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** There is literally no source or evidence anywhere that indicates that the Sunwell & Blood Elves were a metaphor for drug addiction. The biggest way to insult a content creator is to shoehorn your own social & political views into their work, like the above troper did.
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** Its strongly implied that a new Forsaken is created with surrogate body parts to make up for the ones lost. Naturally, they'd use younger & more healthy organs as surrogates...
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** Xal'atath, Blade of the Black Empire has an unusual shape for a weapon - it resembles a sideways "S", with the grip on the inside of one curve, and the blade (of course) on the other. Closer examination, however, reveals that the inner curve of the blade is entirely decorative (for the starter appearance, at least; also the appearance it had before the player empowers it). The outer curve, however, is definitely sharp, and a proper blade. The brilliance? If held "normally", the cutting edge would be ''towards the wielder'', symbolizing that the greatest risk of the weapon is how it will turn on its "owner", or at the least, how it can be (meant to be?) used as a suicidal, sacrificial dagger.

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** * Xal'atath, Blade of the Black Empire has an unusual shape for a weapon - it resembles a sideways "S", with the grip on the inside of one curve, and the blade (of course) on the other. Closer examination, however, reveals that the inner curve of the blade is entirely decorative (for the starter appearance, at least; also the appearance it had before the player empowers it). The outer curve, however, is definitely sharp, and a proper blade. The brilliance? If held "normally", the cutting edge would be ''towards the wielder'', symbolizing that the greatest risk of the weapon is how it will turn on its "owner", or at the least, how it can be (meant to be?) used as a suicidal, sacrificial dagger.

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** Xal'atath, Blade of the Black Empire has an unusual shape for a weapon - it resembles a sideways "S", with the grip on the inside of one curve, and the blade (of course) on the other. Closer examination, however, reveals that the inner curve of the blade is entirely decorative (for the starter appearance, at least; also the appearance it had before the player empowers it). The outer curve, however, is definitely sharp, and a proper blade. The brilliance? If held "normally", the cutting edge would be ''towards the wielder'', symbolizing that the greatest risk of the weapon is how it will turn on its "owner", or at the least, how it can be (meant to be?) used as a suicidal, sacrificial dagger.

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* Gul'dan, when aggroed in the Nighthold, will give a small speech about how Varian begged for his life while kneeling before him and how Vol'jin died, screaming in agony as the fel poison ravaged his body. ''Neither of these things are true''... but Gul'dan is so wrapped up in his belief that he's "Darkness Incarnate" that he's deluded himself into believing that the two leaders of the Alliance and Horde were pathetic, crawling worms before his unstoppable might. This is backed up by his slow VillainousBreakdown throughout the fight - he is completely shocked and ''afraid'' that the raid is not only staying standing throughout his onslaught, they are ''winning'', even though he's empowered himself with a Titan artifact.
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* Another creepy vendor trash is the Rusted Canary Cage, found in the Garrison Mine, an allusion to caged canaries (birds) that miners would carry down into the mine tunnels with them. If dangerous gases such as carbon monoxide collected in the mine, the gases would kill the canary before killing the miners, thus providing a warning to exit the tunnels immediately. while it makes sense that you'd find this here, it's rather common... just how safe ''is'' this mine??
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* The Demon Hunters aren't the only class who's[[ResurrectiveImmortality]] gets justified in Legion, Death Knights also get it subtly justified. [[Spoiler: Icebringer and Soulreaper retain Frostmourne's soul stealing powers, and your character has to enter the blades to gain control. The PC Death Knight has become a Lich. Even more so, unless you use a spirit healer, you need to run back to your body to revive, and that's where your weapons are.]]

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* The Demon Hunters aren't the only class who's[[ResurrectiveImmortality]] who's [[ResurrectiveImmortality Resurrective Immortality]] gets justified in Legion, Death Knights also get it subtly justified. [[Spoiler: [[spoiler: Icebringer and Soulreaper retain Frostmourne's soul stealing powers, and your character has to enter the blades to gain control. The PC Death Knight has become a Lich. Even more so, unless you use a spirit healer, you need to run back to your body to revive, and that's where your weapons are.]]
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* The Demon Hunters aren't the only class who's[Resurrective Immortality] gets justified in Legion, Death Knights also get it subtly justified. [Spoiler: Icebringer and Soulreaper retain Frostmourne's soul stealing powers, and your character has to enter the blades to gain control. The PC Death Knight has become a Lich. Even more so, unless you use a spirit healer, you need to run back to your body to revive, and that's where your weapons are.]

