#beta-ptr-spoilers
1 messages ยท Page 399 of 1
well if the loa of death is keeping voljins soul in a jar somplace maybe we can find him a new body
I mean, Alliance has only had 2 kings which have switched like 3 different times
are you just counting the mmo Kings or all of them
The ones you've seen from 2004-2018
ok
now I hope the Loa spirits that told Voljin to pik Syl and not void
Vol was weakened severally and well I'm it would of been hard to tell an actual Loa spirit from a fake one
I'm sure*
Why are people afraid to see Salyvans Wendruiner dying?
because why would they kill one of the most well known characters, and the warchief again, for the sake of repeating the exact same story as MoP
For the sake of a crying community tbh
She'll step down, or be forced from the position.
I suspect she'll disappear and her Forsaken will be tossed into disarray.
Then Calia steps in.
Why would Calia go horde tho
tfw people unironically think theyre gonna do the exact same story as MoP ๐
only chance she's not warchief by the end of the xpac is willingly stepping down or forming a council and ending the position
@uncut vault Or being forced out.
so, MoP
If Horde really wants to quit her
Nah, because she won't be captured.
Because so far no one really doubts about her commands
She'll go do something else.
^
She won't stay Horde either, though. She can't stay in the Horde and at the same time there be peace.
The Alliance won't stop until they have her head.
Exactly
She'll play an evil part in wrath 2.0
Perhaps Bolvar vs Slyvanas
I'd support Bolvar tbh
I suspect she's going to be Illidan 2.0 sadly.
"haha we actually need her"
Except Illidan never actively did any of the evil shit in Burning Crusade. It was all the Burning Legion/Kael'thas.
Though she can't exactly be redeemned
The difference would be
She actually did the evil shit.
And we'll be expected to forgive her.
inb4 she saw a vision and did all this to stop the Old Gods kek
Whoops twice
yes, everyone noticed that I think
What if
Anduin marches on quel'thtlas through greenwood pass lilr Arthas
Instead of march of rhe damned its march of the just
Or something
And shows the parrel
I want to see a major Alliance victory that isnt just Sylvanas blowing something up and one upping us.
Same here
I want something that actually pisses her off.
Perhaps Silvermoon will be our victory
As its been teased
They don't have to bring silvermoon out of outlans
Just make a hd updated one phased in outland
Should be easy enough for void elves to get to
Yeah siege of silvermoon/quel'thtalas could be quite fun, void elves are our elite crack squad so we send them behind enemy lines
We could even use the silvermoon study peoplr in the void elf hub to sneak in if need be
I'm sure people will notice THEIR PURPLE SKIN
"void elves are our elite crack squad so we send them behind enemy lines"
...Dudes
How people would enrage
if in that moment the void elves would mimic their blood elven appearance
npcs only tho
Blood elf toy lmao
Sneak in at the dead of night
I feel like Anduin would march on Silvermoon, do speech and offer the blood elves a chance to rejoin alliance, lor'themar will then insult us, we then start ot siege
I mean, more than void elves need some more customization options, patch with Quelthalas content would be a good time to fix some of the nightborne options alongside void elves
Quel'thalas patch is also perfect time to add the high elves allied race
Perfect time to kill them off more likely
Maybe so but I don't think they'll be an Allied race blizzard seems very much against that
If their numbers are soon to be reduced that would make sense.
Brown
Void elves
Also, Blizz isn't super against it. They've just found no ways that they can currently distinctly show the two being different.
Of which if they'd just take a look at the fan suggestions, they can easily pick something out.
So high elves for alliance? What does horde get as an equivalent?
Forest trolls
give em the Forest Trolls they've wanted for so long
the bulky hunchbacks
Revantusk is still a horde tribe. And they are a tribe of Forest Trolls akin to the Amani.
I see what you are saying that High Elves is something Alliance wants and Forest trolls is something that the Horde wants but I do not think that is even at all.
I know some of you don't think we'll get racial armor for each pvp season.... But if we get this mail armor, warfront or not... It's gonma be finna woke.
We'll never get racial PVP armor
Warfront season one is orc vs human themed.
Horde vs Alliance
Horde is always mainly orc. Alliance is always mainly Human
it was like that in the first set of pVP gear given
the same chance that blizz decides to place some logical thinking into their story
ยฏ_(ใ)_/ยฏ
We already were told what was replacing class tier tho
which is raid themed blanket for each armor type
We can have different opinions ๐
Mines not an opinion
You're using conjecture based on your opinion of wow's story development to make a point.
