Love this quest, like that we are getting the Rage-Ful Warrior Baine back in comparison to Sitting-On-The-Floor-Doing-Nothing Baine.Also some of y'all being like "Why are they Tauren even there?", really can't read huh.
blizzard writers couldn't grasp player agency RE: genocide and here they are trying to write generational trauma
Look at all the Baine Haters and bad critics saying, "Bad Writing" over things they don't like/understand. Rather than just leave him in the sidelines, they try to give Baine some development other than him hanging with Alliance, and you all cry fowl. Just sad.
Honestly, this is EXACTLY how I'd imagine the Tauren should react to the Centaurs in DF... The Centaur and Tauren hatred isn't something that ended over night, but it's been a conflict that has been going on for generations. It wasn't until the Orcs and Trolls came to help the Tauren push them back. They still have to deal with their camps in the Barrens and in some parts of Desolace.If this was meant to be part of the Maruuk's renown campaign quests, I'd believe it.. and it would make sense especially since while we're trying to get their approval. The only Tauren that seemed alright with these Centaur was Aponi Brightmane, but she's a Sunwalker who has compassion and probably a newer generation of Tauren.. whereas Baine probably had trauma of the Centaurs since he was a kid.The real tragedy was that this questline came way too late into the game and should've been in since Launch... having this late after launch throws it out of whack especially since players are already in high-standings with the Maruuk or are already capped with them.
From what I watched in the video, at least one of the Windtotem survivors is still deeply harboring their hatred of the centaur. I feel they may be killed later on because of it. If they become part of the Primalists, their loot better be good.
Everyone thinking the old centaur models and the new centaur models somehow makes them completely different races or whatever and the Tauren shouldn't be reacting the same needs to look at the Drakanoid and Dragonspawn models. They also have ancient models that look terrible in comparison to the new ones. Guess what? STILL THE SAME RACES! This applies to literally every race in the game that's gotten upgraded models over the years. Gnolls are another. Whether they're the OG Gnoll model or the new, they're still Gnolls.Also, being derogatorily referred to as "two foot" repeatedly has started to really chafe me. "The next centaur that calls me that will get a sword in the face" chafing. So sick of smug, superior-acting races being @#$%ty to the players.
Baine's hatred of the Centaur is justified, the fact even among the "good" centaur the tauren still get ambushed and killed BY CENTAUR basically justifes the distrust.
Baine is such a pansy, it's sickening.
Centaurs, for literal hundreds of years, drove out the Tauren to near extinction. Murdering them and their children in cold blood at SIGHT, as if they were wild animals.The Alliance made war with the Horde, including the Tauren, for a few years. And some of those Allies befriended the Tauren, including the night elves sharing their passion for druidism. The son of the King of the Alliance became best friends with the son of the Chieftain of the Tauren.And it's not like Baine came here to hate on centaur. Another tribe of Tauren came here because of a vision. A specific tribe that was still nomadic and made their home in a diff area, they got a vision from the Wild God they worshipped. And so they came to that God's beautiful plains. And guess what else is nearby? Green dragons and their lands.. Which is tied to what again?This is the perfect spot for nomadic Tauren. Everyone can cry all they want, I love this story. Next thing you know, they'll regrow a World Tree off the coast or something, then Tauren, Centaur and Night Elves can exist side by side and love nature.
this whole quest chain makes 0 sense, these centaurs literally don't even have the same origin as the ones from Kalimdor and even if they did, Baine is such a push over he would have already forgiven the centaurs years ago.
Yet nothing grimtotem related?