There is also the fact that humans are more disciplined and have a much longer history of organised battle formations to deal with more aggressive and less organised foes. During the First War Stormwind armies under Anduin Lothar's command managed to pose a formidable obstacle to the Horde despite the overwhelming numbers and physical advantage that orcs had over them with their better organisation and tactics.
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Same for many of the Alliance's other weapons at their disposal such as many of the gnomes' best inventions and weapons, or many of the Night Elves' natural allies who weren't present during the War of Thorns but conveniently showed up only during the battle for Darkshore.
But I have already expressed my frank and blunt opinion about BFA story many times.
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This reminds me of the orbital bombardment weapon and of the Arcane Nullifiers, and of the gnomes' material to deal with radiation and toxic gas that are never shown and used outside of Gnomeregan subplots.
Dwarves really are the best race in the entire game, only barely nudging out Orcs.
Most likely the wisest Enhancement Shaman.
Humans do usually wear much more armor than their Horde counterparts, and in this universe humans aren't puny at all and have spawned several mighty melee combatants such as Varian, Anduin Lothar and Arthas that were a match for all but the hardiest Orcs. The matchup probably isn't as one-sided as it appears (have you seen how swole WoW humans are anyway?), but yeah logically you'd think both factions would use technology a lot more and rely a lot less on random dudes with axes and swords when they have gatling guns, mech suits, magic and nukes.
Then again this is a universe where a guy with an axe can destroy a laser-toting mech suit and where a guy with swords can oneshot a skyscraper-sized demonic robot.
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Dwarf warriors start with 25 strength compared to the Draenei 24.
Worgen do have 26. I know, it's just a gameplay attribute, but I can only work with that for now
However I wasn't implying that Dwarves are the best at everything, only that they cover all of the bases to be the best race in the Alliance
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I wish that we saw more about the politics inside and between the dwarven clans, especially since the reunification and real development on these politics and on their relations.
For example I really don't think that the Wildhammer Dwarves would have accepted the reunification and for Dagran to be heir over them without a political marriage between him and a Wildhammer thane daughter having been planned and sealed.
And there should also be a lot of dilemnas about the reintegration and fair representation of the dark irons and wildhammer at Ironforge Senate.
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Gnomish ingenuity married to the dwarves industrial capacity should give the Alliance unassailable mastery of land, air and sea. Plus since the Cataclysm there have been friendly relations with the Dark Irons who aren't shy about infusing advanced technology with magic. Everyone in the Alliance should have their own magitech battlemech suit by now.
Dwarves should get a lot more of spotlight, instead of being relegated to human/nelf funny sidekicks. They should also get a little more focus on their not so nice side, for example when they wiped out the Stonespire tribe in Vanilla, or when they exterminated the ice trolls at the beginning of Cata.
Oh, and stop pretending that the Dark Irons are suddenly good guys, which in turn would mean to not dismiss beforehand a story with a lot of potential such as the Dwarven civil war.
Speaking of Dark Irons, as well of Moira, the lack of distrust from the non-dwarven members of the Alliance toward them is disappointing, given their violent and dark history with not only their cousins but also with humans of Stormwind and the gnomes as well as their ties with Ragnaros and the Twilight Hammer and uses of dark magic, and generally backstabbing and scheming culture there should have been a lot more of wariness and prejudices toward the Dark Irons.
The fact that no Bronzebeard dwarf was seen plotting or rebelling against Moira during her short-lived tyranny over Ironforge is also something that bugs me, even with her being the legal heir of Magni I think that her being associated with the much hated and reviled Dark Irons and her being a woman with many dwarves surely having some sexism like Magni should have caused some of the Bronzebeard to say "Screw the rules and the succession" and to oppose her.
I imagined once a scenario where Muradin or a dwarven general like Stormpike was starting to gather the Bronzebeard armies outside of Ironforge to overthrow her, and that several senators and nobles were plotting behind Moira's back to remove her from power, with their plan being to capture her and then have the senate of Ironforge revote an old dwarven law preventing women from inheriting over men to legalize her being removed from the throne, just like how the french nobles adopted the Salic Law to prevent Edward III of England to become the king of France through him being the son of Isabella of France, the daughter of the late king Charles IV.
They are also usually used a comic relief, alongside gnomes. I mean, I don't mind having some funny drunken dwarves, but it should not be their only depiction. They have great potential to be badass.
Exactly this. They should be probably the most stable nation of the Alliance now, with night elves being genocided, humans being the main bulk of Alliance armies for years now, draenei being exhausted by Argus campaign and worgen with gnomes still not being able to reclaim their homes.
And you're right. Dark irons should maintain their shady reputation and not be embraced by the Light of Anduinism.
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