They did advance in the study of magic. The study of magic IS WHY THEY POLICE MAGIC because they have the knowledge and capability to do so. Magic should be policed in this setting, it literally opens the door to corruption in a much more tangible, literal way than just giving someone a weapon. It is flagrantly ignoring the mechanics of magic to act like studying magic is just reading a book, and it’s lunacy to think that ones purpose advancing as they advance their own perspective and KNOWLEDGE is BAD.
they did not become Malygos when they had all the power to do so. That is why framing what they were as bad, and scholars who sit on their hands doing nothing but studying and doing nothing with knowledge as good is atrociously cynical. Frankly, it flies in the face of so many of warcrafts inspirations LMAO.
I just don’t pretend magics that fuel themselves off souls or binding people are somehow on the same moral standing as making barriers and teleporting.
Or that because you wanted to study 3,000 years ago, you can never change your perception or what you find permissible in the next 3,000 years. Because study is only bad if you change right, clearly people would study dark magic and never use it, so you shouldn’t feel obligated to try to even defend against it!!!
Morals? What does morals have to do with studying. Morals doesn’t make you weapons or defenses to magic. Morals is what made the Kirin Tor get blown up, twice.
No, blizzard randomly making them not notice how sus dresden blatantly was is why they lost the second time.
… the first time they literally made a barrier that killed the undead, they just overwhelmed them with sheer numbers. Do you see necromancers making anti-undeath barriers, seems like Maldraxxus would do that a ton if it was that easy LMAO.
Crazy idea. I don’t need the exact same weapon in my hand to be able to defend against it. Magic doesn’t work like that.
How would you know how magic works, you are in the state of not studying it. You say it doesn’t work until it does because you were too scared to find out.
Idk, all i know is i don’t see death magic users making anti-undead barriers. I see arcane users and green dragons who use special nature magic doing it though. Seems like they’re better at dealing with undead than death magic people…
Just saying, you want to kill Jaina and Vereesa Windrunner, thats fine. But were also going to have to kill Fanlyr and Aethas going off this same logic.
After all, ‘most’ is not ‘all’.
Sounds less efficient than “if they enter this space they will immediately start dying” or turn to ash instantly in the case of the green dragons.
Idk. Note that the Kirin Tor knew the Warlocks had their portal down there and had the Illidari forge up there in the city. They also were quarantining the plague and Jaina implied they’d at least examined it and would try to make a solution. So it appears, based on those things, that they’re against using it, not understanding it and learning how to deal with it. And as shown by making anti-undead barriers, you don’t need to use it to be able to make countermeasures or understand it.
Again, that was after all the stuff. That is why NOW the new kirin Tor is going to be more about study and being nomadic. It took incorporating other elements, that they shunned before, to save the world…a lot of times actually. They alone were not enough.
That is why I am more hopeful about the new Kirin ToR.
I don’t want anyone to die, actually. I just want the story to adopt a realistic view of events that happened instead of chickening out because it is difficult to write. Hathorel being a murderous lunatic, Aethas inexplicably being a pathetic Jaina simp, Thalen being highlighted as the sole villain for the mana-bomb debacle—all of this while having a discussion about dissolving the Kirin Tor as we know it because of missteps and hierarchical flaws, but no mention of a council member unilaterally seizing control and murdering innocent people? Come on, this is silly.
I 100% agree with you!
(I am just trying to make sure everyone is consistent. ;3)
But unfortunately, the reality of the situation is Blizzard is just not going to do that…ever…
I mean maybe they will one day? The last time we had a trial story in WoW was Garrosh and…we all seen how that went. At the end of the day, WoW’s story IS silly, I have just come to accept that.
To do that, they need to get rid of factions. Factions is the main cause in why they don’t want to step on any toes. They tried to do the “realistic” thing before and it just led to the horde doing dumb things and Sylvanas having the most epic of all epic crashouts.
Like…not even Arthas crashed out that hard and we are supposed to think he was evil and her innocent? Psh, okay. Arthas is not the one that almost literally destroyed the after life
Aye, I’ve been dying for factionless games since wrath. I mean, the story can only truly evolve when the writers stop caring about who triumphs over others because of the player base.