Until it's announced they came out of a printer, the first demons came out of the clash of light and void instead of being corrupted races, so there are actual proto demons and what they did was move around like a locust swarm until they were turned into a regimented force by Sargeras, a representative of an opposite power, who's closest lieutenants consisted of corrupted races like the eredar. So if they do want to do a more classic D&D or Warhammer-style demonic warbands the opportunity is there.
Dickmann's Law: As a discussion on the Lore forums becomes longer, the probability of the topic derailing to become about Sylvanas approaches 1.
Tinkers will be the next Class confirmed.
I think it heavily depends on how divergent the new skin is visually. Changing a Paladin to a Sunwalker would probably offer minimal new flavour. It would change the name of some spells and maybe warm the sfx a bit. Really giving them a totem maul transmog would be far more effective (there are at least a few paladin mogs that work for sunwalkers already, primarily the SoO one). But changing a warlock to necromancer? Completely changing all your pets and going from fire to frost will very much change how your class feels (especially for something like Demo).
Another thing of interest would be talents though. I insist that the most important part of class design that they keep missing the mark on is talent viability; there are multiple specs in the game that have no reason to EVER change their talents in PvE. Make multiple setups viable in the same spec and you might have a character with two demo locks only one his locks he plays with Demons and focuses on Demonic Tyrant while e.g. the other is a Necromancer and focuses with the Necro equivalent of Nether Portal.
I know everyone talks about dragons right now but something i noticed especially in all the leaks is that no one mentions vol'jin.
Everyone jumped on the turalyon hype train and what it means for the alliance. But i think its equally as interesting to think about what it means for the horde to have a former warchief resurrected as loa(of kings).
He's a major recurring character since legion and i doubt the next expansion will put him next to the elf on the shelf.
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I think Vol'jin will be more interesting as a character in Talan'ji's story than his own. I think Talan'ji should be much more important in the Horde story from now on, especially given the weight of Zandalar as a military, agricultural and diplomatic power. Talan'ji does not seem particularly impressed with Bwonsamdi and I could see her trying to gain Vol'jin as a patron in his place.
You are welcome, Metzen. I hope you won't fuck up my underground expansion idea.
Wouldnt it be interesting if they finish revamping the rest of EK over the course of the expansion? Then in 11 or 12.0 they can have an expansion next to Kalim and do it there too. Maybe Undermine?
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Azshara maybe? Im sure there is a way she could slot in there.
I don't get the fixation on Balor. I've always known it to be a location in the lore and it isn't exactly a deep dive. It's on practically every map and fairly commonplace knowledge. I really don't think "Balor exists" is enough to say "yep, real leak". The whole "Halfling" thing also feels weird—what, precisely, is a "Halfling" in this case? Do they mean a traditional, DnD-style Hobbit? That feels a bit awkward to imagine, especially in conjunction with "Proto-Demons" scourging a random Second War island. It's also hard to imagine that there have just always been Halflings this whole time, just on an island that was owned by a Human Kingdom, fought for before, and everybody knew existed. You could say that's also sort of the case with the Drust, but they've been practically-extinct for the longest time with the exception of a single Thornspeaker, and even then it was localized to a single kingdom instead of an island which was actively contested.
It feels like an asspull to say this simple, Second War-era landmark is somehow host to both "Proto-Demons" and "Halflings" without any further explanation. I could imagine fighting the Stormreavers there, but not much else.
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