Wouldn’t it be technically possible if say the goblins / mecha/gnomes / dwarfs / earthen reverse engineered the Infinite Mogu machine in Mogu’shan Vaults and could just pump out their own controllable infinite army?
We have gotten many opportunities to abuse power we’ve been given; corruption powers, many different kind of legendary powers, etc. So rather than abuse the powers for our advancement, we let them go/destroy them. To give the villians a chance ofcourse.
I think we could make an infinite army but we avoid doing it because we’re the ‘good’ guys.
Definite infinite? The resources on Azeroth are finite and that includes whatever matrix the titan 3D printers are using to churn our boring stone people.
Furthermore, the place is likely drained of power by now. Because we used the power of Engine of Nalak’sha to power up the Forge of Origination to blast N’Zoth with it. In addition to this, reading about how the engine was used by the Mogu… my guess is that we probably wouldn’t want to use it.
Because we’d have to learn Flesh-Shaping which… Lei-Shen used this to experiment and created the saurok race with it. I don’t think anyone would want an infinite army of half-formed blood-oozing and constantly in pain allies, kinda like what Lei-Shen left for us to fight in the Saurok Creation Pit in the Throne of Thunder raid:
Pretty sure if one were to create an infinite army of Primordius’, then a lot of people would want Sargeras to come back to obliterate Azeroth.
There are other forms of flesh shaping magic in-universe but… none of 'em get much better when it comes to intentionally using it to create new life. Also, just because I wanted to share this as this is why reading Wikipedia pages are really fun!
Did you know that Grummles are in fact a species of troggs? I didn’t know that but apparently they are.
It might be possible but I wish they would retcon it. The whole infinite nearly impossible to kill trope kinda sucks… if it must be used I wish they would use it sparingly rather then being every 2nd villain
Every villain faction is the same except the Iron Horde and the Scarlets. Maybe a few others.
They are an infinite army with an infinite amount of infiltrators and an infinite amount of back doors into Azeroth and we are doomed if they ever open the door to their home dimension.
It’s pretty lazy but it seems to resonate with Retail players maybe? Not sure. Blizzard does it every other expansion at this point. It was fine in Warcraft 3 as a big event but it’s tired at this point 25 years after ROC.
That “Maybe a few others” is doing an insane amount of heavy lifting for ya’. Since with it you can literally say “but that’s just one example, most of 'em aren’t like that” until one has listed every single antagonistic faction, villain, or otherwise hostile opposing something.
No. Every villain faction isn’t the same and it is beyond silly to say that, only to then exclude two quite random factions. Especially when you are separating two antagonistic factions that actually has parallels to existing and active factions.
Can you imagine the sheer terror our enemies must face. They kill us, 5 minutes later we come back. Over and over until they exhausted and demoralized until we finally strike the final killing blow. We are the infinite army of Azeroth and no one can stop us for long.
The Legion does the infinite army shtick. They have the whole concoured galaxy to pool talent from, so yeah. That’s not infinite, but it’s pretty good. Also, until we trashed Antorus and killed Argus (the guy), they had a fast reliable respawn hack. Which is closer to (but still not) infinite.
The Maw does the infinite army gag, too. Mostly because Thrall, after a brief head count, loudly proclaimed that The Jailor had more forces than The Legion. And he’s the mayor, so I have to believe him.
It think it was when we were scoobie-dooing our way out of our domination cages. He was like z-z-zoinks, Champion! There’s at least ten Legions-worth out there!