But The Lich King’s power didn’t reside with his own physical strength. It resided in his ability to control and animate undead. That was the purpose for which Kil’jaeden created him.
Toe to toe, he really is just a monster with magic like Sylvannas herself.
Comparing their respective fight sequences - that is totally wrong.
Arthas never had a Jaggernaut strenght to crack the ICC flor nor did he wield Telekinesis potent enough to throw house sized boulders at the enemy with one hand.
Arthas never did summon a remortless winter - not when we fought him, not when he fought Illidan nor when he fought Udyr.
Take Frostmourne and Bolvar wipes the floor with Arthas, and even with Frostmourne it would be an interesting fight.
That being said, the whole magic arrows destroying said boulders, magic banshee vanishing and magic chains out of nothing binding one of the biggest badasses ever is lame. And why? Cuz of magic ofc.
Magic in WoW had set rules till now, now tho? It’s a Deus Ex thingy, which is able to do whatever writers want it to without concern of estabilished rules / guidelines for it.
Bolvar isn’t dead tho - and he became de-ranked into a Death Knight.
What’s more he is gonna become Archeus Deathlord like he promised he would in Legion. Us abandoning it in BfA will be a green flag for him taking it over.
Shje has been ruining game plots and lore ages now. She did same for Assassins creed story too (in comics), and now she has given free reign in Warcraft. I doubt she has got her job due her skill, but … yeah well… I’d get forum ban, when speak freely. But it wasn’t about her writing.
So yup my favourite lore-entity butchered by this glorious writer. Great. When I had doubts before, then 9.0 seems to be hard pass for me due lore reasons. Funny reasoning, but really… I cannot force myself play trough her garbage 2nd expansion again.
I hate SJWs as much as any sane person would (which is a lot) but Sylvanas is a beloved warcraft character dating back to before wow even came out.
To make her pure evil and turn against everything she once stood for just to start the battle for azeroth would have been bad writing and would have upset a large proportion of the playerbase.
She has an end game and this expansion looks set to reveal it.
You just need to relax and realise not every capable woman in media is feminists ruining things. She earned where she has gotten.
She’s not Captain Marvel or the much worse Brie Larson. There is a huge difference.
I stopped reading here. If you never fight back Arthas in WotL (of course, Invincible runs do nota counter) or do not know about his power please, shut up. I recommend you to review the spell list if you don’t have idea what you are talking about.