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In my opinion Shadowlands would work better as a raid or patch than as a continent. I just don't find the idea that appealing to spend 2 entire years on... some floating island in the afterlife?
All interesting that's left in the wow universe are the void lords, but there's no fucking way that the next expansion is about them, we're probabbly getting a filler like WoD was
like nyalotha. its probably all they have conceptually
Unless it's like 9.2 stuff
dragon isles is almost definitely the core or focus of next expac at this point
too much dragon dialogue
way too much
In my opinion the Dragon Isles would work better as a single patch since there is nothing to do there, after N'zoth is dead - since there are shrines of N'zoth there, i see no reason to go there if N'zoth is already dead.
But theres a huge amount of death dialogue too
Yeh but for like 70% of the expansion
And it'd just be very weird to sum up the entire afterlife as that one landmass you play on. It's like the Emerald Dream or Ny'alotha, they couldn't translate an entire dimension/universe into a continent, it would be very odd, so instead we only get glimpses of them, through a raid or quest etc.
There are many more death-related things in BfA than to dragons
no there arent
The Dragons role in BfA is to help us fight N'zoth
Dude
"So that's the afterlife?"
"Yeah the afterlife is just like 4-5 zones."
That's just 8.2
uh, no
The entire questline is making another Dragon Soul to defeat N'zoth
not core. but an added element
8.0 and 8.1 have way more death stuff
never thought of the quests like that
wait
huh
that is 8.2
i still expect 9.0 to be dragon isles
Dragons appeared randomly and suddenly they are the main content?
since 8.3 isnt
dragon isles is an easy set of zones too
each dragon has a core theme
8.0 (gorak Tull, thros, witches, zul)
Everything?
We don't even have a reason to go there
WRATHION HAS BEEN LOOKING FOR THEM
we already got a dragons expansion
AND WE ARE HELPING WRATHION
8.1 (bwonsamdi, vol jin, lich king, eyir)
wrathion is literally a direct tie in
And we helped the Mag'har with their Draenei problem
eh.. i liked the idea of a floating island with some titan tower or w/e in the center. but i like sonic and knuckles
Wrathions a dweeb
are we going back to Draenor?
thats not even equivalent
No. I think the dragon isles are near Northrend
youre comparing an AR questline to an entire patch and a half
probably not, considering how hard it was for someone to get there
or out of there
theyre inbetween lordaeron and Northrend
who the fuck is Gorak Tul?, i know he's a boss in a dungeon, but wtf?
What I find really interesting is this new line from Il'gynoth in Ny'alotha
Before the last shadow falls, the Father of Sleep shall savor his feast.
I'm usually not one for theories or reading too much into things, but this seems to be a direct reference to Traveler, wher Mueh'zala, who by the way has "Father of Sleep" as one of his titles, says he shall feast on all of Azeroth.
Not saying Shadowlands is correct or whatever, just, it seems that Mueh'zala's completely random appearance at the time in Traveler may have actually had a purpose.
they could definitely focus on death stuff
and considering the whispers dont stop
guess what other old god is big and bad?
Everything leading to a death related expansion > Dragon aspects appearing just because of N'zoth
This is why I like the original map leak of shadowlands
and has been alive since the start of i think bfa or legion
gorak tul is explained in drustvar and the final culminating launch content quest for alliance
Malfurion is the Father of Sleep?
Cos it says 4 zones in shadowlands, 2 in dragon isles (for those with poor taste)
they wouldnt do that
@modest temple oh, i didn't played the alliance side yet
father of sleep is Mueh'zala
its a fun story
Wait I'm confused, @dense plover do you like or do you not like the idea of Dragon Isles as a continent (sorry I've had some trouble following the conversation)
im not for or against it
the last line he had on travelers reference him " feasting on all of azeroth " when he'll return
very low stakes. its a threat against a zone and maybe a person. wish we had more low stakes but interesting stories
@jade basalt "What I find really interesting is this new line from Il'gynoth in Ny'alotha
Before the last shadow falls, the Father of Sleep shall savor his feast.
I'm usually not one for theories or reading too much into things, but this seems to be a direct reference to Traveler, wher Mueh'zala, who by the way has "Father of Sleep" as one of his titles, says he shall feast on all of Azeroth."
Its not a direct reference to Traverler. It is actually a direct reference to a tablet in Zul'farak dedicated to Mueh'Zala, listing his many titles; namely, Father of Sleep.
Travelers? Are we talking about the book?
im against shadowlands because it, as a place, literally doesnt exist
It is still in game
But we can visit emerald dream
i mean, when we die, the shadowy place we see, is the shadowlands
its literally like a veil
The Dragon Isles would make much more sense if the Dragon Aspects were actually too weak to empower Heart of Azeroth against N'zoth and if we failed to kill him. We would go there to empower the aspects and find out how to kill or at least weaken N'zoth.
@unborn glacier I'm not sure if you've read my entire comment, because I mention that. But in Traveler, Mueh'zala shows up and says he shall feast on all Azeroth. And Il'gynoth says "the Father of Sleep shall savor his feast." So Il'gynoth is, possibly, referencing that line from Traveler.
