Now lets be clear before I start, I hate Anduins character. However, objectively speaking, his feats put his power on the same level as that of demi-gods. For example, some priests and paladins cant even use the light to resurrect one person, while Anduin can bring entire dead armies back to life in pristine condition. He can defeat super heavy tanks powered by Azerite by stabbing them. And he can seemingly heal any wound, when other healers would fail.
Anduin must be possessed by a Naaru to have this much light juice.
Anduin is a really good healer but he doesn’t seem to be that potent in his offensive abilities. Sure, he can easily take on any random schmuck he finds (as can any named character in WoW basically), but there are a lot of characters far more powerful than him. He’s probably not even top 5 when it comes to faction leaders.
Jaina, Turalyon, Malfurion, Tyrande, Sylvanas etc.
Jaina and Malfurion have more offensive power, but Turalyon, really? The guy who’s sword swing got caught by Illidans bare hand? Sylvanas may be more powerful now thanks to the Jailor, she did beat the Lich King after all.
Still, I’ve never seen Malfurion resurrect entire armies. And Tyrande? Her priest powers seem totally eclipsed by Anduin.
Anduin is the same guy who got whacked to the earth and should’ve died to Saurfang.
Malfurion basically demolished Saurfang without any effort. Trying to compare him to Anduin is a joke. Anduin can heal the wounded, good on him, lots of characters can do that. It’s really not that impressive of a feat in current WoW.
As for Turalyon, he has many impressive feats, albeit most of them are before Legion. His feats not appearing in Legion/BfA, however, do not mean they magically no longer exist. Lore is lore, we can argue whether its depicted well in-game but that is an entirely different discussion.
There’s still a massive deal of misconception regarding that scene. Anduin didn’t resurrect anyone in the BFA cinematic, he just cast a massive, area heal to get the living but wounded soldiers back on their feat.
Don’t get me wrong, visually impressive, but people would make mention of the God-King Anduin Wrynn a bit more if he could do that. People would spread word across Stormwind and beyond that the king can literally bring the dead back to life.
The ability to bring someone back from the dead is treated a bit oddly in regards to gameplay versus lore. If a Priest or Paladin were capable of it in the lore, it’s done on the very brink of death before the soul can depart the body, which is a rare circumstance (shown in Varian/Anduin’s short story from Cata where Varian is on the cusp of death and Anduin brings him back).
If it were a more accessible thing, death would lose all impact. “Oh, Vol’jin’s dead? Let’s just get all that fel poison out of his body and then bring in a priest to rez him.”
That wasn’t a retcon, that’s exclusive to the Warcraft film. In the WoW universe, Dalaran was on the ground 'til just prior to WotLK when they uprooted the whole thing.
Well of course, being dead for long makes it impossible to rez without necromancy, however in special cases like Vol’jin, the fel in his wound was preventing healing magic from working, presumably it also prevented a rez from working.
Actually fel infection is curable. We did it in the first quest for holy priest specc on the path to acquire artifact. Apparently there was no holy priest in horde to treat wounds of Warchief and they dragged him all the way from Broken shore to Orgrimmar without proper treatment.
We’re talking about guy who’s species are known from regenerative abilities and this particular one survived a poison specially created for him, but some random space goat was healed without any problem by PC priest.
Michael Bay feats in cinematics are largely crap. It is all done for in the moment rule of cool. Everyone a gangsta.
It is fun to watch, but it makes things horribly inconsistent to the point of uselessness. Which guy to we get, the guy that smashed up an armored vehicle, or the one that got knocked flat on his back by Saurfang?
In terms of overall treatment, the healy Anduin who also got wrecked by Saurfang is the prevailing one. He’s done up in armor, attempts to imitate his father’s prowess, gets dropped, throws down dad’s sword, and does something infinitely more useful by being true to himself.
That was some really on the nose symbolism (that never really got followed up on in BfA). Also much more meaningful than “cool lens flair combat limit break action time.”