I honestly can’t remember the last time slaves were mentioned for the Horde & Alliance - it’s probably one of those things the writers forgot existed and don’t intend to ever expand upon.
Both factions enslave them. Problem solved!
I like how you think…
Vulpera memeposting aside;
The new mount previews show how your character looks while riding them. It’s neat.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/273480823536091136/608039323656388609/greytusk.png
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Thats Goblin looks concerned.
Ahh fair enough; would be cool if they did some actual cool-stuff with it to make atleast one of the “darker” races of the Alliance an actual Morally-gray faction… You know, what the Worgen and the Void Elves both were supposed to be…
But whatever the Void Elves do is either laughed and handwaved away, the Worgen are basicly muzzled, neutered dogs by now and the Dark Iron have the same problem as the Void Elves…
On the otherside, we don’t want the morally-gray in the same vein as the Forsaken(and to some extend the Orcs) to, because thats just pitch-black 
Like I said; both faction basicly “enslaved” a Pandaren Village each D:
Talking about mounts; I wish they re-introduce the race-restrictions(like how only Dwarves and Gnomes were able to ride Mechano-strider), because honestly; it makes no damn sense that everything grows or shrinks in size when it comes to races…
Also Troll Raptors and Kaldorei Nightsaber need a whole bonding-thing to happen before even a Troll or Night Elf could ride them, so I think its weird that everyone can randomly ride everything. Now if they’d add a proper questline for them to be rideable, that would be cool. Ofcourse some would be longer then others; for example the Questline to be able to ride a Raptor or Saber would span several weeks, while a horse could, indeed, randomly be brought by most…
And Undead Mounts should only be rideable by Undead(Death Knights of both factions and the Forsaken)… But thats just my fantasy
ANd ehh “magic” 
Outsiders get out reeeeeeeeee
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You just need to pitch it to blizzard as time gated content to incentivise players to keep playing for 30% longer.
Suddenly quests to use mounts start spawning in ptr.
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Remember the mount quests in Shadowmoon Valley during TBC? with the Netherwings… that difficulty and they wont need alot of quests.
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But we’ve been “in” for several years now! D:<
Also Pandaria made me wonder if any Kaldorei ever ventured into their lands pre-Sundering… And if they ever got to see the Vale, ya know!(Sure Highborne would never be allowed, but yea )
This actually got a good laugh out of me! But I have wanted this since for, freaking, ever… And not as some time-gated shizzle… Just something which should be a thing in an RPG anyways… The fact you can’t randomly wield any weapons(I miss weapon skills) or should be able to just use any mount because reasons! For all I care; they put in some damn racial restrictions, but then Blizzard isn’t able to randomly release 120 Horse mounts per expansion so I see why they got rid of it on the Alliance anyways
This is actually a very good example of how it could and should’ve been done, thank you for reminding me! 
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It was only a little amount of quests if you found eggs. Back then, egg farming was incredibly tedious due to just how many people were doing it. Even now it can be tedious. - Plus if I’m not mistaken the rep given may have been lower than it is today.
They’ve used that formula for 15 years. It’s nothing different to what it is now. Rares that reward Rep = The Queen Flayer who has 100% chance to drop an egg. A WQ that gets you to interact with NPCs = Those quests where you beat up and feed peons.
Nothing is different. It’s just your nostalgia getting in the way there I feel.
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nah, I meant the quests where you flew around through those circles around the area, screw the egg farming.
and have no doubt, I hated those quests but damn I wanted that dragon back then.
but consider that these kind of mounted quests where you have to fly across a series of obstacles, while we’ve seen shades and even more complex version of these in BfA and Legion World quests, with Dalaran and Tortollan Seeker WQs.
But nothing as simple as flying through old school rings like in the good old video games where you raced for time.
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You know which group of players has nostalgia getting in the way? those that demand a Vanilla-WoW. The fact that Blizzard had to release a “Not-A-Bug-List” should tell you more then enough that 99.9% of the people who played Vanilla, and those that came after, have their most rose-tinted glasses on as to how Vanilla was like and they’ll come back from a very cold shower when it does release.
And when Vanilla-WoW fails; those who knew how Vanilla, or TBC was like, will be the ones having the last laugh.
