While Majority of people say Shadowlands and Sylvanas you forget the biggest fall that destroyed the game of Alliance vs Horde - lore-playerbase population and simply World of Warcraft .
Biggest mistake was putting Garrosh Hellscream in Pandaria as a killable raid boss altering everything and dooming Alliance and Horde as well .
Until then no major or anything related to the both faction played such a major part in the Lore.
Both faction was supposed to fight against an enemy and having conflicts between them .
Because with that move they made not only they start creating stupid and idiotic mistakes that in Majority hurt Alliance . Teldrassil
Horde Lost 2 Leaders while alliance couldn’t have even emerge one leader at the same recognition and popularity as Horde.
Alliance lost 1 leader from an random Npc without story … and a 20 second video.
Horde Lost 2 Leaders that for 5 years everyone was talking -debating and arguing .
For me Alliance right now i a dead meat Lore-wise and population wise.
I’m actually very interested in this plot point, not that anything will come of it. It builds a mystery around alternate Draenor, and pulls a big switcheroo on one of the most memorable moments in the history of the franchise:
Orcs living in peace, fanatic Draenei committing genocide. Yrel needs to be seen in that context. By the sound of it they even managed to convert orcs to their cause, come on they even mention “Exarch Hellscream” she converted freaking Garrosh, think how powerful that makes her.
If she carried on being a goody two-shoes who instead opposed the fanatic Draenei faction, it simply would be boring and predictable.
There are many, but the thing that’s always puzzled me is why Night Elves (and elves in general) look more childish than humans. I’m specifically referring to Tyrande always in aggro mode, rushing in without a plan angrily, looking way less wise than Varian for instance. I’m not saying I don’t like human characters, I play them, it just feels… weird. Elves should be much more wise and intelligent, ESPECIALLY faction leaders.
Killing Vol’jin. Not killing Mekkatorque after Battle of Dazar’alor. Jaina not getting killed or punished for Battle of Dazar’alor. Ny’alotha being a raid and not an entire expansion location.
Ruining the mystery of the Afterlife with Shadowlands. Railroading people into these weird 4 major afterlife choices. The Jailer. Not killing Sylvanas.
Oh, and Alternate Gromash getting away scot-free after the end of WoD.
This…
This I’ll never forgive. Never!
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Arthas turning to 35 Anima
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Blood elves in the horde and / or High elves not playable
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True. People of Azeroth is not fond of Forsaken. Orcs and Taurens would never accept their leadership. It’s aganist their nature. Rest of the Horde possibly see it as a danger. Sylvanas being the warchief is far worse because she is damned, evil, untrustworthy. I was shocked when I was doing that questline in front of orgrimmar, all Horde was cheering for Sylvanas and I was like wth!
Entirety of TBC lore, then entirety of main BFA campaign.
Shadowlands is bad but compared to those two things its pretty mild actually
Ikr can’t have alliance themed villains /s
This garrosh wasn’t even referenced till the maghar q in bfa.
How about not ruining established characters. I know Blizzard likes corrupting characters for no reason, but then they have to somehow explain stuff like Kael’thas supposedly siding with Kil’jaedan for the sake of his people and not just lust for power. Or that somehow Illidan was a good guy all along.
I laughed way too hard for this, and then had a tear in my eye when I realized this actually happened to him
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IMO the biggest mistake is to make 100000 wow products.
Upcoming TWW
Retail.
Classic ERA
Classic SOD
Classic wotlk/cata (“classic cata” makes me laugh)
Plundercrapstorm
Pandaria remix
Too many developer resources are wasted, quality assurance is extremely poor, many patches get released totally borked.
Extremely poor customer support, unhelpful and mean blues even on these forums.
I see - but if they did go with those “overreactions”, they should stick to them… It (to me), makes no sense, saying “The guys joined the Horde, because they hate the alliance!” and then a few years later they are holding hands…
I think they could still write the storyline to be “Fight a common enemy, but still faction war”… In general all the race leaders would want the best for their people, so if there is a greater evil, they could fight alongside each other for their own people, but at the end, shouldn’t be all “Yeah brothers, come join us in our Capital city!”
Thrall telling Deathwing he will not fail
Proceeds to instantly fail
Unpopular opinion: Butchering KT back in BC.
Popular opinion: Shadowlands in a whole.
Thank you, completely forgot that in my list. My personal headcanon is still that it is all a lie Geya’rah made up to paint herself and her band of far right Orc supremacists as victims. Her later interactions during the expansion are rather aggressive and violent so it wouldn’t really surprise me at all.
I refuse to accept the edgy and tired “Good is Bad and Bad is Good” trope as canon 
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Oh yeah, I forgot : The void elves are shoehorned as hell. Earning powers does not turn you into a different race. Plus, people have accepted the usage of fel by warlocks and the usage of shadow by priests for decades, but for some reason void elves are a special case? Just give the Alliance high elves without making it look stupid damn it.
Crashing a spaceship into what was, at the time, mostly felt to be a medieval fantasy world.
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