If we can visit emerald dream we can visit shadowlands
it took a long time b4 we got some version of the ED
that grey version of the world?
Exactly
N'zoth dies in the next raid, so we have no reason to go to the Dragon Isles. And saying that "Wrathion is trying to find them" is a bad reason since he did everything ALONE so far.
thats the shadowlands
I know
you poked it in wrath then we got nothing for years
Why would he suddenly need our help
No, you said it was a reference to Traveler. You didn't mention ZF at all, where the title first appeared all the way back in Vanilla and is still there today I believe
isnt the shadowlands just where the player character goes when they die?
shadowlands is a place, and so is azeroth, and we're having small part of Azeroth each xpack. why not a part of the shadowlands ?
especially since the greatest threat to him (N'zoth) is already dead?
@jade basalt
Draenor is a planet, but we only go to a precise part
there isnt much there... we see it every time we die
A shadowlands 'continent'doesnt have to be a place. It could be a landmass we havent been too in azeroth but theres nothing there in the normal plane
Just dust I normal plane/everything hidden behind veil
eh... ghost land mass?
A normal land mass
@unborn glacier I'm not sure what's difficult to understand: yes, his title was established in Zul'Farrak 15 years ago, but that's irrelevant to the fact that Il'gynoth is referencing Mueh'zala's line about him "savoring his feast on Azeroth" from Traveler.
not physically in our world
but in a ghost only world
Which is desolate in our side
ghost land
ok. im with you... get some lttp stuff to flip between life and death there
Yeh just a concept
i dig it
"Before the last shadow falls, the Father of Sleep shall savor his feast" - Before we kill N'zoth, Mueh'zala will get powerful enough to do his "stuff"
That's how i understand it
Since he's the last Old God to defeat
Ilgynoth whisper ist 100% referring to traveler in the First place. That should be clear. But also the zul farak thing
ZF is like 15 years old, and name "Father of Sleep" appeared only there so far
@jade basalt I'm just stating you used Traveler as the establishment of the title, when for the majority, that book is non-canon to my best knowledge. The logic behind introducing this random person we know nothing about to the story to defeat the God of Death with a Diamond Sword is ridiculous. I just wanted to make sure someone corrected your connection of the title coming from Traveler and not being in-game well before the book ever existed.
I'm just stating you used Traveler as the establishment of the title
No I did not.
when for the majority, that book is non-canon to my best knowledge.
And no that is not correct either.
Mueh'zala appeared before Traveler
"I'm usually not one for theories or reading too much into things, but this seems to be a direct reference to Traveler, wher Mueh'zala, who by the way has "Father of Sleep" as one of his titles, says he shall feast on all of Azeroth."
Your own words, my friend
I did
He was mentioned in Zul'farrak
Theres a mueh'zala shrine in zandalar
You imply it
on one of the stone Tablets
No I don't.
How are the treveler Not Canon if WE habe even Charakters appearing ingame from that book
I said "who, BY THE WAY, has this title". I didn't say where the title comes from.
Dude are you blind? @unborn glacier
He literally did not say that the title comes from Traveler.
He said "Mueh'zala, who by the way has this title, says something in Traveler".
It does not mean the title comes from Traveler. That's basic English.
I don't know the names anymore, but there are some people on the mechagon island from traveler's, if I'm not wrong
No, those are from Hearthstone
"Brad Pitt, who by the way has a car, said something in a movie" does not mean Brad Pitt got his car from the movie.
On Mechagon you meet characters from HS
They are from hearthstone? Oh ok then
@distant folio That is a disingenuous comparison
No it's literally the exact same sentence structure
Nope.
But I think it's still Canon. The Traveler books
You are being intentionally reductionist
It LITERALLY is, I replaced the name "Mueh'zala" by another name "Brad Pitt", I replaced the object "a title" by the object "a car", and I replaced the location "in Traveler" by the location "in a movie". It's the EXACT same sentence structure.
Only now it made you realize that you read it incorrectly.
No
If Blizz (after 15 years) remembers who Mueh'zala is and mentions him in BfA with shrines, Bwonsamdi mentioning his "boss" and even a matching title i doubt it to be an accident.
What "no"?
You are being disingenuous.
What
Dude all you've done for the last 20 minutes is just say "no" to everyone without ever saying one correct thing, just no no no. Great argument there.
People always throw that word around
No, just to you
Disingenuous..
I mean this is not even a debate. I did not say that Mueh'zala's title came from Traveler, I stated that he said something in Traveler. Where his title came from, I did not address.
Hes providing a completely logical string of thoughts with no false pretence
It's not even in question. You're just being obnoxious ranger
I have corrected many incorrect things in here already, namely Titled claiming the League of Explorers characters from HS are from Traveler
Traveler story elements HAVE appeared in the game you peanut
Not these ones, but some others.
Name any of the main characters from Traveler appearing in game
Yes, that was my mistake
Ranger Ive watched this entire thing and it sure as hell looks like you just came here looking for a fight
But incorrect and disingenuous are not the same thing anyway..
Ranger, you're wrong. Period xD
The book established that "Flllurlokkr" is the Nerglish word for fisherman. Flllurlokkr was later added in Legion, becoming the first in-game reference of the book.
