I see all these panda generation threads about how "why is there waaaar, why don't we just fight oooollddd gooooooods"?????
What the fuck do you think got us to the point where we could even hold the line against the Legion, let alone void lords and whatever other bullshit Blizzard retcons into future iterations of lore?
WAR. Between the factions of this world. Compare Azeroth's armies from the first war to those of Warcraft 3, by War 3 they had:
-> Siege weapons
-> Aerial platforms
-> Highly more powerful magics
-> Much thicker armor and weapons
-> Vastly greater experience in combat against multiple types of adversaries
-> Experience at fighting undead and some form of fel magics
-> Stronger architecture
-> Explosives
-> Improved army and racial cohesion between army members
-> Ability to bring people back from the dead, whether as undead or in their past living form
-> Ability to command and communicate with demons and elementals
And the last goes on...
And yet, did you see what happened to us during Warcraft 3? We almost got ass raped by one Legion high commander (granted, one of the strongest, but it still goes to show how unprepared we were since we barely defeated him...temporarily).
And on top of that, you want to forgive and forget 20+ years of hatreds and bad blood (Theramore, Stormwind, Stromgarde, internment camps, butcherings and betrayals) cause big bad #22658301 was defeated and go fight Mr. Void lord with your Glowing Brightwood Staff v. 25 +1000^1000 spell power?
Yeah, good luck with that.
As much as Blizzard is up their own ass with trying to emulate real world problems and events into WoW for no good reason, there is obviously still a small crew of people there who know that a lot of people still play Warcraft for the same reason a lot of people still get crazy over a new Warhammer game: hint: WAR. Not fucking Peacecraft, not Peacehammer, WAR. It's not fucking complicated.
No one bought Warcraft 1, 2 or 3 or WoW or even up to WOTLK because they wanted to play a game about making peace with each other. Pandaria tried and failed miserably at taking the lessons from Warcraft 3 and trying way too hard to shove them in our face without any of the subtlety that War 3 used. Fuck pandaria, no one gives a fuck about that place, to this day monks and pandaren are still one of the lowest played race/class combos in the game, despite being heralded as "EVERYONE WANTS THEM SO BAD". Yeah. Fuck that shit.
"We have forgotten what makes us strong." Yes we fucking have, thank you for taking the time to making a cinematic and expansion truly worthy of reminding us. Except for lack of naval combat, you really done fucked up on that one Blizzard.