Well, it’s in the book. If you read it, he goes back and he basically gives the titan a sliver on the hoof and then gets killed immediately by him however, those few seconds were all that was needed for the portal to close. He did his job but Sargaras literally was stopped, because of the hilarity and all that as he stopped to laugh
Whats funny is that I counted myself as a relatively deeply established fan of the universe and I didn't even realize that Blizzard advanced the lore of the expansions outside of the game in books until Legion or so. 😆 They should have really made remarks of many more characters *ingame.*
@@LawfulBasedone of the biggest crimes about not mentioning things from the books is just Carine dying. I read the the Shattering as Cata was coming out. But unless you went to Thunder bluff at all during cataclysm, you just assume he’s alive until 4.3. Otherwise there is 0 mention of a Character from W3 AND A FACTION LEADER dying.
Who get their shit beaten by the most unlikely of foes... Brox gets his ass handed to him by a bunch of goblin sappers... While varok got one shotted by an undead corpse who had already died 3 times in the past
@@Geraldo_Rivian the same brox who stood on a mountain of demon corpses he killed before getting the attention of a god, sacrificing himself to prevent him entering the portal? The same Varok who lead the war of the scarab, who never let go of his honour and died fighting for the faction he believed in revealing sylvanas' corruption, forcing her to cheat because cheap bitches be like that.
Blizzard's excuse for why the Axe of Cenarius didn't become the arms warrior artifact was because "the axe was too druidic in nature to match the class fantasy of the warrior class they were going for in Legion." Which honestly I don't think anyone would have cared, I bet warriors would have much rather had the Axe of Cenarius rather than the three underwhelming artifacts with no pre-established lore they did end up getting.
As a warrior main, every single wep we got was a disappointment. Shamans get doomhammer with new, shoe horned lore to make it make sense, and I got neltharion's dandruff. If we got broxigars axe I would have switched to arms in a second.
@@MrJustinArt it's a good thing then that we already got Gorehowl in game haha. Though you are right, there's a number of weapons of legends that deserved to be Arms or Fury.
That's because blizzard wanted to go more norse warrior for Legion warrior artifacts and couldn't fit in the Axe of Cenarius for some reason. I guess they had to choose between that axe and the arcanite reaper.
Fun Fact: Blizzard was originally going to put the Axe of Cenarius as the artifact weapon for Arms Warriors in Legion, but didn’t because the developers thought “a wooden nature-themed axe didn’t fit the class” …even though the only people to ever use the axe in both the lore and game were those of the warrior class, so that isn’t even an excuse
This is the same blizzard that intentionally switched frost death knight to dual wield 1H so that they wouldn't have to give them Frostmourne. I know people are gonna be like "but frostmourne is too iconic" but we literally got to use ashbringer so that's a moot point.
@@Awesomeman204 lol, no. The reason why frost got dual wield is because frost was always supposed to be the dual wield class. They have done better with dual wield because the mechanics work better for it.
@@alexis1156What are you talking about? Frost death knights always benefited more from 2H weapons with Obliterate criticals, while Unholy was focused on celerity and dual wield.
@@StereoDreams385 Guess you are right, the influence of Mannoroth at least is no longer on them (we agree on that), i say if orcs still a bit stronger since Broxigar drinks the blood with the rest of the old horde, that sure makes a difference from a "normal" orc (more like Thrall, whose parents didn't nor he drink the blood).
Yeah, because of how hilarious it was, he gave Sargaras a sliver and then he died instantly lol! The only good thing that became of it was he literally stalled those few seconds he needed for the portal to close
Broxigar _was_ empowered, in the book it said "how Broxigar's strength made the axe more powerful, and the axe's power made Broxigar stronger" which created an almost endless feedback loop of empowerment making him likely the strongest mortal warrior that ever lived.
"Endless feedback loop" Even if its endless it doesn't keep on scaling his power endlessly in a meaningful way. The feedback has diminishing returns. 1+0.9+0.81+0.729+etc. is an endless increase of 90%, but after a number of repetitions you won't see much growth per repetition. And since the empowerment likely takes some amount of time it means that Broxigar's power is practically capped off.
