Hey guys! I’m just curious about how many of you think about how strong a class would be in the lore. Like for example does it bother anyone that plays something like a warrior, hunter, or monk thinking that overall you could never match up with something like a mage etc because magic is just so strong not just in wow but most fantasy settings?
Strength is relative. A warrior would be stronger than say a mage, but a mage can cast a spell to blow the warrior up. Strength varies between races and classes. I think strength is relative and power varies between people.
I would say Warrior is strong, but a Monk is agile. A paladin will be strong against a death knight, but a death knight can strangle the paladin midair. Hunters are best as range and generally try to avoid the fray unless they were survival hunters. Demon Hunters would be hacking and slashing across the battlefield speedily dodging spells and lethal blows while a rogue waits for an opportunity to sink his daggers laced with poison to end the life of his enemies.
Priests/Mages/Warlocks/Shamans are powerful, but their magics come from faith/knowledge/outside forces. Depends on the casters etc. I like the idea that no class is perfect or the strongest. Some are just more capable in certain situations.
Mages/Warlocks/Shamans/ Priest must wind up their spells and when they cast it’ll hit much harder than the slicing and dicing of melee classes. A killshot from a hunter will always end the life of even the strongest foes. Think how Sylvanas died in Cata. One shot. One kill. How do you even gauge power? It’s all relative in WOW.
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Strength wise, I can’t really say anymore. And some classes are as strong as strong as whatever outside force decides they should be. I could argue that a rogue, hunter, or warrior are strongest because their power doesn’t rely on an outside force and can’t just be stripped away at a momen’t notice. You take a mage and slap them in chains and a gag of some sort, they’re powerless.
I could argue that shaman are weakest, because they’re completely beholden to whatever the elements say they can and can’t do… I could say that mages and warlocks are the weakest, because they have all that power, but go down like a sack of potatoes if you look at them funny.
But no, it’s never really bothered me. Because it’s fantasy. There’s only one strongest class, and that’s a bard and that’s not in WoW.
“Some casters think they can outsmart me. Maybe, sniff, maybe. I’ve yet to meet one that can outsmart Stormbolt”
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Every class except Warrior and Hunters have some magical power behind them and a case can be made about those two having some magical abilities looking in their toolkit (Hunters with arcane shot and Warriors having Avatar and an arms talent basically making a sword float in midair hitting every target by itself).
As a monk main, the monk fantasy is the most interesting to me, because while monks benefit from external power sources (brews, elixirs, and armor of course), it is the most self reliant class, as its main sources of power (physical training, fighting techniques and spirit/chi) are completely internal and that is a huge advantage to me.
As raw destructive powers go, Shamans, Mages and Warlocks probably sit at the top, but that means zero to nothing on 1v1 combat.
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Bard is the stronger, it’s because of it that we don’t have them as playable.
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I would like things better if that were the case, like for a example im gonna use naruto even someone like Rock Lee can use the magic system in that universe being chakra to enhance all his physical abilities to be insane in his own right. I wish more fantasy universes did things like that to make things more in line rather than “oh this guy has magic? he can blow up cities by himself, meanwhile this warrior over here can swing his axe…” lol
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Bruh power levels legit mean nothing in wow. Saurfang clapped malfy by getting a lucky axe throw to the back. Stuff happens. Blizzard just decides what’s cool in the moment and rolls with it. If they want giga wizard to greater pyro a whole city they’ll do it. If they want big chad woyer so slam his gaunleted fist into some nerd wizard’s jaw while he feebly recites his words of power they’ll do it. Dont worry about ranking power levels or whatever. This isnt a youtube top 10 list bro.
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Also, reminder that post-valkyr sylvanas got killed by a regular bullet.
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Yeah I’m sure any mortal lore character caught off guard would get killed by something along the lines of a lucky axe throw or a bullet, but that still doesnt make a hunter on par with a powerful mage or warlock in terms of sheer destructive power imo.
Think of WoW powers being like that, whoever gets the right hit with the right tool gets the job done.
To me, the perfect tool is the fist.
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warriors sort of got power in legion when we became immortal demigods
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Sometimes it can be annoying. But it kind of depends on the power level of the person involved. Saurfang might not be much to Malfurion, but Malfurion is probably one of the strongest druids in the world. Whereas most warriors might be more evenly matched against an average druid.
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Death knights have historically whooped paladins.
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Only place that comes to mind where paladins have a decisive victory against death knights is light’s hope, and it’s literally never due to paladin power. The Light Itself intervenes.
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/445159035902099456/776632910472019998/asd.JPG
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Paladins are champions who call upon the Light to heal wounds and combat evil.
As the Lich King had planned, Tirion emerged to defend Light’s Hope Chapel. Along with the paladins of the Silver Hand and the Argent Dawn, he unleashed his holy fury against the invading armies of the undead. The Light overwhelmed the might of the Scourge, and the death knights knew defeat.
Tirion refused to give up. He broke free of his icy prison, and with a desperate blow, he destroyed Frostmourne with the Ashbringer.
Hmm.
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I do agree and feel like paladins are only as strong as the light lets them be.
Sure do. Wasn’t a paladin power, or paladin skill, or paladin tenacity that stopped the Death Knights. It was, as Liadrin tells you, the Light Itself.
Sure did. Have you done the event lately? I have. It plays pretty similarly to the Legion event, with the exception of a ball of light popping up. Every single named paladin was kneeling.
Never you mind that it’s regarded that it was Holy Ground that led to the paladin victory, not being paladins. Arthas stomped the most powerful paladin, Uther, whence gathering his father’s ashes.
The Light freed him, he didn’t break anything.
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