Aren't blood elves such a great and superior race?

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No I just forgot my password

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And the boink does nothing. :rofl:

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Honk Honk. This thread is now troll Proof.

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As a student of the Norse let me assure you:

Nothing is ever troll-proof.

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Oh god is that hugo? This brings back nightmares!

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He trolled the entire nordic. Maybe more.

:rofl:

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He was very popular in germany too, I remember the hugo show on tv, where kids controlled hugo via phone, the input delay was like 3-4 seconds :joy:.

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Aaayup, and so everybody died.

I thought originally he was just a Denmark thing since he is in fact a Danish franchise and us exporting media was unheard of lol


Didn’t really think that happened until IO Interactive started making video games and of course HC Anderson.

Would you look at that


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Well, living nation? IIRC, half the BE levelling is fighting remnants of scourge in a pretty wrecked-looking forest, half your capital city is an undead-infested ruin.

Blizz just loves a side-dish of “Fallen empire that’s only a shadow of what it once was” with their Elf-clichĂ©s, it would seem


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Yeeeaaah
 so how’s Argus doing these days?

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Draenei have pointy ears.

Just felt like pointing that out. No particular reason. :innocent:

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So do humans now, I guess. :innocent:

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 oh goodness gracious, yes indeed. I’d forgotten.

“This kingdom shall fall, and from its ashes shall arise a new one which will shake the very foundations of the world
”

  • Arthas Menethil, a forebear of a people with pointy ears
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Okay, i stand corrected, Blizz loves a side-dish of “Fallen empire etc.” with nearly every race, come to think of it: The Zandalari also fit that theme, as do Trolls in general, Gnomes kind of do as well (Self-inflicted, but still), Worgen are only just rebuilding, the Goblin homeland went down in their level 1-10 questline, Mag’har got “Deus vult”-ed out of hearth and home as well, the Draenei don’t have much to go home to, either


Most races could do with some good news for a change, now i think about it.

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Boinkidoink, the panda attack. Just look at thunder clap animation :cat:

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Literally a blood elf trying to physically take out a Pandaren is like an ordinary HR secretary trying to take out a professional sumo wrestler.

It’s not going to happen. :rofl:

Honestly sometimes I wish this was more reflected in the game as well. It used to be, 20 years ago. But that time has passed
 and would it even work now? Probably not.

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Was it ever reflected in game tho? that would be kinda unfair/onesided cuz everybody would just pick the most burly races, I could see it like in other RPGs where smaller/leaner race get a boost in int or agi.

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I love the panda thunder clap animation, it were especially bis tier in bfa when thunder clap almost had no cd as prot and you went through whole dungeon clapping :smiley:

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Yes. Go back on Classic and check if you want!

The most obvious case of it is the starting stats and the stats you get at each level. A Tauren Druid will start out with radically different stats from a Night Elf. I believe twice as much health and half as much mana!

On top of that Tauren famously had Endurance, which increases your health by 5%, making them very good tanks even at higher levels.

There are a bunch of things you can say about tying power to races, but I think it’s more fun and I’m not going to be apologetic about that. Why is it fun?

Because the game acknowledges the body of the character you have chosen to play. It acknowledges your size and your physical features that make you different from the other ones and allows you to use these features against enemies or to do favors for your community; just like a class does.

Furthermore of course it cannot be forgotten that your character has a cultural origin also, and that origin should give you perspective. A start zone and some bonuses to certain cultural activities just plain make sense.

I think for a roleplaying game to work there needs to be an ego that is invented for your character to inhabit; a sense of self that is acknowledged and reinforced.

This is extra important in the case of an MMO because MMO’s have the unique characteristic of not only allowing you to channel your sense of self through a character which is different from you, but to have the reactions you get in return be based on your character rather than the real you. This results in tremendously interesting roleplaying situations that appear whether you want it to or not. When playing World of Warcraft your character’s capabilities will inevitably enter any conversation and your sense of self while playing gets tied up with it.

Therefore it should be played up as an important part of the game at every possible opportunity.

Nobody complains that mages can produce food, so why should we complain if a Vulpera has a bottomless backpack of water? Why should we complain that big and strong bodies can take a bigger punch than small ones? Why do we have gnome warriors and tauren mages?

The most obvious example is this: How do you make a Vulpera Evoker? The answer? You don’t. It doesn’t make sense and it never will, because Evokers are about having a draconic body at its core.

But people are all about that transmog. They want to distance appearance from capability, and that, to me, is quite mad. Racial distinctions should not be removed, they should be balanced. Often - as often as classes are.

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Belfs do have the best story by far. One thing I wish that the new writers would do is stop this crappy notion that belfs are just waiting for the Alliance to ask them out out a date. Metaphorically speaking.

Frailest? You have got to be kidding. The zombies that feel no pain, can literally be dismembered and they still continue to fight and don’t need food, water or air for that matter. That’s frail in what world? Not in WoW.

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