So, burning Plague is "believable" to you, but (going the opposite direction) freezing it (and let's be honest, plague probably has some order of solid/gaseous/liquid states) isn't? And you're assumptions are your own craft; it's never stated that the plague is immune to cold, or necromantic magic. So allow myself an assumption: Arthas was slightly affected by the plague, but saw that it would wipe out everything at his gates, so he just mosied off to go take a Claritin.
To me, the cannons looked less like physical maniplation of cannons and cannonballs, and more like "doesn't it look neato to shoot Arcane Missiles out of cannons?", but YMMV.
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Yeah it's kind of ridiculous to believe that a weapon that is specifically designed to kill the Lich King would be very susceptible to the cold, after all he only lives in the literal coldest place on Azeroth and is greatest master of frost magic in the world. It's just not believable that a weapon designed to kill a specific person could easily be stopped by that person, hence why fire is believable. As for the Wrath Gate, well the Lich King is a lot harder to kill than the average person, and Putress focused his fire on the troops rather than the Lich King as his goal was to start a coup for the Burning Legion.
As for the arcane missiles, well I haven't really seen them as shown to be destructive enough to destroy fortified city walls, but it's hard to tell. I really don't have that much of a problem with that one.
Yeah I mean why make a plague for the sole purpose of annihilating a cruel leader with full control over ice and necromancy magic, on a frozen continent full of undeads and also make it immune to those two things?
That'd be entirely silly to make your plan of action have a larger chance of success.
it was fucking metal, stupid, but metal.
i mean look at those arcane cannons.
The coldest place on Azeroth had no affect on multiple people's bare-skin, so we know that things don't instantly freeze there.
And it's also quite possible that Jaina's magic is colder than the natural temperature of Northrend. Since...y'know...it's magic. Plus she can encase people in ice (which includes Arthas).
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How would plague be "immune" to the cold, but not immune to fire? You mean it can easily burn and water can wash it away, but it can't be frozen?
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Well Jaina finally did something, wish Arthas and Uther were there to see everything, wonder what would they think about all of this
Let me put it this way the Blight's closest analogue with the real world would be with chemical weapons, and like them it has been carefully designed and cultivated. As they deliberately designed the Blight to kill the Lich King it makes sense that they would design it to be incredibly resistant to cold. If their goal was killing dragons it'd make sense for it to be incredibly resistant to heat, because a weapon is ineffective if the target can easily negate it's damage.
If they can. It's entirely possible that they were just unable to figure out a way in time (if it's even possible), or didn't think it was really that necessary to begin with. The blight was meant to be mass produced as a weapon towards both the undead and the living. A weapon most important part is its damaging feature. The Blight can be blasted away by powerful ice / water magic? Sure, just keep attacking the target with more and more canisters. It's not like Lich King has some sort of passive frost armor - good luck using up your strength to withstand the assault.
Moreover, I'd like to bring up the fact that the Blight wasn't developed to target Arthas himself. It was meant to bring his demise by destroying the Scourge - his army. It was both stated in-game ("She has challenged us to concoct a new plague, a plague deadlier than any ailment on Azeroth. This new disease will bring Arthas's Scourge Army to ruin.") and in "Rise of the Lich King" ("At last, Arthas, you will pay for what you have done. The humans who spawned such as you shall be slaughtered. Your Scourge shall be stopped in their tracks. You will no longer be able to hide behind your armies of mindless undead puppets. And we will grace you with the same mercy and compassion you showed us"). The goal was to create a plague that works on both the living and the undeath, not to make one that can kill the Lich King.
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I don't know. I have quite laugh . It's quite funny cinematic...
She summoned skeletons not forsaken. Big difference in power level we are talking about. Also Skeletons don't need to have the persons soul binded to it. It's just basic necromancy. In wciii I believe she had An ability that turned those she killed into skeletons that fought for her. She can even do that in HOTS with mercenaries.
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I thought it was kinda cheesy and lame tbh
My thought was "lol, childish"
I will always prefer Sylvanas over this ship. Just for not being part of such an childish image
Some people really don't know how to enjoy things.
Coming in on a flying magic ship shooting arcane cannonballs is awesome.
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