An argumentative poi t
Something I tried preventing with my statement above.
I'm going to leave now
Why didn't Jaina teleport away in the Broken Shore, why didn't Jaina freeze all of the blight, why didn't anduin and the other light users simply use their abilities to blast the blight away,
etc
etc
etc
Have a good one.
There's a lot of logic that's lacking within blizzards story
which is all to just push plot
Dw Horde and Alliance might get dragons soon as allied races
Supposedly stella appeared in horde embassy and wrathion alliance and both were disabled, dragon isle teased, wrathions story seems it might get bigger. ๐ค
I mean theres reasons
Do they appear there now?
i never heard of stella appearing
Are they actually there now?
and wrathion appeared only at blizzcon
which was early alpha
Nit they were disabled /hidden
As much as I would love dragon allied race... Both would most likely be black dragons.
If they happen at all.
drorith,it's better not to spread outrageous rumors
Which is a very big if.
Stellagosa's people are on the brink of extinction, in what mind would she toss them into a war.
Oh yeah I forgot any Allied race ideas get picked apart on WoW forums or discords lmao
Ebonhorn.
Is on Horde side.
Even if they got abused in the past
Both sides have a black dragon basically. Since Wrathion is very pro alliance.
Ebonhorn is on the hordes side by association and loyalty to the Highmountain
This thread could defend is possibly https://us.battle.net/forums/en/wow/topic/20767646785#1

also why THE F*CK would stellagosa be the emissary
it's pretty clear it would be ebonhorn in that case
Still allied to the horde by technicality.
he'd be REALLY against joining the horde
if he heard
what the horde did to his people
first
@strange falcon no idea that was what I was told
thats why you do your own research kids
Dror if you were told that WoW was ending tomorrow would you just spread that?
@hollow dock no, thats a different scenario
its a rumor
Unless they want to make them evil and have Twilight dragons
You spread em like wildfire
it's like the rumor of alliance allying with alexstrasza and horde with bolvar
e.e
Lich King 2, Icey boogaloo.
Alliance would ally with Bolvar IMO
Please look forward to it.
Against Slyvanans
Mutually benefits them both
You can't defend em, when we rip em apart, you just deflect it off.
Sylvanas will become Lich Queen because she can't be corrupted by the helm
I dont really think horde deserves dragons tbh
Bolvar would most likely find Slynavas a threat , especially the way she is going
Bolvar want all the undead in his control
or an order of deathknights under her control
Technically. Bolvar could just take over her.
Sylvanas is a raiding party to Bolvar's grand holy roman empire
Bolvar needs to help us then
Bolvar won't help anyone. It's not in his interests.
Exactly Vris
He could deal with Slyvanans like Vermin
Technically. The Ebon Blade doesn't answer to the Lich King all the time.
If he lets Sylvanas kill us
that's even better for him
and yes N'n.
They do
Frost Artifact. Go find the shards of Arthas.
Didn't you do the
I thought Bolvar learnt to control the helm sort of
Don't play DK
"get me a new frost drake whatever" "sure dude"
@hollow dock don't tempt me haha
Memory of Arthas whispers: The numberless shades forsaken by time.
Memory of Arthas whispers: The dead outnumber the living, and always will.```
Shard of Arthas from Azuna.
Memory of Arthas whispers: Yet you do as He commands.
Memory of Arthas whispers: You exist by His whim alone.
Memory of Arthas whispers: You imagine yourself to be free, but you will always be His instrument...```
Highmountain.
Memory of Arthas whispers: Even the mighty are rendered nameless by time.
Memory of Arthas whispers: Every king must kneel before death.```
Stormhiem
I don't think the Ebon Blade would go back to servitiude with the Lich King just because it's not Arthas anymore. Also, he does say he doesn't have command of Acherus during the mount questline.
That's the player.
They are
Not the Ebon blade as a whole.
Memory of Arthas whispers: Rage against the Nightmare. Struggle as you will.
Memory of Arthas whispers: The infinite darkness is patient. We will all be claimed in the end.```
Val'sharah
At his service tho
this is not just hte player
The deathknights are still bound to the Helm of Domination
They were raised with the Helm
not just Arthas
Sylvanas and her forsaken broke free because they weren't risen by the Lich king
they are bound to the helm
just an angsty deathknight who killed his dad
And was really pissed
someone photoshop sylvanas sitting on the lordaeron throne with the helm of domination
Because she was a nuisance
Like
In the whole dk campaign
you used to be chill
but this hoe comes and breaks ur stuff
Again, take note of what he tells us in Highmountain.