I don't want to do this but is there a <@&299347348847329281> watching this conversation?
yes
No Kala, I sinply wanted to correct Mind and point out the title originates in-game in ZF all the way back in vanilla. People got defensive ๐คท
Maybe instead of arguing we could actually go back to the actual discussion?
I literally did not say anything about where the title came from, so there's nothing to correct.
I just said "who, by the way, has "Father of Sleep" as one of his titles" - not where it comes from.
Yeh lets go back to the actual conversation of why shadowlands is superior to dragon isles
What Mind said was, that ilgynoth s whisper is referring to the Traveler books, because Mueh'Zala literally says there he wants to feast on azeroth. And ilgynoth says that he shall have his feast when the last shadow falls
Your statement implied its origin is from Traveler. I'm sorry you can't understand that. Maybe word yourself a little better and not become defensive when I apply friendly critique.
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Guys come on, stop arguing over such stupid things
"I dont like the way you said it"
Your statement implied its origin is from Traveler.
Nope. There is literally nothing in the sentence "who, by the way, has "Father of Sleep" as one of his titles" that says anything about the origin of the title.
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Tone it down guys. I don't want anyone to get in trouble here
cough
im gonna leave and let you dig your own hole
I have said my piece, Mind. You are free to disagree โค
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Let's go back to the actual expansion discussion?
I have two varying reactions while reading all of this:
and 
plz
@unborn glacier So if I wrote "Deathwing, who by the way has "the Destroyer" as one of his titles, said he wants to destroy the world in a magazine", does that mean that the title "the Destroyer" comes from a magazine?
Ah shit. Here we go again...
Okay, I'm going to step in and actually say "please change the discussion topic"
because apparently the eyes and coughing don't mean a thing ๐
This guy randomly butts in and starts attacking and "correcting" people who haven't even said what he claims they said for no reason, and then gets mad, I can't
OH sorry, I typed this before you typed this
Attacking
Again, let's change the discussion topic ๐
[11:27 PM] Onyx: Okay, I'm going to step in and actually say "please change the discussion topic"
Guys give up on that stupid argument already
Please don't try to apply malicious intent
I don't want to make this a song and go for a third verse
Anyways, I'm sure we'll see elements of Traveler appear in-game, but much in the same way Golden had to beg for the devs to use Calia instead of someone else, I doubt Blizz with introduce an entirely new set of characters from a book with no whit no history in game before. Especially that kid being the one to fight Mueh'Zala with a Diamond Sword.
Traveler might not be canon, but Mueh'zala for sure is
Ok new topic. If we did go to the shadowlands. What bosses would you like to see?
Hakkar
^shouldve been in this expac too
Maybe Kel'thuzad (he's still doing something somewhere)
Kel'Thuzad?
@dense plover From what I heard, the position Calia fills right now, not Legion, was supposed to be a different character.
Hakkar would be amazing
i havent heard that
More than choosing bosses, i'd like to meet some dead characters
dont know who told you that
like Cairne
I'd like to see him looking more like this
it honestly sounds like bullshit
Traveler is canon. There is nothing saying that it is non-canon. And WoWpedia does not list it as non-canon.
theres no current way to know whether it is or isnt
books shouldn't be canon
wowpedia has no more knowledge than we do
if its not in the game then fuck it
and the devs havent said
as I said, shouldve been a boss this expac
@novel zodiac It is in the game. Well, some elements of Traveler have made it into the game.
Its not the same
The only reference to Hakkar we got in BfA was Rastakhan's armor
Also agreed maldrak. Loads of scope for returning people
you can't learn all of it in the game
that looked as if it was made of his "parts"
Imagine orgrim doomhammer or anduin lothar?
Books are generally canon by default unless stated otherwise.
The RPG books for instance were declared non-canon. Traveler is canon, as far as we know, and it is even referenced in-game.
I think the reason why Hakkar didn't appear is because there was already a blood god, G'huun
We could meet Grom there too
Or if not that far back..at least uther, cairne etc..
I'd imagine hakkar would be punishing blood trolls for worshiping ghuun
Hakkar would need to fight against Mueh'zala i think
The only bit of Traveler referenced in game is him telling a child with a Diamond Sword, that if the Child doesn't defeat him when the time comes, he was feast on all of Azeroth. Beyond that one moment, nothing else from Traveler has made it in game.
I really hope they get rid of the followers/mission table in the next expansion
I have no idea where this weird idea that the Traveler books are not canon comes from, I had literally never heard that theory before, but there is nothing stating they are non-canon. Until Blizzard says they are not canon (which they have no reason to do), they are perfectly canon.
since all the Blood Trolls had their souls go to Bwonsamdi
who most probably is working for Hakkar
yyh Mueh'zala*
@unborn glacier That is wrong, again. There's also this:
The book established that "Flllurlokkr" is the Nerglish word for fisherman. Flllurlokkr was later added in Legion, becoming the first in-game reference of the book.
I view Traveler in the same way as the Modan comics. Major events in those comics ended up becoming canonized events referenced in game whilst the majority of the comics themselves being decalred non-canon.
