Possible Warcraft Upgrades.

[Bepo4151]

Ok so is no secret that Ingame Azeroth is pretty small if you scaled it you will get the same size as Manhattan. However in the lore this world is massive. This is confirmed by events and statments such as:

Stormwind having population of 200.000 citizens while in game is only 300.

Goldshire having population of 7.000 citizens ingame is just and Inn and a blacksmith.

Abindus jurnal states that i took the Scarlet Crusade 2 months to travel to Northrend.

It took Krasus and some dwarves 1 day of riding on a gryphon to travel across the ocean from Southshore to Menethil harbor.


Ok lets take Krasus and the dwarves and try to see what the distance they travaled was.

In Wow the most basic gryphon has double the speed of a horse. Horse average speed is 70 km/h. So this meens that Gryphones fly at least at 140 km/h.

Now Krasus and the Dwarves probably didn't flew for 12 hours. Lets say they flew for 6 hourse. This gives us a distance of 840km between Southshore and Menethil harbor.


Ok Ragnaros is currently 7-A because he shattered a mountain lets try to work out how big that mountain was.

This is the cannon map from Warcraft Chronicles right after the sundering. The black circle is the area that Ragnaros destroyed. Because currently there is a gap taken over by the water with Burned rocks around it. Although is not confirmed he is the only one who could've done that and before someone say Deathwing did it. He didn't bacause you can see it in the Cataclysm trailer that gap was already there before Deathwing came.

Ok here we have the same map with the line between Southshore and Menethil harbor drawn that should be at least 840 km long and the same line put over Blackrock mountain (where Ragnaros was summoned) and the gap. We can see That they almost match. So the gap length is roughly 840 km. That is Massive this is bigger than the length of small countries like Bulgaria.

Now im not that good at math i can't workout how much energy this will require but this should put him at at least High 6-C to Low 6-B and All the Characters that scale to him. So the Other 3 elemental lords and Titanic watchers which we currently have only 1 profile for Odyn. And probably the aspects if in the future someone makes profiles for them.

Also Ragnaros should get 6-B with Environmental Destruction anyways because he also changed the weather in the Searing gorge and the Burning steppes.

 

[Bepo4151]

Bump

 

[Jimmyjamster1992]

A good reference there, not easy to find those in the books. I actually am the one that made the Ragnaros profile and did my own calculations but they were a little less refined. Mainly I used a calculation from Rise of the Lich King where Arthas rode from Capital City to Dalaran. The calculation was a little skewed as compared to yours but I am a guy that low balls everything because that makes it all a certainty unless proven otherwise.

But this calculation here, I would recommend you use the measurements to define the area of the Burning Steppes and the Searing Gorge. Do that and calculate that entire area, I measured it to be larger than the size of Moscow, basically three thousand km/squared. But with your calculation I think that would be much larger.

 

[Bepo4151]

It may be better to use your calc since there is no way to know the speed of a griffin right now I'm assuming they have double the speed of a horse like in game but this may just be game mechanic.

Also Blizzard are very inconsistent when it comes to the size of Azeroth. I can totally see next Blizzcon Metzen saying that the Barrens are just 10 km long even trough if iirc it took Thrall and the Taurens 3 week to cross it.

 

[Jimmyjamster1992]

Actually I beleive I used a standard trot for a Horse. So it is between 20 and 30 miles a day, now in Arthas: Rise of the Lich King, Arthas was escorting Jaina to Dalaran. Now one of the guides in the book mentions taking the horses from Ambermill in the morning and reaching Dalaran by Nightfall that same day. Meaning that by the road Dalaran is between 20 to 30 Miles away. Also considering that Arthas continued the journey on foot to Hillbrad that was the original destination point for their trek.

That means that the horses at a casual ride could cover this distance. I may be low balling it but this is best to do because either way you are right in the money. But it is tricky to do as we don't have a straight line but the roads as shown in game to use. So if you can measure that and extrapolate it into a straight line you can get your measurements.

Sad to say this is the only case I have read where exact distances were given over a full day. But this is during an early Summer, meaning that the days are actually thriteen to fourteen hours long. So that means we can extrapolate, thirteen hours if they stopped and hour for lunch also likely she did not get up at the crack of dawn so lets give it two hours as well, but those daylights give us extra time. Horses walk 4 mp/h and 11x4=44 miles.

Now all that remains is to actually do that along the road from Ambermill to the location of Dalaran and you got a descent scope of how long forty four miles is.