@@Yzerbruh You're right it does have diminishing returns, but he was still empowered and much stronger than a normal orc or most if not all mortal warriors at the time.
And even then. Sargeras wasnt the force behind the orcs corruption. It was Kil'Jaeden and Talgath who changed orcish power dynamics and corrupted them through Gul'Dan. Sargeras only was like "Kil'jaeden will recruit people, Archimonde will command them as army".
You know what makes the fact we didn't get the axe of cenarius in legion sting more? Saurfang was directly involved with the arms secret weapon skin, Giving us HIS axe. Imagine the impact it would have had if we did have the AoC at the time. Varok possibly reminiscing about fighting along side his brother one last time, even if just in spirit.
What I like about Brox is that going by the books, he had great respect before the Night Elves which goes back to their very first encounter. Even Grom Hellscream was impressed by their ferocity.
For those interrested, "Flying Buttress" is currently making an animated version of the book of this. He works slow but its good (other books on tehre also)
If you like WoW lore and haven't read the war of the ancients trilogy, you are missing out big time. Rhonin, Krasus and Brox has such amazing stories. If they ever make a film or a series out of it, it will break records for sure.
And there's certain individuals that insist that Warriors aren't powerful compared to mages. Exhibit A: This absolute Mad Lad. I was hoping he'd get his own video one day. Brox is easily one of my favourite characters in the lore, and a fine showcase of my favourite class at their potential peak. He is pretty much the reason I've mained Warrior exclusively when I was still playing, and I am not ashamed to admit that. After all, magic is fickle. But good steel? That, you can trust. I disagree on this having to be made an artifact though. It would've been awesome to wield, but knowing the ending of that expansion, it deserves much better than just being effectively disenchanted and rendered useless.
It probably is still useless but still useful enough in the hands of his half niece. Its not broken at least or made into the harbinger of the void gods such as the shadow priests artifact weapon.
Yep, warriors are powerful as hell..... as long as they can get within swinging range of an enemy..... any Mage worth a damn would freeze him solid before he got close enough to see what the Mage was wearing.
@@captainspaulding5963 Those are straight facts, you can literally see what Medivh did to Lothar when he tried to stop him, if it wasn't for Khadgar and Medivh himself (he was in an inner fight with Sargeras) he would be dead, enough with this warrior bs (and i am a melee enjoyer).
1:07 Not the first time Blizzard have reworked a story from their novels. The Emerald Nightmare stuff in Legion is extremely similar to the events of Stormrage, which are barely mentioned in the game.
Blizzard stopped caring about the stories in novels since they created that awful warcraft film which just took a huge dump on the existing lore without any reason.
@@vaskopoh9512they shouldng be writing everything into novels and nothing into game, theres a reason most people dont see the novels as canon because it never matters what happens there until it does, novels should be used to expand upon not be the primary source for lore when its a game first and fore most
Think Broxigar wounding Sargeras just before died was a direct metaphor to the story of Fingolfin from Tolkien's Legendarium. Fingolfin fought Morgoth, THE evil of Legendarium, in a 1v1 battle, died at the end but stabbed Morgoth in the foot/kneecaps so hard that Morgoth got a permanent limp.
I literally cried when I read the trilogy and came to the point where Broxigar faces Sargeras, wounds him and dies like a true champion. Such an overwhelming, epic moment in the lore of Warcraft.
This and the Moira Thaurissan shows how the bar was so fricking high on wow's story telling side from books and comics hooooolly smokes, but yet the games don't even make justice in some regards. This have been such amazing stories, thank you so much platinum, always loving your content.
Absolutely not. Cenarius when giving him the ax said that only brox could make use of it and that it can be useful only if the bearer is capable. @@BeyondDaX
Orcs and time travel, go hand-in-hand surprisingly well. I remember hearing how in Warhammer 40K there was an ork warlord who traveled back in time to kill his past self just so he can have two versions of his favorite gun.
