Lore wise, who's more powerful?

[Rivin]

Still seems more logical to have just killed them straight out and be like, oops there goes X amount of work, oh well. Then to seal them away and hope they never become an issue.

The Titans are supposed to be one step short of All-Knowing and Supremely Wise aren't they?

Hindsight is 20/20, eh? It makes sense now that we know the Old Gods can break free of their prisons. At the time, the Titans probably thought the prisons would hold indefinitely.

[Zoma]

Old Gods are masters of corruption and manipulation.
Sargeras was corrupted by Dreadlords.

The Old Gods could probably just recruit Sargeras like they did Deathwing.

[mistuhbull]

You're trying to impose your logic and way of thinking into them it sure as hell sounds like.

Because it is a logical line of thinking, and if the Titans are all about Order, it is assumable they would also be logical.

If you discovered a Termite infestation right after you built a house, would you kill them or put them in a thick wood box and hope they don't come back?

As far as we know, the Titans had limitless materials and ability to build so the only hindrance is time. Now, I dunno bout you but to me it seems logical to solve an issue now rather than hope it doesn't pop up later

[Pet Control]

Because it is a logical line of thinking, and if the Titans are all about Order, it is assumable they would also be logical.

If you discovered a Termite infestation right after you built a house, would you kill them or put them in a thick wood box and hope they don't come back?

As far as we know, the Titans had limitless materials and ability to build so the only hindrance is time. Now, I dunno bout you but to me it seems logical to solve an issue now rather than hope it doesn't pop up later

The Old Gods were there before they even got there. If they had solved Old God problem when they first got to Azeroth, Azeroth wouldn't exist.

If you have a broken arm, you don't cut it off. You get a cast.

[mistuhbull]

The Old Gods were there before they even got there. If they had solved Old God problem when they first got to Azeroth, Azeroth wouldn't exist.

If you have a broken arm, you don't cut it off. You get a cast.

A broken arm doesn't make your chest break.

If you have a cancerous growth you cut it off and blast it with radiation, you don't put a tourniquet on it

[DismalNether]

Lore wise Sargeras would get his ass handed to him. WC3 manual lore states that it took the entire pantheon to beat back the old gods and only imprison them because they were incapable of slaying them. WOTA novels state the old gods were ecstatic that Sargeras was opening a portal because they knew they could easily use his portal to come to the mortal plain defeat him and enslave the burning legion.

[Rivin]

If you discovered a Termite infestation right after you built a house, would you kill them or put them in a thick wood box and hope they don't come back?

You forgot the part where killing the termites would cause the entire house to collapse. :P In that situation, it'd be better to try the solution that didn't destroy everything first, and then try something else should that fail.

[Pet Control]

A broken arm doesn't make your chest break.

If you have a cancerous growth you cut it off and blast it with radiation, you don't put a tourniquet on it

Either way, if they had done as you suggest and got rid of the Old Gods immediately, there would be no Azeroth. As such, there would be no World of Warcraft as we have now.

[mistuhbull]

Either way, if they had done as you suggest and got rid of the Old Gods immediately, there would be no Azeroth. As such, there would be no World of Warcraft as we have now.

They had basically rebuilt Azeroth anyways, they had the plans to do so.

[Pet Control]

They had basically rebuilt Azeroth anyways, they had the plans to do so.

Alright I don't know how else to put this so you understand. If the Pantheon had done what you suggest, World of Warcraft would cease to exist as we know it. There'd be no Old Gods, no Elemental Lieutenants, etc.

[Inbred]

Elune, it would be nice to know that all this time she has been the ruler of the Old God's.

(;

[Jaxi]

As cool as I think Sargeras is, an old god would win. It took multiple titans to subdue a single old god and many fell trying. He's bad ass, but he's not that powerful, imo.

None of the Pantheon fell, all of the Old Gods were subdued. Sargeras was the Champion of the Pantheon, as in the front-liner, as in the big bad badass that you don't screw with 1v1.

Sargeras. Old Gods are manipulators, and work through minions. If it came down to a fight between the two, it wouldn't last long.

[Frumpy Frumpy Frak]

The Old Gods don't posses much physical power and they require time to influence someone's mind. But Sargeras can destroy the entire planet in a very short period of time.

If it was Sargeras fighting the Old Gods then Sargeras would win. But if it was a measure of who has more power over others then the Old Gods would win because their influence can reach out a whole lot farther and you can't fight it.

[Pet Control]

None of the Pantheon fell, all of the Old Gods were subdued. Sargeras was the Champion of the Pantheon, as in the front-liner, as in the big bad badass that you don't screw with 1v1.

Sargeras. Old Gods are manipulators, and work through minions. If it came down to a fight between the two, it wouldn't last long.

He's right that a titan fell, but it wasn't a member of the Pantheon. C'thun and a titan fought in Silithus and the titan was defeated and they believe that C'thun also fell, but he went into hiding.

[Dannz]

They didn't not kill them because they couldn't, they didn't kill them because doing so would destroy Azeroth.

this man is correct.

Yet they were perfectly fine with re-originating the planet to remove the Old Gods milennia later? The fight with the Old Gods was before they had really finished building the planets.

It's one of those things that just doesn't make sense

they were fine with re-originating the planet cause we had deviated from the titan's original plan. up until the killing of loken, they believed everything to be "a-okay" cause nothing suggested otherwise :3

They had basically rebuilt Azeroth anyways, they had the plans to do so.

correct me if i'm wrong... but the titans had alrdy started their plan with Azeroth before they discovered the old gods? so maybe they figured "lets contain his before it gets out of hand, so we don't need to restart everything"

and then it did get out of hand, and they sent algalon to investigate and re-originate the planet if required.

am i wrong on the time line ? :3

[Jaxi]

A broken arm doesn't make your chest break.

If you have a cancerous growth you cut it off and blast it with radiation, you don't put a tourniquet on it

Ever heard of inoperable tumors? You can't cut all cancer out.

[DynastyMonk]

lore states that the titans were barely able to hold the line against the three old gods and their minions, and since sargeras is but 1 titan, im saying old god, hands down

[mistuhbull]

Alright I don't know how else to put this so you understand. If the Pantheon had done what you suggest, World of Warcraft would cease to exist as we know it. There'd be no Old Gods, no Elemental Lieutenants, etc.

regardless of that

The fact is the Titans in their infinite wisdom took the quick route instead of actually solving the problem.

They put it in a box and hoped it wouldn't come back to bite them.

It does not make sense.

[Drakeor]

LOL here's the thing if the titans didn't care about Azeroth the so-called "old gods" would all be dead and this question wouldn't exist, case in point titans win VS. ALL sry thank you for playing =/

[DynastyMonk]

LOL here's the thing if the titans didn't care about Azeroth the so-called "old gods" would all be dead and this question wouldn't exist, case in point titans win VS. ALL sry thank you for playing =/

"A battle between a titan and the Old God C'Thun raged in Silithus. The titan fell and it was thought that C'Thun had also fallen - but he survived unnoticed by the titans."

1v1 old god wins sry thank you for playing :/

http://www.wowpedia.org/Old_Gods