Why putting Draenor Orcs on the Alliance is a very bad idea

[deviantcultist]

It depends on what they want to do with the Sylvanas Warchief project. As it looks now, the honourable Orcs are incompatible with the way Sylvanas does things.

Therefore, that makes the possibility of defecting Orcs a bit higher than usual.

I personally believe Saurfang will be like Vol'jin 2.0. In other words, he might forge a pact with Anduin to overthrow Sylvanas, but not really defect in the end.

[The Man in Room V]

This kind of makes sense. Give the Alliance upright orcs and the Horde will get those "thin humans" as some Syndicate humans or something. That must have been why the thin humans are using the forsaken skeleton.

[andy123456]

wtf , Draenor Orcs on the Alliance side, can anyone post link of the source of this information.

[Darktbs]

wtf , Draenor Orcs on the Alliance side, can anyone post link of the source of this information.

Its an speculation.

[Zephre]

This kind of makes sense. Give the Alliance upright orcs and the Horde will get those "thin humans" as some Syndicate humans or something. That must have been why the thin humans are using the forsaken skeleton.

Your avatar has never been more true, well done.

[Zulkhan]

I would say it won't ever happen. Then Void Elves happened.

Elves mean nothing to Warcraft compared to its two most iconic races, aka Orcs and Humans. They are the souls of the factions, not the elves or anything else.

Steampunkette works for Blizzard and knows everything they are going to do. There is no point arguing the absolute truths and facts of a fictitious fantasy universe, forums.

Ah, the thinniest skin of MMO-Champion at work.

[Heladys]

This needs to happen so thousands of nerds can shit their pants.

[gioderpington]

Well the alliance accepted both void elves and death knights... What wouldn't they accept if tyrande didn't have a say in it?

[Jastall]

It would be beyond hilarious if they gave Alliance brown Orcs and the Horde "High Elves" though...

The sodium levels would reach a critical mass unseen since the days of RealID.

But let's please not. There's no point to factions if Blizzard starts throwing around reskins of every race on the opposite faction.

[Deleted]

Quite honestly, i think it would open up the plot threads and would mix up expectations.

I don't know why people are so attached to the old tropes. This would be new and different, and quite honestly... exciting.

[Syegfryed]

Quite honestly, i think it would open up the plot threads and would mix up expectations.

I don't know why people are so attached to the old tropes. This would be new and different, and quite honestly... exciting.

as exciting to get prostate cancer

would mixed up a lot of expectations, but didn't mean will be good

[Deleted]

as exciting to get prostate cancer

would mixed up a lot of expectations, but didn't mean will be good

Stagnation is boring.

But, if it makes you happy, i doubt it will happen. As exciting as i think it is.

[Zephre]

Stagnation is boring.

But, if it makes you happy, i doubt it will happen. As exciting as i think it is.

Alliance getting the hordes franchise race? Nothing exciting about that. But you play alliance, don't you? So it comes as no surprise you find it exciting, fortunately, it's unlikely to happen.

The factions should remain unique, what's the point of them if we end up in a situation of mirror images?

[Chain Chungus]

I can see them doing this. I think the faction switched Allied Races are a means of balancing servers through the balancing of popular races across factions.

If you gave the Horde Void Elves, when Blood Elves are already the most popular race there, you would just have even worse imbalance. But by giving the other faction the same popular race in another flavor, you can avoid that problem entirely.

[Zephre]

I can see them doing this. I think the faction switched Allied Races are a means of balancing servers through the balancing of popular races across factions.

If you gave the Horde Void Elves, when Blood Elves are already the most popular race there, you would just have even worse imbalance. But by giving the other faction the same popular race in another flavor, you can avoid that problem entirely.

Blizzard don't care about faction balance, the countless imbalanced realms should be proof of that.

Just to poke a hole in your logic, Silvermoon is a high pop alliance server, how exactly does void elves help the horde on that faction who are currently outnumbered? Allied races cannot help the horde who are outnumbered, only Blizzard can through proper management with potential connections in the future.

[Syegfryed]

Alliance getting the hordes franchise race? Nothing exciting about that. But you play alliance, don't you? So it comes as no surprise you find it exciting, fortunately, it's unlikely to happen.

The factions should remain unique, what's the point of them if we end up in a situation of mirror images?

ah yes, alliance players, maybe this is just some piles of salty about the elves

[Usagi Senshi]

I would love this to happen just for the wonderfully entertaining shit storm that would ensue!

[Zephre]

ah yes, alliance players, maybe this is just some piles of salty about the elves

They got elves in the end, not the elves they wanted but still elves and they still complained. There is literally no pleasing a group of people who expect everything, not to say all alliance players are like this but you'd be forgiven in thinking it given the types that post here.

" We should have the hordes main franchise race, because it's exciting "

They very quickly forget that this game was founded on orcs vs humans, if they start tossing out humans to the horde and orcs to the alliance, the main fantasy of each faction is gone for me personally, our factions should mean something.

[Chain Chungus]

Blizzard don't care about faction balance, the countless imbalanced realms should be proof of that.

Just to poke a hole in your logic, Silvermoon is a high pop alliance server, how exactly does void elves help the horde on that faction who are currently outnumbered? Allied races cannot help the horde who are outnumbered, only Blizzard can through proper management with potential connections in the future.

You are naive. Of course they care about balance, especially now with the changes to PvP.

And great semantics argument there. What I said was the Horde was dominated by Blood Elves and adding Void Elves would keep it dominated by that same type of elf. In fact, it would make it much more severe.

[Zephre]

You are naive. Of course they care about balance, especially now with the changes to PvP.

And great semantics argument there. What I said was the Horde was dominated by Blood Elves and adding Void Elves would keep it dominated by that same type of elf. In fact, it would make it much more severe.

No, you are naive. Blizzard do not care about balance, those of us who play on low pop realms are a testament to this, most low pops are also imbalanced, my realm for example is alliance dominated and we're considered a low pop. The changes to PvP will have zero bearing because the world will now likely be cross realmed completely, split between those who toggle PvP and those that don't.

I do understand what you're trying to say though in regards to the elves but I disagree that allied races and the decisions to implement them are based on some form of balance. Orcs for the alliance wouldn't accomplish anything as the Orcs are not the most played faction on the horde unlike humans on the alliance, yet the alliance are likely to get more humans via Kul'tiras.