Even Garrosh wasn’t this stupid.
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We should wait and see how the area will look in the Alliance version, hopefully we get more interesting stuff.
At what point in this war has the Horde ever acted in a pragmatic manner?
It is almost like Sylvanas does not give a damn about the Horde and just wants to kill everything.
Although, why are we surprised? The scourge has always been about blighting territory.
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Destroying Undercity rather than letting the Alliance capture it. Maybe raising Derek (Though airing it for all the Horde to see what a dumb decision on Sylvanas’ part). Then again it seems like he can’t be mind controlled and instead must be brainwashed, which is less reliable.
That’s about it really. Otherwise everything since Teldrassil has been pretty poor. It’s just sad to see the rest of the Horde being dragged down too.
That would have been pragmatic, if the Horde had not had ample opportunity to use the blight to cut off the Alliance from Undercity from the start.
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Well they did cut the Alliance off. Then a random Jaina appeared. Guess Sylvanas didn’t plan for her blight to be removed so easily.
Nobody can plan for a godlike Mage to suddenly appear on a flying ship with arcane cannons shooting arcane blasts which lay waste to near impenetrable walls for decades and then suddenly freezing all the skeletons and blight up until the entrance.
And then teleporting the leadership out of the ruins in time…
That sh!t is unplanable…
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Unless you are Blizzard.
“We need a coherent story for the Alliance.”
“Nah, lets give them a dumb ship, no one will notice.”
Araphant here, by the way.
But Sylvanas should have expected intelligent enemies that anticipated the usage of the blight (since it really was obvious…), and wouldn’t attack without coutermeasures at hand…
So… it was stupid that it was a flying ship. It should have been expected that the Alliance could deal with it.
The quote in the OP exaggerates a bit what is happening. I don’t know who the person is who originally wrote it, but it’s certainly a biased account of what is actually happening in the PTR Darkshore, I checked so myself.
Nevertheless, spending time in the PTR Darkshore certainly reminds you that war is terrible, and Blizzard is doing a great job with the Darkshore Warfront in showing that there won’t be any winners in the Battle for Azeroth.
And a more ad hoc response; I am not surprised by what the Forsaken and Goblins are doing but it is, what’s the word, ‘worrisome’, that Sylvanas allows them to follow their desires instead of actually using the resources Darkshore provides, such as the lumber. The fact that the mines are also not fully occupied shows me that the Forsaken leadership exists out of morons, since you obviously need the yield of the mines to fight the war.
You look great in red.
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Why, thank you! You are dashing yourself.
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Atleast you’re an Elf for now. I suppose thats an improvement. Sadly its the wrong kind of Elf. 
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Technically, the Ebon Blade doesn’t care about this.
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Any Elf that is not a, ha!, Dead’dorei, is a bad kind of Elf.
Obviously there is an exception for High Elves who worship the Light, or Blood Elf Priests/Paladins.
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Because this is forsaken “pragmatism” didn’t you learn yet about this trope? ; )
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That’s what greenskins and their allies do. Remember Draenor? It’s their thing.
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A bit off topic here, but are we being set up for Derek Proudmore taking over the forsaken after not doing mind-bendy, murdery stuff to his family? Like the exact same scenario with Sylvanas and Arthas, just gender reversed and a bit later?
Heck. Undead leader with whispering named weapon raises a former enemy to force him/her to be a weapon… There’s some symmetry here, how did I miss this until now?
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I lolled. “Fifty thousand gold a year in fuel bills and they call it a Cult?!”
Yeeeeeah no. Canonically they’ll just reset things sitcom-style when it becomes inconvenient, but it certainly feels like one side is winning judging by in-game experiences. Unless 8.1 does something to check the Horde’s momentum, rather than throwing up a minor speedbump, that feeling will continue.
Well Jaina’s flying ship entrance ruined that plan…
Think of the best you know!
Soon Jaina arrives upon her ship.
Turning the strongest plague ever made into shi-
Flying across the sky shooting down walls with giant butt arcane cannons!
She can fly! SHE CAN FLY!!!
Sorry I missed that one.
Yes, originally this guild was made for NE fans + role-play.
But after BfA and such humiliation of NE from Blizzard side almost all of NE fans abandon the game.
Currently only 2 players in my guild still hoping for better future.
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