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  1. #61
    Quote Originally Posted by Caribald View Post
    "The Horde" has
    ... Or so would people who take a fictional conflict between fictional factions a bit too seriously have you believe.
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    no, only garosh imo

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    Quote Originally Posted by Venziir View Post
    Incorrect. Garrosh was born before the demon taint. He was put in "childcare" with all the other weak infancts who all suffered from the Red Pox. Also, orcs turn green from just being near fel-energy, imagine how funky a half-demon orc would actually look.

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    Not to mention the Alliance version, where Varian actually saves his son and says he's still alive... So yeah.
    Is it possible he was tainted before the red pox?
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    Wouldn't that strike you as a massive cop out? :x
    Perhaps, but one thing that strikes me about the legion is every time they are about to invade they try to use the Horde as their weapon against Azeroth.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Venziir View Post
    Garrosh is a horrid character, and I don't mean his actions. He's so one dimensional that even Metzen said he'd never get his own book because it would only contain the word "KILL!". Also, trying to fight a war you can't win, while making sure all your allies wants to kill you - is hardly great, it's moronic.
    Yep, you're right - about MoP Garrosh.

    Before this point Garrosh didn't have any complicated personality either, but still a bit of it. He was a son of a warhero, but he considered him (and had rights to) a villian due to his actions, resoulting in shy and nearly cowardly personality in Nagrand. He turned out to be a fierce and ruthless, but very successfull military leader in Wrath, impressing even Thrall. In Cata he showed he has totally different ideas then Thrall, but all he does is for his people - and he has great sense of honor, even if his tactics are brutal time to time. And then MoP and "poof" - you can't say anything about him other than KILL KILL KILL ORC SMASH. This is also the time he switched his simple, but efficient logic with being brain dead.

    If there is anybody to blame, it's Metzen and pals here. They created a character and then, without a real reason, turned him into a bad guy - and not a "bad guy" where it should be discussed, just a guy Frodo Baggins, Spider-Man and Pierce Brosnan have to stop, or some shit is going to happen. It works, but not after you were establishing for 3 expansions that this guy is a bi-polar character at least.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Linkedblade View Post
    I don't think the Horde is "evil." However there is quite a bit of finger pointing. The real true evil in the Azerothian universe is the Burning Legion.

    The oldest war between the Orcs and Humans, can be said that the Orcs were the invaders, the aggressors. However that isn't true. The Orcs were a good shamanistic peaceful race and they lived side by side the Draenei for quite some time. It just so happned to be that the blood thirsty and power hungry orcs decided to commune with the legion. They were aided to coming to Azeroth by Medivh (a human!), who also was tempted by that same power.

    The point is no one race or faction is "evil" both sides have good and evil people.

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    I think the Undead are in on the peaceful side. They have very few options to adding to their numbers, so fighting wars is against what the want.
    Medivh was not "tempted by that same power". He was possessed by Sargeras, the greatest evil in the universe, as far as we know.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Unholyground View Post
    Is it possible he was tainted before the red pox?
    No. Besides, he was already born before demons came to Draenor.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Okacz View Post
    Yep, you're right - about MoP Garrosh.

    Before this point Garrosh didn't have any complicated personality either, but still a bit of it. He was a son of a warhero, but he considered him (and had rights to) a villian due to his actions, resoulting in shy and nearly cowardly personality in Nagrand. He turned out to be a fierce and ruthless, but very successfull military leader in Wrath, impressing even Thrall. In Cata he showed he has totally different ideas then Thrall, but all he does is for his people - and he has great sense of honor, even if his tactics are brutal time to time. And then MoP and "poof" - you can't say anything about him other than KILL KILL KILL ORC SMASH. This is also the time he switched his simple, but efficient logic with being brain dead.

    If there is anybody to blame, it's Metzen and pals here. They created a character and then, without a real reason, turned him into a bad guy - and not a "bad guy" where it should be discussed, just a guy Frodo Baggins, Spider-Man and Pierce Brosnan have to stop, or some shit is going to happen. It works, but not after you were establishing for 3 expansions that this guy is a bi-polar character at least.
    Aye, he's a mess really, and it's clear that at some point they dropped the ball when it came to his development, but then again, that seemed to have happened along with Cataclysm - which basically can be summarized by "dropping the ball".

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    Quote Originally Posted by Venziir View Post
    You do know that on heavy Alliance servers in vanilla, it was the Alliance that was constantly causing grief right? Honestly, on my server you couldn't even try and hide in Tarren Mill.
    That's why I pointed out that on a server where there is an imbalance in factions it eventually leads to everyone playing on one side. It doesn't matter which faction does it, it is the nature of the game for things to move in this direction.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Imnick View Post
    Is anyone going to bring up the fact that Anduin only looks dead for Horde characters who leave immediately?
    For Alliance ones the quest doesn't complete after he "dies" and you summon a gryphon escort to take him to some healers, he's not dead.
    Both quest lines coexist just fine in the same universe except the ending where Garrosh is confronted by Horde or Alliance player. Which is the the lore ending?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Salandrin View Post
    I have not really kept up to date with WoW, but as of 5.2, I plan on returning.

    It would seem Garrosh has killed Anduin, among other things, but even if I'm not too familiar with what's up now, do you effectively think the Horde has gone black now?
    Gone? When did they stop being Evil?

    If the Horde was Orc's Trolls and Tauren at the start the argument could have been made that the Horde were just the brutal races, but they included the Undead, aka the Forsaken. The Forsaken have always been an Evil Faction, they have caused more evil than any other Player faction in the game.