@unborn glacier Lol great argument. "Aside from the times that Traveler is referenced in-game, there is no reference of Traveler in-game!"
Are we back to this?
Golden had to bag the Team to make Calia what she is now. She wasn't even planned for before the storm. This was tweeted even by herself to Taliesin @dense plover
non of the medan comics were declared canon
It's time to stop...
the comics are still like 80% canon
Technically The Comic is still canon. The only thing that was declared non-canon is Med'an becoming Guardian.
So the story still unfolded, just slightly differently.
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Basically just the last comic or two, out of 25? and even then, not much changes
Maybe new expansion is called 'Rise of Me'dan'
xD
is Med'an even canon at this point? xD
No
He is canon.
How?
But him being the Guardian is not canon.
You guys need to stop. I do not want to see you in trouble.
They fired him out of gallywixes cannon yeh
@tropic trail
Golden had to bag the Team to make Calia what she is now. She wasn't even planned for before the storm. This was tweeted even by herself to Taliesin
Wait do you have a source for this?
Med'an is still canon, TECHNICALLY. but he is conveniently "forgotten", kind of like Medivh was for...10 years?
Check her Twitter
Her twitter has thousands of tweets
It's a conversation with Taliesin
Medivh will probably return I'd say
Do you have a date or something?
I can't do it right. Now
Med'an is the Son of Medivh and Garona in the comics. How the hell is he canon? Blizz even referenced his new non-existence in Chronicles by putting him on pages 404 and then intentionally not putting a page 404 in the book.
In like 3 expansions from now
Med'an is the Son of Medivh and Garona in the comics. How the hell is he canon?
Nothing contradicts him being the son of Medivh and Garona, so that's how.
he can still technically exist
we just have no evidence
if he does ever return, there will probably be a book
IF
but there are no currently canon mentions of his existence anymore
They did mark him as 404, but technically this only means he is missing from Chronicle, not that he is retconned. And Chronicle was missing a lot of things as well. I mean they probably do want to retcon him out of existence, but so far, they haven't done it.
Med'an is defintely a character Blizz would like to forget; this is, again, furthered by the fact that intentionally did not include him in Chronicles.
Yeah, I have not said the opposite.
Ranger you really need to improve your reading comprehension
Everyone agrees that Blizz probably wants to forget about Med'an
But so far he is still technically canon, he is mentioned in interviews and short stories and comics. They may or may not decide to retcon him one day.
We need to find the difference between characters being canon and their actions being canon
Many things in warcraft movie weren't canon, but the there characters still were
It was easier tho, since these characters appeared in game
XD
Well the movie is not a great example, but yes you are correct. A character can remain canon while their actions can be retconned.
For instance Suramar is still canon, but what happened to it during the War of the Ancients was retconned.
Med'an is still canon, but some of what he did in the comics (becoming the Guardian) is retconned.
Didn't Blizz say the movie is it's own universe?
yes
We get a story where we see Anduin at his old age, when he can pretty much die at any moment for any reason
In the sense that it is separate from WoW canon, yes.
the wow comic with old anduin is canon
its why the going theory is he has plot armor
ofc that all couldve been a vision from the light
Nah, there are arguments over it too
Those characters actions are canon to the movie AU, just not to the main universe.
in which case its one of thousands of outcomes
and thats just the one the light showed
The comic is already called non-canon by people
Don't listen to people
Listen to Blizzard. And if Blizzard haven't said anything, then there's nothing to debate.
If they don't say it's canon then we can't say if it is or if it isn't
It is canon by default.
It is canon, unless they specifically state that it is not canon.
We are always free to speculate and hypothesize, no matter what, until the hand of God that is Blizz says otherwise.
Otherwise they would have to put out a PR statement saying "it's canon!" for every single thing they produce, every single quest, comic, novel or cinematic, which would be silly. Metzen literally said something along those lines many years ago. That's why everything is canon, except if they specifically say it's not.
Like they did with the RPG books.
^^^^^
That's what i'm trying to tell - if Blizz doesn't directly say it's non canon, it can still be canon
Exactly
(I know that trying to say that such small details are something relevent is kinda dumb, but the Zul'farrak NPCs are called Soul-Eaters, and their Loa is Mueh'zala(Just a tiny detail i'd like to mention)).
that's neat actually!
Apparently there's yet another leak http://i.imgur.com/VQpykNr.jpg
(thanks to marlamin for the pic)
The one with the most credibility by far is the Bolvar one. That and the Twilight of the Aspects one but that one is mainly due to the fact it still fits with everything thats happened in BFA as of now at least to my knowledge.
the Aspects one's logo looks a lot like this Shadowlands logo lol
Oh its certainly possible the Bolvar one is fake. However. It is the one that looks the most real and the image of Bolvar at the very least seems VERY real. The shop stuff could have been BS but the actual image could be the real deal but as we have all said a thousand times. Gotta wait for Friday ๐
this one?
