It would probably cost too much to remove it. We can just put laundry on it like that old treadmill in the basement.
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oh man can you imagine if they made that a legendary / lootable sword one per server? People would probably go bonkers over trying to get it lol
And then it gets ninjaâd by a Hunter because obviously itâs a Hunter weapon.
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If something as large as Sargerasâ sword hit a planet, it would be a global killer. That thing, especially after being hurled across space, shouldâve cut Azeroth in two or ended all life in one massive aftershock. They had it right with Deathwingâs damage.
I believe the meteorite that killed off the dinosaurs was only 6 miles wide soâŚI guess my point is suspend disbelief. Thatâs all we can really do. A lot of what goes on in the game doesnât make sense.
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I had created a thread recently (month or 2 back) about this very thing. My guess was at the time that they would transmogrify the sword into a new world tree. Gather all the elves and druids and anyone else that can help and do one huge transmog.
Get rid of the sword, heal the wound and get the elves a new home all in one shot.
I didnt base this theory on anything else save for the obvious issues with leaving the sword there, the elves needing a new home and finally the comparative sizes of world trees and the sword itself. No idea if its feasible lore wise or possible according to the powers that be.
Seems poetic in going full circle (sort of) back to a world tree.
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OP we need to leave it there. It could be major tourist attraction! We could build a whole theme park around it! Roller coasters going all around it, Popsicles in the shape of it!
This could be a money making goldmine!
⌠ahem⌠I may have channelled my inner goblinâŚ
/flex
Waitaminit. Everyoneâs still looking at this as if itâs a normal material sword. It isnât. Sargeras conjured it up out the hard vacuum of space. All we have to do is get a hold of Illidan while heâs doing his âjailer of the damnedâ âwrestling with the Dark Titanâ schpiel and get him to give Sargeras Atomic Wedgies and Purple Nurples until he relents and unsummoms the sword. Poof, no more kilometers-tall hazards to navigation.
While part of it is purely just plot stuff, there are a few considerations to make.
First off, Deathwing was the aspect of earth. Back when he was good heâd reshape the continent to make it so everyone had a fair share of resources and such. He likely used this same reshaping power to amplify the destruction.
2nd, the epicenter for Deathwingâs assult/the cataclysm was the Maelstrom. This is basically the center of azeroth while Silithus is more itâs own little corner of the world. The Maelstrom has also been the center point for 2 (or even 3) world altering events. Yâshaarj implanting itself into azeroth, Amanthul, yanking him back out, and the sundering caused by the well of eternity imploding. So Deathwingâs cataclysm began at a spot that was already a major âweak pointâ for Azeroth. Any damage caused at silithus throughout history has been mostly surface level as far as the actual planet is concerned.
3rd. The Cataclysm was more calculated. Sargeras was originally planning to corrupt Azeroth not kill her. The sword strike was a last second attack made in his final moments once he realized that he was about to be locked up. Deathwing on the other hand had been planning and scheming since the 2nd war while he hid in deepholm. Planetary destruction was his plan from the beginning, for sargeras it was just a last second fall back when plan A failed.
Obviously Blizzard didnt go back and look at this type of stuff and make the damage ratio correct and proportional. As is usually the case, itâs up to us the players to try and make it fit in the lore. So already-mentioned points are just some of the lore facts we can use to try and make sense of things
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The finest goblin scientists are hard at work figuring out a way to remove it.
They also said something along the lines of âdibs.â
Magni already laid it out like this.
The planet can normally use her own energies to heal herself, sheâs done so before when Yâshaarj was forcefully removed, when the well of eternity imploded, and when deathwing broke out of deepholm.
This time is different, the sword didnât simply wound Azeroth like those other incidents, it weakened her ability to heal herself, caused her lifeblood to seep out, and was poisoning her until we used our artifact weapons to consume the swordâs energies.
The sword is now just a husk and isnât doing anything. We couldnât remove it if we wanted to. Only a titan could pull that thing out. Thereâs also a saying about removing objects from stab wounds. Donât.
What we are doing by gathering azerite is restoring Azerothâs own ability to heal herself.
There is. Unite together to help heal the wound and remove the taint that the sword left. However, somebody decided to steal Azerothâs blood and use it to burn down a place full of natural energies that could help the world and start a war with each faction taking as much blood from Azeroth as they can to try and blow each other up.
No worries, illidan will return as a titan after he kills saregas and take the sword out.
Honestly⌠that sword is probably NEVER going to be removed.
Even IF the denizens of Azeroth had the ability to remove the sword (they donât), removing it would almost certainly kill the planet in the process. Azeroth would immediately bleed out and die.
I doubt even the Titans could do much for Azeroth at this stage. While they might have the ability to remove the sword, their past encounters with the Old Gods and Azeroth shows that they have to treat the planet with âkid glovesâ essentially. Imagine, if you will, a chicken egg with a fishhook in it. You COULD potentially remove the hook, but thereâd be an uncomfortably high chance that youâd either break the shell, killing the chicken, or the barbed hook inside would do the job, even if you got it out.
Our best bet is, alas, doing exactly what weâre doing right now. Focusing on healing Azeroth how we can, and trying to gather as much bled-out Azerite as we can, to return to her.
Letâs all just grab our artifact weapons and pull all the energy back out of the sword then toss the necklaces back to Magni with a thanks, but, I like the weapon better.
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Well it was in Silithus, so Sargeras either ganked Câthun or set him free. With said eldritch eye ball feeding on the blood of Azeroth to get stronger.
Holy sh*t! Thereâs a sword? I must have completely forgotten about it seeing as how i gotta run all over two big islands to farm azerite.
In world tree terms, Teldrassil was only a sapling, it was barely ten years old. Nordrassil is far more established with life energy.
You are right. It is young. However, burning it down still prevents us from using anything itâs gained over the short span itâs been alive.
âAll the storytelling masters know - tell, donât show!â - Game of Thrones Season 8, probably.
Iâm surprised that we havenât had to break down the sword for materials for armor and weapons. Youâd think something wielded by a god would be made out of some really powerful stuff that we could use for ourselves. Maybe theyâre saving it for the next expansion though?
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