Though I would have said Warlock if that were an option, because they are the most powerful class.
Who would in in a fight? Druid.
Stealth is absurdly strong in lore. And for Druids, there’s something to really be said about a patient assassin that’s also invisible and can also turn into your household cat.
Though, again, I would have said Warlock or Rogue if they were options, with me strongly leaning towards Warlock.
The other classes suck.
Though!
Shoutout to priests, who are getting stronger as time goes on. And, I think the combination of shadow and light is what creates matter in the WoW universe (maybe?), and if that’s true Priests would basically be gods… eventually.
In terms of the peak of power mages are the strongest (e.g., Aegwynn, Medivh, Azshara, etc.), but the average mage can’t do much. The average mage is the guys you help find some book in classic WoW so they can try to make a single portal that may or may not work.
Evokers, demon hunters, and death knight have the highest median power levels.
Rogue, hunter, warrior have the lowest median power level.
I think Priests have always been strong lore wise. It’s just that they also have to double as spiritual leaders. For Holy and Discipline Priests such a blatant display of power would be blasphemous at best, while a Shadow Priest openly practicing Void magicks would be ‘frowned upon’ by most societies at large.
At least Fel magic is fairly understood. No one really knows what the Void is capable of at a grander scale but all signs point to bad things.
In regards to the topic I’d put my money on Priests. Turns out faith is a very powerful tool regardless of it’s source.
He said average, not more powerful. The average mage is not shooting out blizzards, blinking, and throwing out all types of arcane elements.
Some average mages just specialize in portals or conjuration. They’re not the player character.
Same with the druid. Majority of average druids lean some basic healing spells and maybe 1 form. They don’t really change that much unlike archdruids.
Warlocks, should have been hero classes because there are no true average warlocks. You’re either a warlock or you die in the process of trying to be one. All weak warlocks get killed by their summons or spells.
Now an Average Evoker is already elite. Dracthyr are elite, Evokers are the top tier of Dracthyr because they use all 5 dragon aspect powers. Dragon aspect powers are insanely OP in lore and they can use all 5 an that is THE AVERAGE evoker. There is no evoker who can’t us all 5, if they can’t, they’re not evokers.
So yeah, from OP’s post, the average Evoker will destroy any other average class.
Dalaran isn’t massive. If anything it’s just a hub to store away assorted books and scrolls that predate the mistakes of earlier mages. Those mages learn from those mistakes too. And then they go on plenty of trips for field study.
But to answer OP’s question, it will always be Mages first. Evokes are fundamentally a lab experiment with mage powers. Mages had to learn through tooth and nail (or parchment and feather pen) to master the Arcane. There is no greater power than knowledge.
Yeah there is, instinctual use of magic, which evokers have.
Also Dalaran is massive in the lore. Like huge.
But most of all, the average mage does not have the power even close to an evoker. Dragon aspect powers are broken to heck and back. Evokers wield all 5. Only archmages can match evokers and not ever mage is an archmage.
“So you’re a Tidesage? That sounds like a really impressive and important job!”
“Yeah. I stand unmoving in the Stormwind portal room all day, maintaining portals to Boralus for ungrateful adventurers.”
Based on Average, it’s like any magic fight in any fantasy game… Whoever was best prepared for the fight before hand (counter spells, charms, protects, going in cat form and getting the jump).
Beyond that, it’s a quick draw to see who can get their one hit kill shot off first.
There is enough to have a city full of them but you are right. There aren’t many human mages, elf mages there are a lot though but again, not all mages are top tier.
Thing people need to realise that in wow, magic is their version of electricity for a lot of these races, so they will learn the basics to do only basic stuff. Not everyone is going to be a dumbledore, many are going to be Ron Weasly, basic of the basic.
Evokers are literal magical beings that use all 5 dragon aspect powers. Even their average is still elite.
on Average it would be evoker because they have a counter against everything, lore wise. An average mage or druid wouldn’t be strong enough to counter all 5 aspect dragon powers.
Evokers are probably, on average, more powerful, but any mage, druid, or warlock could kill an evoker if they were quick and or fast enough (or just flat out lucky). Just like any evoker could take out a mage.
If you have a pistol and I have a rifle and a bullet proof vest… statistically I have the edge, but that doesn’t mean that pistol is suddenly harmless.
Underdogs win enough fights in fiction that we literally have a term for it: “underdog” xD
Thing is we still are talking about magical beings and averages. On average, a druid will learn small healing spells and 1 druidic form. They won’t be switching around a lot or be healing immense damage. An average mage is mostly going to be more to study things so conjuration and portals will be their thing than combat.
Warlocks on average are stronger because warlocks that are weak die. That is the lore of warlocks.
Evokers on the other hand, on average, are time stoppers, rewind time, heal via time manipulation, by the emerald dream that an average druid wouldn’t dream of…heh…or with actual living flames. THe earth protects the evoker and they also have natural flight, that is something many of these averages do not have.
Average warlock vs Average Evoker might be fun but average druid and mage? Nah. It’s not fair just alone with bronze dragon flight powers.
Aren’t evokers already functionally mages in the lore? Gameplaywise it’s 1/5th of the skillset but the blue dragon aspect gives them innate ability to channel the arcane and weave spells.
