Azeroth, and they wouldn’t really have to lift a finger. It would take a single priest or rogue. Get one nation to launch one nuke at another nation. (Or just into the atmosphere, let the emp do it’s work on or electronics) Then sit back and watch earth destroy itself.
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Honestly, who knows.
I red it’s the size of New York BUT that’s just for in-game convenience. Lore wise it’s smaller then Earth but not as small as New York.
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It would go incredibly badly for Azeroth.
Magic or not, an Archmage can still only be in one place at a time.
Magic or not, Azeroth’s total population is, at best equal to or a fraction of one Major U.S. City.
Magic or not, you can only put up a barrier to stop bullets if you know that bullet is incoming (I’m sure sustaining a barrier that can stop a .50 cal round 24/7 will eventually exhaust the Archmage) and modern precision rifles can fire bullets traveling fast enough from far enough away that you’ll never know it was fired before you’re dead.
Earth’s industrial capacity is so far ahead of Azeroth’s it’s not even a contest.
Most ranged combatants in Azeroth are using bows, or primitive firearms that are a hodge-podge mix of flintlocks and caplocks and only wealthy adventurers or one-off custom made firearms are anything other than muzzle-loaders.
A single U.S. Army Infantry Battalion would annihilate any single fighting force Azeroth could put together in a day. Even if you put it in terms of game mechanics. A hunter can fire one shot every 1.5 seconds for a rate of fire of 40 rounds per minute with a maximum effective range of 40 yards.
A trained Infantryman can easily fire 1 aimed shot every second and can go full cyclic (just holding the trigger down) for nearly 12 shots every second for as long as the ammunition lasts with an average of 2 - 3 seconds to reload. With a maximum effective range of 500 - 600 yards when engaging a Medieval-style Army like what is portrayed on Azeroth. Firing full cyclic at the big standing formations that Azeroth armies like to use an Infantryman can put their full unit of battle (210 rounds) downrange in as little as 39 seconds given a 3 second average reload time.
Multiplied by 480 Infantrymen in the paper strength of an Infantry Battalion. That’s 100,800 attacks in less than a minute. And that doesn’t take into account machine-guns. That’s just regular rifles. Not mortars, not grenade launchers, not hand-held grenades, not even Mk19’s. You know, the Mk19? The 40MM belt-fed fully automatic Grenade Launcher that the U.S. Army likes to put on top of HMMWV’s, Trucks, and really anything they can mount it to.
Elune help Azeroth if it’s a Mechanized Infantry Battalion with Bradleys in support. Each Bradley firing 25MM High Explosive cannon-shells at 500 rounds per minute out to 2 kilometers or more, each individual round with more explosive power than a hand grenade, not to mention the thousand rounds or so of 7.62 in the M240 Co-Ax. I don’t even want to think of what would happen if Azerothians ran into a BMP-3. Death-trap against peers or not it’s got enough firepower to make a Bradley blush… 100MM HE-FRAG cannon shells, 30MM High Explosive auto-cannon, and machine-guns as well.
And all of that isn’t even considering the U.S. Army’s capability with Artillery. 105 and 155MM Howitzers, towed and self-propelled. MLRS and HIMARs systems capable of selectively deleting any offending grid-square within range.
Oh you want to advance your army towards us? How about a couple hundred 155MM high-explosive and cluster munitions fired at you from 20 kilometers away, with each round having a lethal radius from point of impact of 100 meters or more?
Oh you have dragons? That cute. We have aircraft that can fly at an altitude so high your dragons can’t even breathe, and the aircraft can engage you from so far away you don’t even know you’re being targeted.
The modern U.S. Airforce has the capability to drop more bombs on a desired area in one week than a year’s worth of bombing did in World War 2.
Earth doesn’t even have to fight Azeroth.
Just fire-bomb Westfall and all other major areas of agriculture from 40,000 feet with B-52’s and watch Azeroth starve to death within 2 years.