He doesn't speak of himself
he speaks of 1 being
The Lich King.
Not Arthas
Not Ner'zhul
Not Bolvar
The Lich King.
And can't we obliterate the scourge entirely?
There's to many.
You'd be culling them for years.
I know the DK campaign is following his orders. Then why exactly would he then say during the mount questline, that he would seize control of Acherus is you died(again) I mean sure he could be bluffing. But I doubt Blizzard have the story telling capacity to pull off bluffs anymore.
Like Arthas said, the moment the Lich King called, a simple gesture got the Ebon Blade serving the Lich King once more.
To be fair he promised you sweet lootz. I mean, 'artifacts'.
I don't see LK helping the rest of the world after we complete their quests
I was willing to join the scourge at ICC
Would like to point out that for the first time in wow history, the dragon isles is a confirmed lore location. However, at this moment before a future patch, dragon isles is just as notable as tel'abim. Does it mean we'll go there some day? Possibility. Does it mean we will for sure this expansion or a later? No, but it's possible.
@ruby star
Honestly Tel'abim is long overdue
Sentient bananas yes!
Dragon Isle is slightly more possible than Tel'abim
it really isn't. It's just an island of bananas
Why is there so much interest in it?
There was an interview with Ion, where when asked about the Chromie scenario (which takes place 'in the future', where you're level 112), said that dragons would indeed be relevant in BFA. At some point. To some extent. May have referred to the dragons on island expeditions.. or to the Dragon Isles.
Omg yes.

embrace the bananas vris
#blizzbananasplz
World of Sea of Thuieves
World of Guns of Icarus please
New banana monsters using azerite to build big banana azerite monster
this is why we shouldn't get tel'abim
Isn't there a quest for horde and Alliance to go kill gorillas?
ohh banana
Its not like blizzard hasn't embraced memes
inb4 THICC reaction in the giveaway
quite surprised
i'm still waiting for the 180 days subscription bundle
yes unless someone is grouped with someone from rp realm
they disabled sharding of Non-rp realms with RP realms unless they are grouped together
Apparently mg has shard on sw
Yea it'll shard with other RP realms
but only shard with non-RP realms when the group leader is from an RP realm
I meant the other kind of shard, where it has shard on its own realm
sharding was reactivated yesterday for RP servers in preparation for the xpac launch, and has never been disabled in war mode on RP servers, despite what they said
they are trying to balance horde and alliance in pvp because so many people are using it for rp
nno
god no
yeah for about two weeks, will probably be active till about uldir launch
they only activate it for high stress launches
nah, wont be that long
probably a week or so
and itll still try and shard within itself
the same goes for warmode, it tries to shard with other rp shards first
thats not how it works makore
it only shards pvp when there are so many more of one faction
and then it tries to shard to match faction and rp
they talked about how they plan to change it eventually
making the launch smooth is higher priority
they did
there was a bluepost on warmode pvp sharding
and how its mainly due to faction imbalance
No no
and how they plan to tweak it
On the RP Shard
they did that too
they disabled it shortly after prepatch
and in that post
they said it woul;d be reenabled a few days before launch
and then disabled again once the server stress is gone
yes
exactly like in legion
they arent planning to make changes
its just needed to stop the servers crashing
Ye, i prefer that
Next expansion will add a new class : Necromancer
Expansion after will add 2 new races : Ethereals and.......
MURLOCS

So im trying to remember if there is a "leveling guide" addon for BFA
i think there was one for legion...
but i cant remember its name.
I dont think so
Also
Are the pvp sets class themed
like
one class gets one with different stuff?
or for example, all plates have the same set?
Gladiator set is a recolor of Warfront set
Elite PvP set is Tier 3 Warfront set
or a recolor of Tier 3 Warfront set
anyway pvp and warfront are the same
Imagine it stays like this, armor based for 10 years, then Blizzard write : Expansion X will feature CLASS THEMED SETS !!!!!!!!
I wouldn't mind that tbh
Like sure the raid gear doesn't look that great for Uldir, but the questing and dungeon gear look fantastic
Uldir doesn't count, because it's like EN
I think second raid gear will be a lot better
unlike EN, Uldir is it's own tier with its own specific theme of gear. It is bland but I kinda like that it is.
It's titan based and titan stuff has been bland, sleek, efficient.
