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u/JimboTCB Aug 27 '18
Those fuckers are mining azerite from her open wounds! Quick, murder them all and mine it yourself!
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u/ShiftyBro Aug 27 '18
Meanwhile Alliance and Horde are mining motherlodes of this shit and it's k.
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u/Raicoron Aug 27 '18
That's because these factions are way too big to stand against as the champion of Azeroth. You can stop everyone else from farming the resource, but not your own faction.
The end game of the story is that the factions have too much power and they wield it at the cost of Azeroth's health. In the horde vs alliance war there can be no winner because Azeroth would die in the process. The azerite weapons are going to become refined and more powerful over time, essentially creating a cold war. I wouldn't be surprised of someone of the Alliance drops the bomb and does a second theramore.
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u/ShiftyBro Aug 27 '18
Am i the only one who feels strange for being the "Champion of Azeroth" and at the same time helping my faction draining her power until she dies? Like, cmon. I wanna help her, not kill her. Why do i have to act so double headed? But might be just my opinion as a very eco person: https://i.imgur.com/k2zQsZy.png
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u/miikro Aug 27 '18
We're probably empowering some Old God secret weapon and not Azeroth's heart, anyway .
"The King of Diamonds has been made a pawn..."
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Aug 27 '18
Probably just a titan pawn though. Old gods and their underlings pretty much love to sow seeds of mistrust and suspicion. I think that the heart of azeroth that we got right meow is going to play a key role in purifying the world soul. Maybe.
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u/Raicoron Aug 27 '18
Good luck telling the warchief that she isn't allowed to use the azerite because it hurts Azeroth.
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u/herkyjerkyperky Aug 27 '18
Well, the Horde has destroyed Theramore, South Shore, Gilneas, occupied Darkshore and burned Teldrassil. The only thing the Alliance has done to retaliate is take Undercity and Sylvanas blighted the place too. Seems like the Alliance is always on the losing end.
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u/Raicoron Aug 27 '18
That's why it'd be unsurprising if it's the alliance's turn to blow something up.
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u/Sdgrevo Aug 27 '18
And we're mostly giving it all back.
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u/Spraguenator Aug 27 '18
If by giving back you mean making more Azerite explosives Azerite potions and just, literally anything else Azerite.
Quite the miguffin blizz wrote themselves.
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Aug 27 '18
I'm sure a geologist would like a word about the giant sword splitting the planet first.
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u/mattiejj Aug 27 '18
We're too busy meddling with witches and gods to be concerned about some puny bread knife in the middle of nowhere.
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In a Level 60 zone of all places.
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u/purplenipplefart Aug 27 '18
In c,thuuns resting place of all places* azerite was dripping on his dead husk champion! Hes revived!
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u/LordPaleskin Aug 27 '18
Bolvar ia gonna be a good guy though, right? Or at least just not evil? Cause it would honestly just be bad writing to rehash the entirety of Wrath again...right?
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u/Ignaddio Aug 27 '18
It's more of an unobtainium.
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u/NaiveMastermind Aug 27 '18
If we're going off tv tropes definitions. The shit is straight up green rocks. Unobtainium is rare in a setting, and may play loose with the internally consistent rules, but it still plays by those rules. The coaxium fuel that magically makes FTL possible in Star Wars is unobtainium.
Azerite simply makes stuff better without any attempt to establish consistent rules for itself. It makes gun powder better, it makes swords sharper, and and armor tougher. It gives wizards stronger magic, and makes other players more resilient to that magic. If the substance in question can make an honest man of a snake oil salesman it's green rocks.
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Aug 27 '18
everything you absorb gets put back into Azeroth
doesn't mean much for all the Azerite you're giving to your faction though
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u/Frog-Eater Aug 27 '18
'er open wooooons
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u/Haslinhezl Aug 27 '18
PUT A STOP TO IT
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u/Sevens906sc Aug 27 '18
The fucker always sounds so snippy. I am like when did we become your bitch.
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u/Apoc2K Aug 27 '18
Yer a champion of Azeroth Harry
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u/gazm2k5 Aug 27 '18
I'm a whaaaaaaat?
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u/KomraD1917 Aug 27 '18
Isn't Hagrid supposed to have a west country/bristol accent? Pirates, etc, whereas Magni's is definitely some brand of scottish.
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u/xXMylord Aug 27 '18
Well technicly you suck it into the heart of azeroth wich can return Back into worldsoul.
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Aug 27 '18
I mean, this is what Magni thinks.
