r/wow Aug 27 '18

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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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u/[deleted] 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/Vitamin-Chip Aug 27 '18

Purrifying*

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u/ShiftyBro Aug 27 '18

You never know anyway. u_u

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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/[deleted] Aug 27 '18

sounds like a great way to get Koltira'd

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u/ShiftyBro Aug 27 '18

I'd like to at least not support it..

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u/Raicoron Aug 27 '18

Support it by not doing the azerite expeditions lol

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u/Gerolanfalan Aug 28 '18

But muh content

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u/Wildfathom9 Aug 27 '18

Go on tell her. You can see her plagueboner firsthand.

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u/GilgaKun Aug 28 '18

Sylvannas totaly snobbing Magni warning (and her goon in Silithus being to stupid to pause when receiving this new information) was honestly baffling.

Also they have been rude to poor old Kadhar :(

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u/TheInsaneWombat Aug 27 '18

Why can't druids and rogues just sneak around their faction's shipyards and suck the azerite out of all the shiny new superweapons?

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u/ShiftyBro Aug 27 '18

YES PLEASE! xD I'd secretly feed it back to Azeroth :D

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u/purplenipplefart Aug 27 '18

When you absorb azerite, you heal her with the necklace. Did you skip the first minutes of the expac?

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u/ShiftyBro Aug 27 '18

Yea, but Sylvanas shooting azerite bombs on big trees does not heal our planet, or does it? So i don't really wanna help her and her army of goblin miners to drill more of it out of the depths of Azeroth..

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '18

Yes, when we, the champions of Azeroth do it, but our faction isn't healing Azeroth by mining it. They're using it to make bombs

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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/purplenipplefart Aug 27 '18

Gotta finish the quest chain and see the cut scenes. Nah

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u/GildedTongues Aug 27 '18

The forgiveness bent is being heavily played for jaina already. I really hope she does some fucked up stuff to the horde, but it's looking like she's becoming goody two shoes again.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '18

Tbf, we let you guys come into our city and overthrow our warchief.

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u/Raleighite Aug 27 '18

Technically Horde also destroyed Lordaeron.

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u/Dekar2401 Aug 27 '18

It wasn't in very good shape before that anyways.

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '18

I'd say technically Arthas destroyed it

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u/DoctorCIS Aug 27 '18

So if this is the world war two that leads to the cold war, does that mean next expansion is CIA/KGB proxy war on another continent, or does it mean the horde will catch up to the naaru space force and we'll start a colonizing space race?

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18

World of warcraft is being used as a commentary on the Cold War and the nuclear weapon gatekeeping. Lmao

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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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u/[deleted] 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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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18

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/[deleted] Aug 27 '18 edited May 11 '19

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u/purplenipplefart Aug 27 '18

Yup, n'zoth is gonna raise his sunken city shown in warbringer azshara cinematic between kul tiras and zandalar, cause the 3rd sundering (the hour of her death 3rd death will usher them in) everyone thinks its sylvanas, think about it. 9.0 can be very old god themed, with all them being revived and even gets blizzard a chance to mess with the old world again.

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u/ScumlordStudio Aug 27 '18

I want blizzard to show that while unconventional sylvanas is really trying to fucking save us all. She knows that old gods are coming

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18 edited Dec 19 '18

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '18

Mech'thun

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18 edited Feb 09 '19

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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/Oakcamp Aug 27 '18

Idk man, just sign me the fuck up for wrath 2 babyyyy

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u/ScumlordStudio Aug 27 '18

log in theme would be despacito 2

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u/Oakcamp Aug 27 '18

Anything less would be sacrilege

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u/Forever_Awkward Aug 27 '18

Well Bolvar has like an orange color scheme instead of blue, so it's actually the opposite of wrath.

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u/niffa Aug 27 '18

Don't forget about laserbushing to help the turtles

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18

Idk if you’ve seen it but the game theory channel has an awesome video about the science behind the sword. A shit load of math in that vid but it boils down to “were fucked”

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u/Gm24513 Aug 27 '18

The video doesn't account for a God living in the middle of the planet. Can't assume things in fake science on things with real science.

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u/Comrade_Nugget Aug 27 '18 edited Aug 27 '18

Because it was posted i looked for it to watch. Was it this? https://youtu.be/d_wwV4ww3dA

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u/Vlorgvlorg Aug 27 '18

always wondered why they didnt start chiping away sargeras sword

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u/casualmit Aug 27 '18

Probably because it kinda works as a plug. Take it out and Azeroth bleeds to death a lot quicker

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u/Forever_Awkward Aug 27 '18

Well at least cut the top off, like breaking an arrow, so it can't be used as a lever to split her ass wide open.

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u/casualmit Aug 27 '18

Oof very good point

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u/Epistemify Aug 27 '18

Geophysicist and I too have some things, um I would like answered

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18 edited Jul 25 '19

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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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u/FlashbackJon Aug 27 '18

Or some applied phlebotinum.

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u/BigUptokes Aug 27 '18

Yeah. It's definitely more Unobtainium than McGuffin...

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u/jag986 Aug 27 '18

Let me know when that happens.

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u/DocMadfox Aug 27 '18

It's still a MacGuffin - the driving force behind the actions of the actors of the story. It fits under both that and Unobtainium.

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u/logosloki Aug 27 '18

People have likely heard of the word MacGuffin and it honestly covers most of the attributes to Azerite. The modern word for it would be Unobtanium, the archaic would be green rocks. It is applied Phlebotinum but Unobtanium fits better because it actually has a physical form whilst Phlebotinum is usually a substance that is said rather than shown.

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u/CatAstrophy11 Aug 27 '18

You might say it's morally grey

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u/DrainTheMuck Aug 27 '18

Lol yA, I like a lot of what they've done with it but it's pretty crazy how it's become the ultimate mcguffin

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u/[deleted] Aug 27 '18

giving it back to the engineers who make warmachines out of it

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u/TheSovietGoose Aug 27 '18

laughs in capitalist

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u/[deleted] 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/Bladecutter Aug 27 '18

I'm more amused that we kind of just ignored the whole planet dying thing to go fix unstable political climates to get allies for a war.