Originally Posted by
ravenmoon
Horde fans, simple. Everyone but horde alligned folk are rubbish or second grade.
And they will come on and point out every possibility from established knowledge that they are not anything special, but in particular not as special as the alliance race fan is saying. They will pass their possibilities as some sort of fact, while simultaenously ignoring the other persons possibilities and opinions.
They do this very well on this forum in particular. but such is the nature of fandom. And our horde, inparticular blood elf fans here are very jealous of anything that might be competittve with the sin'dorei because they're not on thier faciton.
The night elven arcana is always downplayed by them, when I post about it, even pointing out what hte lore shows or what the game has shown, you see people responding basically saying "it's not that great" - what they're really saying is "we don't like you alliance scum, so we will say anything to make what you point seem as ordinary and irrelevant." One of the posters friendly immolaton, after i pointed out how awesome i felt the moonguard were damagin and destroying far more of the nightwell infused nightborne than they them, and this was a demonstration of how incredibly powerful and combat savvy these night elves were. You know what he responded? They were nearly wiped out by the nightborne (like i didn't just say that) therefore aren't that great -
Look at combatbulter, I point out how I'd lvoe to see more of the Mordant Evenshade and the shen'dralar like Nymrohd mentioned he'd like to see of rommath and Aethas, then went on to tsate how i thought Farondis and the Monguard were very powerfully portrayed and I liked that. And you can read his responses. - The shen'dralar were powerful once, but they aren't anymore, and his evdience? They were driven out of their city, so they can't be anything speical - completely ignoring everything else that idnicates they are remarkable, and using the event as some evidence that they are not talented or incredible mages right now because we haven't seen them do anything in game.. depsite me saying that i want to see them do more things in game.
It's just a lot of bias. If its an alliance rival elf mage that's either night elven, void elf or high elf - regardless of whether the lore shows or describes them having something special that could be incredible, you will get the horde fan boys telling you they are not. Unless it is super obvious like super Saiyan Jaina and khadgar, in which case their tone will switch to "I hate this super Saiyan portrayal, it's just terrible" - wanna bet its mostly terrible because its an alliance race character. And that is the one fundamental flaw of the character, that no matter what they do or blizzard writes them to do, they will never like.