Why would you choose to live on something as fragile and flammable as a tree, when there was all that Darkshore land that was perfect for development?
Like, come on. You’re just asking for a spy or something to come by with a torch and a bucket of gasoline and set the whole thing ablaze. In fact, I don’t really know why that didn’t happen earlier. Leave it to Sylvanas to take some initiative during wartime, I guess.
Now if you want a real city, take a look at Shadowforge and Ironforge. Those places are constantly on fire, and yet the inhabitants are just fine. In fact, Ironforge has been attempted to be sacked multiple times, with every attempt failing.
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One well placed internal explosive would bring both cities down on your heads. I wouldn’t brag, Champ. Plus whoever your decorator is, fire them.
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Try to burn down a redwood. Giant trees IRL are generally very fire resistant. They survive forest fires as a matter of course and some even need a fire to spread their seeds.
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Those raiders always place those red barrels everywhere
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They’re elves who live in trees.
They’ve never been much for common sense.
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Meh even if you blew up Ironforge the Dwarves would just dig themselves back out.
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Victim blaming for the lose. Thread fail.
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Lorewise, the tree was the size of an island, and was far out to sea, where it had probably been struck by lightning dozens of times and yet never been lit on fire. World Trees in general just… don’t seem to be overly vulnerable to fire at all, since every single one is massive and yet never burned down.
The Burning was just the writers bending over backwards to have something ‘metal’ happen. Catapults with range farther than anything prior, ‘magic fire’, and it somehow spreading super quickly? No logic to it, they just wanted it for the plot.
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The Horde’s explosives had to have been laced with azerite probably. No normal fire would just light up that whole tree that fast. It had a full scale island in its canopy complete with mountains and lakes. Living there was perfectly fine until stuff happened.
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According to the writers, that was not the case, there weren’t even any explosives. They literally just used their catapults filled with arcane fire and then had their shammies (great friends of nature there, apparently), talk to the fire and convince it to spread more quickly.
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That’s what I tried telling the judge!
Meh, we’re only cool with Nature when it’s convenient for us. The Elements are a whole separate thing, which I guess is why Thrall and the like put up with the Goblins for so long.
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I imagine he is just saying what every single dwarf was thinking during that time. Lol
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I don’t think shamans are strictly friends of nature. They respect the elements, not necessarily nature.
That same logic can be applied anywhere… Why are you gathering in a church when I can just burn it down!
Why would she choose to dress that way when it makes her an easy target?
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I mean, a church is a lot less strategically important than an entire capital city and ancestral home…
OP really out here victim blaming a genocide.
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The only reason Ironforge has not been destroyed is because the Horde doesn’t even care about the Dwarves.
Only the Tauren a bit.
When the Horde is attacking, they bend logic and plot to their will with their passive ability.
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