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Can’t wait for all the people who can’t handle current WoW to give it a go and find its even harder than modern.
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So… Basicly 99.9% of the people? I remeber my cousin getting eaten by his own Snow-leopard, because he didn’t feed the damn thing enough… And lets not forget the fact that 100% of the backspace of Hunters was taken away by Arrows!
Can you imagne that in the current “Everyon-gets-everything-for-free” society we have today? people would have a freaking mental breakdown if they had to make sure their pets would be happy and fed, and the actually have to take ay kind of effort to fill their quivers with some kind of arrows!
Man I sometimes wish they’d add some of the Vanilla-WoW things to current WoW… I’m certain they’d loose more then 50% of their playerbase within a month!
I want Light Well back, I never could figure out how it worked, but it was just fun.
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Everyone who has played this game in the last 10 years has nostalgia gating their view on things.
I do too. I enjoyed Wrath far too much than I do now. Why? Cause I have far more fond memories back then as I had so much more spare time. It doesn’t matter who or what you are. It matters you played during a certain point.
Classic won’t fail, it’ll do well. They know demand will fall rather quickly. They have a plan for release but whether or not they branch off into a different way with that game is yet to be seen.
There are genuine people I know who played Vanilla who enjoyed it because of what they had community wise, knowing certain people - inventing their own fun. That’s what you did back then.
Now live game is far more focused on getting from Point A to point B without much time to socialise. A majority of players play like this anyway. I sometimes log on and interact with no one in that time period. It is so easy to ignore the world around you.
I don’t blame them tbh, I honestly miss a lot of social aspect the game had back before a lot of features were implemented.
Hell. Even Mists had Shrine to just hang out. No one just hangs out anymore.
I will say the massive key difference we all have is that we had far more free time in general to just sit and do absolutely nothing but play the floor is lava on top of the bank of Orgrimmar.
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You and me both, I played during the end of vanilla, and into TBC… Nonetheless I try not to have Rose-tinted-goggles destroy my view of both Vanilla and TBC. Yes Vanilla showed an how it should’ve been WoW; Cold War-esque(with the lack of ICBM- and Nuclear-weapon-thread…) Like… But everything afterwards showed us how it shouldn’t have been with over the top Tech and magic; with way to many OP characters on one side(Alliance) and a few Alliance-wannabe-characters on the otherside…(Thrall being basicly a green-Human leading the Horde)…
Vanilla-WoW-servers are going to fail within a year, hands down, because of the rose-tinted-glasses everyone seem to wear.
It might’ve lasted longer had the small-indie-company that is blizzard had invested into the current “up-to-date”-models… But sadly Activision-Blizzard is a small-inde company who cannot afford that… So we’re stuck with out-of-date-everything in Vanilla-WoW, which is 100% reason why it will fail!
(Whatever; I fail at english, deal with it you perfectly 100% english spaking @-holes! D:<)
The universe was set up like this after WC3 when they introduced Illidan Stormrage and Arthas Menethil to the fold.
I’m sorry, this is just how WoW is and always has been. It’s just in the players very fresh eyes of Vanilla it didn’t seem like it was but 40 people killed Neferian, Onyxia, Ragnaros, C’Thun.
What you’re not liking is that it is now shown to us regularly. Via what Thrall was capable of (Has always been so, merged the Horde to what it is today - Help shatter the bonds that Orcs had with killing Mannoroth.)
It’s always been in the lore, just a bit more obscure at times. But, OP character’s are a part of this world.
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Just going to slide in here to ask for a source on this. If you’re referring to the slaver mobs in Searing Gorge, it is made pretty clear they’re aligned with the Twilight’s Hammer and not part of the group that Moira was in charge of. As far as I can remember, we have no real reason to believe the Dark Iron have practised any extremely questionable methods since joining the Alliance.
Moira’s been depicted as wanting to strengthen the bonds between all of the clans, while the Allied Race questline is supposed to show her fully regain control of the Clan (along with Shadowforge City, but who knows how long that’s been a thing; it’s not very clear what happened to it since it was still a dungeon in Cata).
Goblin workers in Frostwall Garrison complain and want some slaves to be sent in to take the load off. Explicitly slaves.