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* The Demon Hunters aren't the only class who's[Resurrective Immortality] who's[[ResurrectiveImmortality]] gets justified in Legion, Death Knights also get it subtly justified. [Spoiler: [[Spoiler: Icebringer and Soulreaper retain Frostmourne's soul stealing powers, and your character has to enter the blades to gain control. The PC Death Knight has become a Lich. Even more so, unless you use a spirit healer, you need to run back to your body to revive, and that's where your weapons are.]
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* The Demon Hunters aren't the only class who's [[Resurrective Immortality]] gets justified in Legion, Death Knights also get it subtly justified. [[Spoiler: Icebringer and Soulreaper retain Frostmourne's soul stealing powers, and your character has to entee the blades to gain control. The PC Death Knight has become a Lich. Even more so, unless you use a spirit healer, you need to run back to your body to revive, and that's where your weapons are.]]

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* The Demon Hunters aren't the only class who's [[Resurrective Immortality]] who's[Resurrective Immortality] gets justified in Legion, Death Knights also get it subtly justified. [[Spoiler: [Spoiler: Icebringer and Soulreaper retain Frostmourne's soul stealing powers, and your character has to entee enter the blades to gain control. The PC Death Knight has become a Lich. Even more so, unless you use a spirit healer, you need to run back to your body to revive, and that's where your weapons are.]]
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* The Demon Hunters aren't the only class who's [[Resurrective Immortality]] gets justified in Legion, Death Knights also get it subtly justified. [[Spoiler: Icebringer and Soulreaper retain Frostmourne's soul stealing powers, and your character has to entee the blades to gain control. The PC Death Knight has become a Lich. Even more so, unless you use a spirit healer, you need to run back to your body to revive, and that's where your weapons are.]]
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** Draenei are having a major role in the upcoming Legion content patch.
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* Starting Demon Hunter PC's at level 98, and chronologically during the attack on Black Temple. After taking into consideration the stat squish, PC stats and abilities at level 98 compared to level 70 health pools and damage, and the coefficients on PvP damage and damage reduction...the PC actually would be on rough parity with a level 70 raid boss, especially considering how ridiculously overtuned Burning Crusade raid bosses were. You even get to see how bad [[ArtificialStupidity]] with aggro mechanics actually are later, during[[spoiler: Illidan's flashbacks]].

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* Starting Demon Hunter PC's at level 98, and chronologically during the attack on Black Temple. After taking into consideration the stat squish, PC stats and abilities at level 98 compared to level 70 health pools and damage, and the coefficients on PvP damage and damage reduction...the PC actually would be on rough parity with a level 70 raid boss, especially considering how ridiculously overtuned Burning Crusade raid bosses were. You even get to see how bad [[ArtificialStupidity]] with [[ArtificialStupidity artificially stupid]] aggro mechanics actually are later, during[[spoiler: Illidan's flashbacks]].
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* Starting Demon Hunter PC's at level 98, and chronologically during the attack on Black Temple. After taking into consideration the stat squish, PC stats and abilities at level 98 compared to level 70 health pools and damage, and the coefficients on PvP damage and damage reduction...the PC actually would be on rough parity with a level 70 raid boss.

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* Starting Demon Hunter PC's at level 98, and chronologically during the attack on Black Temple. After taking into consideration the stat squish, PC stats and abilities at level 98 compared to level 70 health pools and damage, and the coefficients on PvP damage and damage reduction...the PC actually would be on rough parity with a level 70 raid boss.
boss, especially considering how ridiculously overtuned Burning Crusade raid bosses were. You even get to see how bad [[ArtificialStupidity]] with aggro mechanics actually are later, during[[spoiler: Illidan's flashbacks]].
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* Starting Demon Hunter PC's at level 98. After taking into consideration the stat squish, PC stats and abilities at level 98 compared to level 70 health pools and damage, and the coefficients on PvP damage and damage reduction...the PC actually would be on rough parity with a level 70 raid boss.

