It’s muted because all the fakers don’t know when to start. With Blizzcon we always had a set date for an announcement and everybody knew that creating a fake leak around that time would get buzz.
Right now we have no idea when the next expansion is announced. The moment we know the date for the reveal, leaks will come way faster. Right now a leak is just hit and miss.
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I find it unlikely we are going to go further than the end of February before ew at least have a firm date on when the expect the announcement, if not have it announced already.
I would guess we are looking at a 10.0 announcement right after Mythic Zovaal is defeated.
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For me it really is just a problem of framing; He really has had an eternity to plan, withe the Nathrezim working for him sowing chaos. All it needed it was to be about that winning roll finally.
But nothing on his characterization suggests that, it's all framed as it was all according to keikaku. That's what's boring. Things could have happened pretty much the same way, but instead of being presented as one big convoluted plan it could have been 1000 little ones that clicked into place.
Like imagine if the Helm of Domination was a side project, the main plan being manipulate Sargeras. So maybe the plan was for Zovaal to have a way to manifest on the mortal plane and that was the reason the Helm was crafted. But it didn't work as intented, because the will of the wearer was too much interference.
But then Zovaal realized that the helm itself has created a connection between the real of the living and the death through all the magic it has channeled, so then the plan to use the Helm itself to open a gate forms.
All it needed was to not be a 5D chess game, instead of showing it as Zovaal taking the opportunities as it happened, bonus point if it is actually Denathrius the one that catches these things and Zovaal has just been delegating the whole time.
I'll admit I'm surprised we've gone the length of January with nothing.
I expected expansion announcement in the first week or two.
My stance remains 9.2 drops late Feb, 10.0 reveal probably around the turn of April.
That way they can use 9.2, the raid, world first, and 10.0 reveal all right alongside XIV's patch run-up.
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Oh interesting, yeah I'm doubling down on 9.2 at the end of February.
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No he had the leak for 10.0 being dragon isles and dragonsworn but in the post he had 8.2.5 and general 8.3 info it’s Razorpax leak in the 9.0 spreadsheet
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Especially if the triggering event is during our SL adventure and they are vague about the connection
It isn't "There's a dangerous entity beyond the realm of death", it's "there are multiple, ancient, Titan-level or near-Titan-level beings in the Shadowlands specifically". In the same expansion where Sylvanas is seen making a shady deal with that same person who pointed out that those beings exist, and the same expansion where a mysterious spirit of questionable intent makes Sylvanas the warchief in setup for BfA. I don't even know how this is up for debate, we already know that they chart out the general plot points for expansions 2+ in advance, because they start the initial devleopment of the expansion after next while doing the development for the next expansion.
Tom Chilton explicitly stated prior to WoD's release that they had the next six or seven expansions already conceptualized with a planned timeline they could then adjust and play with.
It's just insane that people think they sat down making Legion, knew that the next expansion was going to be a naval war expansion where Sylvanas was a large player, and knew that Sylvanas was making deals with Helya, and opened Legion with mysterious spirits convincing Vol'jin to make Slyvanas warchief, and explicitly planted the information that there are Titan-like beings in the Shadowlands, and knew that Shadowlands was probably going to be the expansion after next.... yet sOmEHoW it's totally impossible that they planned to have a super-powerful being in the Shadowlands pulling the strings for events on Azeroth back during the development of that expansion.
He isn't though. Not sure why people keep parroting this factually incorrect nonsense. Basically all that was changed was who the Dreadlords were actually loyal to, something that has always been in question since even in both versions of the Legion's origin, they exist independently of Sargeras and have their own agenda; and the nature of the corrupting, malevolent force associated with the Helm of Domination and Frostmourne, which prior to this had just been some vague "evil".than making the Jailer be responsible for pretty much everything that has happened in WoW.
A lot of people are believing the "Dragon Isles" leak & it being the actual name of the expansion. They would never use that kind of title.