Originally Posted by
Biotec
I agree with pretty much all of your points, but this is one where we don't see eye to eye. For the most part I think their culture, with exception of the Blackrock, are pretty similar. The Bleeding Hollow were jungle faring savages, the Frostwolves were noble wolf lovers, Shattered Hand were crazy, Warsong very war driven, ect ect. The only real difference was the Blackrock being engineering focused and the general Iron Horde soldiers being clad in iron instead of leather. While I do enjoy the Iron Horde general aesthetic, I enjoy the more clan focused aspect, which is something the MU Maghar could have picked up on easily. The MU Maghar already had many clans under its belt, they just needed to do a better job of showing them, and going forward, I think it would have been interesting to have them focus on their clan identities while the main Orcs have become fairly homogeneous under Thrall. I also think there's an interesting story for them dealing with the fallout of Garrosh and his insanity. There were a lot who didn't like him before, maybe there were a lot of them who didn't like him after as well? Maybe they could think of Garrosh as someone who abandoned his people in Outland to go relive a twisted version of his father's memory and left them to deal with the constant problems of Outland by themself.
The biggest thing I wanted out of the MU Maghar however, is the development of new characters. Jorin Deadeye especially could have been an interesting character, he was clearly a brutal very orcish person, but also had a good head on his shoulders and didn't seem like the "run in and die" type of Orc. Combined with all we know about his father, it could have lead to another interesting character who is much more grey than people like Baine or Saurfang, but far less black than Sylvanas. It would also prevent the use of people like Grom, or Durotan, or pretty much anyone from the AU, who as we agree on would cheapen the MU counterpart. It just reeks more of pointless fanservice to bring back someone like Grom, who we fought for the entire expansion, and have him just be a carbon copy of the real Grom who actually had a story arc that ended.
Finally, there's just a problem with using AU Orcs in general which is, why do they even want to come over? Their planet is good, they are at peace, they have no stake in Azeroth at all, so why do they suddenly want to come and join the Horde? Are the Iron Horde exiles with Grom, and if so why would we risk pissing off the Orcs over there that we actually like? If they are all of the clans together, why would they decide to leave their perfectly good planet to come fight a war on ours? What could they possibly get out of being our allied race on Azeroth? I feel like the AU Horde has a lot more twisting to do to justify their existence rather than the MU Maghar.