New Expansion - Draw your predictions!

[punksandskins]

Ummm... THREE dwarf reskins for the Alliance? Especially odd since the Wildhammer Dwarves are barely any visibly different than normal Dwarves...

Aren't you kinda forgetting things like Meca-Gnomes? If Forsaken Blood Elves can make it, how about those Demonic Nightelves for Nelfs? Also they're "the Broken" - not "Kurenai". The Kurenai are just one sub-set of the Broken.

Of course, the larger problem with some of those is that they don't have female versions and/or hairstyles/facial differences.

My idea of sub races is pretty much for aesthetic reasons for new comers and to pander to the RPers/Hardcore fans, so the differences can be a small as tattoos and just new skin colors (Maghar/dragonmaw/wildhammer) or kinda drastic (Revantusk/Kurenai).
I only went with "sub races" who are currently factions within the Horde/Alliance just for "logical lore" reasons...did not mecha gnomes, Demon elves, ect unfortunately, cause theyre not current factions in game, although I did find Leper Gnomes could work for the horde o.O. Sylvanas and a lot of her rangers in Undercity are forsaken blood elves, which is why I felt like they would fit. I used names like Revantusk/Kurenai instead of Forest trolls/broken Draenei because they are factions of those 'sub races' already in the horde/alliance...so why not be able to play em? As for the female versions of some of these...thats where Blizz comes in :P

@ro9ue
Micro transactions for sub races would make me cry >_< Bad idea lol. But yea I think Hozen could be shamans...dont know about Jinyu Pallys though.

[Pony Soldier]

The only prediction I have is that the Burning Legion will attack Azeroth. I say this only because of what The Black Prince showed us when you talked to him during that one quest where he shows the planet being invaded by green meteors which is pretty obvious that those "meteors" are Infernals. I won't say these are predictions but ideas of what might happen if they do invade but I imagine Azeroth becoming dark and demonic looking as if The Burning Legion was terraforming the whole planet to take it over for whatever reasons. It won't look like this when you're below the required level so it would be a phased thing and there would be a cutscene showing you the invasion of the Burning Legion. If not that then I say maybe it'll have something to do with the Titans or Old God stuff. That's all I can think of.

As for new races and classes I'm pretty positive there won't be any new races we already have a lot of races to play as. Classes, I think there MIGHT be one new class or a 4 spec for for the current classes which I'm leaning more towards.

[Aryiez]

The Exodar has been repaired you know....

[MaccaBird]

LOLLIPOPS Cinematic Screenplay Draft FMV.06X
RE: CHAMBERLAIN J. 4-11-12
REF: CIN%, STORYBOARD%, SCREENWRITE%, MCCOY.J, HATHAWAY.J
AUTHOR: WAUGH.J
CONSULT: VANILLA, CHOCOLATE, BLUEBERRY, CHERRY, COOKIES*CREAM FINAL FMV DRAFTS
LAST REV. 10-25-12

DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
PROPERTY OF BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
/

What is this?

[Xiphan]

Hah, great to see all the reports of leaked 6.0 stuff.

This is for sure an undercover Blizzard initiative to leak early art and ideas, getting fan-sites to believe it's leaked only to say it's just fan-work so when it is real no-one was expecting it because we'd been expecting it to be illegitimate, all the while building hype around the Burning Legion. I'm onto you ro9ue!

[Dominating]

LOLLIPOPS Cinematic Screenplay Draft FMV.06X
RE: CHAMBERLAIN J. 4-11-12
REF: CIN%, STORYBOARD%, SCREENWRITE%, MCCOY.J, HATHAWAY.J
AUTHOR: WAUGH.J
CONSULT: VANILLA, CHOCOLATE, BLUEBERRY, CHERRY, COOKIES*CREAM FINAL FMV DRAFTS
LAST REV. 10-25-12

DO NOT DISTRIBUTE
PROPERTY OF BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, INC.
//NOTE START
//NOTE FMV Camera reference 3U-Z86F, angle shots determined marked asterisk. IF NULL ANGLE, NO CAMERA ANGLE NOTED. Reference Screenplay drawings J:/CIN%/LOLLIPOP/FMV/06/CONF/SCREENP.vis for detailed visuals.
//NOTE END

"…but now only one beacon of light survives, (2:51) A stubborn world that dared to defy MINTCHIP, Lord of the LOLLIPOPS."
2:51 (Camera fades onto MINTCHIP sitting on an infernal throne in the ruined Argus capitol building, infernal and fel themes everywhere, demons surrounding him. MINTCHIP is holding a large golden orb in his hand (AZEROTH), looking at it greedily. Many symbols appear around it, Alliance, Horde, and Naaru the brightest and largest.
2:54 (MINTCHIP deep, slow laugh)
2:55 Camera approaches Azeroth-orb, fel and red meteors rain down to it.
2:57 WORLD OF WARCRAFT: 6.0 logo slams in onto picture, throwing everything else but the Azeroth-orb away. Orb assumes typical planet at center of logo title.
3:04 TITLE fades out.

