To quote the Blood Mage from Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, "Hi, my name is Roy, I'm a magic addict".

Or, of course: "My blood cries out for the vengeance of my people's blood, which can only be repaid by at least twice as much blood. Or maybe three times as much blood. Like if you went to Hell, and it was full of blood, and that blood was on fire, and it was raining blood, and maybe that would be enough blood. But, probably not".

Are those the rantings of a sane race?



Anyway, I agree that they seem to be setting things back to the Horde = Bad, Alliance = Good standard. I mean, since they set the two factions at each others throat, pretty much all the "can't we just all get along" sentiment of the Horde that they built up in the Orc missions in Warcraft III has gone away. Apparently the acts of a single human (one Grand Admiral Daelin Proudmoore) was enough to convince even Thrall that humans and the entire Alliance are evil, and must be shown no mercy. Despite the number of threats that are facing both races (Arthas and the Scourge, the Black Dragonflight, Ragnaros [either of whom would have wiped out both factions by now if they weren't too busy fighting each other], the Qiraji, and now the rest of the Burning Legion in Outland), yet still they refuse to have anything to do with one another? Hell, at least the Alliance has a pretty good reason. The humans are being run by a dragon (Bolvar may be a good fighter, but he's not the brainiest guy in the Keep), the dwarves are fighting both the Dark Irons and the sudden Trogg attacks from all their archaelogical groups, the Gnomes have irradiated their entire city, and the elves are trying to fix their forests while reeling from the loss of Furion (and I still think that the new Arch-Druid was the cause of Furion's disappearance from the Emerald Dream). For the most part, they don't seem too focused on the Horde at all. Yet, when I started a Horde character, I got nothing but a bunch of "the humans cannot be trusted, yada yada yada" stuff (granted, my Horde character is nowhere near as far along as my Alliance guys, so I'm probably being unfair, but still). Personally, I loved the fact that they had to join forces in Warcraft III, and I would like to see it happen again. Except for the Battlegrounds (and, considering that both forces are facing total annihilation at the hands of several enemies, those are really stupid things to be fighting about), there is no real conflict going on between the two, but there hasn't even been an attempt at peace. I want some cross-faction quests. You can gain rep with the other faction, learn their languages, get new recipes, eventually group with them. It'd be a nice alternative for people who don't like PvP. Maybe the leaders can't keep the thousands of idiots beneath them from slaughtering each other without provocation, but that doesn't mean they shouldn't at least try to make peace.

Er, sorry, didn't mean to ramble on so much there. Oh, well, that's my thoughts on the subject.

On good thing about the expansion is that with a level cap of 70, a casual player may finally be able to join a PuG and complete a 45 minute Baron run. Those stupid quests are way too hard. >.<