Probably worgen or night elves. Both got defanged horribly to fit into the "Lawful Good Overdrive" theme Blizzard are pushing for the Alliance.
I'd have to go with Blood Elves, until this patch. Even seeing a little bit of story development for them is encouraging, and I can't wait to see more.
I voted draenei, worgen, tauren, goblins.
Draenei are obvious and have been explained previously so no need to do it here.
And goblins got the draenei treatment! "Extensive starter zone, joined the faction, now we're friends, the end." Their entire involvement now is about SPECIFIC NPCs that couldn't have their roles filled by other races. For goblins, it's demolition people. Explosives and snooty rich people who want to get their hands dirty. You never just meet, like, a goblin warrior who's there to fight. It's ALWAYS a smart or rich guy trying to blow something up because that's their whole purpose, or trying to swindle you into making them a profit.
Tauren, which I didn't see mentioned a whole lot in the few pages I skimmed through, are also pretty damn shafted. Cata introduced nothing but a whole line of tragedies for them, and then... that's it. They don't ever really pick back up. Krasarang's got a settlement filled with them with even more tragedies lined up in it (Spoiler: of the 3 main "characters" in this hub, two of them die. And the brother of one of them also dies.) And then Domination Point quests? The tauren involvement is so piddly it's OFFENSIVE. Baine shows up twice to say "Man, I don't like what's going on here. Let me make an ancient brew so you can have a vision that I read about in a panda book." And then, you know, he poofs. PURPOSE SERVED, MYSTICAL COW MAN. I wish there was more from him, especially because the Grimtotem are still around, Magatha isn't dead and has a supremely powerful artifact, and, you know, Garrosh Hellscream killed his dad.
And the worgen? Freaking christ, I can't even begin. They shouldn't have been an Alliance race. I hate their lore, it's horrible. I hate that they don't have tails. They look pretty stupid. The females don't even get to change their stupid faces. The way they run is bad, they have bad voicework, they aren't explored AT ALL in later quest zones (and I don't mean Silverpine, I mean like, after the worgen-centric zones I can think of one worgen settlement in the Blasted Lands and then two worgen NPCs outside of that one, in Ashenvale. Oh yeah and the one guy in Winterspring.) I was so excited when the Worgen were introduced as a race because I've loved wolves and werewolves especially my whole life, but then each announcement or preview about them made my happiness wane more and more until, now, I just hate the crap out of 'em. Boring, unoriginal, unexplored, wasted potential.
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Even when you beat your enemies?
WC3 portrays her as impulsive, yet she damn well knows what she's doing. Back then if she wanted to do something she did it, regardless of what somebody said eg. freeing Illidan. Now it's just her stamping her feet at Varian on being to told "Hush Tyrande!".
It was not much of "defeating" them, more like trying to make her way through infinite numbers to Hyjal.
Also remember that one moment where she and Malfurion were watching orcs and humans fighting undead while Tyrande was like "meh, kill them all, we are ok alone". Reminds me of certain scenario in patch 5.1...
Stay away from my male blood elves. I couldn't play the game seriously until TBC because every other male race is a hooknosed eyesore
Exactly, which is the problem. Because that wasn't originally the case.
What did she do when Mal told her and forbid her from freeing Illidan? She damn well did it, and freed him.
You don't see a problem with a thousand year old Night Elf who has fought and lead the Night Elves for countless centuries have to be told that that attacking a fortified position head first is a bad idea?
Again it isn't the "Lets kill them now!" part, it's the total disregard for strategy and the fact she just let Varian walk all over her.
Not in her motives no, but she was in her execution. As I pointed out above ever since WoW started her story has been littered with her being put in the dog house whenever somebody else shows up even though that is exactly not what she did in WC3.
Which again she never has been which is why portraying her such is just frustrating. Come to think of it what has she done since WoW started that's actually made a leader people would like?
Not anymore, they had to remove her fangs for whatever reasons.
A crying shame really.
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most classes are letdowns imo, blizz seems to rly only care about orcs, humans and forsaken.
Definatly worgen. The only time their lore actually progressed was in their 1-12 starting zone, but afterwards NOTHING happens further. Except for a worgen liberation front in Silverpine, which only low level Hordies can experience.
Blood elves also get a nomination. In TFT they atleast looked strong and fierce, being able to whipe out large Scourge bases with only a small army. In WoW, all they do is begging for help, and their males look and act way to g**
Dpends on what you mean by letdown.
IF you mean model/graphics wise I would say Worgen
If you mean lorewise I would say Draenei
Though to be honest nightelfs come in a close 2nd on worst looking
And the progression of their society has really gone down the shitter since they were savage in wc3 and now just a bunch of smelly hippies.
I don't know how people think the Blood Elves need more lore development, when they clearly have enough. Gnomes and the Draenei deserve more development than any other race, sadly.
Draenei have more potential than any other race due to their vague culture.
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