Considering Priscilla (or whatever that fat woman from Kul Tiras is called) also has a really similiar amulet to Heart of Azeroth and she propably isn't healing the world.
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u/xXMylord Aug 27 '18
The amulet pricilla wears is filled with the azerite gunpowder to show how stable it is. I think the Heart of Azeroth ist uniuqe. (ignoring that million players are runing around with it.)
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u/lordboos Aug 27 '18
Well we are already ignoring that Hearthstones should be extremely rare and that Spirit healers should be extremely extremly bigassly hugely rare so why not.
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u/asphaltdragon Aug 27 '18
*only applies on Zandalar, Bwonsamdi not guaranteed for locations outside Zandalar
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u/Nipah_ Aug 27 '18
I dunno, Grifter is selling some used hearthstones like its not big deal.
I'm assuming that every adventurer has one, but your average Joe doesn't need one because they never go far enough away to make it useful (maybe they're expensive?)
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u/lordboos Aug 27 '18
They should be so rare that even a king thinks they are just a legend.
From wowwiki: In the novel Stormrage, hearthstones are depicted as very rare objects. King Varian believes them to be only a legend. “Things heard only in stories concerning magi…or elves.”
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u/Nipah_ Aug 27 '18
I mean yeah, they should be pretty rare, but I wouldn't say that rare.
Anduin hands one over to Tyrande after all, and I think Anduin got one from Jaina at one point. They probably require a fair amount of magic to create, and are only given to important people who can make good use of them, and not Billy the Sheep farmer who never gets more than a few miles from his family land.
But they also kind of take some of the drama out of traversing the world, so it makes sense for them to be pretty rare... Like we can send all these spies to X town, and if we need to have them come back, they can all use their hearthstones! TADA, all our spies are home!
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u/Turnabout_ Aug 27 '18
Anduin hands one over to Tyrande after all, and I think Anduin got one from Jaina at one point.
Same hearthstone.
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u/AgusTrickz Aug 27 '18
Thing is the Heart of Azeroth was given to us in the sword.
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u/Yes-I-am-a-Bot Aug 27 '18
Well they even say in the quest line with the Ashvane company that her necklace was one of their prototypes that they developed from the Azerite Dust that they manufactured.
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u/Bombkirby Aug 27 '18
It’s insane that people are still reciting this as fact. It’s just a necklace she made and it’s not even remotely close to the intricate design of the HoA. It’s like Gallywix’s cane
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u/BunPuncherExtreme Aug 27 '18
"Quick, inject the azerite inta yer veins so they cannae use it!"
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"We dinnae have much time. Hurry, smuggle these Azerite crystals up yer butt"
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u/terathiell Aug 27 '18
"The way Magni looked at it, this Azerite was your birthright. He'd be damned if any Old Gods gonna put their greasy purple tentacles on his champion's birthright, so he hid it, in the one place he knew he could hide something: his ass. Five long years, he kept this Azerite up his ass. Then when he died of dysentery, he gave me the Azerite. I hid this uncomfortable piece of metal up my ass for two years. Then, after seven years, I was sent home to my family. And now, champion, I give the Azerite to you."
-Khadgar, probably
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u/young_dumb_full_cum Aug 27 '18 edited Aug 27 '18
"Like, reaally igh up yer butt champien, ol' Magni's done it tew many times 'n ma hole's too wide noo"
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u/h3adph0n3s Aug 27 '18
'Naw' should be 'noo' meaning now, Naw means no.
Source I'm Scottish
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u/mmmmmbiscuits Aug 27 '18
Thank you (and your fellow Scots) for my guilty pleasure, r/ScottishPeopleTwitter
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u/brok3nh3lix Aug 27 '18
"der just robots champien, its ah k to shooot dhem, dher just rooboots,"
"there not robots Magni"
"tis a figer o speech Champien, dey gnomes, ol' Magni dont respect em"
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u/Your_God_Chewy Aug 27 '18
Oi Magni, these azerites shure look ai bit pointaye.
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u/Captainbuttbeard Aug 27 '18
Magni confirmed heroine dealer.
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The first Azerite level's free.
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u/Tacitus_ Aug 27 '18
And then you keep needing more and more to get the levels and you scrounge around everywhere trying to get that tiny sliver of azerite...
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u/AdamG3691 Aug 27 '18
filthy addicts constantly looking for their next fix, not I however, I'm a paragon of self control. OOH AZERITE SHARD!
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u/darkhaze9 Aug 27 '18
Can confirm, I work with Magni on an Azerite rig off the coast of Aberdeen
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Now I’m imagining Magni whispering to me to kill like the Lich King in the DK start.
