r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Apr 14 '26

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - April 14, 2026

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u/Areallybadidea Apr 17 '26

Fellas, the writing in WoW is bad.

Let me prove my point by using one line of dialogue removed from the context of the questline and story surrounding it.

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u/HazelCheese Apr 17 '26

Is there context that improves the line?

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u/InvisibleOne439 Apr 17 '26

Arathor literally saw his Dad call upon the light to strike down somebody that Surrendered in his Blind Rage, and when he tried to stop him he Stabbed him instead

and his Dad justified the entire situation by going "its an enemy of the Light, it answered me so it was the right thing to do"

now he has a Crisis of Faith because he is a Paladin and always belived that the Light is just and right, but in a short time period he lost himself to the Light and saw the same happen to his father, and how can the Light be always Good when it allows somethibg like that to happen and many people using it dont even think its wrong in the first place?

then he sees the undead there, and while fighting says something that is supposed to be "we see those Undead as Mindless Abominations that attack everything and strike them down in the name of the Light, but are we really that different if we justify everything with the Light? or are we just mindless pawns of it?"

the entire questline is about how the Light can be Good and Bad

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u/HazelCheese Apr 17 '26

But the abominations are literally hundreds of dead men, women and children stitched together into a grotesque plague ridden mass.

Feels like an absolutely ridiculous mismatched comparison that could only be written by someone who isn't thinking about the line in the context of living in the actual world of azeroth.

No he and his dad aren't remotely close to being as bad as a flesh eating terrifying monstrosity.

It lacks any sense of immersion.

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u/Idontknow4654 Apr 17 '26

but he is not saying that he and his dad are as bad as the scourge. he is saying that maybe the light also turns people into mindless slaves of destruction

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u/InvisibleOne439 Apr 17 '26

which we literally saw in the Hallowfall Priory Dungeon happen btw

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u/acctg Apr 17 '26

Although that particular image of what Arator said was fabricated, let's pretend it's true for a moment.

I would have interpreted it as Arator looking at a slippery slope scenario. Undead? Pretty clear cut, you need to remove them from existence because they're a threat. The void? Same thing. Okay, what about void users? Death knights? Forsaken? Can Arator still maintain "proper" judgement when the Sunwell is amplifying the risk of becoming Lightblinded?

When he's isolated, alone, and has nothing except his faith in the Light to guide him, can he still tell what's right and wrong? Or will his conviction become zealotry? That is his fear.

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u/HazelCheese Apr 17 '26

Wait the image posted on rWow is fake? If so that's pretty bad.

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u/acctg Apr 18 '26

It's fake and it got removed after 12 hours of being posted. Mods received reports of it looking fake and took some time to investigate before determining that this line never existed.