Gotta love all the people that don't read more than part of the original post or skim over it and come to grand conclusions. Also, people that treat this on the basis of "if this is a legit leak, it HAS to read and look exactly like a box cover info or it's 100% fake".
There are plenty of things to doubt, there's no way imo that this is 100% real, BUT:
- it's supposed to be 2nd hand/3rd hand information by the sound of it, much of it is just written by the person him-/herself, very obviously so. Don't doubt it because it doesn't sound like a Blizzard statement, it's not
- early development stage: even if something legit got out about the expansion now or recently or a few months ago, it would very likely not know all the context and details and also very probably report details that are subject to change
- Abyssal Maw: whether it's a dungeon or a raid doesn't make much difference lore-wise, the story told will be the same, and is the reason why it was shelved then. Also I believe there were always plans for a Maw raid. What u are talking about has nothing to do with the Maw itself, which is plain and simple - the elemental plane of water.
- would people please use their heads? Assume this is a real leak - then assume that not everything mentioned is finished, polished, accurately named or completely accurately reported - "heroic Azjol Nerub dungeon" can mean sooo many things. Again Azjol-Nerub was a ZONE that was scrapped/shelved, it can very very simply be a name for "that dungeon we're making in that zone that we haven'T named yet". If real, it's very likely NOT another version of the WotLK dungeon. Use your head please.
- for Pete's sake people, READ - it has already been stated by another user that HE/SHE faked that "leak" about MoP. Would you people please use some logic here? You're assuming that two people that posted anonymously years apart with leaks/predictions (something thousands do) are automatically supposed to be the same person - are you daft? There is absolutely no evidence for it in fact the current "leak" doesn't claim it all, just says "here we go again" which a lot of you infer to be "oh it's THAT guy" - at which point pretty much all of you have some kind of leak from some other person in your heads". You have either been successfully trolled, or maybe:
- it doesn't matter one inkling who or what posted this. You cannot, and will not ever, prove this is legit or that any of the previous "leaks" from other people were legit, and not in fact just good speculation and lore-work. No person has ever come forth by name, and will not. So stop trying to compare a "leak" from an anonymous person to another anonymous person. You will not arrive at any conclusion that satisfies you or other readers.
- and for the last time @ those that fail at reading comprehension: the original post states "NO 4th spec". Also, sub-races. If real, would mean a much bigger change and perk for everyone than one new race. Think about it, and stop saying "if expac x did this, future expac y has to do this" - nonsense, and btw the last thing Blizzard wants, they want to change it up a little and keep their product interesting, not stale.
Again, i'm just defending logic here. There are many things to be doubted lorewise, but stop saying things like "gameplay features suck" or "i don't like this so it's BS" *smacks head into table*.
Again, just in terms of the overall package, the theme, the zones, many things actually - it's very plausible. Yet noone will prove or disprove it, which makes it, at the very least, some very good speculation.