So gameplay wise warlocks have the ability to banish demons but it doesn’t work on Demon Hunters for gameplay reasons, but let us say it did, lorewise (not gameplay) what exactly does being “banished” feel like for the Demon Hunter? I assume that banish would be used when the demon hunter is not in Demon form. Would the Demon Hunter be kicked kicked out and sent to the twisting nether when they are banished? Or would it be similar to how it is ingame, they would just be frozen in one spot, helpless?
Demon Hunters are not pure demons. In D&D/Pathfinder terms, they’re native outsiders which is why they aren’t subject to banishing.
How many times are you going to make this same topic?
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I think at worst, unless the demon hunter was in Metamorphosis form, there would be a feeling akin to being punched in the… magic. It might briefly stun them, rattle their cage in that sense, but it wouldn’t be anything like an actual Banishing because they’re not entirely an extraplanar being, which is what Banish truly effects.
It also wouldn’t be spammable as an effect, it might work once to trip up the Illidari, thus buying the warlock about five extra seconds before their head gets torn off.
Well Blood Mages had a similar Banish ability that could be used on Humanoids, even Hero Units, and it magnified Magic Damage received. While the Warlock ability is non Player Demon units.
Perhaps there is a connection between the two spells other than the name.
Yeah they are.
Illidan’s book covers this in detail. They aren’t possessed by a foreign demon, their soul becomes a demon that torments them.
The only thing that sets a demon hunter apart from the Burning Legion is their intent and willpower to see that intent through instead of just killing things and going hog wild.
The book however doesn’t gell with the characters in game. One of the NPC’s is a demon hunter whose soul has been planted into the literal body of a demon whom he fights constantly for mastery over and has to be confined as a result. It’s clearly not demon vs demon, but mortal vs demon.
Books tend to vary from the game because they are not developed in concert with the game, but in isolation. It’s like the novelisation of Star Trek episodes, the author was frequently given a different version of the script than what was actually shot. Although in the case of “The Counter-Clock Incident” the author simply decided that the premise was too stupid and literally changed it and the ending as he thought that the Aprils’ choices were even more stupid.
Like the ones who trap demons inside of them and then get puppeted by said demon?
Like you do in Torghast?
Like the fella in the orderhall who is permanently locked up?