That one I donno about. I think it cooould be real but the same goes for the Shadowlands title as well
Either could easily be a thing
That new shadowlands logo is so nice
With the souls energy in it and skeletonal heads on the sides
the image with the shadowlands one looks like some old art for fantasy books
brothers hildebrandt stuff
It doesn't look like what you'd expect the Shadowlands to look like
Could be xiros
It looks Suramar-ish
I'd imagine they wouldn't want all of shadowlands to be gloomy
That greek/Persian style fantasy suits a land of death too imo
well i cropped out the title and searched with the image, got nothing. so it might be entirely new. idk
The old leak said that the greek style would be a thing, so it is either piggybacking off that one or the old one is true
Different logo but that doesn't mean much as months have passed
This new one looks more distinct
But in the older leak there was no place called Bastion
I'd love to see more Suramar-ish stuff in game
Bastion could be city in xiros
one of the two best cities in game
Or is that the continent?
Perhaps
Couls be the city
It could be our "base" there
But it says 'land' of Bastion though
like Newhome in Nazjatar
Yes but they could have named the continent Bastion to signify its importance
Maybe rest of shadowland is consumed by hungering darkness
And part of the storyline is cleansing the different zones, opening up new content
blizz has basically been using d&d races and monsters for the last while. nobel kyrian race in ghost world?
Kyrian is a Greek word for 'lord'
Noble lords of death?
Something like this maybe?
Or more like this..
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Tbh the BfA campaigns went kinda good
i mean
Zandalar > Kul'tiras
but whole idea
went pretty good
so we could get it again
With Horde going to Shadowlands because of Vol'jin coming back from there, Sylvanas doing Sylvanas things etc.
and alliance could go to Dragon Isles with Wrathion because... idk whatever
they can make 2 campaigns like they did in BfA, and i think i'd be fine with that
colorwise this guy fits the city as well
In the map leak, that was different from the cinematic leak, there was a place called the Sylverian Glade
but i think the shop mount may be right to get compared there
This guy appeared in WoD
And in Legion we got Suramar
with more of them
Honestly I think that no matter what happens with 9.0 we will hopefully all be happy.It just feels like we are leading towards something really really big happening soon.
Sylverian Dreamer
Sylverian Approach, which might be the city
But, in the middle of the map leak is Nyalotha (transit)
im supposed to get food... but i love me some crazy theories
Apparently just an entry point fiskian
I was just about to write that
The map could, even though its extremely unlikely, be real
It hasnr been deconfirmed yet
which one?
Shadowlands map
This picture would fit the description of shadowlands we got before
The original shadowlands leak from july
that it isn't as dark as most people would think
Yes it could be xiros mauldrak
From July
For the Nyalotha part it would kinda make sense if they just say that the raid is only a small part of Nyalotha
They said xiros was calm and is where our city would be
but why go back if we are moving to focus on another big bad
He kills us and we end up there perhaps
nzoth?
Maybe something happens in 8.3 cinematic
That or it happens in 8.3.5
He breaks the veil or something before we defeat him
Nevermind, the broadcast text
Yeh
Thats what I meant
Either way
Could be
That could be the case as well for sure considering we dont even know what has given her the power she currently wields
i dont think we will see nyalotha again. it exists as a potential nzoth wanted to create/recreated. he is just powerful enough to impose his will and make it interactable
for it to be a raid zone feels like this is all they have for it and its all we get
Well the thing is this is the first time an Old God has been completely freed. Even if he does "lose" I can almost guarantee he wins by the end
While I do think D4 and OW2 will make an appearance those "leaks" You just posted Toby look SOOOO low effort
well... can we find that image of "lilith"?
I think it might actually be real
The biggest leak is that Deathwing is in Heroes of the Storm which means that Deathwing is going to still be alive in WoW. ๐
Cataclysm 2
The Lilith one Im not really sure of. Is it in the new Diablo art book? Did they forget to remove those pages sent to sites like WoW until Blizzcon is over.... Like if thats real its very confusing how they missed that
People tried to say Jaina was a dread lord because she got a dread lord skin in HotS.
deathwing is because of the associated 15 years event
He was also the most requested character
Yeah, I wasn't serious. Thus the laughing at the end.
@sullen dawn Can you send where you found the leak?
I'm 70% on board with it being shadowlands
im cool with Shadowlands as long as Tinkers arent a class lol
Black and White shadowlands sounds like the subversion blizzard would go
Yes please. That Lilian one could be from the new artbook and have been forgotten to be taken out of the book at least until after Blizzcon.
Id love Shadowlands or Twilight of the Aspects to be real... so much
But every shadowlands leak mentioned tinkers
looking through the monstermanual for lols to follow a thought i mentioned earlier. Calia looks like a Deva but wingless.
i dont think every leak mentioned it Kyle
why would we have tinkers if we are going to ghost world?!
Ghostbusters
Yeh Ghostbusters and transdimensional technology
I am 100% all aboard if they go for a Black Empire returns expansion.
lol
I'm gonna laugh if it turns out val'kyr are just fake kyrians
i just want Dragon Isles lol
Og map leak said ethereals played a role in xiros
Maybe dragon isles will be a patch zone
It would be a more psychotic Outland as well
Sylverian dreamer still seems to indicate dragon involvement
Well one zone was said to be more psychedelic outland, not the whole continent t
The riftlands
Didn't the map leak include text aswell?