    Now when Thrall was Warchief he did his best to change the Forsaken, but Garrosh he could care less about anything but Orcs. Hellscream is out of control, but do not think that the Horde have ever been good guys. Had Blizzard done what they first planned to do than yes they would have been, early plans for WOW had Night Elves in the Horde, and Forsaken in the Alliance. The reason they didn't do this was they needed a better reason for War, so they put the Orcs against the Nightelves and the Undead against the Humans. I do sometimes wonder what WOW would have been like had they kept the original idea, Just imagine Druids and Shaman would have both been Horde only Classes, while Paladins, and Warlocks would have been the Alliance special Classes. Also it would have caused the Alliance to become the Villains in the story.

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    so basically garrosh has completely dropped the beans since late cata?
    If that means he's gone crazy, then yes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Briga View Post
    Perhaps, but one thing that strikes me about the legion is every time they are about to invade they try to use the Horde as their weapon against Azeroth.
    Bloodthirsty demons use bloodthirsty race with predilection toward savagery and evil to do their dirty work. News at 11.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gothicshark View Post
    Gone? When did they stop being Evil?

    If the Horde was Orc's Trolls and Tauren at the start the argument could have been made that the Horde were just the brutal races, but they included the Undead, aka the Forsaken. The Forsaken have always been an Evil Faction, they have caused more evil than any other Player faction in the game.

    Now when Thrall was Warchief he did his best to change the Forsaken, but Garrosh he could care less about anything but Orcs. Hellscream is out of control, but do not think that the Horde have ever been good guys. Had Blizzard done what they first planned to do than yes they would have been, early plans for WOW had Night Elves in the Horde, and Forsaken in the Alliance. The reason they didn't do this was they needed a better reason for War, so they put the Orcs against the Nightelves and the Undead against the Humans. I do sometimes wonder what WOW would have been like had they kept the original idea, Just imagine Druids and Shaman would have both been Horde only Classes, while Paladins, and Warlocks would have been the Alliance special Classes. Also it would have caused the Alliance to become the Villains in the story.
    Having Druids be Horde only, and Warlocks be Alliance only was never part of some original idea. Tauren for example, was never even considered a proper druidic race until WoW, and warlocks were never really considered to have anything to do with the Alliance until WoW either.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Steelangel View Post
    Bloodthirsty demons use bloodthirsty race with predilection toward savagery and evil to do their dirty work. News at 11.
    Yeah that explains why they went for the Draenei first.....

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    Quote Originally Posted by Venziir View Post
    Having Druids be Horde only, and Warlocks be Alliance only was never part of some original idea. Tauren for example, was never even considered a proper druidic race until WoW, and warlocks were never really considered to have anything to do with the Alliance until WoW either.

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    Yeah that explains why they went for the Draenei first.....
    True, but the Forsaken were the Warlock Race, and Night Elves where the Druid Race. The original plan was each race had a class. I still Wonder what that list looked like. Also the original plan had the Goblins also in the Alliance, and not the Gnomes.

    So the original races were

    Alliance:
    Human - Paladin
    Dwarf - ?
    Forsaken -Warlock
    Goblin -?Tinker?

    Horde:
    Orc - Shamen
    Troll - ?Witchdoctor?
    Tauren - ?Chieftain
    Night Elf - Druid

    Each race had invasion points on the world map, Stranglethorn Vale was the Horde invasion point, and Theramore was the Alliance invasion point.
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    Quote Originally Posted by det View Post
    Garrosh is not the Horde.

    And "evil" is in the eye of the beholder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Salandrin View Post
    do you effectively think the Horde has gone black now?

    Fuck yeah.

    OT: It's a deeper shade of grey as usual due to Garrosh's tyrannical shenanigans, but the Horde's always been out of saint's camp. Shades of grey, better than shades of gay - you know what I mean.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gothicshark View Post
    True, but the Forsaken were the Warlock Race, and Night Elves where the Druid Race. The original plan was each race had a class. I still Wonder what that list looked like. Also the original plan had the Goblins also in the Alliance, and not the Gnomes.

    So the original races were

    Alliance:
    Human - Paladin
    Dwarf - ?
    Forsaken -Warlock
    Goblin -?Tinker?

    Horde:
    Orc - Shamen
    Troll - ?Witchdoctor?
    Tauren - ?Chieftain
    Night Elf - Druid

    Each race had invasion points on the world map, Stranglethorn Vale was the Horde invasion point, and Theramore was the Alliance invasion point.
    The Forsaken was not a warlock race. Before WoW we hardly knew anything about the Forsaken. If anything, the orcs were the only race ever to have been assosiated with warlocks at that point. And goblins for the Alliance? What is this utterly nonsense, and what is this "original plan"? Also, the Forsaken were never supposed to have been an Alliance race, and neither were the Night Elves supposed to be a Horde race. And Theramore was never an invasion point either, Jaina and her followers constructed that port before they even knew that the Horde was going to settle down in Kalimdor.

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    I think Humans and Orcs need to just be isolated from the rest of the world and fight each other to death with sticks and stones ala Lord of the Flies. Watch as Azeroth as a whole prospers with the two gone.

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    I think Humans and Orcs need to just be isolated from the rest of the world and fight each other to death with sticks and stones ala Lord of the Flies. Watch as Azeroth as a whole prospers with the two gone.
    Watch as the Burning Legion decimates Azeroth when two of the largest races, which have acted as the driving force of the Alliance and the Horde, are gone.

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    The entirety of the horde isn't evil. The trolls, Tauren, Hordie Pandaren, Blood elves, and a chunk of the orcs are all pretty cool guys.

    It's the forsaken and horde forces under Garrosh that are the evil ones.

    Of course, seeing as the horde forces under garrosh and the forsaken represent the actual military fronts of the horde... well, you get the picture.
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