Battle for Azeroth Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Steampunkette]

Dude.

The Legion ALWAYS used portals to invade worlds. Being summoned in by local denizens of the world.

IE. Azshara and the Highborne first summoning them through.


Now they use spaceships? This is a D&D fantasy world not fuckin Star Wars.

If they had spaceships this whole time why did they ever need Gul'Dan do summon them through? Medivh? Etc.

Why not just hop on some troop transport spaceships!

Your argument is invalid.

For those of you who didn't play early D&D, Expedition to the Barrier Peaks was an adventure in 1980 which involved heading into a crashed spaceship as characters who didn't understand what spaceships were. The monsters were aliens, robots, and such.

D&D has had Spaceships and Rayguns longer than half the posters on this forum have been alive.

[Smokinya]

One could even make the analogy that we as humans are capable of spaceflight in some form but that does not make us a interstellar traveling species, i mean we dont even know what legion ships are capable off other than being mobile forward bases and acting as a close air support.

That is very true and you could also argue that they are actually teleported rather than utilize FTL travel. Also since there's a big portal between Argus and us it would be the equivalent of humans flying to the moon.

[Arbs]

And the loading screen just leaked.

You beautiful bastard!

[Lorianus]

D&D has had Spaceships and Rayguns longer than half the posters on this forum have been alive.

That reminds me of the old Might and Magic series entry's 6&7 and 8 in particular where 99% of the games you wander around on a forgotten realms esque high fantasy world and in 1% of the content you go through a door in a dungeon and your in a space ship with an alien queen or something like that, awesome.

[Julian Rayne]

I meant hollow in the sense that hollow earth theories "work" - the planet is a hollowed shell where you can walk on the inside as well as the outside. Double the area. Plus dinosaurs, naturally.

Well... a hollow planet without dinosaurs would be just silly.

[Deleted]

Hi everyone at this nigth guys, i think of the name encrypted for RotL, and there are some ideas:



Return of the Lady(obviously hints of queen azshara stuff)

Realm of the Lost/Lonely( Old god, N'Zoth)

Rise of the Loa(Troll themed xpac)

[Renley]

Hi everyone at this nigth guys, i think of the name encrypted for RotL, and there are some ideas:



Return of the Lady(obviously hints of queen azshara stuff)

Realm of the Lost/Lonely( Old god, N'Zoth)

Rise of the Loa(Troll themed xpac)

RotL leak is fake.

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RotL leak is fake.

Oh, thats sad, well only 2 weeks more!

[Mythabay]

Legion doesn't even know where Azeroth is in the Great Dark. There's thousands of worlds, they can't just use a space ship to just go wherever they want(I don't think that's the case, think there has to be a portal to do so).

Makes sense.

[Smokinya]

Legion doesn't even know where Azeroth is in the Great Dark. There's thousands of worlds, they can't just use a space ship to just go wherever they want(I don't think that's the case, think there has to be a portal to do so).

If they don't know where it is then how're they invading it?

[derpkitteh]

Dude.

The Legion ALWAYS used portals to invade worlds. Being summoned in by local denizens of the world.

IE. Azshara and the Highborne first summoning them through.


Now they use spaceships? This is a D&D fantasy world not fuckin Star Wars.

If they had spaceships this whole time why did they ever need Gul'Dan do summon them through? Medivh? Etc.

Why not just hop on some troop transport spaceships!

D&D fucking sucks anyway. pure fantasy is shit. scifi mixed with high fantasy is better.

and also, we're in the ass end of the universe. the legion cant physically move to us in any reasonable amount of time.

[Eurhetemec]

Slight nit pick.

Shadows of Kul'tiras.

Over just sounds weird.

Shadows over and Shadow of indicate very different things, though. Over implies a dark, sinister presence, a malign force, acting on the land. Of implies black markets, thieves guilds, the underground (in the metaphorical sense) and so on, or that the PCs themselves are shadows (ghosts, ghouls, vampires, etc.).

Both phrasings are common in titles of RPG and wargame-related material, and Shadows over Kul'Tiras would seem to be the correct phrasing for an expansion where the old gods were a sort of background threat and the re-emergence of Kul'Tiras was a big deal. Whereas Shadows of Kul'Tiras would put Kul'Tiras as the focus of the expansion and us skulking around in its shadows (up to no good).

Some example:

Shadows over Camelot (board game)

Shadows over Innistrad (MTG expansion)

Shadows over Hammerhal (Warhammer Quest expansion)

[Aeluron Lightsong]

If they don't know where it is then how're they invading it?

The Illidan portal makes it pretty easy to do so. Outside of that, they need something on Azeroth.

[TriHard]

Hmm, what if Azeroth's blood is used to create a new race? Maybe Wrathion creates a draconic race using the titan's blood? From the video it's practically spilling out into an entire zone.

Maybe the Symmetra halloween skin really was a nod towards that?

[Deleted]

Hunters will shoot laser guns.

they already do! you obviously dont follow the gun models in game :P

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Fighter Ships flying around in space is Warcraft?

yes, since wc1....

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Now they use spaceships? This is a D&D fantasy world not fuckin Star Wars.

no its NOT silly its based on Warhammer 4k not on D&D you fool.

Dark Tower nonsense....

you should see somebody for that!

[Hyrja]

dayum (took this ss on my sandbox server)

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Damn it I had an idea for the Naaru but it's the end of Legion for it to happen ;(

[In Ogres We Trust]

For context: Blizzard just shipped a text-only change to the versions file for wow_beta that changes the version to 8.0.0.25338.

This is text-only, nothing was actually shipped as this is likely just testing for BlizzCon build, but oh god my heart.

8.0 technically officially confirmed, though!

Out of curiosity, what do you do for a living? I'm back in school for a second degree in Computer Science and Software Engineering, so in some regards, it sounds like we're on the same wavelength.

[Mythabay]

Damn it I had an idea for the Naaru but it's the end of Legion for it to happen ;(

What kind of idea? What does it entitle?

[Eurhetemec]

Now they use spaceships? This is a D&D fantasy world not fuckin Star Wars.

Just as an aside, D&D has had spaceships in it since 1980, with Expedition to the Barrier Peaks, which also featured jetpacks, rayguns and so on. They've never entirely gone away since.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expedi..._Barrier_Peaks

Nine years later we got Spelljammer which was a full-on "Spaceships for all D&D settings!" expansion/setting, and extremely popular, and still sorta mostly kinda canon (the ships remained largely canon, the crystal spheres less so).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelljammer

So D&D does not in any way preclude spaceships.