Yea but it seems like they didn't put too much details into it
Yea. LFR-Heroic certainly could have used a bit more work, but IMO the Mythic variants make up for it
Ahh that cross rp addon is interesting
yea
So, alliance lost at teldrassil, and again at lordaeron, their first win should be the warfront right?
Assuming each warfront is limited time, which we arent sure yet, yeah theyd likely win
That made me actually laugh
I has
A concept for a new legendary
come and gather
Legendary Keystone
It adjust to any dungeon
And has a min level of +10 that scales
But this doesnt expires
how bow dat eh?
The way to get dis thing is completing a +25 Mythic with gear that isn't current bis
Christie Golden tweeted out a new piece of art from the novellas
From the first page
Stormwind
Stormwind, novella opens with them practicing
that seems like sparring at the start
Leads into Mathias first telling them about silithus
Late to the convo
But honestly
The mail uldir set is pretty great
Just the helm and Shoulders suck
Which is why i'll be using the dragonrider helm
Quick question for Beta players. Do you guys know if at the end of each zone we have a Dungeon quest - Just like Legion did ?
It's a bit different to legion (because each faction only levels in half the zones), but most every big storyline culminates in a dungeon.
It might be
Azerite traits arenr random, ye?
Correct
Azshara crater should come around sometime
You only need piece from raid to get that buff right ? no need to stack 3?
probably won't stack when the secondary stat % increase is that high
(hell even the secondary stat rating itself being that high)
hopefully, I don't want to be forced to use x3 of the raid trait
if it does stack I'm expecting a reduced efficiency on subsequent pieces with the azerite trait
Prolly
You know how blizz is with disminishing returns
You know
Azerite gear seems a good alternative to tier effects
makore is so WOKE right now
It's not an alternative, it's a replacement 
LOL
quik mafs
I did feel that Jaina's expressions there would be a meme
it's typical 'character that you're not meant to be paying attention to but nonetheless is visible as day
Reminds me of Junkrat's 'Nam face
And Teldrassil is magically resistant to fire! Was it's connection to the Dream severed? Do the devs care? Likely not since they've taken Chronicles volumes 2 and 3 and just tossed them out the window with this expansion. Nice waste of paper there, Blizzard...
arcane bolts
Uuuugh
Jaina is suddenly OP, Anduin is perfect and made of sparkles, Sylvanas is twirling her eyebrows and Baine and Saurfang have no balls. It feels like I am watching Square Enix write for WoW...
I don't recall Jaina ever being able to lift a ship from the bottom of the ocean and fly it Peter Pan style.
Hello? Power of a Titan in her Staff?
Shes not suddenly op Sne
She never showed her power, which is different, but since mop she has been quite strong
She has Aegwynns power, or at least a portion, and absorbed the remnants of Aman thuls power that Lei Shen had and was using to power his armies and machines
Until now, none of this had ever been utilized
Its like going through a D&D campaign not realizing you have a scroll of resurrection sitting in your bags until the very end.
Exacty that lol
People often forget that she is Jaina Proudmore
Wow... so all that power is forgotten until now. Who needs continuity?
Blizzard's usually been a little better than this at keeping up with continuity. I mean, they've codified most of the lore. You'd think new authors would be made to read that at the very least.
remember though
she didnt permanently clear the blight
it was just temporary
so she is strong
but even jaina cant remove blight with a wave of her handd
Also... has the Purge of Dalaran been retconned or are we going to pretend that killing people who, while they were Horde races, had nothing to do with what Horde leadership was doing?
Thats still canon I believe
Because in the novel, the reason Jaina left the coucil was reduced down to 'Angry words'
That wasnt racism tho
You have events mismatched
During MoP jaina led the Kirin Tor
The purge is never mentioned in the book even though Jaina comes back to Dalaran to meet with Kalec.
regarding the purge
In which, it is canon that Aethas did know of what garrosh was doing.
And stepped
Aside
So yes the purge is justified
it was towards the sunreavers and sunreavers only, not the horde
The murder of women and children isn't worth a foot note, but a few soldiers being killed in Theramore, where Baine freaking warned the entire city what was coming so they could all escape... no. That's worse.
and jaina herself offered to leave HER city
The purge removed the Sunreavers and banned the horde from using Dalaran
before attacking
and the one you kull in the quest, were the ones that refued to leave
Jaina nor even Vereesa murdered civilians
Just those that resist and attempt to kill
The assets were also stolen, don't forget that.