I still honestly think that map can be real even with Nyalotha being a raid
thats the map from July
I think that map is wrong
And yes but the text with the map was BS
Yeh mostly because if word transit
what is there a blocked out part
*of
why
Unless the ruins of nyalotha are the passage to the shadowlands
Supposedly is blocked out due to it having the group number on it
Or nzoth/sylvanas tears the veil at nyalotha
The veil vanes, his crown will open the way
Could it mean the Eye of Nzoth?
That the players weat
Xiros description spot on aligns with the new pic
oh yeah
All I know is there is so much potential for these next two expacs to be amazing. Just so many cool things in play and Iโm sure a lot of it will bring people back to the game if they left. Then again. Wonโt know until Friday
Ethereals in there? ๐ค
this apparently got leaked earlier too
Given the past trends, this expac should hopefully be another MoP / Legion
it all sounds pretty interesting, but man, I wouldn't be surprised if we get something completely different lol
eh. anytime i see Hakkar mentioned i roll my eyes
Btw the blue eyes make more sense now
I kind of agree Ola
Imagine Bolvar doing a Thanos "Fine I'll do it myself"
but unlikely given Sylvanas is on the key art
Blue and orange
other wise I would think they would only hint at her activity after a time skip for the next expac
@dark furnace If that happens it would be awesome
fair enough
New picture... blue and orange (ghosts and sa d)
Sylvanas is the key art so as not to give anything away tbh
She was also the key art the year BFA got announced
Or It was illidan
Wasn't that Jaina?
Might have been yeah
I know onw was jaina one was sylvanas
2016 was sylvanas I just checked my poster
2017 was jaina
Saurgang was last year
2018 Saurfang
yeah
Chances are they're using sylvanas to not give anything away that we don't already know.
doubtful
Since she went full fuck you all 3 weeks ago
key art characters have always been heavily focused on in upcoming patches / expansions
see Illidan, Jaina, Ashzara, Saurfang
Well why would they put the Lich King on the key art. That would give everything away for his big return
Sylvanas could be the Guldan
Tracer deffo makes sense as the OW2 poster girl
Cinematic supposedly opens with Mei in danfert and saved by genji
Sylvanas could easily be a big part of the next expac for sure and likely will be. But it wouldnโt make any sense to put the Lich on the key set. Especially if they want to surprise people. And Tracer is the poster girl of OW. Iโd be pissed if she isnโt in OW2
Bolvar is a big reveal, evwryone already knows that Sylvanas will play a part
I mean, Sylvanas is basically the main character of WoW
@sullen dawn If that happened I would legit flip out
Currently.
To be honest I love sylvanas on account of Patty Madson does such a fucking phenomenal job at voice acting her.
she has had the most attention of any character in the series at this point
I'll note the one leak that hints at Calia and Jaina searching for arthas's spirit
more than Thrall and even Arthas / Illidan at this point
at least in WoW, maybe not warcraft as a whole
But with WC3 releasing this year it's pretty much guranteed the lich king will be alive some how whether bolvar or arthas
yeah, considering Sylvanas was everywhere during BfA not having her in the next expansion wouldn't make sense, especially after all that death setup
Sylv's been set up since Legion for this. I wanna see Helya come back.
I wonder if sylvanas looks like a normal elf in shadowlands
There's something going on between helya, azshara and sylvanas
harem
They mentioned helya looks kinder and prettier so maybe in shadowlands you appear as your true self
I also hope azshara survives 8.3
honestly, give me more helya / odyn stuff
Would be cool to see blonde sylvanas in game
Oh if shadowlands odyn will defo play a patt
I thought when they said they were doing away with class sets we were gonna get ToV - tier gear
If we get our true selves in Shadowlands does this mean Nightborne finally get more faces than pissed off, pissed off and mega pissed off ๐
Well prolly find out he dicked over helya
The Sylvanas key art has her with small model changes, and a new weapon, they wouldnโt put those details in if she werenโt making a major appearance at Blizzcon
I wanna see bolvar vs sylvanas ngl
isn't the weapon the dagger from the cinematic?
that would be epic
I love odyn but hes an ass
Yes, she still has one of them
ALSO MORE ZAPPI BOI
No thanks
@amber beacon Imagine what the crowd would be like if it opens up with Sylvanas fighting Bolvar. Oh my
I'd probably need new pants on more than one occasion ๐
I hope we stumble upon saurfang and saurfang junior hanging out
Saurfang still makes me sad ๐ฆ
Saurfang and his son just having tea time
I would like a more subdued cinematic this time
Whats the reason of Sylvanas vs Bolvar? ๐ค
Exactly
Just relaxing under the sylverian sun
Maybe vol'jin will pop up in the cinematic (One can truely hope)
eh. i dont want to see ghosts of ppl that are dead. i want new characters to want to care about. not banking on our feelings about old dead ones, like they did in wod
seeing as we seem to be getting more cinematics in general these days, it's only a matter of time before Bolvar gets into one
It would be pretty cool if the next cinematic mimicked the original Wrath cinematic to a degree. Still my fav cinematic to date
seeing he is being built up to be a major character at some point
Well we had a lot of arthas references in Anduin throughout BFA
Man if its shadowlands they will milk the hell out of the spirits thing
Sylvanas will either be the voice over for the feature reveal, with a new model reveal at the end like Jaina, or be the major character in the cinematic. One of the two is essentially guaranteed
Old characters will be EVERYWHERE
Anduin storming into the throne room was a shot for shot of the WC3 cinematic
Anduin climbing the tower in the saurfang cinematic in swamp of sorrows was a replica of his ascension to the frozen throne
maybe they're gearing him up to destroy the helm of domination and the scourge for good
Will we meet Khadgar in 9.x? 
