I’m back trying out WoW again for the first time in 2 years. Last time I played was in Dragonflight where i never got through the first zone. The last time I really played was back in Legion where I leveled several characters just to check out the different class stories. I played a bit in BfA but mostly just finished the story and then I just followed the lore on and story in the sideline. I remeber siding with Sylvanas in BfA on my rogue.
Now I wanted to give WoW a try again. So I just played through the starting quests of The War Within until Dornogal was unlocked. Playing as my Horde undead rogue it was very dissapointing. From the beginning I’m looking ariund at all these Alliance characters thinking this is a ambush. There are 3 Dwarves, Jaina, Khadgar, Anduin and Thrall. The way I see it is that 2 of dwarves are Alliance, so is Jaina and Anduin. Magni and Khadgar can be considred neutral, but I mostly see Khadgar as neutral. And then there is Thrall who abandonded the Horde when we needed him the most.
I’m so dissapointed that I come back to this. My undead rogues who sided with Sylvanas is now going into battle with mostly aliance characters. I wanted to bacstab them all.
I’m also worried about who is in charge of the Forsaken now that Sylvanas is gone. I think I read somewhere that Arthas sister is in charge and she is some sort undead formed by the light and not necromancy, and that she is trying to live peacefully with the humans and Alliance. I want to go back to my Forsaken that wants to eradicate the living and who are only forming alliances of convenience.
Is the rest of The War Within more of this “Let’s all work together”?
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To make it short: Yes
It it’s not your cup of tea, understandable. But I don’t think the story is going to return to the faction-conflict anytime soon.
The Forsaken are lead by the “Desolate Council”. The members of which are: Lilian Voss, Calia Menethil, Master of the Royal Apothecary Society Faranell, Deathstalker Commander Belmont and Dark Ranger Velonara.
Lilian Voss and Calia Menethil do act as the de facto spokespersons for the council, though.
It is also true, that the council follows a much more diplomatic way of politics. They gave back Gilneas to the Alliance and are trying to make the Forsaken’s membership within the Horde more than just an alliance of convience.
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I’m sure the gameplay is solid, but it does sound like the story is not moving in a direction that is for me 
I can always go give Classic or Classic Cataclysm a chance. Appreciate the comment.
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I’d say conflicts in general are considered less of a part of the world-building with its clashing national and racial identities, as they were before, and more of a problem in a plot to be solved now. We recently had a little novella about Horde and Alliance clashing within the Arathi Highlands for example, which came up and was solved within the same story, and the more recent world-building fluff books from the “Exploring Azeroth” series basically declared any conflict in the zones they covered as solved.
The world isn’t in a constant state of conflict, we are almost at a point of establishing lasting peace and understanding, if evil forces from outside, as well as some hateful bigots that are too stuck in the past, weren’t still sometimes around to ruin it for us.
And yeah, I agree with Jaspathal, I don’t think that’s changing any time soon. As much as I would have liked it to.
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