His name is Grizgutz. Nah my favorite one still is Tuska Daemon Killa. The dude literally went into the warp to wage a waaagh against the daemons, ended up in Khorne's realm, and literally did the nut twister on a Bloothrister with a Powa Klaw and c*strated the b*stard. Khorne was so amused he gave the Orks infinite respawns just to keep watching their shenanigans. And it's said to this day Tuska is still there having the time of his life.
@@ZergS4uc3 There's also speculation that Tuska and his boyz are getting bigger and smarter with each respawn. If you know anything about Ork history in 40k, that's a worrying precedent because that means the Orks are going back to what they originally were. Orks used to be bigger and tons smarter. Which is scary because currently and Ork is about as big as a Space Marine, and about as strong too, imagine if they were bigger. They were called Krorks at that time and they put Space Marines to shame with how effective they were as Shock and Storm troopers.
Nice to see Blizz actually creating a character in Brox' niece that could get more spotlight in the Worldsoul Saga. And that his axe (or ax) is still with us!
I did always like this story especially Rhonin and Korialstrasz. I started playing during long after they were already dead in the story. Very disappointing to not see any of these characters in shadow lands.
Fun fact: Broxigar time-travelled to before Orcs as a race existed, making him chronologically the first Orc in history. The summarized story is that Orcs as a race are roughly, I think, a thousand years old or so (correct me if I'm wrong). Giant elemental named Grond corrects the balance of Draenor but dies in the process before finishing the job. Stone giants rose from his corpse and finished the job. The stone giants that survived devolved into the Magnaron, then the Gronn, then the Ogron, the Ogres and finally the Orcs.
Thats some dragonball gokus dad first super saiyan and technically saiyan shenanigans Also they did ogre lore dirty, that lore has been retconned the most and it has suffered greatly, though really all draenor lore has suffered since burning crusade and its just compounded the damage done
honestly you kinda downplayed his fight with sargaras. he didn't just injure him, he his literally the only mortal who ever managed to even scratch his real body.
I was reminded of Bwonsamdi the other day, and I'd love to know more about his antics. Somebody described him as one of Wow's all-powerful entities who's actually good at his job.
Finally somebody making a dedicated video for this legend and my inspiration for maining warrior for years!. Also incredible timing as I just finished my revisit to the WotA trilogy. Just a small detail so read this in a nerdy voice: Achthually it wasn't the wound that Brox inflicted that caused the distraction, but as the only vulnarable place for Malfurion and Crasus to cast spells (which distracted etc. etc. etc.)
BRUH!!! Broxigar is my favorite character in all of the lore and I find it to be a crying shame that he hadn't gotten more attention in game during the Legion expansion.
Broxigar is truly the baddest of badasses in WoW lore, being such an effective portal cock block that Sargeras himself decided to kill him is the ultimate blaze of glory for death.
My early obsession with Varok stemmed from having read those books as a kid and realizing they were related. Broxigar was such an awesome character, and while his death was sad it was also the sort of death every other orc dreams of. Outside of demigods and magical beings it may be the most BA last stand in the Warcraft universe. Up until shadowlands ruined afterlives for everyone I always hoped for Varok to one day achieve a similar death and be met by his son, brother, and father. That would have been a much more impactful death imo, but their new nonsensical mythos wouldn’t allow for such a reunion 🤦♂️ I just wish one of his kids was still alive, but it appears the saurfang line has sadly come to an end.
I've been waiting for this video for so long. Anyone could have made a proper Broxigar video but it had to be Platinum WoW. This is by-far my favorite Warcraft character.
I mean, yes, he stopped him from coming through the portal, but what he did was heroic, but only because he sacrificed himself not because his actions were actually that amazing I mean, literally he went through a portal gave Sargaras a sliver Sargaras .laughed at him, then instantly killed him so yeah.. he didn’t actually hurt him. He just stopped him from going to the portal by sheer amusement.
Never knew about Broxigar but glad i know now! Please do a deep dive on Rhonin, my favorite underrated wow character of all time. He alone made me start caring about the lore.