We know Bolvar's up to something if we're getting allied race dks
Prolly not
nah he's too busy doing nothing
with the exception of pandaren there's no way in hell any of the other dks could have been risen until whatevers coming
oh and dark iron and maybe Kul tiran
World of Warcraft: Dadghar's Return
If it's not a faction war kadghar will return โค
Kadghar wouldn't choose between horde and alliance
Cos he loves us both equally
I want more flynn fairwind. Period.
eh
Good old dadghar
World of Khadgar 
he's such a boring character
a faction war begins
Khadgar: ight imma head out
Hes just our collective dad
There's a lot of talk about ravens from Ilgynoth
the dks races are all people that were involved with the 4th war
so maybe dadgar is back
I still think we're going to get a class from out of left-field
not necros or tinkers
BARDS PLS
He went out for cigarettes at end of legion and never came back
they still need another class that uses guns / bows
that wouldn't be tinkers
Tinkere could be mail
possibly dark rangers, but I doubt they would be called dark rangers
just make what we have stronger and remove the weapon ability restrictions.
I wonder if they'll have found a way to level squish
i honestly could care less about the squich
squish*
it doesn't actually do anything to the game
other than possibly ease mental barriers from new characters
but that's easily alleviated by boosts
when you buy the expac
it's probably inevitable, but I don't see why it's anything to get excited for
130 levels is insane. The real pain in the ass sets in about 60-80 for most people who just go cba
its the same amount of xp
I mean, it's all in your head
it's exactly the same as it currently is with a different number
^
plus, who actually cares that we're 120 or 60?
You'd actually adjsut the Xp to be more in line based on the curve it's not a simple squish the main number
also 60-80 isnt as bad anymore
especially with boosts
Imo level squish/world revamp are 10.0 if shadowlands is next
at this point, everyone should have at least 5 alts at high levels
world revamp sounds like a WoW X feature
aka 10.0
Ye
what about WoW 2?
not gonna happen
They said they won't revamp the world anymore. Not with the ability to shard based on level
I always thought 9.0 felt one expansion too soon
what if I told you we're already playing wow 2
So what happened to undercity is the way things will be moving forward
pretty much
11.0 other side of azeroth
Omegalul
or yeah, karesh
What are we talking about
lvl squish / world revamp
and why it's not happening
and also why it's not that big of a deal in the first place
imo
I will tell you why is it a big deal
It is long term
Because after level 100
Just not right this second
maybe not world revamp, but if world revamp = just world quests in every zone, count me out
There is no rewards for leveling
how does a squish help that
Besides reaching the cap
It's huge long term. if they do the next 5 expansions they have planned then level 150-160 no body is gonna want that.
wow is a max level game, caring about what you get when you level is such a transient issue
Have you leveled lately?
why would they make that poll about the lvl squish then?
yes, I have every class at max
But like
Yeh and also zones in 13.0 are gonna look fucking amazing compared to old stuff
Did you actually leveled in BfA so far?
because they will likely do it, but I don't see why it's an expansion worthy feature
Being in azeroth will feel like a broken game
Point being most classes don't also get AOE until 63 for example. Like wtf is up with that?
MoP
Where the talents were every 15 levels and it feels rewarding because how the spells were sorted
the problem atm is
that most of the classes
the only class that gets talens post 100 is dhs.
plus, most people can skip leveling with the boosts you get from an expac now
or at least half have issues when coming to how you sort every attack
Like
Let me say something here
that's a bad excuse
the thing that sucked about bfa leveling was the shit scaling as you got higher
it would be nice to only lvl my allied race to 60 or something then 110 for the armor. its just boring.
but that has nothing to do with talents
if they sell a ilvl boost in the next expansion it would be an excuse to make shitty raids?
It's the bset thing to come to leveling
Benthic gear was a mistake.
AHEM can i speak
why would you want good raids when you can buy a boost?
dude, you can write long sentences, don't push ENTER every 3 words
like, who even does wod anymore. you just stick all that bonus xp then run around doing 1 or 2 zones event areas and you blow past it in 3 hours
there's like 3 conversations going on we're not going to stop for you
all I'm saying is, a squish is an band-aid on a transient issue that barely affects most players
I'm sold on a black and white shadowlands leading into a light vs void expansion
A level squish will also be a lot more appealing to returning players regardless of the boost or not. It'll also attract new players who want to experience the game but 120 levels feels too much of a grind.
squish won't automatically make leveling better
it's a start probably, but there's much bigger problems to confront
to make leveling better they need to brinb back the old talent tree
No
and not give talent ponts every 15 LEVELS
no they don't
The new party feature is good for levelling tbh
nobody levels in party
the current talent system is fine, we should just have more
Me and my friends do?
