And old gods are mountains of flesh. I wonder how it work on them.
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I think you’re on to something here.
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Minor note, Blight is also toxic and deadly for dead things as well. Which still just makes me want more Vigilants somewhere since clearly robots are the path to resistance.
I mean, Arthas was still physically flesh and blood, and all the Blight seemed to do was give him a short coughing fit. And even that could have just been from it being a foreign material he’d inhaled irritating his throat rather than a result of its virulence actually harming him.
His minimal reaction suggests that ridiculously powerful, unnatural beings may possess a resistance or even immunity to the Blight’s effects.
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The Blight seems easily dealt with as well, I mean going by the Siege of the undercity it can be frozen quite easily.
It also seems to be able to be burned away by the events at wrath gate.
Simple Gas masks also seem to be effective in protecting people from it.
Really its amazing that its considered an effective weapon when it also seems to take time to take effect, Where straight up explosives filled with azerite would be far more effective and quicker.
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It doesn’t take all that much time to kill people, a few minutes at most (and people spend a lot of time panicking during that time) and both times it was removed with magic it was through the power of a dragon aspect pre-Dragon Soul and from a spell cast by one of the most powerful mortal mages of Azeroth.
There’s also the psychological side of it. Azerite explosives? They’re just explosives with more power. Blight? It can melt you down into slime or straight to your bones if you’re not protected. Its effect on the environment is more than just destroying it, it’s defiling it to the core. A bombed out grassland can be regrown by druids, but blighted land is much more difficult to restore.
It’s a chemical weapon and a psychological weapon mixed together that functions as excellent “scorched earth” weapon to boot, and the Forsaken have the equipment that allows them to go into blight safely. They take land from their enemies that, unless they have a powerful magical force on their side (and Jaina can’t be everywhere) renders it absolutely deadly to them to even tread near, while the Forsaken can make use of it.
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Depending on the canonicity of the Darkshore Warfront, Mal also seems to be able to handle it pretty well, healing and regrowing it pretty easily.
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LOL That is hilarious, its a psychological weapon the same way a bomb is. Just Bombs are far quicker and there is no time to react. Physiological weapons aren’t going to be much use against an old god. Nor is it likely to harm them much other than giving them a skin irritation.
If I remember correctly at wrath gate it was alexstraza and some other red dragons dealing with it, Not just because she was an aspect.
Nothing seems to indicate that Jaina did anything other than freeze it. nothing special about that except might take a few extra mages to do it to the same extent. Or shaman… or Death Knights…druids.
I mean if sylvanas has just put an azerite bomb in the throne room instead of using the Plague, Good chance she would have killed Anduin and the rest easily.
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no, chronicles pt3 said his blood frozen shortly after he started carrying frostmourne. So he’s very dead.
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The thing about Blight is it is far more insidious than say an explosive. once an explosive goes off that is generally all there is to it. Blight endures and makes a place uninhabitable for years and years, like radioactive fallout.
Blight is an area denial weapon in short. Its psychological effects endure long beyond that off a bomb because of what it does to you, and what others can see happen to you. The version of blight used at Lorderon for example literally melted you if you inhaled it. Seeing someone’s flesh melt off their bones is some horror movie stuff.
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Blight is as powerful or as weak as the plot needs
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The Aspect of Life and her brood. Life being the counterpart to death, she and her brood, Titan powered, were the ones to remove the blight from the area. They don’t have that power anymore. And I highly doubt Bob McJim the Mage can disperse the blight as Jaina did.
My point wasn’t about its use against an Old God specifically, because you seemed to be criticizing it in general.
A bomb is a bomb. At the end of the day, it’s instant and you’re gone. Maybe there’s nothing left around where it exploded. But that’s it, after the bomb goes off you can rebuild whatever was destroyed. There’s no further effects. But the people who designed the blight didn’t do so just to kill their enemies, they designed it to kill their enemies excruciatingly painfully and to destroy the land around where it’s used. Undead victims start splitting at the seems and seeping black ichor, human victims melt into puddles of goo, that sort of thing. It’s a horrifyingly vivid image for anyone who witnesses it or its aftereffects. And it’s effective enough that it destroyed most of Anduin’s forces at Lordaeron. It’s effective enough that it killed tons of Alliance, Horde and Scourge at the Wrathgate. It’s effective enough that it turned Southshore into a blight swamp that persists years after it was destroyed. It’s effective enough that if you try to go into Brill or the ruins of Lordaeron you’ll die very quickly.
It is really only as powerful as the plot demands sonetimes it blights for tests others everything if fine right after sometimes it is this thing that is super acid that lets everything abd at the same time if you have a gasmask you can walk nude in it with no ill effects
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That’s the Doylist answer. Of course it’s only as powerful as the plot needs. Everything is only as powerful as the plot needs.
The Watsonian answer is completely different and far more intriguing to explore. Why else would the Story Forums exist if we could just say “the authors decided it was this way”?
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Ill admit its a good area denial tool however this means it also denies area to the Horde. It also only seems useful against civilian targets and in bombing cities.
We have also seen of way of dealing with such as dragon fire and Freezing it. We also know that it can be cleansed but requires significant work. It also needs to transported in large vulnerable vats which makes it an easy target.
Against a prepared opponent its seems not to be an effective tool of war as show by the Siege. As soon as Jaina showed up with a Plan(because Anduin is an idiot) the plague is rendered useless.
My point is in Warcraft universe there are far more functional weapons than the plague. Even from a psychological stand point Azerite bombs would be far more fearsome due to their ability to do far damage without any way of preventing it.
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Thing about azerite weaponry is once we heal the planet (which we sorta have to do if we want a planet to live on…) the azerite will go inert and be about as harmful as a chunk of granite.
I am saying in depiction it is seriously random in power they need to pick a power level and stick with it instead of rolling dice for how bad it is today because it has lost any fear factor becsuse of this bad portrayal
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well, so far the blight is the most effective when it comes to terrain denial.
problem is, is a double edge sword.
Yes it can be freezed temporaly or burned but it actually requieres extra work from druids to cleanse the land.
There is more than one strain of Blight. Verious versions have various effects. For example some versions harm the living and the dead, some only impact the living like the version that seems to be in use in Darkshore.
The holy grail for the Blight as far as the forsaken are concerned is to make a new plague of undeath that turns you into a forsaken. that is why they began developing it to begin with.
I lost any fear of it i cant take it seriously anymore it is just another device on a pile of plot devices. It will do whatever they need the strain thing is a handwave that is just pivking to the writters refussl to actully stick to one idea of how powerful it is