Just watched the Warcraft movie and I noticed a scene in which Gul’dan transferred a life force from a deer to baby Thrall (using Fel ofc). Yesterday I read about the ability of druids to heal: “Druid healing involves life force being drained and transferred.” and just wonder how is it a different thing from what Gul’dan did with the deer and baby Thrall…
What is the difference between a warlock and a druid playing with the life force of the living beings? I just have a feeling Blizzard is trying to explain the inexplicable. Is this just bad writing on the story or am I missing something?
Noone can explain how the natural force of life (in real life) is originated. Blizzard point of view of how Life works in warcraft universe we understand it is a certain amount. And powerful characters can manipulated it but never creat more of it or “let it grow”. I have a difficult time playing my druid knowing im just a mage who play with the life force no different from blood DK or a warlock…
Is there a reason why I can be druid and not warlock and vice verse?
Pardon me if my english is a little bit murlocish and thanks for your replies in advance!
I think the main difference here is that warlocks take life energy forcefully, while a druid would ask and trade. For example, in Elegy Malfurion plucks berries from a plant, and then he gives some of his own life energy to replenish it.
It’s a matter of giving and taking. For a warlock, it’s only a matter of taking.
Yeah, the relation of fel to life (and death for that matter…) is another one of these things that’s a bit vague. Fel is sacrificial magic. It is drawn by taking and burning up life and souls, and the Warcraft movie depicts that one quite nicely. You get Fel by destroying other stuff. So, I would guess the healing of Thrall in the movie should not be interpreted als Gul’dan just taking the life force of the deer and giving it to Thrall, but as Gul taking the life force, burning it up, and using the changed kind of energy to use a fel-based healing spell. That’s why baby Thrall also got corrupted by it.
Yes I understand that, just find it odd this whole thing “trading” life for life… As we saw it in the last starwars movie. Could you just restore the life without asking something else to sacrifice his…
In the end it dosnt matter if you take it forcefully or just ask politely - the end result is one thing dies. This may be my personal point of view but I just cant picture a Druid character doing that.
Isnt it that the whole point of HoTs, healing over time… just let the life restore itself slowly as everything in the real life? Otherwise whats the point of waiting, just kill something (ask politely ofc) and restore it “instantly”…
Well, sure, if you are looking at one for one that might be the case. But as I understand it, that isn’t usually how it is for druids. They are connected to the Emerald Dream, which is connected to all life. You might not kill one tree to let another grow, but stunt the growth of a thousand trees by a fraction of a percent to get the same result.
Might just be the way that nature magic works best. It’s just not the same thing as Light or Fel.
As others have clarified in response, Druids do not take life forcefully.
They are in a profound communion with the wilds and the natural world. The powers they wield are granted unto them from this bond they have with nature.
And when it comes to healing, other life forces concede portions of their energy to the druid to restore life. This is not meant to result in death, for a druid would never ask for all of a being’s essence to give to another, nor would the being in question willingly destroy itself. They will give what they can and what they wish, and always be left with enough to recover.
For example, in the War of the Ancients trilogy, Malfurion heals Korialstrasz after he has been mortally wounded by the Black Dragonflight. The effort it takes him to heal a dragon is enough to have the surrounding forest he was standing in wither, but life still remains and he acknowledges that in the coming seasons the forests will recover in time.
For balance must ultimately be maintained and it is not in a druid’s interest to bring death, rather to nurture life.
Warlocks drain the soul, while druids drain the body.
The difference is in the source, and i think a Druid would never take all the life from something to heal, he would take a little bit from many things, so everything stays alive.
This is what druids will seek to avoid. They’ll, for example take life energy from plantlife, but they will make sure that plant will have enough left to survive and thrive again, or give it some of his own life energy back. A warlock would just rip the plant from all of its life energy and cause permanent damage.
Yes, Thyasa, I understand all of this. But if we accept this logic, if a druid is to borrow “some” life to restore another it means there is a certain amount of life in the universe. If that plant is to restore itself something else should “sacrifice” some of their life etc etc… If we accept that the life force of this plant is going to replenish “in time” then the idea itself is self-excluding (blizzards explanation i mean)
That life is made of every spirit and living thing across the universe.
Plants, animals, elementals, you name it.
This does not mean there is a “Life Pool” where only a certain amount of beings can exist at any one given point in time. It depends on the druid’s current location.
In a forest there could be more life than in a desert.
Why? Trees lose their leaves in the passing of Autumn.
In time the branches blossom and flourish again. Natural processes still continue in the world, the use of nature magic doesn’t stop them.
Well no. They just regrow through their natural processes like photosynthetis. See it as replenishing their own life force. That’s also why druids are inclined to take from plantlife, rather than fauna, because they can “repair” themselves more easily.
@Calevarn, I dont deny the natural flow of nature how it blossom and then fade and then again… What I dont understand is why cant a druid just enhance this process, the healing process like “overgrowth” not just take to give.
The entire concept of druidism is defending and maintaining nature’s balance. Healing or mending is also part of that balance. Druids do not see natural ‘‘disasters’’ as disasters they see them as a natural process of life. So a druid will never abuse nature for their selfish needs such as a Warlock who drains the life essence instead of sharing it. I don’t think a druid has ever done anything this vile, the biggest strain on nature that comes to mind is in the novel ‘‘Stormrage’’ where Malfurion uses the entire life force of Azeroth simultaneously with the Emerald dream to destroy the old god’s nightmare.
To add,in Darkshore you can quest with Malfurion and he talks about that,furthermore in the Novel Wolfheart Varian is in shock that Malfurion joined him on a hunt because he thought druids would a abhor that, in turn Malfurion explained that death is a natural part of life and that the hunt that predators perform maintains balance, he is only against the senseless murder of animals for sport,fun, or selfish needs(which is what most Warlocks do).
