Why no, people don't just like Sylvie for T&A: https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...ery-Cinematic/
why would they? they are rpetty safe in their own dimension/homeplane.
they can act, but like i said minor.
thats right, wow team can't write up an engaging story without resorting to increasing power lv of enemies, they keep escalating and trap themselves into a corner of, since we are fighting gods, we can't face local enemies and conflicts anymoreThe problem is WoW kept raising the stakes even though it never had to. The most interesting stories aren't about gods, but about the petty squabbles of mortal beings. As you said, the gods are merely supposed to be a garnish.
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if you can point where is those threads to help this transaction i would be most obliged
i mean, isn't you who derail threads saying it is horde bias?
In all fairness, the ones who did that stuff (The Highborne-caste of Night elf society back then) are now either Naga, or were banished and their descendants are present-day Blood elves (Or indeed void elves), the people now known as Night elves are the ones who kicked out the magic users and turned to Druidism and Elune worship instead, not that Elune worship did them much good, but that's another story...
Your answer is a religious question. First, you must understand the purpose and function of religion.
A market might sell you food. A tailor might sell you clothes. A religion sells you a MORAL CODE.
These things are all needed. You cannot function in society without them. But what is a better deal? Something that makes you more powerful? Or something that makes you happy? Or something that has the best chance to create more kids? Or something else? In the Roman Empire, the pantheon of Roman gods was the dominant religion. Christianity came along later. It didn't make you more powerful to switch to Christianity. Often it got you persecuted or killed. But it offered something else that was superior, to the point where it replaced the old religion.
Maybe following another god would have saved the night elves. But perhaps following Elune makes them tremendously happy in their day-to-day life. So they refuse to switch. Who knows?
Its like a career. Maybe career A makes you 300% more powerful in this life. But career B makes you tremendously happy every day. Which do you choose?
TO FIX WOW:1. smaller server sizes & server-only LFG awarding satchels, so elite players help others. 2. "helper builds" with loom powers - talent trees so elite players cast buffs on low level players XP gain, HP/mana, regen, damage, etc. 3. "helper ilvl" scoring how much you help others. 4. observer games like in SC to watch/chat (like twitch but with MORE DETAILS & inside the wow UI) 5. guild leagues to compete with rival guilds for progression (with observer mode).6. jackpot world mobs.
In terms of story telling/game balance Blizzard painted themselves into a corner from the outset of World of Warcraft. Pre-WoW, the night elves were pretty much over powered, in order to fit them into the game they got neutered. You can have one playable race with such an advantage.
In my opinion, Blizzard went in the wrong direction in Legion cutting down all the big bads in one fel-swoop. There was very little left 'out there' in terms of threats and so they went on this rampage of creating another lot of villains who are more powerful than the last lot -cause everything has always got to be ultra high stakes.
How then can you contend with the Horde/Alliance narrative if one race has a god on their side. The easiest thing to do is conveniently have that god turn a blind eye to the gods pet race. For me, since WoTLK/Cata (with the exception of Legion) the villains of the expac have been pretty poorly fleshed out, it feel more like go kill this guy cause he is stronk, you can do is cause you crushed the last dude. I struggle to think of a successful fantasy epic where the big bad guy isn't present in someway from the beginning and doesn't last out until the end, what we've got in WoW is a conveyor belt of loot piñatas.
An entity like Elune should function as the ultimate back-stop, able to keep evil in check if it overstretches. -Sargeras is out there with his Burning Legion, but don't worry we've got our Goddess who can lend us a hand to prevent complete annihilation.
Most of celestials are cold and uncaring. You have no idea what hell they went through. Their entire species got nearly wiped out by the titan who was supposed to protect them. Then they see all this evil on Azeroth, no wonder their feelings are wiped out! Check the caves in Pandaria some of their life essences corrupted and broken. Then all they get is constant asking "Oh give your strength", so they give so much and get so little in return. I would be so done like Algalon is, playing battle pets.
Elune is primarily a goddess devoted to peace-making, mercy, serenity, and healing - those were her primary traits throughout Warcraft's history. However, she does have an aspect of vengeance/justice (incarnated as the Night Warrior), but it seems to be a quite forbidden one.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
The quest is pretty ambiguous as to whether the power of the vortex gem(s) are actually Elune's, specifically: "The ancients revered the gems created by this mystical object, claiming that they were gifts from the goddess herself. It was believed that they were weapons capable of delivering them from any enemy." What they might have actually been being unknown, but since the power invoked by them really doesn't resemble anything Elune grants (either relating to her peaceable or wrathful aspects), I would say these gems are likely not related to Elune.
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
"We're more of the love, blood, and rhetoric school. Well, we can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive. But we can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory. They're all blood, you see." ― Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
There are several mysogynist elements in the story of Warcraft, and especially in WoW. For all the ostensibly woke attitude of writers, they can't seem to write an empowered female without making her look edgy and/or stupid: just look at e.g. Sylvanas, Jaina or even Talanji. All three more or less "behaved" themselves when they had a male to oversee them (Garrosh, Varian/Andy and Rastakhan respectively), but they start doing incredibly OOC or just stupid things once the "authority figure" is gone.
It's not about calling someone names. It's about the devs obsession to shit on nelves and their fans, destroying their cities, murdering their citizens, depictiing their leaders as ridiculous and incompetent, at least since Cata when Stormwind Park and Auberdine was destroyed..., so this has constantly been going on for more than a decade...
Apparently the devs think that because THEY don't like nelves, nelves are not popular, completely ignoring the fact that they are the 2nd most popular Alliance race after humans, even beating humans in popularity on some servers/regions
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Why would anyone choose to be at the whim of some god instead of just becoming a mage? Math > God
That's exactly how I interpreted it. Elune's wisdom>Tyrande (or the wow community).
And while the Winter Queen calls her sister, is there a reason to take that term literally? Maybe I missed another reference or blue post or interview that says they are literal sisters; but otherwise, there are lots of different interpretations/uses of "sister", "brother", "cousin", "family"....