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Spell Breakers are a Blood Elf unit that excel at battling caster units. They appeared in the Warcraft III Frozen Throne Human Campaign to aid Kael'thas. They are produced at the Blood Elf Arcane Sanctum. Some believe they are the primary guard and patrol units for the blood elf cities in the Burning Crusade.
The cunning blood elf spell breakers have mastered the arts of spellcraft to such a degree that they have become immune to the effects of even the most powerful magics. Coupled with their fierce combat skills, their spell immunity makes them implacable foes when facing magic-wielding enemies. However, the spell breakers' most astonishing ability is to actually steal their enemies' beneficial enchantments and grant them to their own comrades. This uncanny ability has turned the tide of more than one battle in the blood elves' favor.
The powers of the spell breaker are terrifying to those with knowledge of magic, for their blows shatter the mana from a spellcaster’s body.Template:Cite
Warcraft III
From Spell Breaker at Battle.net
- Elven warrior trained to disrupt and contort magical energies. These Blood Elven warriors, fresh from the destruction of their homeland, have turned a new eye towards the dying land of Lordaeron. Can it possibly remain their home? Has Spell Immunity. Attacks land units.
- Since Spell Breakers are immune to magic, you can safely cast Blizzard and Flamestrike on them. If you put them in the front lines, you can easily cast Blizzard or Flamestrike without worrying about hurting your own units.
Warcraft III Quotes
- "I'm a magic man. I got magic hands." (The song "Magic Man" by Heart)
- "I didn't steal any buffs, I got receipts for everything!"
- "I smell magic in the air. Or maybe barbecue."
- "I stole your precious." (A reference to Gollum from The Lord of the Rings)
- "Yeah, you can get a nickel for boosting [Starfall], but jacking [Heal]'s a ten-day stint in county. Now lifting [Faerie Fire], they just let you go for for that—it's not even worth the paperwork. But [Reincarnation], man! That'll get you life!" (Refers to various spells in the game. The Spellbreaker's main skill is stealing other's spells.)
- "Be quick; time is mana."
Spellbreaker Blades
The deadly, two-bladed swords of the spell breakers strike fear in the hearts of wizards and sorcerers. The blood elves' elite warriors employ these frighteningly effective weapons to execute outlawed spellcasters, necromancers and other evil practitioners of magic. This blood-elven two-bladed sword is the bane of any evil spellcaster.Template:Cite
In World of Warcraft
The guards in the Blood Elf capital city bear a strong resemblance to spell breakers; however, they lack the standard weapons of the spell breakers or the phoenix mask. They are also not labeled as such and are considered standard issue foot soldiers like guards of other capitals and towns. It is most likely that Blizzard based Blood Elf guards after the spell breakers as the Spellbreakers are the most iconic front-line warriors of the Blood Elf troops. While the Blood Elf city guards in World of Warcraft may not themselves be spell breakers, they do have similar equipment to spell breakers. One of the primary spell breaker abilities ( [Spellsteal]) was introduced as a mage ability.
The Sunblade Mage Guards in the Magisters' Terrace, introduced in 2.4, are most likely blood elf spell breakers.
If introduced as a playable class, spell breakers would be either exclusively playable as blood elves or (as with Draenei shaman) require an expansion of the lore behind them. Several ideas have come up about this topic, but Blizzard currently has no plans to expand the lore in this direction.
Speculation
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The Spellbreaker's appearance is probably inspired by Peter Jackson's adaptation of the Elven Warriors from the Battle of the Last Alliance in the Lord of the Rings. [1]
RPG class
Monster Guide makes reference to spell breakers as a class blood elves become, along with already existing classes in the RPG. Perhaps it is hinting at an inclusion of the class in a future RPG supplement.