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With the recent changing in phasing and sharding across RP Realms. And the new addition to toggle PvE and PvP on and off. And with the assumption that the Siege of Undercity and burning of Teldrassil are probably going to be the pre-patch or launch event to kick off the expansion. Do you think, either with the KKL or without it. We will see a revival of WRPvP or just large scale RPvP again?

Man, I’m really hoping for a big revival of all sorts of RP-PVP.

The KKL will certainly being involving itself as we’re looking to take part in the RP-PvP events that are being thought up around the BfA pre-expansion. Part of reason I made the guild was because of RP-PvP, so I’d certainly like to see more of it and really happy seeing Blizz acknowledge world PvP and making plans and tossing around ideas to help support it, especially given the general and massively “meh” state of PvP we currently inhabit.

On one hand I feel like i missed 20 tonnes of drama by not being born in time to roleplay WoW during its Vanilla years but at the same time after reading over it I feel like I’d feel 78 years older if I was.

Beats me man, I didn’t start playing until like 1.10ish and didn’t roleplay until TBC. There was plenty of drama back in the day, but I don’t feel any older for it. If anything, I can look back on it and reflect on how to be less of a petty asshole I used to be as a young adult.

There’s still plenty of drama to go around though, it’s just not all in one place anymore. Significantly more spread out across so many different social media platforms compared to the ancient instant messagers of old and the forums.

Blizzard won’t do things that are too easy but also won’t do things that are too difficult. They need things in that small niche of challenging enough but not mind blowing amounts. Reskinning and color changing for races: No too easy. Updating the Quel’thalas and the Azuremyst Isles? Too clunky and fucked up by code they wrote like 10 years ago. Shoving moose antlers on a tauren, well my good sir, you’re now speaking my language.

This actually isn’t that far off. Blizz is kinda weird like that.

It also feels like another case of, “You think you do, but you don’t” where people have been clamoring or wishing for something for so long, but Blizz just kinda… blows it off.

It’s like they think that high elves simply wouldn’t be “Rule of Cool” enough – so they had to jazz it up and make a whole new subset of elves no one really wanted. I imagine even the some of the people who might like the idea of playing a void elf would have probably preferred high elves on Alliance instead.

So many people are just going to RP void elves as high elves anyway, so I guess it doesn’t matter.

But it doesn’t exactly make me confident that Blizz will ever do Mag’har or Blackrock orc skins or do more cosmetic updates for the older races beyond hair styles since it’s just kinda a new skin color to pick rather than some overly complex “Allied Race.”

Do you think modern orcs place a lot of a value on the ability to cook? Or that food is just served plainly or raw?

I imagine they do place a high value on cooking. A lot of orc interactions seem to be around fire pits and such. And eating together a family/group/father, in general, is super important many societies.

I don’t think orc cuisine is always this super simple food prep, but I imagine practicality and sourcing locally (for freshness) is super important to orcs – which may result in simpler meals depending where they’re at.

Given that Draenor itself was so full of plant-life due to its overabundance of the Spirit of Life, certainly fruits and vegetables were likely in abundance (that wouldn’t kill them). This could also mean spices were in abundance, as well. Though given often plant life tried to kill orcs, there may have been a fair pit of trial and error to figure out what didn’t kill them when used as seasoning or as a dish. We also know that orcs seem to really like those cactus apples in Durotar.

Also, orcs don’t seem to eat meat raw. At the worst, they cook in a fire quick, and eat then and there. So plain maybe if there’s no other options. We know that orcs favor pork a great deal, and a quick recipe list of WoD cooking recipes show basically every moderately delicious looking animal is used in some way as a food. I also imagine jerky is probably pretty popular with orcs, as well as salt-cured meats (it’s practical and useful for preservation purposes).

Blood seems to be an important component to some meals or drinks, such as bloodmead or ironwine. I imagine orcs cook with blood, mix drinks with blood, and even consume uncooked blood (not crazy unusual given that there’s several human IRL cultures that do so) in other fashions. Especially the Bleeding Hollow I would bet.

And besides the wines, orcs are also brewers of beers given their participation in Brewfest. Take that dwarves!

However, only thing I missing here is grains. Orc farms seem to largely focused on raising livestock to consume. Yet, if they’re making beers, then someone’s growing some sort of grains somewhere. But I imagine they have some sort of bread, it’s a pretty common staple food, easy to make and preserve, so super practical.

Fact of the matter is that orcs are humanoids. And people like food. And they like food that tastes good. So I imagine, orcs have an extensive cuisine of many types, but it’s not really depicted in Warcraft lore because Blizz isn’t GRRM spending 20 pages describing a single dish at a feast.

There’s also an orc chef called Bor Breakfist, so take that as confirmation that orcs fucking love food.