Paladins rezing people in WC3 is a game mechanic and not a lore mechanic. Just resurrecting ONE person in lore was a big deal but Anduin can do it to an entire battalion? Yeah no.
As for Velen's abilities, sure that's strong but it's not resurrecting a massive amount of people on a battlefield strong. And blocking attacks with a bubble is strong but not as strong as the resurrection of a battalion strong.
And who gave you the power to differentiate game mechanics from lore mechanics? Unless stated otherwise, the abilities used by characters in WC3 are canon. Jaina used mass teleport in a WC3 cinematic, so it's safe to say she can use that ability in canon. Therefore you can't say that Uther and other Silver Hand Paladins from the Third War can't use mass resurrect. You're trying to dictate canon in order to prove your point which holds no water.
Anduin is one of the few characters in the story WITH a story and growth.
And you complain about Mary Sue? This is fantasy. EVERY character is a Mary Sue if need be.
Ironically the game goes into a direction where he is exactly not a Mary Sue.
But hey people like to complain here so much. Heavens this forum gets more cancerous every year.
And sure. Everything is about the alliance... not like it is about the horde leadership day in and day out. And i play horde btw. No side is favoured.
Jaina is one of the if not the most powerful mage in the current wow universe. Of course she takes the whole maw thing better than a depowerd shaman and whatever baine is.
I'll take him over Jaina any day of the week. Her story and her mother were serious bullpucky.
Medan is one of the worst characters in WoW Anduin is no where close to the worst
Anduin is maybe the most consistently written character with the clearest character arc. Since Cataclysm they have been building him in one direction and paying off what they set up. Honestly, I think he may be the closest thing the story has to a central character, too. I'm not going to get into the argument over if he is a Mary Sue type or not because, for one, I don't think he really is, and two, a lot of characters in WoW can be argued as being one because, well, mostly Blizzard is trash at character development.
Good thing that Med'an has been pretty much 404'd (literally) off canon.
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Goody goody two shoes, can't do anything wrong (and if he ever does it doesn't matter because the story ignores it), everyone loves him and cannot question him without being tagged as unreasonable/edgy/evil, completely undeserved position, etc.
Lol it's widely accepted that game mechanics =/= lore. In the lore, resurrection is a HUGE deal. So saying that it's canonical that people can just resurrect people all the time is ridiculous because if resurrection was as easy as it is with game mechanics then all the dead lore NPCs would still be alive.
The idea of Anduin being a compassionate leader is a good one, but I agree the overall execution could be done better.
I love the idea of him being a priest, a total opposite of Sylvanus... literally. Showing that it has always been good vs evil. I like it that way, as someone who plays both sides.
I think that title is already given to Sylvanas. and if you don't think Sylvanas is a mary sue then I don't think you know what a mary sue is used for.
Anduin might be annoying sometimes with his holier-than-thou and really boring lawful good moral alignment but he is far from a badly written or flawless character. it should be noted that while the character himself is sound, there needs to be more tension among the alliance, for instance among the Stormwind nobility, putting a character like Anduin in the midst of that tension and watching how it unfolds is what makes a story interesting. Blizzard seems to focus solely on a few set of characters at a time, giving the impression that the rest of the world (of warcraft ) is in isolation from the new developments.
we also have Tauren reincarnation and resurrection, and it was even showcased in Rexxar campaign where you used Bovan Windtotem and his Spirit Walkers to revive dead Taurens on that mission to rescue Baine
but for some reason it was never shown in WoW. Perhaps it was just to show the importance of Spirit Walkers in melee?
The Alliance gets the Horde's most popular race. The Horde should get the Alliance's most popular race in return. Alteraci Humans for the Horde!
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Sorry, but you’re not making sense. How does that make Anduin himself a cancer?
I like him, he is fine, I’m not gonna blame a fictional character for the reason all other characters are been intentionally written by him. That’s not his fault. Nor is it the character’s fault.
If you think how they’ve handled it is bad, then that’s a writing criticism, not character.
Sounds like alliance bashing and blaming for all the things you don’t like in the horde.
But it’s not the alliance’s fault that the horde had turned into the alliance with a council of goodly meaning intentioned people. While the alliance has become led by a war chief single leader.
Too bad that e.g. Cairne didn't use his resurrection ultimate when he was killed during the Mak'gora with Garry. And why didn't e.g. Liadrin just resurrect Vol'jin instead of just letting him go down? Maybe Genn could have summoned one of his priests to resurrect his son, instead of simply burying him. C'mon.
The Alliance gets the Horde's most popular race. The Horde should get the Alliance's most popular race in return. Alteraci Humans for the Horde!
I make Warcraft 3 Reforged HD custom models and I'm also an HD model reviewer.