Originally Posted by
Mace
I think you mis-understand my responses. You have some night elf groups that are way ahead of others in magic. The shen'dralar, the Farondis, the Moonguard are way ahead of the playable faction, the Daranaassians, at least until Cataclysm. They are also ahead of the blood elves in terms of knowledge, experience etc with the arcane in gneeral.. it is this sttement tht you don't seem to like.
But you re not being reasonable. The blood elves and darnassiasn lost over 90% of the night elven kaldorei magical knoweldge, and neither has come close to regaining the vast majority of what was lost.
Sure in some areas they have made developments, but groups like the Nightborne, Shen'dralar, Moonguard of Moonguard stronghold and possibly Farondis have vast amounts of this knowledge our main elf groups lost.
It isn't favouring night elves nor being passionate to point this out. The level of Draenei arcane knowledge must also greatly exceed that of the blood elves overall, however high elves have been fighting with the arcane for nearly 7,000 - and the Moonguard have for 10,000 years since the sundering, - so they're gonna be super advanced in warfare as it showed against the Nightborne.
Now the Nightborne are an indication of how good the Shen'dralar would be, Nightborne had no conflicts to face for 10,000 years, the Shen'dralar likely had more being less enclosed, still we see their advanced knowledge was great enough to pose a formidable threat, but the quests also showed that they were a bit slack and arrogant, progress slow - which you would expect in such an idyllic state for so long.
It is by paying attention to the lore you can make such observations and draw logical conclusions, not based on whim or fancy. Because I point out the competency of the night elves, you conclude I am passionate about them? No, you keep stressing the importance of the blood elves in one sentence then rubbish the night elves in another, I read that and I go, erm, that's not right, the lore paints a different picture.
It makes me seem more passionate than I am. You can tell I think very highly of the blood elves, I never knock them, but if you perceive me pointing out the Nightborne, Shend'ralar and Moonguard are both more accomplished and advnaced in the arcane arts as passionate? I'm just pointing out the l re. These are all night elf groups. So when I say the night elves, I'm not referring to the Darnassians, but these ones.