playable races battle royal

+blood elves (well, they are awesome in TFT, deserved their own race)
-gnomes (just make me lol)

 

i think the blood elves actually fit quite well in the horde, threatened and hated by everyone, they had only one choise to survive without succumbing to demons, and that was siding with the horde.



that, and the horde deserves all cool species

+BE
-dwarves

i really dont like dwarves and humans, they are the races where blizzard put the least originality in. The dwarves are just gunwielding drunk warriors
maybe they should have been replaced by the pandaren in the alliance, and then have the dwarves as neutral(they already seem to prefer that, look at nesingwary, and the iron dwarves didnt defy the alliance, but the explorers league, so you can conclude that the dwarves were the only one to send ambassadors

 

Wait, Blizzard put originality somewhere?! When did that happen?
Their only original (more or less) races are the newer ones like draenei and maybe Tauren. Also what they did to Orcs if you count that

 

Tauren=original
trolls= quite original due to their culture, and them not being evil
orcs=civilized, thus original
etc.

with Fantasy, i ahve very low standards of originality

 

+ Humans
- Blood Elves

PFf. Humans have been in this since Warcraft 1. No way I'm letting them get knocked out without a fight, since they've been played by me from the first game, to present day WoW.

Also - Blood Elves because they gave the human males their dumb hairstyles, now every human character wants to look like Goku.

 

I'd argue about trolls. True their culture is different from what you'd expect from trolls (though not original in itself), but not evil? Thrall save their arses so they're thankful and adapt to Orcish ways, but before that they widely practised voodoo, canibalism, etc. Many still do while pretending to be shamans.
(And please don't go into definitions of evil here, only Legion and Old Gods could be considered there)

 

+night elves
-blood elves

dont ask why...cuz i dno..lol

 

+ Humans

- Trolls

 

+ Draenei
- Sin'dorei

Tauren? Original? Lawl. Take your typical savage Greek Minotaur, slap a Native American culture onto him, and let 'im run free. Alas, Tauren!

And, the Blood Elves have begun to fall to the fel magics, despite aligning with the Horde. And, like the Forsaken, they joined only out of necessity. Sylvanas doesn't want to fight for the Horde, preserve spiritual and cultural beliefs, or help the Orcish race recover. She's only in it for herself, and even before the Burning Crusade, she had set to work on creating new Plagues that would not only destroy the Scourge, but most likely work to destroy the remaining races of Azeroth.

I'd say the Trolls are only really "original" in their appearance. You take green forest men, give them a tribal-like culture, complete with Voodoo, Cannibalism, and tribal warfare... Trolls! Not like most of Blizzard's works haven't been created with the utmost originality, but there is a little credit due. Diablo is where it really shines, IMO.

On a less argumentative note... Good god, the new Human hairstyles. That hair just doesn't go with those ugly, inbred faces. It's terrible =\

 

+Blood elves
-Gnomes

whys everyone hating on the sin'dorei? they're only using fel magic to feed their addiction...

 

+ Orcs
- Blood Gays... Or should I say the Crap-Dorei? Or the Lame Elves? Or... Well. I'll stop there.

What can't be denied is that the Horde is more original than the Alliance. Even though the vast majority of everything in the Horde is not original, it's at least been recontextualised. That Alliance hasn't.

 

+Trolls
-Humans
Oh snap, how could I forget mnotaurs >.<
As I said in CD, High Elven magic was never good to begin with. I'm not sure if the Well was the Old Gods creation, but they had a lot of influence over it.
Besides, using fel magic is just one of their faults.
EDIT: I'll have to read up more. That may tike a while.

 

+ Kal'dorei
- Sin'dorei

No, it wasn't good to begin with. And then **** went down, and they stopped using that sort of magic, as did all Kal'dorei. After being exiled for a longass time, they began to follow the ways of the Light. And, it may be one fault, but it's a big damn fault. If the Well of Eternity could do such bull**** to the world, what do you think consorting directly with demonic magics will do? Note: Will be editing at 12:00 AM for my vote.

 

+blood elves
-dwarves

 

What about the Sunwell? What was that made of?

 

look at the shattrah section

 

+ Humans

- Trolls

 

+ night elves

- humans

 

+ Trolls.
- Sin'dorei.

 

+Sin'dorei
-Humans