I’ve been trying to gather a small list of the pros and cons of the forsaken. In other words, what perks there are to being undead, as well as weaknesses/flaws there are to being undead.
So far, the main points I’ve gathered, are.
Pros:
No need to eat or drink.
Your lack of vital organs & blood makes you immune to most poisons and precision weapons such as daggers/arrows do very little damage against you.
Cons:
Your body is in a perpetuate state of decay and slowly falling apart, thus you need to pay embalmers & such to keep you intact.
You are vulnerable to light magic.
These are some of the ones I’ve gathered so far.
I am curious if you guys have anything you’d add to the list. What are the pros/cons of being undead?
Also, do undead need to rest/sleep? Or can they sprint a marathon across Azeroth without ever needing to rest?
I’m sure i’ve read somewhere in relation to Deathstalkers they have no need for sleep or rest and can stay remain fully submerged in water indefinitely.
I was walking through the streets of Silvermoon the other day and I saw a Forsaken Monk use Fists of Fury…by the time he had finished, his arms had all but disintegrated.
Isn’t it a con that you will become a “mindless” eventually? Because everything keeps rotting, they are basicly seen as death once their minds go crazy?
I don’t know if that’s actually a thing for undead, to become inevitably mindless. Or at least I do not know of any references to that in the game or lore. Whether they are a rotting corpse or a naked skeleton does not seem to affect their mental state however.
Although I do like the concept itself, as it reminds me a lot of Dark Souls; the idea that mindlessness awaits every undead that exists too long; and it can be hastened or delayed depending on how they ‘live’.
I can’t imagine all those dark, necromantic energies keeping undead animated are exactly good for the mind/soul of the person on the other hand.
In a seperate universe in which the Siege of Lordaeron was actually thought through and written properly, this would have meant that it got scrapped and didn’t happen at all.
Seriously, during the dark ages one of the greatest tactics waged against your enemies would be siege warfare. Any defensive structure or fortified city would be incredibly risky to make a full attack against, because a defender’s advantage could give any army the ability to defeat their enemies even when outnumbered 10-to-1. However, if your army was big enough to stand in front of all of the gates and stop your enemy from bringing in food or water, they will inevitably surrender. So, if the undead can’t be starved into submission, they can’t be sieged, and armies will have to risk their forces dying in droves for a chance of victory. That makes them powerful and scary.
Unless, of course, portals are actually viable enough in the WoW universe to move entire armies through and you can just place them behind the enemy walls, in which case why would any settlement bother to have big, expensive walls?
You do not feel tiredness but the damage to muscles and the body will add up regardless. The main reason we feel that, whilst living, is our body telling us that its reaching safe limits.
Cons:
No organic regeneration capability. Damage received stays, unless repaired through magic/………other means and body parts.
Overexerting will do serious damage to tissues as you literally tear yourself apart - which will be difficult to repair. In many people, muscles are capable of exerting far greater forces than the bone structure can handle.
Forsaken are held together with weaker necromantic forces than DKs, so you are doomed to wither.
DKs will always look at you suspiciously as the Lich Queen’s minions
It seems inevitable that you will come to enjoy killing and wanting to turn the living into more Forsaken, like a virus.
You are less edgy than DKs
Light will still damage you and ‘feels like a cauterisation’
Pros:
Self-repair is easier than for the living with various necromantic/blood energies and you can still benefit from Light heals.
You are less vulnerable to Light than DKs and other types of undead, given how Forsaken can cast Light spells freely
You have the Blight Weapon of Mass Destruction
You have almost impenetrable plot armour
You only have one love - the Lich Queen
Laughs in Scourge I mean, what?
Well, it has been shown that the Legion has portal-jamming tech. No reason that it could not be employed against the factions.
Let us not forget how the villification we have been subjected by His Majesty’s BoyKing’s propaganda machine conveniently leaves out occurences such as the following:
When Zelling inquires about his family after his transformation, he is calmly reassured that Ms. Lillian Voss promised to take care of them, that they have been provided with a house and an allowance which enables them a fairly comfortable life and that he can stay calm, not worrying about them, their safety and sustenance.
There’s enough poor saps being dragged into and forcibly join the Sylvannas Warmachine as it is with shoddy explanations. Leave Zelling out of this
At least we know Zelling is the kind that is dull and unsuspecting enough to be blinded by promises that it would be unsurprising if his family are dead by now under Lich Queen 2.0’s orders and neither Lilian nor Rexxar have said anything about it.
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