We are the Warlords of Draenor

| Thursday, November 20, 2014
Orcs have warchiefs, not warlords. So who are the warlords? Us, of course. We are the warlords.

It was inevitable. We'd spent years gathering powerful magical items, built up reputations, amassed fortunes. And finally, we have our own private armies. People are seeing that when they throw their lot in with us, they get results, and tend not to die as often as when they go alone, or even join a faction. Notice how when followers join they don't say "I want to join the Alliance!" They say "I want to join you."

One could argue that we're more like Colonel Kurtz. We were sent out in an official capacity, and then took our mission to heart, seizing power locally in order to accomplish the goal given by our superiors. And then promptly went insane with power.


However, we are still in direct contact with our factions, receiving intel and the general strategy, rather than being off in the jungle while Sartin Meen tries to kill us. Those are how I interpret quests and follower missions; they can't quite tell us what to do, but they can reward us well and try to point us where they want us to go. However, before you think we are part of the organized military, we don't receive any sort of ongoing material support; it's all based on specific missions, making us appear more like an warlord for hire. Everything else is generated locally, from the production we set up and manage (gathering and work orders).

I rather like this situation. It feels as if we're finally getting our due. We used to run around murdering for trinkets and armor, then get called heroes, but rarely did our factions reward us for our deeds. Now we've set up our own armies and can finally take what we've earned. The mines we liberate send their ore to us. The soldiers we rescue join us. This world that we're pacifying is ours. We are the warlords of Draenor.

2 comments:

vinciblegod said...

Hey sometimes they reward you with necklaces or other equipment if you have the quest to kill their enemies! So it's not like you werent getting rewarded! It's just your character is mute and don't know the proper method of negoiation so the factions are just taking advantage!

Coreus said...

I'm still annoyed that even when I fucking own the joint and have like twenty people working for me I still have to run around mining and picking everything up manually.

I guess it's because the intention of Garrisons seems to be to incorporate that super-addictive "freemium" game model they use in mobile games-- instead of tapping coins you click on flowers and boxes, to gain one of several hundred different currencies which each let you upgrade a different thing.

Seriously WoW does not need this many currencies.

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