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* Starting Demon Hunter PC's at level 98.98, and chronologically during the attack on Black Temple. After taking into consideration the stat squish, PC stats and abilities at level 98 compared to level 70 health pools and damage, and the coefficients on PvP damage and damage reduction...the PC actually would be on rough parity with a level 70 raid boss.
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* Starting Demon Hunter PC's at level 98. After taking into consideration the stat squish, PC stats and abilities at level 98 compared to level 70 health pools and damage, and the coefficients on PvP damage and damage reduction...the PC actually would be on rough parity with a level 70 raid boss.
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* The hidden artifact appearance for the Unholy Death Knight's weapon is the grip and crossguard of the Apocalypse sword with an Abomination's hook replacing the blade and a few minor changes to the accessories on the hilt. The book on your weapons' histories explains that Apocalypse constantly changed hands from Dreadlord to Dreadlord, who infused it with their own knowledge, malice, and disease, sometimes reshaping the weapon before handing it off to the next... ''and the player has continued that chain'' by adding in the Scourge's own knowledge, malice, and diseases!
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* Some of the stuff you can get from a Bag of Shiny Things and boxes you get from Fishing have frightening implications when you consider they're collected by the Fishing Trainer. There's the Hangman's Noose (dried blood is on it), the Very Unlucky Rock (also stained with blood) and the Polished Skull (no clue as to who it's from). The Crate of Tasty Meat you can buy with Epicurean Awards (which "smells weird" according to the Item Text) can contain creepy VendorTrash too, like a Rusty Butcher's Knife (blood stained, again) a Motorized Bone Saw ("Best to leave it off," says the text) and a 47" Tapeworm. (The true horror comes when you consider that the useful stuff in the crate is used to make stuff that you - or someone else - is going to ''eat''.)
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*Xavius in the Emerald Nightmare raid is just a reskinned, satyr-like General Vezax and other Faceless One generals. Kinda lame, actually, until it hit me: ''the Old Gods are remaking a Burning Legion creation into one of their own''. Of course he'd end up looking like one of their favored monstrosities! They might not be able to transform their minion into a perfect reproduction, given the Legion's own reshaping of Xavius' body, but they can twist and bloat it into the same general ''shape''.
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* In the Death Knight order hall campaign, you need to rebuild the Four Horsemen. One of these champions that you recruit that [[InterfaceSpoiler you are very early spoiled on]] is High Inquisitor Whitemane. Why would this one particularly zealous priest of the Scarlet Crusade be a valid candidate for Death Knighthood? A few things, as it turns out:
** From the lines she speaks right as you resurrect her, she quite obviously has visited the same Hell-after-death as Sylvanas did, being audibly relieved that she is no longer dead - a far cry from the "Purge all undeath" stance she took in life. And, like how Sylvanas made a pact with the Val'kyr to keep herself out of that, she is far more comfortable with undeath.
** From a line in the quest text to directly recruit her, she claims that the Legion is the source of all of her woes, heavily implying that she knows that the Scarlet Crusade was puppeted by Balnazzar, at least after the fact, and is quite eager to put the rest of the Legion to the sword because of it.
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* Elementals on Pandaria are completely different from on the rest of Azeroth. While the rest of the planet is known for having elements that are fickle, chaotic and violent, Pandaria's elements are playful, peaceful, and at worst mischievous. Clearly written as a contrast born of the continent's isolation and peaceful inhabitants, it's actually been justified by how magics work in the Warcraft setting. Azeroth's elements are violent because ambient Spirit energy, which helps promote harmony among elementals, is mostly absent on this planet. Shaman manually use that energy to encourage these chaotic elementals to calm down and cooperate. But pandaren developed a whole other application for Spirit--which they call "chi"--to encourage harmony within themselves and in others, and because of the sha threat it became much more widespread among the peoples of Pandaria than any races' Shaman. Pandaren successfully quelled their own elementals as a side effect of their own necessary pursuit of peace.

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* It's a subtle one, but when Thrall tell's Garrosh he has disappointed him, the tusks of Mannoroth fall off as he awakes/ Considering how it was his father in the prime timeline that freed the orcs from demon taint, it's a symbolic way of showing that Garrosh really is a disgrace to not only his own father, but the orcish race as a whole because he nearly damned them to a different, but equally as bad evil magic to turn them into bloodthirsty warmongers infused with it to conquer Azaroth.

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* It's a subtle one, but when Thrall tell's tells Garrosh he has disappointed him, the tusks of Mannoroth fall off as he awakes/ awakes/recovers from the fight. Considering how it was his father in the prime timeline that freed the orcs from demon taint, it's a symbolic way of showing that Garrosh really is a disgrace to not only his own father, but the orcish race as a whole because he nearly damned them to a different, but equally as bad evil magic to turn them into bloodthirsty warmongers infused with it to conquer Azaroth.



* Also involving the Burning Legion, their greatest weapon isn't the massive, nigh-unstoppable army they have. Instead, it's fear and distrust; fear of the use of that army to turn potential threats to their side, and distrust of others who may have already turned and are plotting against you without your knowing. After all, what's better? To waste forces in a fight that you'll win, eventually, or simply ''"convince"'' your opponent not to fight and join you? It's exactly the sort of thing Kil'jaeden the Deceiver would come up with.



