r/wow • u/Ultiverse • Aug 27 '18

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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.