Old talent tree was shit. I say that as someone who levelled to 60 just last month
so argument invalid
You see, back in where I started. MoP. that expac had a very cute thing when you leveled because it felt that the attacks they gave every x levels was really worthy, it felt like a progression because you know, when you first play the game what you should do is leveling normally, and even if the talents at every 15 levels isn't that good for someone, for me its good. Buuuut, some talents are really boring, that's the problem with the talents atm
friends?, what is that
Some talents should be in another rows, and some talents should be baseline
this really great feature called guilds ๐
Lots of people disagree about the talent system. There are a decent number of people who would come back if the tree gets changed at leads somewhat
but that's not a problem with levels
But the problem with the leveling now is the pacing at the first levels, the game literally tells you "boost"
I'd like a talent system that's like the artifact constellations tbh
the legion system btw not the bullshit that is bfa
and even so it doesn't feel rewarding at all
I could see them doing a level squish / world revamp that issues in a new currency like AP you can use on a leveling character for a tree that gives you little utility
Brb
The thing with a level squish is
World revamp isn't going to happen
that you won't feel that...dead after a certain number of levels
probably not, but if it did
At most you're going to get new changes to the world once you reach that part in the story
Because I tell you this now, after BfA azerite armor will be useless
right, it's mental
it's using the layering technology to do it.
again, I have no problem with a squish. I just don't see why people want it to be a selling point of an expac
it could come in a .5 patch
I want tier sets back.
Maybe not the bonuses
but at least the fucking class specific designs
The word you ask is
Class armor
And yeah, I agree, I didn't get any raid gear because they are ugly for my monk
I've yet to see a tier in bfa that looked good.
people want things like a squish over other things that would be more impactful, like housing or something
But there is something i admit
BoD gear was alright
garrisons weren't player housing
They were
no they weren't
the only good set in BoD was plate
It was literally a house
Your own personal thing where you could set up your own stuff there
anybody who says garrisons = housing is being dishonest
If we were going to have player housing I'd say guild housing.
they know what people mean when they say player housing, and it's not garrisons
Tell me what a house for you is
Housing its a bad idea, guild halls are way better
Ye
something you can customize, build from scratch, has personality and is an extension of your creativity
Yeah guild halls would be nice even on RP realms.
guild halls would be fine too
like garrison?
again, you are being dishonest
It had the personality of you being a commander
nobody thinks that garrisons allowed for creativity or player expression
And no garrison was the same
no they weren't
I dunno I know many who turned their garrison into erp forts ๐
well it's a poor implementation then
Which is the only reason of why house exists
Thing is you don't talk for everyone
or wildstar
No one speaks for everyone
many people want housing
No
i cannot keep track of all these leaks
Most people after garrisons went no to player housing yes to guild halls.
if housing is so good why wildstar failed that hard? :v
Many people want a place where they can afk in peace
or something like warframe, like your ship
...And kill open world?
you can build your ship from scratch in warframe?
it would be cool if wow had something like that
I want Suramar to have a mob free zone so we can actually use the city. But that'll never happen
no, but you can personalize it
like garrisons?
If you are a elf
you can't personlize garrisons...
You could
no you couldn't
yeah, you do it accord to your needs
Yeah the nighthold courtyard. But like the actual suramar city post legion would be nice ;-;
you're an alchemist?
there were like max 13 buildings
build an alchemy lab
I liked the color thematic
and even if garrisons ARE player housing (which I disagree with), then housing should still be in the game and garrisons can be a lesson as to not how do to PH
ok but you can't change it
at the end of the day, wow needs more activities that don't involve combat
that allow for player creativity and expression
Fishing?
I am not
There are
Many things you can do that isn't fight
there is this command
called /e
the game needs more things that feel like a lived in world
That's...literally how you burst your imaginatnion
housing satisfies a large gap that could fill
and it can be super cool if done right
there is a large section of people who only play games like NMS and Subnautica for base building
garrisons were shit housing, yet you think they are the end all be all
if blizz made an entire expansion where the only new feature was hosuing, it would be grea
everything else is on rails at this point
dungeons, raids, new zones, wq, etc.
9.0 build your own house the expansion
All WoW needs is a guild hall which is an instanced building in the captial city. that's it.
sure you can
Garrison was their best shot as housing
wow is a much different game than it was at its inception
World of Warcraft: Sims
why would you want quests and raids when you can build your house and stay there
Do you want
go play sims then
@signal bone go play eq2.
WoW is not made for housing
Pretty solid player housing there.
Not at that extreme
ok well, enjoy your new AP grind every expansion and only doing raids / dungeons until the end of time
so if i think housing is stupid i automatically love ap grinds?
I know it wouldn't be build anywhere
what a remtard
but they could create tech on a new continent
@signal bone if you can't do something else than that
if we're going to get housing, it's going to be an ADDITION to the game
or add it to old zones
not the whole point
DUDE
not when it comes to WoW
Even if they can make it look better
apparently
BECAUSE THAT'S AS FAR THEY COULD PUSH IT
