Originally Posted by
ravenmoon
Yep pretty much... i assume most of the priests became paladins after the scourge attack, wanting vengeance and ceasing power - etc, these ofc are not good things at all, definitely in the bad boy category, we know the blood elves didn't mean to be evil, lashing out, so to me it feels more like bad boy, and though it definitely is an evil thing they were doing with that Naaru overall blizz does enough to not make them feel like an evil race. Unlike the forsaken.
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I think it's a problem with wow races. The devs don't seem to know what they want them to be.. on both factions not just the horde.
on the horde they are plagued with indecision, the blood elves joining has brought a lot of alliance type mindsets and character, then the orcs who were honourable, then not, then honourable again, then not.. are the forsaken evil or mis-understood.. the trolls originally described as vicious and cruel and vindictive seem white washed.
Whereas the alliance races seem to just be cut into the one uniform brick, making them mostly boring, the best part of their character and lore left in the past.. night elves are your classic example, to me a night elves with a pre-sundering minded half and long vigil minded half, arcane and nature, meshing against or in unison with one another is far more interesting than cookie cutting them into human sidekicks yes men. their original characterisation had enormous diversity and flavour, from the forest and trees of northern Kalimdor to the struggle with their arcane heritage, the legacy of the Highborne and forging a new future after 10k years of a life dominated by watching for the legion..
having the duality of the calm serenity of a peaceful day, to the violent fury of nature during a natural disaster - all these nuances are literally left in the dirt.. to have ordinary good guy, bad guy coats the main identifier of the races, and the brush used to paint them as if to say @hey look our characters are varied and deep because some are goo d and some are evil, like that is all there is to show@
Off course they can do better, they just not going to invest in it.. so much of everything just feel incomplete, poorer than it should be or flat out lame.
Still something's gotta keep you here. so it isn't all that bad?