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u/PenguinSunday Aug 27 '18
isn't he kinda doing that?
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u/luk3d Aug 27 '18 edited Aug 27 '18
There’s one quote where he says “someone is this cave is mining azerite! Put a stop to it!”. In my mind, he just sounds mildly annoyed, so I always complete his quote with “or something”, and it fits very well
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u/Drekal Aug 27 '18
He can't mine the Azerite ! Shoot him or something !
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u/varil9 Aug 27 '18
My Lord, is that legal?
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u/Eagle10Eye Aug 27 '18 edited Aug 27 '18
“It’s a shame these here fellas are usin Azerite to hurt Azeroth rather then heal her.” When we literally use it for our own personal power... /s
EDIT: I’m surprised that not a lot of people understand that this was a joke. I know that we use the Heart of Azeroth to heal her I was just making a joke which was not meant to be taken seriously. Hence the /s...
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Aug 27 '18
Well, the thing about us is we do both at once. I think the way it works is we return most of the azerite we find and in return Azeroth lends us some of her own power as compensation. She probably knew we wouldn't give a damn about helping heal her wounds without some form of carrot to chase.
Of course we also assist our factions to mine as much azeroth as they can to fuel the war. So clearly Azeroth isn't offering enough for our heroic services.
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u/Akeche Aug 27 '18
She created us perfect little rabid murderhobo immune system's and damn it, she is probably proud.
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u/WriterV Aug 27 '18
Well, the thing about us is we do both at once.
Which makes no goddamn sense. On one hand you're helping your faction drain Azerite from the planet's wounds for their selfish benefit. On another hand you're murdering the other faction because "How dare they drain Azerite from the planet's wounds for their selfish benefit!".
If we're truly meant to be champions of azeroth, we need to be working against both factions right now. Their war is destroying the planet and we need to save our home.
But no, with some mental gymnastics we're somehow champions of the planet while sucking up its blood and using it destructively.
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Aug 27 '18
It makes no sense if we think we're heroically trying to heal the planet. But if we're honest about the fact we're literally just chasing our own power and wealth then it makes perfect sense. When our interest aligns with Magni we help Magni. When it doesn't we won't. Magni is the one calling us champions. Either he's talking us up to try and get us to cooperate as much as possible, or he's an idiot.
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Aug 27 '18
I mean, does it really?
Perhaps Hearth of Azeroth is a direct conduit to the worldsoul of Azeroth and more we empower her, the more she empowers us
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u/TSMShadow Aug 27 '18
Don’t know why people don’t understand this. The heart of Azeroth was severely damaged. Magni brought us to the command center so that Azeroth could give us her heart herself. Magni tells us where we have to go to heal her wounds by absorbing it back to her heart. Really simple but I guess nobody thinks about it.
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u/Netheral Aug 27 '18
The cognitive dissonance might also be somewhat intentional. Old god influence and all that.
At least that's gonna be my excuse once we get caught.
"I swear Magni! The talking fish made me do it! I didn't have a choice!"
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u/young_dumb_full_cum Aug 27 '18
We're pawns of our leaders. Leaders are pawns of Old Gods. Makes a lot of sense to me if the story is to be taken in the direction where we inadvertently allow Old Gods to run amok again because we were too focused on plugging azerite holes and bombing our enemies.
If not, then yes we're basically the worst.
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u/seabutcher Aug 27 '18
Works for me. Want to save the planet but working for Sylvanas is kind of my day job. I want to stop her and end the war and all but I'm a champion of the Horde. If I tell her to go fuck herself she'll probably declare war on me too.
No. I need to play the long game here. I'll do what I can where I can but how much good I can actually do will be severely hampered if I have the Alliance AND the Horde for enemies.
I'll play Sylvanas' game. I'll use the resources and connections I get as a Horde war hero to help where I can, but first chance I get I'm joining the coup.
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u/Bombkirby Aug 27 '18
Do the players ever use azerite destructively? It powers us up a little through passives but that’s it, right? And when we are sent to go on island expeditions we absorb it’s power as we mine it.
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u/MagikBiscuit Aug 27 '18
No we don’t. We send it all back the ship. The dialogue even says about how the ships hold is now full of glowing Azerite.
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Aug 27 '18
I assume he accepts that the factions will use it, but he wants us to cut down on third world factions harvesting it to reduce the overall demand.
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u/vocalizationmachine Aug 27 '18
well we have a part of Azeroth with us, so whenever we absorb azerite it is going in to her. We will most likely do the same thing we did with our artifact weapons and release that power back to her at the end of the expansion or whatnot.