Holy crap reading through all of that sent shivers down my spine and made my nipples hard. If the next expansion's cinematic turns out like this it will be the single-greatest cinematic for a game ever

[Deleted]

Female arrakoa with... breasts? ughh... A bird-like race such as this shouldn't have mammal characteristics.

[ro9ue]

Female arrakoa with... breasts? ughh... A bird-like race such as this shouldn't have mammal characteristics.

Agreed, actually.

If I was doing this for a client as a paid job or for my own IP, I definitely wouldn't have added boobs. My state of mind doing the sketches for this (at least at first) was just for fun and didn't think too hard on anything. No refs, no research, and bang them out as quickly as possible. Most under 30min each. However, seeing how much circulation my stuff has been getting, I'm feeling inclined to update the artwork for both the arakkoa (breastless) and ogres as well as some of the earlier things - especially starting from scratch on the color dreadlord illustration.

[mvaliz]

...now THAT'S the way to fake an expansion leak! ^_^

Love the use of the transcript stuff at top and the placeholder names... VERY CLEVER! ^_^

Only a couple things wrong:

1) "Deciever" - is spelled wrong. It should be Deceiver.

2) They would not have this detailed of a cinematic script ready by now (unless they were releasing it in Winter...)

3) Faaar to many locations. Blizz's cinematic department tends to focus on smaller confined areas. (Wrath = iceberg, Cata = 4 random places on Azeroth, a cavern, and Stormwind (most base models can be pulled/used from game and used as a base - since it's brief and not-very interacted), Pandaria = beach + bridge + distant shot of village)

4) The term "male voice" would've simply been written as "MINTCHIP voice" from the start of the script each line of the dialogue it was used, or it would've had an indication that the "male voice" was "MINTCHIP-minus" or some such effect indicating to the designers SPECIFICALLY what they wanted.

5) Too many fan subtexted things, like "They are fully corrupted, Kil’Jaeden and Archimonde images like in-game" - just referring to BC as "in-game" as if the recorder would know exactly what they were talking about - nevermind not actually detailing what "corrupted" is visually meant to be for the cinematic department.

Great job nonetheless! Kudos to whomever wrote it! VERY convincing! ^_^

---------- Post added 2013-06-26 at 06:47 PM ----------

Female arrakoa with... breasts? ughh... A bird-like race such as this shouldn't have mammal characteristics.

If natural development based on real-life creatures bother you, then the Worgen females should have six breasts and Pandaren Females should have four. :P

[Quaddranipple]

...now THAT'S the way to fake an expansion leak! ^_^

Love the use of the transcript stuff at top and the placeholder names... VERY CLEVER! ^_^

Only a couple things wrong:

1) "Deciever" - is spelled wrong. It should be Deceiver.

2) They would not have this detailed of a cinematic script ready by now (unless they were releasing it in Winter...)

3) Faaar to many locations. Blizz's cinematic department tends to focus on smaller confined areas. (Wrath = iceberg, Cata = 4 random places on Azeroth, a cavern, and Stormwind (most base models can be pulled/used from game and used as a base - since it's brief and not-very interacted), Pandaria = beach + bridge + distant shot of village)

4) The term "male voice" would've simply been written as "MINTCHIP voice" from the start of the script each line of the dialogue it was used, or it would've had an indication that the "male voice" was "MINTCHIP-minus" or some such effect indicating to the designers SPECIFICALLY what they wanted.

5) Too many fan subtexted things, like "They are fully corrupted, Kil’Jaeden and Archimonde images like in-game" - just referring to BC as "in-game" as if the recorder would know exactly what they were talking about - nevermind not actually detailing what "corrupted" is visually meant to be for the cinematic department.

Great job nonetheless! Kudos to whomever wrote it! VERY convincing! ^_^

---------- Post added 2013-06-26 at 06:47 PM ----------



If natural development based on real-life creatures bother you, then the Worgen females should have six breasts and Pandaren Females should have four. :P

Darn it, I get msg from mods that I am "trolling" and when I start a thread it gets locked!
How can you be so sure its a fake?
The language is bad in script because its translated from english to chinese, and I found the chinese version and made it english!
bbs.ngacn DOT cc/read.php?tid=6318347&rand=757

Keep in mind the HOTS cinematic was leaked 2 years prior to release..

[Deleted]

Don't know if someone mentioned this, but i really hope that they will include Medivh in the next expansion

[Warrada]

I really liked all the models you made... Those Ogre and Arakkoa female seems very convincing to me.

About the Arakkoa female breasts, they are not 'birds', they are bird-like humanoids, they doesnt have to not have breast to be 'right'. Aesthetics are important to the game, so it would just feel weird breastless female characters...

like Mvallas said, if it was to be like real life, worgens and pandaren female should have more breasts too...

[pktdb1t]

Lol. Just saw this today:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...ext-EXP-Fanart[COLOR="red"]
..and..
WoW_News on twitter

The comments on the link from the twitter account are too much. Lol.

[Durandro]

About the Arakkoa female breasts, they are not 'birds', they are bird-like humanoids, they doesnt have to not have breast to be 'right'. Aesthetics are important to the game, so it would just feel weird breastless female characters...