Jaina imprisons everyone else she comes accross
They were the kirin tors outright and when they refused to leave the city, they rebelled and fought back
Because Jaina has no sense of scope...
You are sent to kill them for this
She does
The horde broke dalarans neutrality
The horde
Recieve punishment
You mean Garrosh
The other horde leaders were in open rebellion against him by that time
He was warchief at the time that he made the sunreavers steal the bell
Nope
None were
All followed him at the time of the bell.
Openly, yes. Not behind his back
The rebellion didnt start until nearly a year after the purge
^
That timeline does not add up in my head.
Come to think of it, has Blizzard ever been good with time? Hell no...
Start of MoP when garrosh makes full official landfall
During the operation shieldwall time
Which was the first few months kf MoP
Thats when the purge happened
Also the Horde didn't rebel until the last phases of shieldwall
My sub ran out months ago. I am too poor to resub. I guess this is a non poor person's game. Fine.
I just want to know what's going on in the story and I can't reconcile anything.
O-o
are you talking about Lor'themar?
We correct you, you call us on it, we tell you the timeline, you dont want it.
/shrug
Hate of the alliance... No. I don't hate the Alliance as a whole. I dislike Greymane as an idiot, Anduin has become a Gary Stu with magical lie detecting bones, and Baine had his balls cut off.
The Alliance is great, best faction IMO but I am bias
Lie. Detecting. Bones
How is Anduin a gary stu
Read the novel
Ehh I think someone lack reading skills
What? The UNDEAD BANSHEE QUEEN THATS ACTIVELY LIED MULTIPLE TIMES
Is being called
A LIER?!
Wowe
Tmw having a bad feelign is mary/gary stu sue
Ugh... That's not what I am saying. In order for the story to move in the book, everyone had to hold the idiot ball because Anduin would have caught them in a lie. Calia had to be an idiot to get in on the meeting, for instance.
what the heck are you on?
Why would she? Sylvanas is out of the loop
He council actively opposes sylvansd
Are you sure you read the book?
Is he high rn?
Yes. I read the book. With Anduin being raised as a royal, he would have known the political cluster bringing Calia to any meeting would have caused.
Sylvanas is just a cartoon character at this point. I never liked her as Horde leader. Vol'jin was better, but he got killed before having much actual screen time as Warchief.
Except that no one knew calia was there.
Anduin did
Anduin knew because she asked Anduin if she could attend. She wore a hood so no one could see her face
Read the book again
Because most of the Forsaken were from Lordaeran and would have recognized her and Sylvanas has a hate boner for anything to do with Menithil
EXCEPT THAT ALL THR FORSAKEN THERE WERE AGAINST SYLVANS
How do you not know this purpose?!
Only the Desolate council was at the meeting.
And those wanted to go with their families
And of that council, only a little more than half were actually killed.
Literally, the desolate council and those that follow them are AGAINST sylvanas. They want to die.
And actually everyone of the council died
The ones who had gotten along well with their families but came back when called were also killed.
No. Not the whole council.
Only those who'd had bitter relations with their human relatives.
I cant even anymore
Read it again
Sylvanas slaughtered everyone
No
Not everyone
Calling dem squad
Deal with this man.
Yea
So the people who werent there werent killed? You dont say?
there were people she didnt kill
Vris, dont need to be an ass
the ones who were rejected
^^^
the ones who had already lost hope
Exactly
And the council were among them, mhm?
Sylvanas said it her self. Hope was a disease and she had to cut it out
the entire desolate council was slaughtered
No...
No
nope
Some are alive
sorry vris
Some are still... 'alive'
only the ones who were accepted by their families
Exactly
the ones who were rejected never went out there
and werent killed
they didnt even see the massacre sylvanas committed
And the ones who had been rejected on the field and came back early were also spared.
Wwhen sylvanas went berserk
she killed every forsaken out on the field
The whole thing was an exercize to see who could be trusted
I might have to find the page and paragraph.
but she doesnt, she only kills those out on the field vris
Desolate council is not totally wiped
it specifically mentions how some forsaken were rejected and returned home to the undercity over the course of the day instead of watching everyone else be happy while they lost all hope
Right. I get that
I keep saying when she actually goes berserk and starts slaughtering everyone indiscriminately.
She doesnt kill everyone?
We said she does. She kills anyone in the field
Forsaken
Thank you
In the field
We are saying the same thing
whether or not they were going to run back or run towards anduin
but
there were some forsaken who went to the event
The ones who had been rejected early lived
but were not out on the field
those forsaken lived
though they do not know the atrocity sylvanas committed
So if they werent there. They werent there to die. Thanks for clarifying that.
