Why didn't the nelfs move into the wetlands after the war of thorns

[Sereluna-silvermoon]

Well, that was kind of the point. They had a heavily defended Garrison at Mor’shan, but the Horde easily broke through it because of bad writing.

[Flickers-darkspear]

That’s cause the forsaken should die out

[Cipmt-veknilash]

@Augarrosh-argent-dawn

Well, it is. Moving you elite forces as well as the bulk south on ships before the Horde even left Northern Barrens is stupid as.

Just think about the time it would take to load up the transports and get to a point where they couldn’t come back in time, the Horde army would have still been in Durotar at that point most likely massing.

And ye, they also control both choke points coming into Ashenvale. What idiot doesn’t heavily garrison them to prevent a Horde invasion which could happen. It doesn’t matter if you are convinced that the Horde army is going to Silithus you have plenty of time to move your forces out after the Horde army has committed to going down south, most likely when they are transporting their entire army across some wooden bridges in Thousand Needles. Not to mention the whole point of Feathermoon is to halt an advance… I am ranting again xd.

Do you realize we are talking Blizzard here, right? Rule of cool.
BTW, I wonder if there are enough ships for NE army for go to Silithus, why is Anduin saying that Alliance has no ships left and they need Kul Tiras fleet?

[Steala-blackmoore (Steala)]

Many ships were captured/destroyed by the Horde.

[Aster-kul-tiras (Aster)]

@Augarrosh-argent-dawn

Pretty much, if the Night Elves were actually competent then they wouldn’t be in this situation.

To be honest, I believe they are competent, but they are not the ones that decide what happens.

They are (as the rest of the wow universe) puppets in the hands of the writers.

If the writers say someone (a character) should bark they will craw on their four and bark, like a dog.

It makes me remember a episode of Mith Busters.
They proved that Jack from the movie Titanic could had survived if Rose had let him share her floating wreckage.

But than James Cameron went and said:
“The answer is very simple because it says on page 147 [of the script] that Jack dies. Very simple,” the director said, using a throwaway line [he’s said before. ]
“Obviously it was an artistic choice, the thing was just big enough to hold her, and not big enough to hold him,” Cameron said.

So there you go.
I think we could discuss for the rest of the expansion, how the Night Elves should not have allowed to be caught off guard by the Horde, but at the end the writers will still write a loss for the Night Elves.

You might say this is Horde bias.
I would come with several reasons why the Horde should had never started the conflict, ( Honor, resources, man power) but at the end the writers will still write a colossal, brutal, merciless, honorless war machine that seeks to kill everything.

Back to the topic:
OP is right.
They should had relocated the Night Elves some where else. A temporary place more dignified for their standards.

Arctur already stated that many times (ignoring his rants about lesser races).
But I think the writers wanted to portrait Anduin as a saviour who shelters the Night Elves in his capital while trying to save Azeroth, at the same time portraing the Night Elves as homeless to show the cruelty of the Horde.

Also it’s a lot easier to place the entire Night Elven population in Stormwind, than redesign a entire area, after all we are talking about a company that wanted to push yearly expansions.

That’s my opinion.
Cheers.

[Moridunum-argent-dawn (Moridunum)]

@Aster-kul-tiras

Also it’s a lot easier to place the entire Night Elven population in Stormwind,

Its not just the Night Elves… Other Alliance city might aswell not exist as most of the Alliance races call Stormwind their capital and Anduin there king now. Lightforged Draenei? Just have them teleport to that backward city instead of the Exodar. Dark Irons? Stormwind; Ironforge doesn’t exist! Worgen? Screw Gilneas! Stormwind it is! Void Elves: a few tents on a floating rock and Stormwind again!

[Araphant-defias-brotherhood (Araphant)]

@Moridunum-argent-dawn

a few tents on a floating rock

Tbh, Telogrus is awesome. I sometimes chill there, the music and the atmosphere are great.

[Augarrosh-argent-dawn]

No one talks BS about Telogrus while I am here.

[Tyrandé-stormrage (Tyrandé)]

I totally agree with what Aster said, the Night Elves have been used as foils ever since MOP, this is the only time in years where the company is actually trying to make their story interesting and less predictable. Relocating to where ever is lame and predictable. The current state of Darkshore and the upcoming patches leave many plot lines to be explored in a non Night Elf ‘‘punching bag way.’’

[Lilura-kilrogg (Lilura)]

I still think Hyjal would be a better home for the Nelves going forward. It relates to their Druidic lore far better, it puts them closer to the Wild Gods, and is a vastly superior military position compared to Darkshore; it lacks a port, but being a mountain is near inassailable by infantry, forcing a reliance on aerial transport by invaders, which Hyjal has plenty of defences against thanks to a menagerie of airborne creatures. Even more, they would be sitting in the perfect position to safely rain fire down on Orgrimmar, and stands as a great staging grounds should they need to attack Mulgore. They would be exposed to the Goblin cannon in Azshara, but hey, the thing would have some lore relevance for once and it would be interesting to see how the Nelves defend against it or get rid of it.
But at this point that would require them losing Darkshore, which most Nelf players would make a huge stink about. Honestly the two current warfronts seem like inevitable Alliance victories.

[Призраклеса-eversong (Призраклеса)]

@Flickers-darkspear

Title really says it all. The Nightelfs have a settlement in the Wetlands i’d assume they would prefer to be among their own kin rather than camping on the streets of SW

???
Why not Outland? We have a base there 2…