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Normally the speed and mass of Sargeras' sword should have partially cracked Azeroth from its impact, but I won't even go there.
The speed it hit with should have caused massive tsunamis and earthquakes to make the Shattering feel like a level 1 Richeter's scale tremor.
What the fuck is with the mini scar and no other visible damage to the planet?
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2017-12-13, 02:55 AM #1Banned
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How didn't Sargeras cause an earthquake/tsunamis/volcanoes?
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2017-12-13, 02:57 AM #2Mechagnome
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Patience young padawan. The time of death and destruction will occur later.
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2017-12-13, 02:58 AM #3Legendary!
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The magical fire that surrounded AND composed part of the blade made it go very smoothly into the ground. It melted Silithus with minimal ground movement in the adjacent regions.
Also, since the Well of Eternity's implosion, Azeroth's rocky surface has been very porous, which absorbs any impact of this magnitude.
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2017-12-13, 02:59 AM #4The Unstoppable Force
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2017-12-13, 02:59 AM #5The One Sane Man
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Pointy stick vs big round ball.
Slow pointy stick vs 100x the speed of sound round ball.
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2017-12-13, 03:00 AM #6Banned
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Slow is relative, it passed through the atmosphere with the speed of a meteor, if not faster. You could see the air compressing around the tip. Originally Posted by schwarzkopf
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2017-12-13, 03:01 AM #7Elemental Lord
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Magic. It was magic. (Seriously, Earth physics in a world where a large cloud dude spears a planet with a flaming sword? )
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2017-12-13, 03:03 AM #8Stood in the Fire
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Also, magic, unless you want to consider how screwed Azeroth's orbit is for having something bigger than a planet within sword range of it for even a little bit of time
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2017-12-13, 03:04 AM #9Banned
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Ugh...Deathwing flapped his wings and bumped his head on a wall and it split Barrens in two and drowned Thousand Needles. Originally Posted by clevin
Massive sword 50x his size is too much for you?
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2017-12-13, 03:04 AM #10Herald of the Titans
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A three-foot tall gnome can swing around two six-foot spears without killing itself, physics mean nothing in Azeroth.
You could have the world in the palm of your hands
You still might drop it
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2017-12-13, 03:08 AM #11Deleted
It's WoW. Realism went out the door a long time ago. Like, how can this even be a problem when we opened a magic portal to another planet and their proximity had no gravitational effect?
The whole cloud goes humanoid, forms a sword and stabs a planet is problably a bigger offender aswell.
Yeah, i gave up when outland was the remains of a planet floating, not acreting and with an atmosphere. Like... mind blown of nonsense.
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2017-12-13, 03:13 AM #12For Azeroth!
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Sharp magic sword, no resistance to puny sandpit called Silithus.
At least it wasn't magic sand (archimonde in warcraft 3 video used sand to resemble dalaran and then wipe it off the map). /sLast edited by Teri; 2017-12-13 at 03:15 AM.
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2017-12-13, 03:18 AM #13Pit Lord
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I would -really- like to know where his HAND was when he stabbed Silithus. He clearly had his hand on Azeroth - and it was clearly on the surface so it couldn't have been in the ocean... so where? It must've left a huge handprint SOMEWHERE!
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2017-12-13, 03:20 AM #14I am Murloc!
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Its implied that Argus had been helping keep the broken and stuff survive, I assume Azeroth could do the same and lessen the damage to the surrounding area and people.
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2017-12-13, 03:21 AM #15Brewmaster
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Yeah. He bumped his head on the pillar of the world which is in an other dimension safe from Sargeras sword. Originally Posted by Kul Tiras
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2017-12-13, 03:22 AM #16The Lightbringer
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Because Magic..... But Deathwing ripped the world asunder...... #mythicalworldproblems Originally Posted by Kul Tiras
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2017-12-13, 03:26 AM #17Titan
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Deathwing broke the world pillar when he busted from Deepholm, Sargeras did not.
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2017-12-13, 03:29 AM #18The Lightbringer
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cause of magic, forget about the damn sword for a second. Can you image what damage sargeras woulda done to the planet being that close to it, hell it looked like he was straddleing the planet for a few seconds.
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2017-12-13, 03:29 AM #19The One Sane Man
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Nope. A meteor would have entered the atmosphere at up to 72 km/sec. Originally Posted by Kul Tiras
The sword, entered orders of magnitude slower than that, also the sword wasn't physical for much of the journey.
Not an earth shattering event (the impact that is - the insertion into the planet is another story).
Challenge Mode : Play WoW like my disability has me play:
You will need two people, Brian MUST use the mouse for movement/looking and John MUST use the keyboard for casting, attacking, healing etc.
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Now see how far Brian and John get in WoW.
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2017-12-13, 03:39 AM #20Elemental Lord
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it's not how big the sword is, it's how skillfully one swings it. Originally Posted by Kul Tiras
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