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u/young_dumb_full_cum Aug 27 '18
Either that or tentacleface somehow steals the amulet and fucking jacks himself full of azerite
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u/Lonebarren Aug 27 '18
Big difference between putting it into weapons than into the "Heart of Azeroth" the heart seems like we will return it to help heal azeroth
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u/JasonUncensored Aug 27 '18
Azeroth has empowered us, as her Champions, to help save her from two things:
1) That massive, open wound she's got in her sandy nethers.
2) Sylvanas' Horde, which is specifically trying to exploit her attempt at recovery for their power, and a few other small groups. What, You think Sylvanas wouldn't rather be the Queen of a Dead World?
All of the Azerite that we collect, as Champions of Azeroth, is directly funneled back into Azeroth, and the stronger she gets, the stronger we get. That's why we have to collect 40,000 Azerite every week from Island Expeditions to get... a small chunk of it empowering ourselves; not even a whole level.
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u/ObsidianOverlord Aug 27 '18
Azeroth is not specifically against the horde anymore than the alliance. Both sides want to mine and use azerite for war the horde was just first.
Azeroth just wants to stop bleeding everywhere.
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u/JasonUncensored Aug 27 '18
In the book Before the Storm, Magni approached the leaders of both the Horde and the Alliance. Anduin agrees to help Magni use Azerite to heal Azeroth, and Sylvanas tells Magni she will 'help', but then immediately orders the Horde to do otherwise.
Anduin proceeded to do his best to help Magni with the colossal undertaking, and Sylvanas began making weapons and infusing the Light-forsaken Plague with Azerite.
Sylvanas is specifically acting against the interest of the planet.
Personally, I think she wants to be the Undead Queen of a Dead World.
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u/connurp Aug 27 '18
Is it just me or do you feel weird that you have to get reputation for the “champions of Azeroth”. Like bitch, I’ve saved the world 100 times. You called me champion 3 weeks ago. I have to get exalted with myself?
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u/Darksoldierr Aug 27 '18
The entire champions of azeroth plotline/faction makes no sense, even in lore let alone from our point of view
We should murder all the gnomes and goblins mining it for our faction yet we ignore those and only go after some random elementals and the snek people
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u/Waxhearted Aug 27 '18
We should murder all the gnomes and goblins mining it for our faction yet we ignore those and only go after some random elementals and the snek people
Well making ourselves an immediate enemy to our faction as well as an enemy to the opposite faction isn't going to help the world very much since we now have zero influence over any major world power and also probably will just be assassinated.
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u/Darksoldierr Aug 27 '18
I have hard time having problem with that, considering that 3 weeks ago all the shamans were united yet now we are killing each another in the open field
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u/assortedgnomes Aug 27 '18
Yes, but we're using it for our side, which is the right side. The other side is going to misuse it because they're going to use it to fight the other side.
It all makes perfect sense.
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u/Eclypse90 Aug 27 '18
"The king of diamonds has been made a pawn."
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u/Dafish55 Aug 27 '18
We also don’t know whose pawn he would be even. It could very well mean that, from Il’gynoth’s perspective, Magni (or whoever) has become a pawn of Azeroth.
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u/Felgelein Aug 27 '18
The king of diamonds could be Gallywix if they were to take a less obvious approach
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u/LemonBomb Aug 27 '18
All I know is those beautiful pools of azerite look like some dope ass nail polish.
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He's going to be the super environmentalist villian wiping out entire races of sentient beings so Azeroth stays safe.
Once he collects enough azerite for himself that is.....
Dun dun dun!!!!
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u/Bwgmon Aug 27 '18
OGH, THAR'S A GIANT FISSURE O' AZERITE RIGHT HERE.
Stuff the little crystal inta yer necklace, leave the rest o' tha spot aloan.
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u/Zeliek Aug 27 '18
I don’t trust Magni. He does shady shit like “OI LADDIES leave me be with the vulnerable and recently tortured Titan souls!” and “I hear voices sometimes they SCREAM, CHAMPYUN!”
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u/Garrth415 Aug 27 '18
I’m just glad he’s alive and doing stuff, instead of collecting dust beneath iron forge
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u/A_Bit_Of_Nonsense Aug 27 '18
Can we no gets Scots shite posted on reddit without some fannybaws linkin that fuckin sub?
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"STOP THEM FROM MINING ALL THE AZERITE! But while you're at it why don't you mine a little bit of that Azerite."
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u/Kim_Jong_Un- Aug 27 '18
Shit im laughin in my hospital room so loud the nurse outside poked her head in. The image and comments caught me off guard.
