Civil War Man wrote:They do? I was under the impression that they were going with more of a "both sides are jerks" route.
Out of the playable races, the Tauren are the ones who are pretty consistently not jerks. Their entire asshole population consist of the Grimtotem.
Ah, yes, the Grimtotem - in league with various undead and other unsavories. Of course, those undead seem to have more taste for primate meat than cows, which may be a factor. Still, I like the Taurens, which may be why I play them so often.
You run into a few bad Taurens - the Dead Mines, for instance, working under Van Cleef - but the majority seem pretty decent.
Orcs? Thrall's alright, but most of the rest are dicks.
Thrall is hardly a normal Orc, having been raised by a human family. Then again, that could account for his general competence. The Mag'har seem pretty decent, too, but then they aren't the ones that drank demonic blood and you don't seem them until Outland anyhow. The average Orc strikes me as uneducated and operating on the level of a street gang member crossed with a redneck - gimme fistfights and booze sort of "culture", the sort that, in our world, would appear regularly on Cops.
Trolls? Spend 15 minutes in Stranglethorn Vale if you don't believe me.
And if you're still not sure, observe the cannibalistic tendencies a little closer. The ones in Tanaris aren't very friendly, either.
Dwarves? They're alright. Probably one of the lowest asshole per capita races in the Alliance.
That's because, apparently, it's a major life goal of most of them to brew enough booze to be drunk off their ass as much as possible. At least they tend to be friendly drunks.
Gnomes? Have you met their warlocks? They're hilarious and bring being an asshole to new comedic heights, but that doesn't make them not jerks.
Hard to say - sort of annoying the way they squish under Tauren hooves. Whoops, just stepped on another! Yeah, hard to take the Evil Warlock seriously when she has bubblegum pink hair.
Do I even need to explain how the Forsaken and Blood Elves are jerks?
For those not familar with WoW - the Forsaken are former members of an undead army that broke away from the Big Scary Evil Dude that killed them with a plague then raised them to be killer zombies. They still have the "killer" part intact, and pretty much hate everyone and everything, including a hefty dose of self-loathing. Many of their quests involve things like revenge and/or killing farmer's dogs with poison, gathering ingredients for poisons, and poisoning prisoners of war.
Humans? They're like the Orcs. A few good apples, but the rest of them are total dicks.
But unlike Orcs, they're educated dicks. But what the fuck is up with the half dozen cooking recipes using spider parts? There are fucking rabbits, sheep, pigs, and cows running everywhere in their lands and they're eating
spiders?
Draenei? The whole thing about over half their species trying to destroy the universe puts a damper on their image.
Half? More like 99%. The Dranei are the black sheep of their race, the ones who went over to the other side of the Universal Battle between Good and Evil. Oh, sure, saved by the wonderful Naaru - a "good", nay,
angelic race that, when "dead", converts critters to things like voidwalkers and who allow the systematic torture of one of their own by the Blood Elves to continue without a peep.
The Blood Elves, it turns out, are all magical junkies on the verge of turning into monsters. Their paladins - wielders of "The Light" - actually suck their power out of an imprisoned Naaru. Rather like claiming to be good guys while sucking the life force out of an angel.
And then there are the Night Elves. I could go on for some time with the Night Elves. They are, in my opinion, among the biggest dicks in all of WoW, and reigned uncontested in that category until the inclusion of the Blood Elves. The least of their offenses is that they apparently hate all the other races, including the other Alliance races.
"Arrogant bastards" is my impression of them. Sneaky arrogant bastards.
Alright. How about the mining trainer? What the Hell do you mean there's no mining trainer?
Darnasssus is on top of an unbelievably huge tree, you ninny - there aren't any mining nodes there, either. You can't use the skill until you get to the mainland and there's a mining trainer right in Auberdine - which is the one lack of trainer in Darnassus that actually makes sense.
So the way I see it, Blizzard's overall message is "Elves suck"
Well, yeah - didn't you know that before you started playing the game? Stupid elves!
Lord Pounder wrote:Blizzard do seem to have a problem coming up with new ideas since about the second year of the game. WoW is a fine game for the first 30 or so levels, then the novelty wears off and you realise you're not doing anything you didn't do in the first 30 levels.
Burning Crusade came out with some cool new things. Unfortunately, unless you make a Blood Elf, Draenei, or are already level 58+, you aren't going to see that.
Well, the Ghostlands are open to any Horde player, and there's that one quest line where you help out a merchant who then opens for business with you.
The recent addition of a bunch of new stuff in Dustwallow Marsh on both the Alliance and the Horde side have been good, too - they aren't all "kill 20 mobs for 5 drops" quests.
The same applies to any of the other races.
