We're now on our fourth straight expansion of zone-wide stories exclusively concerning night elves, we're on our third straight expansion of a core point of the story wrap-up being something about Tyrande and the burned night elves. Taking into account all of the above, there has been no point in telling any night elf story in the past four years and as a corollary, there's no reason to tell any in the subsequent six. So, let's look at our premises.ġ) No matter what additional tree or zone is given to the Night Elves, it'll never fill the Teldrassil-sized gapĢ) No amount of non-faction conflict story, regardless of its scope or quality or time spent will be able to appease the Night Elf fanbase's grievances with the storyģ) Blizzard haven't done faction conflict for four years and while they'll eventually return to the well, it won't be for at least the next six yearsĤ) Stories in the franchise are meant to appease at least one part of its fanbaseĥ) Screentime is zero sum, for one party to have it, another has to not have it In addition, whatever its merits as a plot point, Hassandrassil will never match up to Teldrassil. Sure, Blizzard could, if they had any willingness to do so, do a quest where Night Elves went off and killed a Horde force in Ashenvale and asserted their control over it on-screen.