I guess what I keep thinking is that those that left, also left the council.
They wouldnt oppose sylvanas if there isnt anything left for them
"The only Desolate Council members I trust are the ones who returned
to me early on, broken and bitter. Truly Desolate. All the othersโฆI cannot
allow that sentiment, that hope, to grow. It is an infection ready to spread. I
have to cut it out.โ " page 241
There.
Yes they did? The council was formed opposing sylvanas as they wanted to die
If they wanted to die, they could kill themselves. That is not opposing her reign
Opposing her is what Calia did
Yes it is?its very mucb opposing sylvanas goals
Its opposing all shes doing. Its opposing Sylvanas
Sylvanas even gets annoyed at them
And nathanos has to point out that its the point of free will
posts a quote to prove her point... gets ignored
Thank you. I'd rather not be dog piled.
Regardless. The horde actively broke dalarans rules. Jaina as ruler of Dalaran, granted without input or discussion, moved to imemdiately remove the horde.
Which was not the best decision
No it wasn't, but using dalaran as a staging area to attack an alliance city opens dalaran to being attacked by both sides
She was unhinged because of Garrosh's actions. The bombing of Theramore was the last straw for most of those in the Horde
Jaina and the Silver covenant made the right choice
She was using dalaran as the ultimate reason to trust the horde again
Jaina aint the leader of Dalaran anymore
We arent speaking of now Kham
Listen... neither the Alliance Nor Horde are all bad or all good. It's morally grey. Until we get to this expansion. Then it because a saturday morning cartoon.
Quick question, does anyone besides Sylvanas know what happens to dead forsaken? since we are talking about them dying
Doesnt make them right
The Alliance burries them
no i mean in the shadowlands
The alliance isnt apart of the Kirin tor anymore
That falls to Khadgar and the council
And Khadgar is tired of both faction's crap
In which, when information comes out for the horde breaking dalarans law
Yes
Banishment is the right course of action
The sunreavers jaina captured stayed in the hold as legitimate prisoners of war because the horde made their move to make dalaran involved in the war
so how much grinding is involved in getting one piece of azerite gear?
zero
You're awarded your starting pieces in questing
The specific pieces of Azerite gear drops from specific bosses across all the dungeons, won't drop from the weekly M+ caches, and raid bosses.
it's the getting the ones from boss drops I'm worried about
They drop like any other piece of gear, and if you get online and check the loot tables, certain bosses only drop azerite gear.
IIRC
Oh right got it a bit wrong @obtuse token Certain bosses will drop the azerite gear for the armor type, azerite gear is not class specific.
Did sylvanus commit a war crime by using blight?
Cause she just did a theramore
Cause after wrathgate I thought it was banned
even without the blight she still commited war crimes, like Tell, that was a war crime and mass genocide
i guess that's like nukes
which is kida forbidden aswell
kinda*
mass destruction weapons, i was refering
or at least uncontrollable after it's deployment
You can control them to an extent, it's just whether or not you want to risk doing that
yeah but battle for lordaeron came out and gave us three extra cinematics
and old soldiers came out a little before that
so azshara warbringers probably on the 14th
I'm excited. I don't even need azshara on the 13th/14th
expansion will come with several cinematics, that's enough for me.
but if azshara does come out I guess I won't mind ๐
yeah, the thing is they said that
THEY SAID NOTHING M8 slams hand
yea Blizzard gave no release schedule
just said "the coming weeks" or something lol
I'm thinking azshara will be a few days to a week after launch. or maybe it'll be a day or so before.
a short while before legion came out, there was this little video that showed several clips from ingame legion cinematics (val'sharah, suramar, stormheim, plus re-showing some stuff from illidari and broken shore). it was a nice preview of what was going on, maybe the azshara warbringer video could end up serving the same purpose (and be released a day or two before launch).
๐ค
Orc is best dancer
The thrall stuff was dropped right?
wtb a race that dances to dk rap
My bet is theyโll show Azshara short at gamescom and announce 8.1 PTR
Major patches announced at the blizzcon after xpac launch, xpac announcement at the next blizzcon, xpac launch in the summer after
Rinse and repeat
two years
8.1 announced at gamescon, maybe new allied races, perhaps announce plunder isle zone story content , nazajtar raid of course etc
I highly doubt any of those will be in 8.1, except maybe allied races.
nazjatar seems like 8.2 kind of thing
Thatโs my bet. Since BfAโs main breakaway from Legion is 8.1 being a full on content patch, as opposed to a small instance and story based patch like 7.1
I can't imagine the other two allied races we know are coming would be held off for too long.
