Originally Posted by
Mace
Trust me Hellspawn, it had nothing good to do about the Night elves. The revelations about the Legion, the world soul its total defeat, curing of arcane addiction and return of Suramar, the vindication of Illidan and the demon hunters are mammoth events that the night elves could change greatly over, the things that have dominated all of them for 10,000 years, shaped their thinking, their reason for living, what they do etc, their guilt, their defining quest of the last 10k years over and this isn't sufficient to change a race that was dominated by this?
No Hellspawn, night elves are only changing now because of the backlash from players due tp ripping them apart yet again, for the umpteenth time in yet again a cruel and dismissive manner and they went too far - fans are like we are tired, been beat on our fave race for too long.
They didnt care Jack about them, trust me if they did, Suramar would not have gone horde and night elves would not have lost like that and would also have played a much larger role in the aftermath at BFA's start and also in the journey into Naz'jatar. Tyrande and co would not be a side stage to the main drama of Sylvanas, Sadfang, Baine and MAnduin. Jaina and Nathanos sidekicks
We are getting attention because night elf players got so fed up of it and showed they cared, remember how they did nothing on them for 8.0, everything that happened to them was plot device for Sylvanas, MAnduin and the war, they didnt even figure like they were trash, disposable plot devices for the true favourites.
The forum outcry was huge, and for once the horde fans supported, they'd gone too far with the night elves.
So they rushed Darkshore forward and told us this was the compensation...wtf? All the crap, giving them the biggest shit show for this warfront ? Compensation? Wtf !. A meaningless battle having to rely on super powers while all their existing assets like the Well of Eternity and World Trees remained unused? There millennia of arcane, nature and martial prowess having a chance to be showed off, instead this.
Ofc we were7nt happy, and we won't be happy until they take the race seriously instead of promoting Steve Danuser's favourites, they are suppose to care about the franchise , all the races, night elves are huge and popular race, they've got a lot of uniqueness and well put together lore, it is point blank pushing your favourites if you ignore making full use of a well loved and exciting group like the night elves, and we can see it.
They have no good reason any longer to play down the night elves, the horde is hugely popular in the elder game, over the alliance a complete reversal of classic in 2004. It's the alliance that actually needs real love now, and yet, thanks, Sylvanas, Bwonsamdi, etc all continue, but one change has come, Tyrande is now having the role she was twice denied in Legion over her home city and Order's most holy site, when she was cut from the Broken shore quest line and written over to I create both Legion presence and Class Order activity, yet they had no problem running 3 expansions in a row focused on horde, but 3 night elf zones and its suddenly too much?
So even in the night elf expansion, the night elf is cut and then historic holy capital Suramar , origin city of most playable night elves'legacy is ignored and its given to the horde,..
Come on the bias is strong! and the only thing shifting it is players showing it matters to them.
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I do, but that's irrelevant, we saw them do Darnassus after 10k years and that was before the Shen'dralar joined them with the arcane.. the Shen'dralar, the kaldorei empire's most revered arcansist who engineered the wonders of the age often in secret so the Queen took full credit.
Do you think they are going to build rural homes in a cityscape? I mean they may do that, but I'll be disappointed for sure, why not design your best for the night elves? You've already shown how exquisite night elf architecture is in those Zin'Azshark and Suramar designs, but when it comes to the night elves capital you just ditch it only to give rural village style buildings?
That's like going to the trolls and saying g, hey, those bamboo huts of Sen'Jin village, that's what we are gonna use for the troll capital, because it is troll architecture, we are going to ignore that the likes of Zul'Gurub architecture, Zul'drak architecture, Zul'Aman architecture, Dazar'alor architecture and Atal'dazar architecture are all troll too.
But Sen'jin village in Durotar is where the Darkspears live so that's what we are going to use for their city.
Do you think I would be fine with Auberdine architecture used for a new night elf city, when Night elves have Zin'Azshari, Suramar, Eldre'thalas, Nar'thalas, Tel'anor and Darnassus to their racial city scape??
Surely I would continue to use Auberdine type building for villages and some forest rural locales, and use better schemes for an actual city.