Which WoW characters (if any) were "retired gracefully"?

and that burger king crown did not help at all

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I’d agree with Vol’jin. I thought Varian went out heroically (in a good way) as well.

I can’t really think of anyone else. Saurfang, maybe?

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Arthas was sent off gracefully when he died in Wrath. It was the perfect ending for that character.

Turning him into an anima fart cloud was unnecessary.

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Only gracefully retirement is the character players deletion, no fanfare ,no glory just gone.

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I was really happy that Garrosh got his honourable death. He never wanted to be Warchief anyway, but Thrall was too human raised to understand a true orc.

I wasn’t satisfied with that bs nonsense about how there must always be a lich king when Arthas was the first ever Lich King.

We went to Northern to kill Arthas and All the undead WHICH WE DID DO. We canonically had to take out every undead to reach ICC.

So that BS cheating stupid ending is why I was already considering quitting when Cataclysm rolled.

To quote a better movie:

“But I stood up and shouted 'Have you all got amnesia? This isn’t fair. They just cheated us! He didn’t get out of the cokadoodee car!”

“They always cheated like that in the chapter plays.”

I think Varian got the baddest exit of them all.

Telamundo or whatever his name is - LFD in Nazmir quest who sac’s himself for that stupid war - seemed pretty BA.

Saurfang felt good, too. He went out making the “winning” move as a sacrifice.

Best of all probably is MU Grommash and slaying Mannoroth

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Disagree about Varian. It was memorable and shocking death, for sure. But ultimately I feel like he deserved better. Same goes for Vol’jin. Tirion most certainly did not get the death he deserved. He was one of the most badass characters in WoW and he was written off like a chump. All three of those deaths were undeserved. Any one of them would’ve felt so much more impactful if they didn’t all happen at the same time; that just made them feel cheap…especially Tirion.

Med’an, probably because he’s been forgotten about or just retconned out and honestly that’s probably for the best…I don’t trust Blizzards writers with him.

He didn’t really time travel to the future to begin with, so he technically time traveled to the past.

No he wasn’t, Ner’zhul was the first. He was created by Kil’Jaden to raise an army of undead. There wasn’t a need for a Lich King before Ner’zhul because there wasn’t yet countless scourge to control.

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No, the story in said book was dumb as hell too.

The worst to me is that arthas was basically turned into a basic tiny wisp in shadowlands. And the helm of domination, was turned into an ugly green quest reward.

I honestly picture it as the crown of wills, but with the same old helm of domination look. My goodness the new look is terribly ugly.

Varian died saving the alliance heroes and Jaina at least. He prevented a full massacre.

Tirion. Tirion’s death cut the deepest for me after he was the one who helped us take out Arthas. He was also played by Bernard Hill and I always liked his portrayal and the general character of Theoden. Tirion’s death hit different. Was a good character since Vanilla, too, to go out to this fel-empowered Gul’dan whom we freed at the beginning of WoD….

Yea, I know, it was a good death…I just wish they had been a little more spread out. Happening all at once just made it feel cheap, like they were just getting them out of the way.

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Yeah. I’m sure it was heavily driven to push Anduin to the forefront and start to develop him as an unsure, slightly lost leader amidst his father dying.

Garrosh, who was introduced in burning crusade, tried to murder thrall and take over the Horde at the end of the expansion.

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Definitely Saurfang too. I agree, Vol’jin, Varian both, esp. Varian went out good.

In a way, so did Garrosh even though I don’t want him to be dead.

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That reminds me, while not major characters on the level of Varian or Vol’jin, etc, the deaths at Wrathgate and that whole event is probably the best moment in WoW.

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You take that back right meow! :sob:

Mah boy deserved to be a raid boss or something in SL, not disenchanted in a 2 second clip.