They already said Azshara would be 8.1 raid boss
oh, didn't hear that.
Don't mention suramar
Though I'd love Dragon Isle more tbh, guess thats either 8.2 or 8.3. Though I'd also love greenwood pass or quel'thrhlas patch; Anduin marchinv on Quel'thalas likr Arthas, instead if march of thr damnrd it would be march if the just and parrle each other
And unlike 7.1, weโll likely be getting a full zone of content similar to Broken shore or argus for 8.1
@uncut vault thoughts on that?
I can see dragon isles being either 8.2 with a Quelโthalas warfront, or a .5 content thing similar to Chromie
Small story tangent in the same vein that Isle of Thunder was
Hell yeah
Quel'thtlas warfront would be awesome
High elves and Void elves vs blood elves and Nightborne
Best bet is Silvermoon will be bubbled off by Banโdinoriel for the sake of not updating it, and allowing flying in the new zone
wat in tarnation
I wonder how fucked would the game become if they dare to update old zones
Imagine the salt.
Only people with salt would be BE players tbh
Silvermoon itself will likely not be the warfront. Iโd love it, but itโll likely be at the river between Eversong and Ghostlands. The entirety of QT is a full on zone with full mountains, with the exception of Silvermoon. Bubbling it off in the warfront phase similar to Vanilla Dalaran would allow them to make the zone HD and focus on building new warfront assets, instead of revamping the city into something entirely new to accommodate the new spaces
Story wise it makes sense to be the focus, but warfronts arenโt as design intensive as recreating Silvermoon would be
@uncut vault Maybe so, however greenwood/pass could work too
I mean it only makes sense for the Alliance to march in Quel'thalas
I hope if they do what you are saying, porter, that HD quel'thalas gets integrated into eastern kingdoms continent
Perhaps Anduin offers the BE a chance ti rejoin thr alliance, ans vereesa tries to redeem them, which leads to lor'themar insulting us so we attack
Which is funny because he's tried rejoining quite a few times.
It would be nice if they would, but if it is a warfront, reintegrating isnโt required, as Arathi is essentially an instance that you enter and exit via your base portal
oh, was unaware.
Itโs in the open world for immersionโs sake
arathi instance allows flying?
just asking because you mentioned HD QT would
Yeaah they could honestly update Quel'thalas and phase jt/instance it and make it HD
I hope not
to be clear, the "open world" part has no flying either? i.e. where the world boss is, rather than the actual battle?
Open world doe
It does have flying for the open world version, and the open world QT likely would too, which is why bandinoriel will likely come into play
OK, then I still don't understand how that could be done without reintegration into EK
HD quel'thalas wouldn't need flying and if they updated Quel'thrals is would most likely stay in outland but
It would mean no flyjng
Hard
do the mountains not already match on both sides?
And you know that they don't want that
Still waiting on them to update models from ages ago.
Because similar to the work it would take to reintegrate Silvermoon as a real city instead of smoke and mirrors, erasing Vanilla Quelโthalas and putting both the old and new Quelโthalas into the open world is a lot of work
Would take a lot of work hwnce why they keep it in outland and just phase/instancea HD one
Work that warfronts currently donโt demand
Thwy could update QT and make it HD and phase it no probpem
But open world wjll take too much work sadly
hmm
my point was
doesn't QT map file include part of eastern plaguelands?
therefore, isn't there a seamless transition already created?
seamless transition?
It doesn't.
oh
QT's area is very much JUST
ghost lands
and QT
You can open a map editor of WoW's files and see it's on the same plane as the Outland map is
It's 100% separated off of EK
oh I know it's on the same plane of outland
and it's separate
but for some reason I thought it had a tiny tiny fragment of plaguelands
The easiest way is for them to Update QT HD one is to phase/instance it keeping jn outlandif course
of course.
that is quite obviously the easiest way. it's just not a way that allows flying
unless they make invisible walls far before you get close enough to the mountains to see over them
The same is true in reverse
Which might happen in BFA but might not only thing against it is what tjey said at blizzcoon ut stuff changes drasticly
Eastern Plaguelands does have a tiny bit of Ghostlands
which might be what you're thinking
oh.
