Sometimes I like to pretend I am! Seriously, though - I'd say I'm okay at it, but nowhere near the level of most artists.
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I suspect they're biding their time. Azshara was supposedly working for the Old Gods in Cataclysm, and you can see how well that ended up. She's either biding her time and waiting for really big moment to strike, or possibly seeking allies elsewhere, seeing as how the whole Old God thing didn't really go so well.
Oh goodness. Check out the lore behind the Argent Dawn and the Scarlet Crusade. Not an orc to be found, but they're both pretty fascinating.
I think it was partially because we were stuck in it for so very, very long, and partially due to the fact that the story wasn't quite as cohesive as it could've been. Cata felt very disjointed to a lot of people - there was a cohesive story there to be found, but you really had to look to connect all the dots together.
Have you ever been stuck in traffic behind a diesel truck when it farts exhaust? I suspect varying degrees of that.
Karazhan - it was just the perfect raid. Perfect layout, mysterious spooky tower, and it was Medivh's home. I'm a huge Medivh fan, so just exploring all the nooks and crannies of his old haunt was incredibly interesting. There are so many stories from Karazhan that were never told. Black Temple for much the same reasons - perfectly laid out, the bosses were challenging, and there were so many moments that made me either gape in awe (seeing Azeroth floating in the sky = brain blown) or wonder what exactly was going on. And ... oddly enough, the Sunwell. I didn't raid it when it was current content, my guild couldn't get past Brutallus. But I loved the way it was laid out, and I really liked the Sunwell trilogy manga, so it was neat to see it in game. And holy heck, Kil'jaeden emerging out of the Sunwell is still one of the neatest visual moments in the game.
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Very. I love my guild, I love the storylines, I love the cities and the atmosphere. I have Alliance alts I play so that I can see Alliance content, but I don't think I could ever see myself going back to Alliance full time.
That is an incredibly long story, but the short version -- I had a friend who wasn't a terribly emotional person. He didn't get excited about very many things. But he got really, really excited about Warcraft -- way more so than I'd ever seen him before. To me, that said that the story must be something really special, and once I started getting into it, I realized exactly how massive that story was. I like intricate things like that -- stories with so many layers that you never know when it's going to end.
More of what we saw in 5.1 -- story advancement. Also, I think they could be used brilliantly for class quests. I'd love to see class quests make a return!