean it had anything to do with his leadership skills. Especially with Saurfang looking over his shoulder and correcting his mistakes, and the player doing grunt work to set things right after Garrosh screws them up. Thrall and Cairne may 'grats' him for it, but who is to say that he earned it? Or that Thrall and Cairne knew everything going on?
Well then the only logical war chief would be one of my characters, bc I defeated all the evils that ever sprung up...
I'm just saying, if I was alliance I see no reason to join just yet...let the horde have infighting maybe the rebels will kill garosh, then I can attack their weakened side and finally destroy the horde, or vice versa. Garosh is by no means a big bad like the lich king or deathwing. If the alliance plays the patience game they can wipe out the horde. So logically that should be the step the alliance takes.
Heheh, I bet you wish the Alliance had that much foresight. It seems like most, if not all, the characters in the game are pretty tactically inept. The closest thing to a clever plan-of-attack would be the Wrathgate Massacre, but then Putress had to be a moron and corner himself underground. Ya know, usually writers like to take inspiration from actual battles if they can't think in that sort of manner.