Burning tree was a mistake

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Should’ve use blight

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But i cant make smores with blight…i can with a tree on fire

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Honestly I’m still wondering if they’re gonna make the ruined lands/cities from BfA’s intro totally moot “because Druids” or some garbage for the next expansion. I’m not sure Blizzard has the balls to keep 2 capital cities destroyed indefinitely without replacing them with something else.

Then again, they do love to funnel people into SW/Org, so maybe they really don’t care about throwing them away.

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alliance will always have gilneas to be restored. But unless they’ll find a way to do something similar for horde - that wont happen

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Once we figure out how to restore the zone that our class hall is in ;-;

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OP, I never figured out why they didn’t just fly a couple of Zeppelins over the tree and dropped blight on it. Maybe Sylvanas didn’t want to give away the fact that she had a ton of the stuff.

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That is what i was wondering as well, The forsaken always loves using blight why didn’t they use it this time? :thinking:

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Alliance can have Gilnaes with Horde getting Surumar. They get the cooler bigger city but imagine trying to navigate that place as a capital. Bleh…

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Suramar is in the middle of nowhere. Should be part of kalimdor to be relevant.

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Fine, Sen’Jin Village can be your new capital.

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tree burn sends a stronger message. blight is a predictable strike that the alliance may or may not be prepared for. fire was basically saying “I hate your kind, now die”

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But blight is so much cooler. It’s green, it’s glowing and only way to get rid of it is to, well, BURN IT.

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It was also hella dues ex machina, and I don’t use the word “hella” lightly.

SERIOUSLY HAS NO ONE IN THE WRITER’S PIT EVER TRIED TO LIGHT WET WOOD ON FIRE?!

Let alone a live, healthy tree with intact bark… On fire with the equivalent of flicking matches at it? I mean, there’s always an element of “Physics, how do they work” in game, but that was particularly egregious.

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can’t argue that. I really should rewatch the cinematic, because I honestly forgot how they even set the place on fire.

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Magic catapults, I guess.

That can shoot across a small ocean and catch a tree the size of a continent on fire despite it being well-watered, purified, and in good health.

Also, it caught pretty much instantaneously, which was another big “wut”, but hey, rule of cool.

Anyway, my point is that blight would have been fine… As would fire, if it was handwaved enough to make a lick of &@^#@in’ sense.

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She gets it!
hands smore’s

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The majority of Gilneas’ infrastructure fell into the ocean due to the Cataclysm. There’s not really a whole lot to be restored, it would be more like completely rebuilding from scratch.

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But Nomi doesn’t cook with Blight.

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would of been rebuilt by now, if the forsaken had not attacked.

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By whom? It took years to fix Deathwing’s destruction in Stormwind. The Forsaken never repaired Lordaeron.

Gilneas suffered a tsunami and a massive subsidence of the coastline well into the interior that continued as they fled the Forsaken forces. The Forsaken took control of the entire area circa Cataclysm all the way down to Arathi Highlands, thus blocking any return except from the sea. And it’s unlikely that the Alliance could rebuild Gilneas further inland in hostile occupied territory from the sea. In BFA Lordaeron has only been under Alliance control for weeks or months which isn’t enough time for city building.

Before the Cataclysm, Gilneas was a secure city. After the Cataclysm it was mostly destroyed (by said cataclysm) then occupied by the Forsaken. None of that changed during MoP, WoD, or Legion.