I honestly dislike Blizzard’s insistence on making everything some thousand years ago.
I’d love to know what worlds the draenei visited while fleeing from the Legion for so long, or what they did on and around Argus.
“WOULD”. That’s an assumption, isn’t it? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it? Besides, the night elves have been a fractured community for a long time, given what happened at the Well of Eternity and all that.
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Writers very rarely appreciate just how long the time frames they use to make things sound epic actually are.
“WOULD”. That’s an assumption, isn’t it? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it?
Tactics evolve over time. It takes a lot of training and time to train someone to use a bow properly - which is why armies changed to crossbows and guns.
An army that uses the same formations and strategy that they did 5 years ago, let alone 10,000, would be rolled over by any semi-competent commander.
No, it was a request forwarded in whisper for a translation/the use of the tongues addon when a character not of the same race, but spoke the language, started partaking in the roleplay.
In the end I simply resorted to copy+paste what was being said to the other player, but it would’ve been so much easier if, in that particular instance, everyone swapped to common instead.
Again, it seems we both have different experiences on this, though. I don’t think the function is particularly useful/helpful, even to prevent metagaming, nor do I think it adds anything particular to the immersion or scene in general. But I can sympathize if, on your end, it’s been out of necessity to do just that. (Stop metagaming from happening, that is)
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Somewhat true, didn’t the night elves live like they do now because Malfurion wanted it that way? Better to live as one with nature, instead of reverting to an advanced but arcane and power corrupted society like before.
Plus while we’ve come along way as humans in 10,000 years there was several cultures still living in tribal communities and using stone and bone instruments during the European revolutionary period.
Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Conway Twitty:
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I understood that reference.
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And then you have the Aborigines who spent 50k years almost unchanged. And you still have so many indigenous people who kept their way of life and technological level for thousands of years.
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Guess they’re lucky that the Legion decided not to employ their instant teleport spaceship tech back during the Third War.
To an extent their isolation and lack of industrialization makes sense, yeah - I mean things like their reliance on bow troops and not creating fortifications, even with the restriction of not industrialising. They have fought huge wars against massive and often technologically advanced enemies in the Legion - that should have put pressure on them not to rely on ambush tactics but it didn’t.
WOULD. You know, this is called World of Warcraft, not World of Modern-Day Vietnam, right?
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Obviously we don’t expect fantasy writers to intimately know military tactics - but it shows how little they appreciate how long 10,000 years actually is.
NElves did get rolled over though. They needed humans+orcs to help out*. And even then they had to adapt to a new strategy (blow up the world tree).
*and they were getting their butt kicked in the Shifting Sands until the bronzes were threatened and joined the fray.
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Yeah, I’m afraid Edevane isn’t seeing the broad scope of history.
There’s a reason we’ve advanced more in the past 200 years than the entire human species has in the preceding 90,000. Revolutions bring change - such as interactions between competing cultures or substantial environmental changes.
Aborigines in Australia didn’t need to change anymore than most Subsaharan hunters or far northern Sami herdsmen, because they already had their stuff figured out and it wasn’t until they started consistently coming into contact/conflict with outsiders that they had to adapt.
The Night Elves haven’t needed to compete against other nations, because the only other groups on Kalimdor were comparatively primitive, nomadic races like Centaur and Tauren who likewise had no reason to advance their technology. Prior to the arrival of Goblins Night Elves were unchallenged as the most advanced society in Kalimdor, and they had no need for large armies until the arrival of the Eastern Kingdoms refugees.
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Fair point.
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Long Vigil more like Long Stagnation…il.
nailed it
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This really does seem to be the core of the matter, yes. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen it on the alliance side where it’s usually just for menial chatter that might as well be in Common, but most of the time (excluding blood elves) it’s very much done with a reason in the Horde.
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horde rp good alliance rp bad
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Yeah that’s quite simply a fact isn’t it
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spitting hot fax and logic
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