* The [[spoiler: Void Lords]] got [[TheBadGuyWins exactly what they wanted]] While they couldn't corrupt a titan using the Old Gods they still managed to turn one into an [[OmnicidalManiac demon like creature that wants to destroy everything]]

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* The [[spoiler: Void Lords]] got [[TheBadGuyWins exactly what they wanted]] wanted]]. While they couldn't corrupt a titan using the Old Gods they still managed to turn one into an [[OmnicidalManiac demon like creature that wants to destroy everything]]everything]].
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* The Burning Legion sending an invasion force more massive than ever before to Azeroth initially seems to be a reaction to the fact Azeroth's mortal races have fought them off several times before. However, a Wrathguard in the Demon Hunter starting zone claims "Yours is the last world left". It's not just that Azeroth has been so successful, it's that the Legion can now focus ''all'' of their forces on Azeroth.
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** And, to further drive the point home, [[spoiler: some of your fellow Demon Hunter NPCs willingly join the Legion once you're past the starting zone]].

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** And, to further drive the point home, [[spoiler: some of your fellow Demon Hunter NPCs [=NPCs=] willingly join the Legion once you're past the starting zone]].
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** And, to further drive the point home, [[spoiler: some of your fellow Demon Hunter NPCs willingly join the Legion once you're past the starting zone]].
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* In Legion, in the starting Demon Hunter zone, you have to make a SadisticChoice: kill one of your valuable brethren to power a gateway for needed reinforcements of RedShirts, or ''yourself''. [[spoiler: It turns out that DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist in your case, but Illidan himself tells you that you "have an immortal demon soul". [[CursedWithAwesome Sounds great]] in theory... except you have given up your essential humanity - or [[PerfectlyCromulentWord elfanity]] - to defeat the Burning Legion. Congratulations, the only difference between you and Sargeras' troops is ''which side you're fighting for'']].

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* In Legion, in the starting Demon Hunter zone, you have to make a SadisticChoice: kill one of your valuable brethren to power a gateway for needed reinforcements of RedShirts, or ''yourself''. [[spoiler: It turns out that DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist in your case, but Illidan himself tells you that you "have an immortal demon soul". [[CursedWithAwesome Sounds great]] in theory... except you have given up your essential humanity - or [[PerfectlyCromulentWord elfanity]] elfity]] - to defeat the Burning Legion. Congratulations, the only difference between you and Sargeras' troops is ''which side you're fighting for'']].
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* In Legion, in the starting Demon Hunter zone, you have to make a SadisticChoice: kill one of your valuable brethren to power a gateway for needed reinforcements of RedShirts, or ''yourself''. [[spoiler: It turns out that DeathIsASlapOnTheWrist in your case, but Illidan himself tells you that you "have an immortal demon soul". [[CursedWithAwesome Sounds great]] in theory... except you have given up your essential humanity - or [[PerfectlyCromulentWord elfanity]] - to defeat the Burning Legion. Congratulations, the only difference between you and Sargeras' troops is ''which side you're fighting for'']].
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** Two: [[spoiler: Kilrogg doesn't hesitate when he joins Gul'dan and drinks Mannoroth's blood. While it may look like Kilrogg was only [[IOnlyFightforTheStrongestSide fighting for the strongest side]]]], Kilrogg pretty much KNEW what he was getting himself into, since chieftains of his clan can foresee their own death. Kilrog must have been aware of Garrosh's plan form the very start, [[spoiler: and was [[YouCantFightFate following his destiny]] knowing that time traveling messed up the timeline, so if Grom wouldn't [[RefusedTheCall carry out destiny]] [[JumpedAtTheCall he will]]. ]]

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** Two: [[spoiler: Kilrogg doesn't hesitate when he joins Gul'dan and drinks Mannoroth's blood. While it may look like Kilrogg was only [[IOnlyFightforTheStrongestSide [[IFightforTheStrongestSide fighting for the strongest side]]]], Kilrogg pretty much KNEW what he was getting himself into, since chieftains of his clan can foresee their own death. Kilrog must have been aware of Garrosh's plan form the very start, [[spoiler: and was [[YouCantFightFate following his destiny]] knowing that time traveling messed up the timeline, so if Grom wouldn't [[RefusedTheCall carry out destiny]] [[JumpedAtTheCall he will]]. ]]
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** Not to mention that the Forsaken can now create new Forsaken with the Val'kyr's magic. There could be a lot more of these around than we think, specially if Sylvanas is feeling maternal.
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* Sargeras' plan is to [[spoiler: [[WellIntentionedExtremist Suck the Universe into the nether to recreate a new one that is protected from the Old Gods, right?]]. Keep in mind that the [[GreaterScopeVillain Void Lords]] could still [[NiceJobBreakingItHero enter the barely-formed universe, and while they would only be there for seconds, those seconds would be enough to completely destroy the still-forming new universe, leaving only the Void Lords, Voidwalkers, and Naaru]].]]
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* The [[spoiler: Void Lords]] got [[TheBadGuyWins exactly what they wanted]] While they couldn't corrupt a titan using the Old Gods they still managed to turn one into an {OmnicidalManiac demon like creature that wants to destroy everything]]

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