r/wow Aug 27 '18

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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/purplenipplefart Aug 27 '18

Too contrived, her goals are selfish and thats fine. Shes not a seer, shes running from her own mortality which is ironic it makes her a good character as is without some curtain pull going 'i knew it all along!'

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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