But I am and I confirm this.
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Don’t Dark Shamans rely on shadow magic, which has an obvious weakness in Light? Not sure if that can be 1:1 compared to regular shamanism.
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Blackhand easily killed Maraad with nothing but a ball of steel.
Does that then mean that earthly materials easily beat the Light?
I think so.
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This has been known for a while now
People who /w to incorrect you about something on your profile, if you’re going to ‘correct’ someone make sure you’re actually right, otherwise you look like a pretentious idiot.
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I once visited a cattle farm where they had this big machine that would roll around the cow pasture, scooping up droppings. Then the machine would drop all of it into a gigantic container where it could be processed for fertilizer. Well one day that container broke and a week’s worth of accumulated cow feces spilled out all over the pasture. And that was the biggest pile of bull 
I had ever seen, until I read Brigante’s post.
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Imagine the smell…
Which bit, the struck by Lightning bit? I will admit, I was exaggerating somewhat, however I was close enough to be stunned and floored by it, along with a couple of other people, was at a LARP event in the grounds of an old disused prison that had been bought as an airsoft venue. I’d say happy days, but it wasn’t really…
They technically use Decay, not shadow
Is that true? I’ve always been going by the idea that a mortal wound is usually fatal, as per Golden’s description of the average undead.
That seems to vary wildly. There’s a decapitated Forsaken in Nazmir that is, all in all, very much alright. You get a whole quest to collect all his limbs and put him back together, and he’s good as new.
We also see the zombie models, who often have arrows through their heads and hearts.
Honestly, the only guaranteed ways I can imagine to kill a DK are that spine thing, or utterly crushing or otherwise fully destroying the head.
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While the canon/seriousness of what I’m gonna say can be discussed, I do think it’s worth mentioning that we also got the Headless Horseman, who can only be defeated/killed by slaying his head.
And despite the character being more of a joke/Halloween fluff thing, I do think it’s an interesting point to raise when discussing undeads since he is undead himself.
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and much like the DKs, I believe his undeath is a product of demonic folks too. It does indeed lend some credibility to my theory of how to kill a DK properly.
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Aye, it was done by Balnazzar while he was still under the disguise of Saidan Dathrohan. 
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If memory serves correct there’s an Undead in the Traveler novel who gets beheaded and simply puts himself back together.
But that would also be taking lore cues from a childrens book.
It is hard to see how anything would survive being beheaded, but then it -is- an enduring myth, from the Headless Horseman, to the Green Knight Legend where an enemy Knight is beheaded and simply picks up their head and walks calmly off with it. The easy catch-all is ‘Magic’, but we also see it work the other way around. We see examples where DK’s and Forsaken do -not- act that way. We know for example that DK’s are capable of Cowardice (Orbaz Bloodbane) We know that Forsaken do indeed feel fear and are no more stoic than anyone else (Silverpine questing) We also know that shooting a Forsaken in the head will end its existance (Again, Silverpine, Godfrey and co basically one shot a load of Forsaken ‘cowards’ in Pyrewood, and even more tellingly, shoot Sylvanas in the head and ‘kill’ her. (As in without the Val’kyr, she would be gone for realises). Given what we see in game, it does kind of seem like Forsaken (As much as I hate the analogy) are like George A Romero Zombies. Go for the Brain, and its an insta-kill. Severing bits just doesn’t seem to work.
I don’t subscribe to the idea that a Forsaken can put -itself- back together again, anyone who has tried to cut their own hair to get rid of a wayward curl whilst looking in a mirror can testify that it is quite tricky, to get the spatial awareness right. Now imagine that if your head was sat on a rock next to you, whilst you try to thread a needle. I mean its hard enough anyway!
I do reckon Forsaken can stitch each other back together again however, I mean they don’t make biological sense, by our reckoning. Of course they don’t They are magical entities in a world with magic, and our rules don’t apply (Though I still maintain they should smell of absolutely -nothing- rather than rotting, but that’s just me) We do however see that they do use needle and thread to put themselves back together again, it was an old quest back in the day, where you stitched some dudes hands on by the Gilnean Wall (Well before Worgen were playable) and you see it in the starting Forsaken experience, in fact the first quest, where you have to find some thread, for that very purpose.
It pretty much does look like Forsaken are Romero classic undead. Shoot/stab them in the head, and that’s them done. Burning would work too, I guess. Basically destroy the brain.
Seems like Death Knights are almost uniquely hard to kill (caresses soulstone), and some of them really are a marathon rather than a race. The Black Knight anyone? It took three “deaths” for him to stay down.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/The_Black_Knight
Ehhh, he was a Raid boss. I don’t think that is how a normal Death Knight works.
*Dungeon
His specs did seem a little above the playable DKs, but the point remains. You have to be fairly thorough if you want to ensure they don’t come back; corporeal or otherwise.
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From “Guide to the Side Effects of Reanimation” found in the DK starter area:
Keep an eye on your rotting. Some is all very well to scare your foes, but an arm falling off mid-stab is just embarrassing.
Learn to love your stench. Some say foul, we say rawrr.
From Before The Storm:
The undead being who stood before the king of Stormwind was shorter than average but otherwise unrecognizable. The beard was gone. Cut? Rotted away? And the hair was dark with dried blood and ichor. He smelled like old vellum: dusty but not unpleasant. Faol had died when Anduin was a child, and the boy had never gotten to meet him.
I know, as I said, its just me trying to rationalise it, which it isn’t possible to do, because -magic- I always took that as humoristic writing anyway, I found it difficult to imagine a Death knight actually writing Rawrr, but eh, I mean not the least of which would mean that a Death Knight is considerably less scary than they are supposed to be, as one solid whack would take their arms or legs off.
I’m not saying “Death Knights and Undead don’t smell because -I- say so.” I’m saying it doesn’t really make sense given what they are, but then, we are talking about physically impossible creatures in a fantasy world.
This said, at what point did Alonsus Faol forget about the existence of -water-, or did he think that rocking up with dried blood and ichor (Which should have flaked off and gone by that point) was a positive move likely to enamour him to the living, which was presumably his aim.
-I- don’t think that Undead should smell of anything, but I am perfectly cognisant that in WoW they do, hence my own Undead Death Knight takes great pains to wear heavy cologne that smells of rose petals, Because, well, he is still a person, and, also, he is a keen rose gardener as his hobby when not brutally murdering criminals in a Judge Death kind of way.