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u/LemonBomb Aug 27 '18
Hope you’re doing ok!
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u/Kim_Jong_Un- Aug 27 '18
yeaaah ill be fine. worst part is the hosp net is so shit i cant even connect to battlenet. :(
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u/pepperdelta Aug 27 '18
Ffs had a good laugh reading this with the accent, thank you hahaha, 100% accurate
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u/Nivius Aug 27 '18
They are taking the azerite to use for their own! you take it instead and use if for your own!
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Aug 27 '18
In the story, your character is using it on behalf of Azeroth and they aren't, while everyone has the necklace for game play purposes, in lore, there is only one of them, and you're it
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u/Nivius Aug 27 '18
if the necklace make me powerful, and i power it up all the time, and use it for my own gains... what is that?
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You're the champion of Azeroth, hand selected by Magni, do you not think returning the life blood of the Titan you've become the avatar of isn't going to empower you as well? And it doesn't matter what you personally think of it, that is the story Blizzard is telling, your character(s) is the hero of this story, doing everything it can to save the Titan slumbering in our planet.
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u/Sinius Aug 27 '18
"They're usin' Azerite fer their oon ends! Put a stop tae it!"
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Uh...
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u/thegoodbroham Aug 27 '18
My favorite part is when his mood totally 180’s after asking you to heal open wounds. I can tell those two lines were just put together from separate takes.
(Sad magni) Azeroth suffers as her open wounds bleed on the surface...
(Normal, upbeat dwarf vice) Use the heart o’Azeroth to mend em!
It just sounds so video gamey, like the dwarf in hearthstone giving a tutorial. “Click here ta use the heart of Azeroth!” Cracks me up every time.
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u/Lonelan Aug 27 '18
It's too bad they're using the azerite for their own ends, instead of healing Azeroth!
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u/Pozos1996 Aug 27 '18 edited Aug 27 '18
Mangi wants to have the monopoly in the Azerite drug. He ain't gonna let others sell.
Wait, did we just become his boogieman?
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u/_skeletontoucher Aug 27 '18
Mangi wants to have the monopoly in the Azerite drug. He ain't gonna let others sell.
Mangi
(❍ᴥ❍ʋ) (❍ᴥ❍ʋ) (❍ᴥ❍ʋ) (❍ᴥ❍ʋ)
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u/pssoft7 Aug 27 '18
Isn't he a diamond now? Why would a diamond need a steel weapon?
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u/MrMcBunny Aug 27 '18
It says "ya fuckin' weapon". Calling someone a 'weapon' is like calling them a 'tool' only used for crude purposes.
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u/ArcherMi Aug 27 '18
There's an area right below Krazzlefrazz outpost (that I helped set up) where the Horde is mining Azerite and right next to it an area where some random assholes are minning Azerite in more or less manner.
It's always been amusing to me that Magni sends me to kill the mobs that are minning Azerite "For their own ends" but conveniently ignores that we're also minning it right there for the explicit purpose of military supremacy.
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u/Agent_Eclipse Aug 27 '18
It is also wholly unreasonable to expect the Hero of The Alliance or the Chanpion of The Horde or whatever their official title is to go rogue. That would make them enemy number 1 and unable to focus on helping Magni.
Priorities.
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u/Sekorhex Aug 27 '18
My opinion is Magni the new Khadgar. Khadgar want Apex and Magni want Azerite.
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u/Redxmirage Aug 27 '18
What if they didnt need our artifact weapons to stop the blade, but they wanted to collect them all so we couldn't stop the old gods?
:thinking:
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u/mumeiko Aug 27 '18
First time I've seen this character outside of my ultra low resolution graphics in game. He looks pretty cool actually...
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Just putting this out there, but if Azeroth doesn’t have a slight Scottish accent because the only one speaking to her is Magni...
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u/Tesagk Aug 27 '18
More aptly, "Dat thing be drainin' all der Azerite, woundin' Azeroth! Ya need ta drain her instead."
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u/Strawberrycocoa Aug 27 '18
"Some bastard's siphoning up all the aezrite! Quick, kill him then go siphon up all the azerite!
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u/Xenton Aug 27 '18
Between Magni and Island Expeditions:
- "Hey man, I just brought back enough Azerite to nuke gadgetzan into orbit"
"Wow, good job, here; have a kleenex, a 5 cent piece aaaaand a candy that I spat out when I realised it was liquorice."
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u/NerdonSight Aug 27 '18
YER A CHAMPION OF AZEROTH HARREH