It's much easier to get in to a city with 5 people. You expected for them to send entire army? It's much easier for 3 people to get in and sneak around to get things done, the mission wasn't to burn the city or annihilate everyone, it was only to save few people.
There was dense fog, and Horde came on eagles not a planes/ gyro copters or balloons. And you had in team Rokhan which is seasoned scout and shadow hunter, he is the main reason why for such a long time Horde remained undetected.
It's the moment they were spotted they had to fight, otherwise they wanted to avoid any fights. And it was Zul that set the city ablaze, not Horde. If anything it should show to Alliance how Zul is dangerous.>kill tons of guards and burn the city
They were not attacked by 3 alliance leaders.>manage to get out of SW despite being attacked by 3 leaders of the Alliance and tons of guards
They were running away from Genn, stayed out of Anduin's sight and at the very end met Jaina. They were only in 5 they had to avoid any serious fighting because otherwise the'd be surrounded and then likely executed.
What's the point of the war if we could kill alliancelets right there?
Well perhaps Genn left it to his worgen to do the job at chasing as he figured out it was a matter of time to capture 5 people. It wasn't an army after all. And this is why Horde group was so keen on escaping, once they'd be caught they'd be done.RUN RUN EVERYONE RUN! GREYMANE IS COMING!! AHHH LOA SAVE US AN OLD MAN IS WALKING AT US MENACINGLY...!
Thalyssra said that we mustn't fight her, not that she was more powerful. The reason why they couldn't allow themselves to fight was that eventually they'd be stopped, surrounded and captured, then likely executed or left to rot in prison. Their objective was to free people and get out asap.AAAAHHHH RUN MY NEW HORDE ALLIES, JAINA THE SUPERIOR SORCERER IS WALKING TOWARDS US MENACINGLY ALSO!
- Lok'tar Ogar is orcish motto. There were no orcs in groupLOK'TAR OGAR VICTORY OR RETREAT!! Oh don't killt us Jaina please, look, fire go! GO ! HELP THE CITY, We killed your guards and probably will wage war against you soon, but yeee GOO.
- All the group was up for fight so I don't think she would instant kill them but they'd likely waste enough time for Horde to be eventually caught by Alliance army, and for Stormwind to burned into even bigger degree.
But way to hyperbole.
I miss Mists of Pandaria
history goes against what you're saying though. Last time they did a squish, at the end of MoP there were scaling issues then too, and that final tier lasted over 400 days. Putting this expansion off another 2-3 months isn't going to make all the scaling problems go away. Yes, there would probably be less, but is fixing old content really worth doing antorus for another few months?
That is not really the issue I have with it. Mine is that they try to have this alliance fist-bump moment, as refered to in the past, in a horde scenario. The only thing it does is show that Jaina - and to a lot smaller extend Gen - are badass, followed by showing that Zuul's powers are legit and Telanji can hold her own. The horde established characters are just comedic relief.
Rokhan was great for utility, but we could have just taken another route over the graveyard as well, not to mention that it doesn't really make alot of sense how he can hide us .
It was also established that I would love to hit the bars with him, I'm positive that he'd be an awsome wing-man, but in combat I'm not sure I want him to have my back, he didn't show much there. Same for most of Zandalar :/.
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I was okay with that, not seeing the fighting worked somewhat, your story was how you were turned and all that. Still, obviously a part was hidden away on the other side.
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Is it possible that they broke the /usetalents # macro?
Another artist another completely different interpretation of her visuals. I'm glad as long as they won't use the tracer from the 3 sisters comic.
Yes, but you aren't fighting any actual real players from the other side in the scenario.
In my book you should have to do the Stormwind infiltration quest in the live zone not in a phased scenario.
Same thing in the attack on the undercity. You should be attacking the undercity in the live zone not some instanced version.
Defeats the point of this being a "war" which means against other live players not AI.
True. But to me that is just a side effect of Blizzard not wanting to make game play around these events to reflect the fact that it is a MMO game. The game should be forcing the PVP aspect of the name of the expansion. Players should not be able to avoid it. Going to the Undercity or Stormwind in an instanced scenario is just something they came up with for gameplay reasons since they couldn't figure out any other way to do it without people complaining. People are already complaining about other factions invading their capital cities with or without war mode. The best way to promote faction pride is to actively have horde vs alliance in live zones around Lordearon along with Darkshore and Teldrassil. The actual final plague assault should be the only phased aspect of the attack where the zone changes to the plagued version. Or, even better, make it an instanced battleground as opposed to simply PVE scenario.....
It is an MMO, which means you are playing with other players. "The Alliance" is not just NPCs, it is also other players and same for "the horde". Attacking a town or city always means attacking other players in an MMO. At least that was the original idea way back in the day. But of course nowadays people have watered that definition down to meaning whatever they want to mean. Even in the RTS you played against other players in sieges and campaigns. This is the whole point in theory because that is always going to be more of a challenge than pure PVE. How on earth can we say that we attacked Lordaeron and other players from the opposite faction are not impacted? It just destroys the immersion.
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Nah, they did it because this is still an mmoRPG and telling a story in PvP is like the worst possible way they could have this going down. Even in your other response you completely ignore the other part that comes after mmo. If you want shallow battle royale then black desert is more for you tbh.