I don’t get why people rave about Garrosh so much, I mean if you look at his progression, he’s…really not that good as a character. I don’t even mean morally, I mean he was just a rubbish character.
Look at him in TBC. He is a beaten, snivelling wreck. He’s the sort of person you would have expected to paint his room black, listen to too much emo music, write poetry that makes people cry, and draw pictures of women with daggers for eyes. He’s a car crash personality wise.
Fast forward to WotLK, He’s still a bit of a coward. His sole contribution is to stamp on models on a map, he leaves Saurfang to do all the heavy lifting. In fact, what does Garrosh even -Do- in Wrath, apart from belittle the player when they first turn up? “I Can smell your fear” “No mate, you can’t, see me? Big damned hecking hero of Azeroth, now look at you, squatting in your room stamping on toys whilst there is a war going on, so look at you, and look at me, and you tell me which one of us has the fear here!”
Also he suddenly hates humans. For no discernible reason, as the only time he has seen them, they had helped save his planet from Alien invaders. So it makes -complete- sense for him to be belligerent towards them! Oh…wait, no…it actually…doesn’t.
So Cata, He was a brilliant warchief wasn’t he?
Err. No.
In Cata,
Thrall is doing all the work. Garrosh turns up once to Sparta kick someone off a cliff to show how ‘Honourable’ he is. Problem with that, is that was never meant to be part of his character. Alex Afrasiabi, who wrote the Stonetalon quests did actually admit that he had went a bit ‘Off message’ with that whole scenario, and that Garrosh would not in fact have cared about what had happened, because he was still meant to be a racist douche. He also successfully manages to lead a huge Horde Aerial fleet to utter disaster by making a rookie mistake that a twelve year old could have avoided. At this point Sylvanas is perfectly justified in calling him an Ogre Headed buffoon…Oh my Gods, we can add that to his list of crimes, I actually just agreed with something Sylvanas said in game!
But yeah, he is absolutely inept, a very poor leader, put a slice of bread over one of his ears, and a slice of bread over the other ear, and what have you got? An Idiot sandwich.
MoP: Oh my days…oh man…This is where his true ineptitude comes to the fore.
He alienates all the Horde, He has annoyed Vol’jin so much that the two have irrevocably fall out (And lets not forget it was Garrosh who started that by trash talking Vol’jin before Thrall had even left the room after making him Warchief) He turns his back on the Tauren, when they are under siege. What kind of Warchief is that? He clearly doesn’t care! It is so bad that the Alliance, in the person of Theramore have to come and bail out Thunder Bluff, which should have been -His- job. He gets an emissary from this new land that has been discovered, Ji Firepaw. Brilliant! A real chance to get a tactical advantage over the Alliance. What does he do? Talk to him, pick his brains about Pandaria and how to win there? Nah, just throw them into a pit to fight monsters. I mean who does that? Who actually is that stupid? By now he has gone full on stupid, and went to his old military tactics of stamping on model boats as a way of proving his military capability. He’s alienated the Forsaken, to the extent that they rise up and kill his Kor’kron soldiers placed there, and then, the icing on the cake, the only race that have stayed loyal to him, the Sin’dorei, he uses as cannon fodder so as not to risk the lives of his precious orcses. Yeah, big hero there, totally heroic, so then even Lor’themar goes, “Nope done with you” and starts looting Thunder Isle to come back and kill Garrosh.
Garrosh was practically an Alliance sympathiser.
He needs to stay tormented and an Anima battery, he does not deserve anything better.
I think that was…err, for the Sunfury Blood Elves on his side, who lived fairly decadently…