That’s a good question, you’d think the gnomes and goblins wouldn’t have left the Dranei alone until they picked that tech apart.
I know a pregnant tauren who’s delivered her baby is decalfinated.
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The fact that anyone has a space ship in my checks notes medieval fantasy game is enough for me.
I don’t think we need another one.
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Draenei tech is more like mystech in that it’s run by magic. It doesn’t really integrate well with the gears, pistons, and explosions model used by gnomes and goblins.
Blizzard has never referred to WoW with that phrase.
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There has definitely been a technological leap in WoW that I am not personally a fan of, but Warcraft 2 had submarines and airplanes, it hasn’t been a purely medieval setting since WC1.
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Which is why we should use the Dark Portal.
I don’t agree that the ship is some sort of uber weapon. We had it during the Argas campaign, what did it do? It helped on one quest and blew a doorway for the final raid. In our reality “orbital=powerful”. But in WOW, you have magic. I think a Worgen warrior with an axe can probably cut into a Panzer tank. If you look at his damage at level one, and call that something like “normal without magic”, and then look at his max level damage, it makes sense.
BTW, I’ve never seen anything that say Goblin tech is worse than Gnome tech. A bit less reliable (in the starting zone a Goblin sneers at Gnomish “useless” safety features) but not as advanced? In Wrath (?) you have a Gnome trying to find out about infra-green tech that the Goblins got to first.
In the same vein, I’m not sure about the “allowed to live” phrase one power used for the situation after the Siege of Orgimmar. Jaina does urge Varian to assassinate the Horde leadership and “eliminate” the Horde. However, even given the damage the civil war inflicted on them, I don’t see it as a sure thing. Even Wrathion (who was in favor of combining the factions by any means necessary) talks about how taking Thunder Bluff would be a blood bath for both sides.
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WoW is basically 80s fantasy and 80s fantasy is full of that stuff. WoW has never been at all technologically consistent, either, going back to WC2 at least with oil-powered ships.
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The Belves seem pretty capable of hijacking and sabotaging them. And even if they weren’t the Goblins can blow up just about anything. And if they can’t the Forsaken can just fumigate the place. And if that fails the Trolls can just hex the controls to make it crash. And if that fails Orc catapults apparently have the range of ICBMs so that ought of work. And if that fails we send the Tauren to try peace talks.
And if that fails we just have the Vulpera go “Come on I’m just a lil guy you wouldn’t wanna hit a lil guy”, and while they’re distracted by them the Belves hijack it.
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The Blood Elves have the Sunwell. Light & Arcane . This is Power .
The Alliance have the Vindicaar … Only 1 Spaceship. The Draenei have used every resource they had to create it .
The Alliance have powerful leaders . Yes .
Jaina , Alleria , Turalyon, Anduin , Velen .
You’re right. Its a sci-fi game now.
I actually think the Trope ‘Dungeon Punk’ fits best-
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That’s the weird thing about Goblin tech: Its usefulness in BfA seems to depend on what faction you play. In the Horde war campaign, Goblin tech is unreliable. In Nazmir, a Goblin engineer admits he didn’t really build his machine properly, forgot some screws here and there. And then there’s the duel between Gallywixx and Gelbin, where Gelbin is shown to be the more capable engineer. However, in the Alliance campaign, Goblin tech isn’t just menacing, it’s also pretty reliable. So reliable that the Alliance hero can just hijack a shredder with flamethrowers and lasercanons and mow down legions of Horde soldiers.
There are jokes like that about the Gnomes too. Like exclamations of “it actually worked!” To me, the thing about Gallywix was about him. After all, he keep shooting at the Goblins who really built it, and seem that motivated.
And one of the things that Garrosh did that made to Iron Horde was bring in Goblins to provide them with technology.
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If 20 countries had nukes and 1 had space ships, that doesnt inherently make that country military wise more powerful… especially seeing that these infastructures are so fragile compared to the Battleship variant.
Only sensible post in this thread. People always bring up the spaceship, but the most we saw the space ship do was blow down a door with a laser. Nothing too crazy compared to other magic in the setting. They also can’t really travel planets with it. They flew the ship through the already open portals in Legion. Other than that, for interstellar travel, the Draenei depended on Naaru to pilot ships through the nether. And since their pilot died in legion I doubt they’ll use the ship to hop planets anytime soon.
Per the lore, the Exodar’s flying capacity was taken away for the sake of making the Vindicaar. Said Vindicaar is now defunct and floating in orbit as it used it all of its power to fight the Legion in Antorus. Much of the systems were also fuelled with Argunite, which is lost since Argus is cut off.
Barring stripping down Tempest Keep, which is probably also in rough shape, there are no spaceships for anyone for at least a few decades.
I am not so sure it is that much weaker, if at all. Hmm…they definitely have influence all over so I agree that Horde is a superpower.
It’s always been both multi-genre and it’s own genre.
It’s never been midieval.