10.0 Leak

[threads]

sounds so bad it's probably real. no new class, more covenant abilities, goofy lore, etc.

[Romanthony]

and so begins the leak season, Some of the things here was nice but really doubt it.

[Wonderment2]

This doesn't sound unrealistic?

[Hitei]

"The Dragon Isles" being the legitimate expansion name is just silly, if true.

It does sound a bit too generic for an expansion title.

[Advo]

This is the fakest bunch of fakes that ever faked.

[Soon-TM]

Love the expansion concept, 100%.

My question though to everyone else is what actually are the hints for the Dragon Isles? We have the dragons in Island Expeditions in BfA, the one line in the quest text when you turn Azerite in to Wrathion in BfA, and the dragon bundle on the shop. Am I missing other recent hints?

Hints may be scarce, but still substantially more than what we knew about the SL before this expansion.

[Chickat]

Dont believe this is legit, but it's an interesting concept.

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"The Dragon Isles" being the legitimate expansion name is just silly, if true.

Maybe its Dragons of Dragonopolis

[Teriz]

No it wont.


I don't like either the class or the race... what makes you think everyone will like it?

Druids are the most popular class in WoW by a significant margin. You add a Wrathion-like race to the equation with new (dragon-based) Druid forms, and it's checkmate.

[Nerovar]

This one almost got it all:
-New race or class
-World revamp
-Silly asspull lore (this one is pretty much a given at this point)
-"Exciting" new throwaway systems

It's only missing housing, new customization options and the tinker class really.

[Syegfryed]

Ain't buying yet, but, the "azeroth soul is a dragon" is sure the kind of stupid thing the writing team would come up with trying to tie those things together, i don't have much of a problem with this specifically, but i have with other part.

See, on top of that saying "Azeroth is sort of the dragon progenitor", is definitely something the new team would come up with, soft retcon so their new idea of "azeroth is a dragon" to make sense(cause we know dragons were elementals turned into flesh, just like other things) without thinking further or ignoring the past.


Make "black dragon playable" also seems like some wet dream instead of an actual thing, i can see drakonids or dragonborns, but full dragons? hard, especially when its "only black", while the selling point would rly be "chose your own color"

im also not believing a new expansion without a class, plus, training Azeroth in dragon soul sounds too naughty.

[Wonderment2]

It does sound a bit too generic for an expansion title.

No more then Shadowlands tbh

That being said I don't like naming expansions after where they're set.

[Syegfryed]

"The Dragon Isles" being the legitimate expansion name is just silly, if true.

to be fair, battle for azeroth was way worse

[Thelxi]

That race would let horde druids be something other than tauren/troll for the first time.

[Wonderment2]

snip.

My assumption is titans can choose what they look like. So Azeroth was protected by dragons for eons and such associates with them so takes thier forms make some amount of sense.

Also i think true Black Dragon would work better as a hero class with your race just being what the dragon takes as a mortal form. Dragons seem to take mortal form all the fucking time anyway.

[Vakir]

MOP "systems"

1. glyphs- replaceable with just 1 click in the rested area. "penalty" is ~20-200gold.
2. Legendary cloak questline- takes ~30-120 mins/week to clear raid wing on any difficulty.
3. Easy, fast and "bis-list" gearing.

Correct. Putting quotation marks around systems doesn't make them not systems, though.

Nothing here sounds infinite with the very, very limited information available.

That being said, it's probably not real anyway. I anticipate another infinite grind treadmill as well.

[Tiwack]

They're way overdue announcing/getting the hype-train started, looks plausible and wouldn't be surprised if it's partly intentional before the official announcement shortly, seeing they're back from winterbreak and would've shared details in the online-blizzcon that got cancelled but was planned to happen around this time iirc.

Honestly all the good titles have been used already, 'world-shaping' is much more uncanny to me out of all this.

[Palapop]

renown and soulbind catchup were both in from launch my dude what?

Not since launch, but since we were "allowed" to reach the top. Which was still extremely slow. AND covenant swap restrictions we had on top of that.

Ah yes. No bias here.

You do know you could complete it in LFR too (sadly)

Correct. Putting quotation marks around systems doesn't make them not systems, though.

Nothing here sounds infinite with the very, very limited information available.

That being said, it's probably not real anyway. I anticipate another infinite grind treadmill as well.

Ofc it doesn't. But someone earlier said that all expansions had their own "systems". So, that's why I used quotation marks for mop "systems" compared to GRINDFEST we have in game since Legion and onward.

[Unlimited Power]

I first read the black dragon race and immediately dismissed the whole thing. Then I read the actual concept and now I'm leaning towards plausible.

It's honestly not any crazier than the WoD leak sounded back in the day, and except for a few details, that was almost entirely right.

[Triceron]

The leak says that Druid lore for Dragons is "super fun" or something, as are their forms, so I guess Blizzard works around the lore somehow?

I just hope that if this is true, they go with draconic forms for the dragon-based Druids. Kind of like how Zandalari Trolls got Dino Druid forms...

But even Zandalari aren't the most played Druid race even though they got super cool forms.

[Niwes]

completely out of context, since i have no opinion about, if the leak is true or not (and i dont care tbh):

hmm, asking myself if Blizzard’s marketing ever did fake leak posts, to get community opinions. to reflect and analyze about the direction they are going, while working on the next xpac, in background of actual xpac.

i am curious about, if they do such things. in a sense like Apple has an own team to spread disinformation about the next iphone (which is a known fact).

curious about that.