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It is about year 2500 ish in Earth years right now in Azeroth. Azeroth exists in the same universe of time space that Earth Does, Blizzard confirms. Earliest writings from Blizzard even directly refence Earth. Some of the original Star Craft takes place on Earth. Star Craft 2 makes more than a few references to Earth. Warcraft 3 has a hidden part where you can fight StarCraft units.
So seeing as how some of the most powerful Terran Ships come from Earth. Earth would win in an actual lore sense. Ships would just bomb Azeroth from orbit.
That is from actual lore that that would happen. And Zerg coming to Azeroth would be 10x worse than the Scourge coming back.
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Earth jobs to Azeroth unless they immediately resort to nukes.
In Earth’s favor:
- Nukes
- Millions upon millions of bodies to throw away
- More and more effective ranged small arms
- Effective bullet resistant armor systems
- Drones and other aerial combat units
In Azeroth’s favor:
- The Vindicaar
- The cannon in Azshara
- The Gnomish orbital defense satellite(s)
- Titan orbital defense installations (assuming they can be made to work)
- Miraculous healing abilities
- The undead
- The Curse of the Worgen
- Teleportation
- Literal invisibility
- Mages and Warlocks
- Shamans
- Paladins, Priests and actual, tangible holy magic
If Earth goes nuclear, and enough of their ICBM’s make it through the gamut of nonsense between them and their various targets, they might be able to force the factions of Azeroth into submission or at least coming to the negotiating table. If they don’t, they’re going to drown in a river of blood and bodies, and it will get worse once Earth’s general populace catches wind of the conflict.
Imagine yourself a man of faith in pitched battle with a contingent of soldiers working under a few Paladins and Priests. You poke your gun out to lay down some suppressing fire, and take a peak. There, you see a pillar of golden armor advancing on your position, weapon drawn, bullets plinking harmlessly off the radiant barrier that surrounds him. He breaks off and bisects one of your allies in a single stroke, his sword’s arc bursting with light. You see one of the soldiers in the advancing shield wall he’d been spearheading fall over, filled with holes, and the Paladin flares up, grows WINGS, up thrusts his hand, AND FROM THE HEAVENS ABOVE A RAY OF LIGHT SHINES UPON THE WOUNDED MAN, WHO PROCEEDS TO STAND UP AND REJOIN THE FORMATION AS IF HE HADN’T BEEN FILLED WITH BULLETS A SECOND AGO. Meanwhile, the Priests have summoned a dome of light around the men that seems to just straight up dampen your bullets while it’s there, and they no longer need the WINGED SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE THAT HAS JUST BURNED SEVERAL MEN TO ASH WITH A SLASH AND BLAST OF HOLY MAGIC to protect them behind his divine bulwark.
Naturally you’re going to bust out the explosives at some point, but to a religious man seeing something like that is going to raise some serious questions, and he is going to ask them and thus plague other men with doubt the moment he has the chance.
I feel like people tend to elevate the general prowess of magic versus modern technology in these situations. Many magical effects displayed in the Warcraft setting can be replicated in one way or another by technology and additionally have limits that tech doesn’t share. This isn’t even considering more logistical factors, such as the number of relevant practitioners and their individual prowess.
Given that in this particular scenario, our worlds are apparently merging, I’m going to assume that it also means Earth will have access to magic as well, meaning Azeroth’s forces (Whoever that may be, because as is often the case with this scenario people don’t give enough detail) would likely only have whatever advantage magic gives them for as long Earth’s forces (again, whoever they may be) can learn about and replicate them.
