Don’t all these use the same ARCANE energies?
This would also make Tyrande and MAlfurion hypocrites as they banished the practicioners of magic but they did it themselves .
I am a bit confused and high with my sleeping pill.
Balance druid use nature magic.
Stars are entirely natureral and if your moon goddess allows you to use them it is fine.
All druids serve nature.
Arcane users tent to try and enslave nature.
Assuming wow druids follow the same rules as d&d: a druid mindset should be in tune with nature or they lose there power.
Even if this is not the case: every magic in wow is access differently.
We know you need devoution to your believes to use light, shaman ask spirits for favors, warlocks offer up life and souls.
Druids live in balance with nature and like the light require a certain mindset.
Remember that elune is called the moon goddess. Starfall is elunes gift to her priest.
As for druids: try and see nature as more the just tree’s. The sea is natural. So is fire, stars and death.
Aslong a druid is in balance with nature it can call upon it to act in its favor.
Mages and arcane on the other hand alter the laws on nature for there benifit.
The eternal sprint of qualthalas for example.
Is an abomination in the eyes of the druids.
The use of magic collers to enslave beast(you have to kill beast whos collars break in the blood elf starting zone).
Horrible.
Druids using stars or fire is nornal.
Arcane magic allows for unatural stuff like time control, mind domination, brooms that clean rooms.
Arcane is way more then mages in game have.
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To me Arcane seemes like some sort of “cosmos” magic - it affects time and space or just explodes with energy. Stars and moons are part of Cosmos* as well so that’s probably why it’s classified this way. Druids / Elune priestesses channel that power through faith rather than tapping into raw thing like mages do.
But it’s also important to remember that WoW as a game is limited by specific rules and mechanics. They can’t have dozens of damage types each with it’s own resistances nor can they have class bloat - moon priestess was a specific hero in WC3 yet they dismantled her to give pieces of it across multiple classes in WoW (Trueshot aura - hunters, Starfall - druids, overall theme - priests).
The Night Elves? Hypocrites? /gasp
The biggest distinction i would see for them between the “astral” arcane energy and the arcane energy present in Azeroth and the universe as a whole (leylines etc) is that astral magic is granted as a “blessing” to the user by Elune whereas mages manipulate it directly. They could make a case for Arcane magic being more easily abused because the user isn’t limited by Elune’s “benevolence” but i think that is like Nelf guilt and misdirection tbh.
The Night Elves are the race who most need to accept that anyone is capable of great good or great evil and that cosmic forces are just means to an end. They’ve positioned themselves as the “de facto” guardians of nature but even after outlawing arcane magic they still ignored the aspects, planted a world tree directly into Saronite, inadvertently created the Emerald Nightmare and ultimately led to the death of Ysera. Fandral tried to bring Ragnaros into the world again. They spent millenia subjugating the other mortal races during the Time of Kal’dorei empire and almost drove the trolls - the first mortal race and their direct ancestors - to extinction because they have always viewed themselves as superior.
Don’t get me wrong i don’t discount that the biggest factors in alot of what i mentioned were either Azshara, Xavius or Stagheim, however, the Nelves will hold the Horde responsible for Sylvanas or Garrosh’ actions until the end of time but they want you to forget that they have produced some of the most unquestionably villainous beings to ever exist and are ultimately responsible for the Shattering, the Emerald Nightmare, the release of the Old Gods and the arrival of the Legion on Azeroth. Most of Azeroths problems can ultimately be traced back to an arrogant Night Elf.
You are losing the point of the thread. It was not those Night Elves “Nature Fanatics” who have opened the gates to the first Invasion of the Legion. It was “Arcane fanatics”, who did not knew about Legion totally anything. Young race that wanted better for theirs Arcane knowledge.
In the end Night Elves “Nature Fanatics”, have stopped them, managed to save the world, and they restrict the Arcane because of all those dangerous things it brings.
The second invasion was again because of the Arcane! High Elves have shared arcane knowledge with humans. Another young race with no knowledge about Legion. Which in the end led to the things that have happened in War 1, 2 and 3. All the 3 things happened because of the Arcane.
And again Night Elves “Nature Fanatics” had to fight to save the world.
Later another small invasion almost happened because of the Blood Elves. Again it happened because of the Arcane Hunger!
Of course the last and most biggest invasion happened because of the Garrosh time travels, not because of the Arcane. But again, Night Elves “Nature Fanatics” had to fight to save the world, together with others. To pay for that with their own blood.
Regarding everything else. Night Elves are not responsible in the death of Ysera. It was war. Cenarios, Malorn, Malfurion were defeated. It was the world biggest invasion. Ysera came to fight like everybody else and was defeated. Just like many many other heroes that were killed because of the Legion.
And the person who is responsible in this is Garrosh. The one who have opened the first gates, and the one who wanted to invade Azeroth.
Regarding Fandral Staghelm, well it’s a big joke to compare him with creatures like Sylvanas and Garrosh. Because in fact it stated by Blizzard that Fandral Staghelm officially lost his mind, while all the evil things that Sylvanas and Garrosh did, they did with a totally clear head.
As for Azshara, first of all, she is not an elf any more. Second, in 8.3. it reveals that she have open the dungeon of the Old God, because this is the only way how to kill him. She help us to kill him, so she is not evil anymore. Just like Gromm in WoD “Azerooooth is Freeeeee” (c).
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No, they are not all arcane.
Arcane is just a manifestation of cosmic force, arcane is order.
Fel is cosmic force of Disorder.
NAture if manifestation of Life.
Holy magic is manifestation of Light
ETC.
Just look at the map of cosmic forces.
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