So I like numbers and math so I had a funny thought and decided to run the numbers.
So I know that in WoW the in-game “HP/Damage” values aren’t actually indicative of a real amount of force applied and the big bads of each expansion aren’t canonically 50x stronger than the previous expansion but for the sake of humor let’s take these numbers 100% literally.
Now there have been multiple number squishes over time so this will be a massive lowball estimate.
So on Classic if you start a level 1 warrior and swing a sword you do roughly 10 damage per hit (assuming no crazy buffs or gear)
Based on our character we can assume them to be a somewhat trained swordsman given they at least have the knowledge of how to swing a sword.
So looking up the info online your average strike with a shortsword delivers about 120N of force to a target.
So for the sake of this let’s assume 1 point of damage = 12N
Also I found an article from 2021 that had the highest damage recorded in a single hit by a warlock of 175,935,072. Granted this is with multiple number squishes so this number would realistically be in the billions (if not over a trillion)
So using our previous number this means this single strike dealt ~2,111,220,860 N of force to the target.
For reference a ton of TNT generates 4,180,000 newtons of force. So this single warlock hit did force equivalent to half a kiloton of TNT. Now as mentioned previously without squishes this would probably be 100x this value. So we can assume a number closer to 50 Kiloton.
For reference this would be a force equivalent to a nuclear warhead.
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Math aside at the end of the day our characters are as strong and or weak as the game/devs require us to be, we can kill old gods and then in the next expansion get killed by boars.
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Oh I am well aware it’s just fun to think of things literally and realize just how absurd they are. Realistically the world would not survive a mythic raid of 20 godlike beings wielding nuclear level strikes at each other.
I wonder how long it will take for us to be to the point where we would theoretically blow up the planet from casting a spell.
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I can’t even one-shot those critters at the beginning of atal’dazar with my dagger. What are they feeding these squirrels that they can survive a nuclear warhead?
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Fun fact before a recent hotfix those critters could absolutely clobber you in a high enough key
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Squirrels the cockroaches of WoW
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We’re incredibly powerful, able to stand against the titans themselves
Unless we’re not and a larger than normal ice spider can easily kill us
Yup, going from blasting down entities that are on par with the titans or higher, last expansion, to barely being able to destroy dragons that are elementally empowered.
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Just strong enough to do one shaky arm pushup.
Very strong. I curl with the bruls down in ZC.
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Power level wise? We are basically just glorified foot soldiers. It shouldn’t have taken 25 of us to kill nathanos
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And in the final dungeon before WoW goes into maintenance mode we learn that the boars were the real gods all along.
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As strong as the plot demands
Or
As strong as the latest raid end boss +1
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A good theory, but I’d say our characters are about as strong as whichever Dev who designed the current quest we’re doing decided we should be.
I’ve been both the savior of the multiverse & helpless bystander more times than I can eat a potato chip.
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I’m undead, I have almost no muscle at all. I can barely lift my own arm without it falling out of the socket. I can barely bend over to pick up my arm without one of my legs falling off. This is why I am a mage. I am WEAK.
If its pringles sometimes people can’t get their hands in the tube
Without borrowed power, we’re above average heroes.
Not counting RPers RPing like they old god dragonkin lich demon angel neko wolfkins.
