So Why couldn’t we just flush the Blight out? I mean, the sewers must have a outlet somewhere, probably Lordamere lake, which would be environment travesty certainly, but deluded Blight is better then a toxic gas cloud flooding the city.
With enough Mages and Shaman freezing the Blight or burning it off above ground and washing it all out through the Sewer system, it’ll take a few years but Lordaeron is salvagable.
Also, has anyone noticed that the Trees in within Lordaeron’s walls are still alive?
I mean, what’s up with that?
The Undercity is not completely a sewer, it’s also the Royal Catacombs/Crypts, and a prison.
Also the Blight can’t just be ‘‘flushed’’ away, if it was that easy, Gilneas would have been dealt with easily.
‘‘While not necessarily radioactive in nature, its effect on an area is somewhat similar to the effects of radiation. When a large amount of radiation is in an area, it is considered uninhabitable for a long period of time, anywhere from days to possibly centuries, due to the radiation levels in the area making it unsafe to be in. Likewise, in Southshore, it is stated that areas that are plagued must undergo a “cooling-down period” before they can be inhabited again.’’
We’ve only seen Jaina cleaning away the Blight, Anduin was shielding himself and other allies off it. There were a myriad of Alliance troops in the BfL yet we didn’t see them cleaning it away, only running.
Like I said, it’d take years of clean up but it has to start somewhere.
Gilneas is slightly different, first because it’s actually far worse, and second it’s lot of open Countryside and towns which makes cleaning more difficult. Also, we didn’t know as much about it now as we did then (also, neither Horde nor Alliance cared enough to try).
Well, that’s because they were is the heat of battle, with more important things on their mind with no immediate need to or options or opportunity to bother with it.
How is it actually worse? It got bombarded from outside, Undercity went kaboom from the inside, which mind you, was planned by Sylvanas so it probably had strategic key locations to cover the entire city. If anything Undercity is the worst case here.
Undercity has the Ruins of Lordaeron above which looks like a maze, not to mention the Undercity is deep underground, how do you expect someone to make it down there when you can’t even enter the Ruins themselves.
No immediate need? The blight was the cause of their retreat, if anything everyone’s head should have been focused on that big fat, green cloud of gas coming your way.
It’s worse because the entirety of the Zone is contaminated, not just the city itself.
The land around the city needs to be cleaned first, and even then the Land itself is contaminated beyond recovery. The City would probably is lost because you can’t burn it off or flood it without completely destroying the city itself.
At least Lordaeron still mostly stone and can survive the cleaning process.
Which is why I said to start above ground first, by Freezing and/or Burning it away.
Fire can be doused with water but that’s not what you’re thinking on when someone drops Napalm on you.
Same basic Principle though. Those who COULD protect themselves probably did. Those who couldn’t ran because they didn’t have the means.
Jaina froze the Wave of Blight that was coming at them, which proves it can be frozen and rendered mostly harmless. Might take more mages and some methodical cleaning to do all of it sitting on Lordaeron right now though.
You would then need a very big refrigerator to keep the frozen blight in. An alternative method I’ve mentioned before is to vacuum it up and put it back into vats. There are two vacuum cleaners introduced this expansion. One that sucks up schools of fish, one that sucks up globules of Azerite.
I don’t think Teldrassil is unsalvageable either. It is a really big tree. The layers of charcoal would eventually suffocate the fire, leaving it free to sprout new leaves in the spring.
I don’t think the Undercity is uninhabitable because of it being blighted. I think the Undercity is uninhabitable because the triggered explosions collapsed it.
That would be all well and good for a while, but eventually there would be scary teenage mutant blighted turtles evolving in the sewers and they’d retake the city.
I think you would have to get a Light Bomb or just Arcane/Freezing Bomb and clear out the Blight. But even through Undercity is still a blighted graveyard of a hollow city.
There’s a Blight cure macguffin waiting on the wings, trust me. It’ll pop up eventually as a way to cleanse the Undercity, or at the very least make it habitable for the Forsaken again.
That’s why the whole ‘Undercity being lost’ makes me roll my eyes. Infrastructure is still intact, it just has Blight everywhere. Once a Blight cure is brought to the fore, and you can bet they have it, it’s smooth sailing.
Nothing concrete, though it’s certainly implied. The cinematic shows debris giving way as explosions fire off. If the upper level’s starting to collapse, I bet you anything, dollars to donuts, the bottom gives out just as much.