I never really liked the idea that Demon Hunters can’t use Arcane due to Fel Corruption when we see actual demons use it just fine, but I imagine that the stronger/more corrupted by Fel you are, the more difficult it is to cast Arcane spells.
Do we? I can’t say any demons casting arcane spells immediately come to mind.
Pretty much every Fire spell that isn’t Green/Fel
Wasn’t it stated earlier in this thread that fire is elemental fire and not arcane?
arcane isn’t the only way to mess with the elements, not by a longshot
The more I read this thread the more I start to loathe the chronicles and their cosmology.
It’s fine as a soft magic system (which has always been the case with WoW), but as soon as people start bringing in hard rules into it, it falls apart because of many contradictions that arise.
Well they’re clearly not asking the elements for help or using decay.
So apart from the demon summonings (which I realise is a big thing) it doesn’t look as if warlocks actually use fel a lot of the time, if they don’t want to. What I mean is that if you found a warlock who only summoned demons (fel) but then was mostly afflictiony then there wouldn’t seem to be all that many fel based spells they’re using, and they’d still fit the description of a warlock.
I think you’re right. It’s a bit like Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. It works because no one is scrutinising it.
But if I was to think a bit about it, maybe few/arcane hybrid is not an efficient spec of magic user? Too much studying to master them both, not enough time to conjure up both sets of energies before you get peppered with a dozen arrows or get an axe through the skull. I’d recon that magic users are maximalists when it comes to doing damage.
Blizzard doesn’t seem to really care about it either, so I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t blame any roleplayer for ignoring it entirely. If it’s written as “Titan bias” (i.e retconned from relevance so Blizzard can add more retcons), then anything in Chronicles could be discarded at any moment. It is effectively meaningless.
This is my stance, yeah. World of Warcraft isn’t a setting that takes itself as serious as, say, Elder Scrolls - or even The Forgotten Realms. You can find a random NPC or line of quest text to justify any use of magic, any combination - so, why bother stressing over it? Magic is magic, and the limit is the random quest writer’s imagination.
been saying it for ages
Chronicles are simply titan fanfic
Tauren being fleshcrafted yaungol that come from Pandaria and were created by Mogu is my least, least favourite bit of lore in the entire canon. I hated it so much.
Tbf there are very few fantasy settings that aren’t the creation of one obsessive individual that are as serious about “Lore” as The Elder Scrolls. Even TES has had some pretty rubbish missteps over the years (Looking at you everything from the first year or so of TES:Online).
Only one that’s comparable, Glorantha which might qualify as the product of an obsessive individual tbh.
I doubt they’re Shaman.
nor is gul’dan but he sure managed to make the earth move when he wrecked Hellfire Citadel
He created a river of Fel, then made bolts of Fel impale the Citadel, which solidified. He didn’t manipulate the Earth.
I guess growing a fel-volcano in Shadowmoon was also solidified fel?
arcane can enslave elementals but apparently fel, the evil magic, is not able to
aight
It sort of makes sense if you think enslaving as “imposing order” (if we believe the “Arcane = Order” part of the cosmology chart).