You can go to ut
but that is Vanilla Ghostlands. So before the actual work was done in BC
The invisible wall is down
wait really
Not intended of course
You can slip by the invisble wall, even get to see old Stratholme and all that goodness
but it's technically glitching out the game
Yeah
I'm not going to do that
I mean the glitch has existed since I think MoP
But the attention its bringjng means they will
Yeah but more invisible wall is down
Scarlett monastery and hearthglen
You can also swim around via sea or fly
well going to ghostlands instance in game without glitches, I can see some of the eastern plaguelands trees, but it's pretty obviously just void after a short while
Yup.
smirks and snitches
in any case, adding QT, and Exodar, into the vanilla world maps would be a lot of work
and god knows what cutting out those swaths of the map to put them in would do to the rest of the game
exodar doesn't need to be put back
they just need to add more ocean around it then put invisible walls
Hence why they update QT aand phase it while staying in outland
boom flying
If they do one, they have to do the other
they only need QT because it's right next to another zone
exodar is an indeterminate distance from mainland
They need to make fully azeroth seamless
Like, being able to fly to Kalimdor by ourselves
azuremyst isle does not need to be integrated to the kalimdor server for the same reason EK doesn't
it's far away
and separated by large swath of ocean
Vris is there any IG stuff etc, teasing the horde want to invade exodar? Like specific info
but so is teldrassil. Technically, lorewise, Azuremyst and Bloodmyst can be seen from the shores.
and nope
they're being left alone
was unaware of that lore fact
Well they might not
for gameplay purposes though there's no need for the islands to be seen from the shore. unlike QT which you can literally see unfinished zones from either side on live (tiny bit of plaguelands from ghost lands, vanilla ghost lands from plaguelands)
Stuff from Blizzcon changes drasticly
If QT got updated for warfront or story content, it wouldn't require exodar getting updated if its a phased and story relevent
It seems they are updating zones when becoming irrelevant llike ararhi
from inside the ghostlands instance on live, I can see plaguelands up to the blue line:
so theoretically there is a reasonable smooth transition already implemented
actually I can see some trees that are a bit farther
QT is teased though might not come this expansion but it could come this expansion so we gotta wait and find out
in theory yes
I'm not gonna base my judgement on what they said at Blizzcon as stuff could change drasticly since then and who knies what blizzard has un store they are full of surprises
but with how actual implementation works, you cannot overlay them
that just causes more issues
Exaclty why I see if it does happen might not then they'd just updated and phase it
And keep it in outland
sure, you can't simply overlay them. oceans probably don't line up, etc.
even with lordaeron not all the map changes were accounted for, some doodads are floating where the zeppelin towers were
Personally I's love it to go in overworld but it would be easier for them to update and phase it
I outland
however with that smooth transition already implemented, it would be at least easier than designing something from scratch
I would think
Honestly another reason I hope they never integrate QT into the open world is because Vanilla QT is cool
eh
I love the little highborne ruins, original deatholme
sure but you can always look at those, someone's surely archived the map files
on live, you're not allowed to go there so there's really no problem if they are removed
Looking at them and going to them are very different
Fuck the BE, they can go live in Suramar r somewhere else
Iโve got a warlock parked back behind the barriers for RP
Alliance will retake Silvermoon it will be our first victory
Tell was a defeat our city wa burned and our people were mass genocided, lorderon we didn't retake it due to Slyvanans, she destoryed two cities.
did they take beta down because why it say install agine
Beta should be up
i been in beta for weeks why it say install agine
@ruby star first victory is supposed to be Arathi warfront
and horde will win next warfront
on Kalimdor
inb4 horde loses all warfronts

They can't win Arathi
They cfan't win the hearts of the people
They made peace their enemy
They made hinata their enemy

so there is a update
wait is there a serious reason why horde can't win arathi?
I mean what forces are fighting over it are leftovers from the horde defendors of Lordaeron
its like
but also, way more alliance soldiers and resources
alliance winning barrens
Not really.
Barrens is kinda core territory of the horde
Arathi is not core to the alliance of today
The alliance will get an invading party and several bases set up.
horde would only have forces from the sea (zandalar, orgrimmar) and maybe blood elves from QT. however alliance controls lordaeron, blood elves can't get through.
meanwhile alliance has forces from sea as well (kul tiras) plus ironforge is nearby which has a tram to stormwind as well.
I can definitely agree it's improbably that horde will win, especially given alliance will have the upper hand in terms of reinforcements.
