I’m getting bored of faction bickering so let’s take a page from Legion and get to some class bickering.
I’m going to argue that psionic shadow magic is the most offensively powerful magic in the setting.
Why?
Because people’s realities are their perception. Making Void magic a baby step below the literal God tier power of reality warping.
It can outright dominate a mind if you want. But retooling people’s memories? Twisting their emotions? Ensnaring their senses to recognize only what you will? What’s more powerful than that?
Fel and Necromancy could conjure you an army. Arcane and Water could incapacitate an army. Nature and Light could heal an army. Fire and Storm could incinerate an army.
But the Shadow could twist one to your will. Simply put enough skilled Shadow Priests in enough halls of power and you could have the whole of Azeroth marching on their orders.
And whats more terrifying? Even Dragon Aspects and Titans themselves are susceptible to the whispers of the Void. On a long enough time frame, nothing is safe from the weaponized, contagious madness that is the Shadow. Not Neltharion, not Sargeras, not Alleria - and certainly not you.
So am I right? Or would you like to make a case for your favorite school of magic?
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Death magic for sure. What the Jailer can pull off is extreme.
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I think that’s called Domination Magic. I think. It’s actually not too clear.
And honestly after the Black Empire and Legion I’m having a hard time buying that this is supposed to be scarier.
Oh you can conjure chains and Mind control people? Big deal I’ve been able to do that since level 32.
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The Power of Friendship is the most powerful!
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Even the My Little Pony in human form that is Anduin buckled under the might of the Shadow. He even punched someone!
It caused our Golden Boy to briefly become relatable and appear to have a human flaw. If it’s capable of that, what are its limits?
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The most powerfull magic by what standarts?
Force of Destruction?
Force of Healing?
What is the definition for most Powerfull?
Void has the ability to annihilate things into nothing itself, its not even dead, its litteraly stop existing, entirely, no soul remain. Fel destroyed a soul, splittert the part of the soul in every direction, arcane has the ability to terraform things entirely, on planetary scale and warp time and space, light right now seems pretty weak compared to this power and Death can use "Domination"magic, a powerfull source of magic, able to chain something powerfull like the Jailor.
Shadows Mind-Power is very very scary and powerfull, but the most offensive part of “Shadowmagic” is more so total annihilation, its destroy until nothing remain, not even an atom. Thats the real scarry Power of Void, to be able to CONSUME everything, Time, Room, Flesh or Stone, even Minds.
Right now, life and light feels pretty weak compared to the powerfull abilitys of fel, death, void and arcane.
Psionic Shadow Magic has a major weakness in the form of Elemental, Undead, and Mechanical enemies. You can’t dominate the mind of the mindless.
Undeads are not immune against shadow magic, elementals are often enslaved by the void or corrupted and mashine like titantech…curse of flesh and so eh 
We weren’t talking about shadow magic, we were talking about a particular kind of psionic shadow magic.
yeah, me too, thats part of shadow magic, you know.
The ghuls- mindless ghuls sabber yogg-sarons name in icecrown, elementals are often corrupted by the void and higher “Smart machines” like titantech share the same weakness as every mortal or normal being do.
I’d imagine that, in lore, arcane magic is the most powerful, because it’s literally the building blocks of the universe that you can reshape to your will if you’re strong enough. I think it can replicate just about anything that every other type of magic does, whether it be conjuring fire or ice, creating matter out of thin air, transfiguring objects, or even folding the universe on itself to bridge two points.
The main problem with it is that because it’s the Magic of Everything, thematically it ends up being the Magic of Everything Left Over because it’d be crappy to step on the toes of every other caster spec in the game.
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The most powerful magic is the one with the most powerful benefactor of that school channeling power into you. What if a Void user was being fueled directly by a Void Lord? A Shaman with a direct line to all Elemental Lords? If we’re talking principle rather than practicality, things can get bonkers.
Whatever Jaina wields. Plot magic, I believe.
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You can’t mind control mechanicals, some undead or demons. That’s about it. And that tracks for me.
A necromancer’s skeleton is already being puppeteered, mind controlling a robot is called hacking, and demons can’t get voided the same way you don’t see fel corrupted undead or undead kthir.
I’m actually wondering how much in Maldraxxus is mislabeled because there’s a shocking amount of things labeled undead I can fear. And not nominally undead things labeled beast or humanoid but straight up undead tagged mobs. I’m wondering if the fear immunity has been revoked or if it’s just a mistake.
On another note though I was really bummed there was no story beat about Forsaken and Worgen fighting the Black Empire. They both have an innate shadow resistance and are the most psychologically disciplined of the player races. Plus they were completely absent from Horrific Visions of Orgrimmar and Stormwind so I thought maybe they were hinting at that.
But that’s me being silly. Worgen content? As if. It’s now a game about the hero character’s interpersonal drama that they let us have some token involvement in if we’re very good boys and do what Punished Bolvar says.
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Forsaken maybe, but why worgen? As far as mental effects go, being emotionally dampened sounds relatively better off than being outright unstable with a trigger point.
I think void elves would make the more sensible pairing since at least they’d theoretically have specialized training about how to pick those whispers apart from your own thoughts.
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Velves where the predominant enemy in Horrific Visions of Stormwind. They’re shown as having a passing relationship with sanity as is. Seems like all they need is a slight push into the deeper end of the madness pool to go full
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And as for the Worgen - well fighting scary things with different, unrelated scary things is just fun.
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That realization when you probably won’t get a playable Mindflayer race because the game has void elves to serve that function now.
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Ugh. Right? And the idea of people mutating into those ilithid monstrosities was so cool.
The Velves sound awesome to me. Cmon Sin’Dorei Chaos Marines? That’s rad. But there’s no way Blizz is going to let them be that cool.
I mean hell it seems like them and the LForged would be diametrically opposed foes. But nah it’s fine, they’re fine, their respective leaders are actually a power couple.
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You know what’s odd? Priests can mind control aberrations but Rogues can’t sap them… I mean, you can control something with an alien brain but you can’t render them unconscious by striking them in the head?
And you can fear some mechanicals, because I guess sentient machines have fears too?!
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I put all that in the category of gameplay mechanics, much like how you can kill Ragnaros with fireballs.