Originally Posted by
Caerule
I've not changed my mind, unfortunately. Originally Baine Bloodhoof was going to be advisor to the Highmountain Chieftess and Wrathion would be with us going into Neltharion's Vault. They later combined these two into a new character. A new pure black dragon. But it took a famous, powerful and blessed lore character with arguably one of the 5 most powerful Titan artifacts in existence, to purify only one small egg in that huge stack. Since those days of old, the Hammer of Khaz'goroth has been guarded as a relic by Huln Highmountain's descendants, it's power unwielded. Which is what frustrated the Underking into taking it in the first place.
So yeah, over the ages there have been many attempts to save the black dragonflight from corruption, but lorewise this has always been unsuccessful. Which was part of the flight's tragedy. And why Wrathion was such an important accomplishment. Now, it's revealed it succeeded once before, wielding the greatest of Titan magic and control over Earth. And even then there was only one success among many. This escaped notice because Ebonhorn remained isolated on the Broken Isles, serving the Highmountain clan in secret.
This still gives us only two redeemed black dragons, under very unique and difficult circumstances. Wrathion in the original questline managed to pull 3 eggs out of a time before Deathwing's corruption. Which would have given us 3 more whelplings in the world, once they hatched. And even that is far from usable in RP. Would it really be reasonable to have played one of these 3 whelps in RP? I don't think so. It would have been way too much of a unique role, may have had your character depicted in future lore, and would have been a desired role for definitely more than 3 people.
All that's changed now is that the amount of pure black dragons, has doubled. From one, to two. I can understand this also doubles people's desires to play a black dragon. But it really doesn't make it any more wise.