Dear RPers:
I have problems with the Theramore scenario, but they stem from personal reasons, not because the storyline sucks, or because I think Blizzard's going the wrong way with how they're working their game. (Except that Jaina's reaction in Tides of War was far more realistic than her reaction in the Alliance version. But that's another rant for another day.)
I play Horde. I play Alliance, too, but I started Horde, way back in classic Beta. (Test 11 server). I have a couple of 85 Alliance characters, because that's what my friends play, but mostly, I play Horde. And I'm having a lot of problems reconciling individual character reactions to what has been happening.
I'll cut this for spoilers for those that haven't played the scenario yet, or read the book.
I have a hard time playing "evil" characters. I cannot do it, because I'm not all that comfortable with it. I've given it a shot, but honestly, just can't do it. So the actions of the Horde, enslaving dangerous elementals, wresting immensely dangerous artifacts from dragons and using them as weapons of mass destruction, inviting Blackrock orcs into the Horde... (well, that last one's okay; I've played Blackrock refugees before with little issue)... It might be just me, but it's feeling harder to RP as Horde, unless you're all gung-ho about Garrosh's ... changes, let's call them.
I tend towards blood elves, and scattered across several servers, I have a family of them, all of different classes. I have an orc and a tauren as well, and I think a troll kicking around somewhere. But mostly blood elves. And the blood elves are the ones who created the mana bomb that took out Theramore. My orc shaman, an older gal (reflected in the in-game character model of wrinkles and grey hair), remembers dark shaman-slash-warlocks from Draenor and is horrified at the enslavement of forbidden elementals and kraken. My tauren paladin, a Sunwalker who deeply respects nature, is likewise appalled at the atrocities committed against the Earth Mother.
My blood elf family is harder.
One of them, the death knight, has the most motivation to be on the front lines of Garrosh's plans. He bitterly hates the Alliance, since they abandoned him to the Scourge and his people to slow death. He should be all for Garrosh's directives, but I'm just having the hardest time dredging up the desire to play him as an eager warmonger. Or at all, for that matter.
I had a discussion with an in-game friend, where he told me to basically suck it up and sack up, because I can't withdraw from the Horde. I can't even really escape taking quests in the vein of the Horde version of Theramore if I want to complete achievements. (I didn't bother informing him I already had Loremaster, from before Cataclysm, so meh.) The Horde is about slaughter these days, so unless I wanted to go back to Alliance, I should just quit my bitching and dig up some relics or pick some flowers if I didn't want to level through quests.
Is he right? Should I just suck it up and play along, no matter how I feel about the faction? Should I go back to the Alliance? Should I use tradeskills to level instead of questing? Should I just not bother roleplaying as Horde anymore? I think there's awesome potential with the events of Tides of War, but I just can't figure out how to reconcile my preferred characters with the Horde's recent mission statement.
I'll take any advice you fellow RPers out there have. Good or bad.
Dear Farstriders:
Hello! After hearing about how good your RP is in various places (here, Warcraft Sues, the forums), I decided to give the realm a try. I'm not finding a lot of said RP, though I know we're in the twixt-xpac slump at the moment. I hope things pick up in the coming weeks, though.
Hopefully yours,
A Wee Priestling
And a viciously deserved rant:
Dear DKs From A Couple Of Night Ago:
At the end of the night, when I'm spending my last ten minutes trying to post auctions before I log for sleep, and you keep spamming that bullshit bug at me, killing me upwards of seven times, I certainly hope you enjoy the ban sure to result from my multiple reports.
DKs who avoided being assholes, and shield/rez-capable classes who were trying to help us lowbies during the griefing, thank you very much. It was appreciated.