There are a variety of other factors that would also significantly affect the conflict; where individual battles take place, exactly what the units are (just because one side technically as access to a thing doesn’t mean that thing is always ready to be used, and that includes magic), and any political shenanigans that may take place between battles (as I have little doubt something of sort would at least early on)
Considering Azerothian militaries do also have access to certain bits of tech close to or on par with, and some peculiar cases surpassing, modern Terran tech, I wouldn’t expect them to be entirely steamrolled by our armies, however I can only really recall firearms being truly on par with what we have today; gyrocopters and planes look at best closer to what we had during the World War in terms of functionality, and power armors like Goblin Shredders are arguably somewhat questionable in functionality, as we have too few cases of them going against something comparable to what we have now. One should also consider the average foot soldier, as in who is most likely to take part in most battles. Our armies regularly use guns and similar weapons, while such things are typically relegated to special units in Azeroth. Removing the meta limitations of ‘It is a Fantasy setting’ and the oh so beloved ‘Rule of Cool’ I imagine your average U.S Army soldier would have Stormwind’s greatest Knight and the Horde’s greatest Kor’kron Warrior out before they could begin a battle cry, let alone know there was a battle at all.
Considering a Titan birthing seems to mean the utter destruction of the planet it birthed from, this would lead to the mutual destruction of both sides, as well as a technical if short lived victory for Earth since it was the last one to survive.
You forgot mind control and farsight.
You don’t really need all of that when you can just mind control the other army and make them kill each other.
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Priests I think stand in enough for mind control, and mind vision. I should have mentioned shamans, too, though, so you have me there.
The title said Azeroth vs Earth, not the people of said planets, so in a fight between the two planets Azeroth would win.
Plus, I don’t think we know what actually happens to the planets or the creatures on world soul planets. Some people assume the planet is destroyed but others have suggested the titan materializes next to the planet, leaving it intact. As far as I know Blizz has never clearly stated the process. The second theory seems more plausible as why would the titan want to kill the beings that helped nourish or protect it?
Presumably it’d just be part of the process, as in beyond the individual’s control. I suppose you do have a point in that it’s never explicitly explained, at least as far I know, what actually happens to the worlds Titans hatch from.
I find the first line rather obtuse, though. It’s not like the planets are physically battling each other.
I wouldn’t even go that far. They would die of crowds and selfies as the curiosity of a beached, struggling whale does. 
The evil, violence and ignorance of our world would force them to flee. Seal up the portal. Never to return. 
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Argus is probably the closest of what would happen to a released World Soul.
The planet’s in fragments but there’s areas that are still hospitable.
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Azeroth gonna fire off the Legion flare and that’s a wrap for Earth.
Our biggest flaw is assuming we’re better than everyone else. The legion would humble us in a day.
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Then along comes Doom Guy slaughtering every demon he sees. Though he may have some trouble with a Pit Lord.
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Not obtuse. Azeroth is a living world and considered a central character in WoW so it’s the first thing that came to mind. Ambiguous titles can lead to many interpretations - mine is just based in fantasy rather than reality. Well as much reality as fighting against inhabitants of a fictional planet can be.
True but wasn’t he forcibly birthed? I can’t remember how that went. So it may be possible for less or no destruction too. At the very least we know that the host planet isn’t completely destroyed upon birth.
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…or it would just sit there and be forgotten. 
You couldn’t forget about it on earth.
Something like that would have catastrophic consequences. You’d have volcanic activity everywhere that would cause people to starve to death because food can’t grow without sunlight.
Earth wouldn’t even need to send the nukes to where the mages are (putting them at risk of magic nonsense). They can be sent to wherever the mages AREN’T to irradiate Azeroth and turn it into a rad wasteland.
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earth can summon the grey goo nanomachine monster, this is worse than nukes and basically the ultimate doomsday weapon.
more importantly, earth is larger than azeroth and its lifeforms experience more gravity, this means that earths forces have their performance enhanced while invading azeroth, while azeroth’s forces would have their performance hindered.
additionally, laws of reality apply on earth, unlike azeroth, so there are performance differences between males and females, between larger and smaller, and between young and old. this means that a huge chunk of azeroth’s forces will have to deal with reality on earth where they are not as effective. all of our female belf paladins will get stomped by male earth teens wielding baseball bats.
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Azeroth would win. All Oculeth would have to do is open a portal and drop one scourge zombie into the homeless in San Francisco and we’d have a full blown zombie invasion on our hands. Drop a few into India, China, and Russia and it’s game over for Earth. Probably wouldn’t need more the 10 scourge zombies total to wipe us all out lol.
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