They could just do it similar to the Turians from Mass Effect - having the same sized chests, but slimmer waists that imply having a bust instead of actually giving them one.

[ro9ue]

I really liked all the models you made... Those Ogre and Arakkoa female seems very convincing to me.

About the Arakkoa female breasts, they are not 'birds', they are bird-like humanoids, they doesnt have to not have breast to be 'right'. Aesthetics are important to the game, so it would just feel weird breastless female characters...

like Mvallas said, if it was to be like real life, worgens and pandaren female should have more breasts too...

If natural development based on real-life creatures bother you, then the Worgen females should have six breasts and Pandaren Females should have four. :P

You guys are totally right in that Blizzard takes some liberties as well. At the end of the day it's a fantasy game. It's not even a 'realistic' style fantasy game at that. I guess it becomes subjective on how many elements of each parent species you use with any human-animal hybrid race.

Like I said, at first I didn't want to put breasts, then I just did because I was in a loose mindset. My thought process for that drawing was along the lines of... "Boobs? Yes!" However, if it was for a more serious thing, like a paid job, I would've consulted reference material of birds, sketched multiple versions, researched the lore heavily, etc as I make design decisions. I'm also of the opinion that breasts are just too overplayed in video games and like to keep the women more 'realistic' as long as the client allows me that freedom.

I always liked in EverQuest 1 where they chose to go with breastless Iksar females. It just felt more appropriate. It really is a matter of taste, though. So, along with @Wolfsage's opinion and a few others who mentioned it in this thread, I'm going to be updating with breastless female Arakkoa. Don't worry, the lovely Ogre ladies will retain their features.

boobs r srs bsns

[Deleted]

More Speculation than prediction.

Probably been said to death already

If it is a burning legion expansion my only hopes is that two main characters which played a big part in lore don't become neutral.....inb4 sons of lorthar are a neutral party......only reason i can see myself coming back to wow is playing as alliance, played horde since vanilla-Cata then tried alliance but compared to horde was pretty boring with all the Varian hype , even though i strangely like Varian for some reason , just 2 much of him. I would just like to see more prominent allaince character in game lore as i plan to come back to wow next expansion and level up from scratch. it would be great if while questing we get to see more than Varian play a strong role

Content wise i would like to see :

1) Kul tiras make a play hopefully as some sort of alliance rep faction how it would fit in with the legion? i think the Naga will have to be involved. If the naga are a playable faction (doubt it) maybe have kul tiras as a starting area.

2) A non hybrid class a class that specialises in either/or Bows/daggers and uses mail armor. Dont care so much about the equipment just would like a non hybrid class

3) More Rexxar ( Horde story) with ogres! pwety pleaze. id level/ play my horde char on the side for that

More Turalyon-Alleria (alliance story) if they have to make one of them neutral just hope it isnt Alleria (because how would Blizz manage to justify alleria going neutral with an orc nearby) also windrunner family story line. On Turalyon going neutral maybe blizz should do it kind of like how they did it with thrall. start off alliance then gradually as the big fight gets nearer realises everyone is needed blablabla... They will probably both be neutral knowing blizz. just really hope they are both alliance based and blizz finds someone else to lead the forces of light.

4)Tauren rogues! because it makes more sense to me than paladins

5) High elves playing a bigger role. Even if they are a new playable race. People say they would just be blood elves but panda's show that one race can be on both sides.

[Golden Yak]

boobs r srs bsns

Totally srs

Breasts can be a sexual characteristic without needing to be actual, functional organs. They aren't especially obvious on most female mammals. No reason bird people couldn't develop them purely for display purposes.

[Huuga]

More Speculation than prediction.

Probably been said to death already

If it is a burning legion expansion my only hopes is that two main characters which played a big part in lore don't become neutral.....inb4 sons of lorthar are a neutral party......only reason i can see myself coming back to wow is playing as alliance, played horde since vanilla-Cata then tried alliance but compared to horde was pretty boring with all the Varian hype , even though i strangely like Varian for some reason , just 2 much of him. I would just like to see more prominent allaince character in game lore as i plan to come back to wow next expansion and level up from scratch. it would be great if while questing we get to see more than Varian play a strong role

Content wise i would like to see :

1) Kul tiras make a play hopefully as some sort of alliance rep faction how it would fit in with the legion? i think the Naga will have to be involved. If the naga are a playable faction (doubt it) maybe have kul tiras as a starting area.

2) A non hybrid class a class that specialises in either/or Bows/daggers and uses mail armor. Dont care so much about the equipment just would like a non hybrid class

3) More Rexxar ( Horde story) with ogres! pwety pleaze. id level/ play my horde char on the side for that

More Turalyon-Alleria (alliance story) if they have to make one of them neutral just hope it isnt Alleria (because how would Blizz manage to justify alleria going neutral with an orc nearby) also windrunner family story line. On Turalyon going neutral maybe blizz should do it kind of like how they did it with thrall. start off alliance then gradually as the big fight gets nearer realises everyone is needed blablabla... They will probably both be neutral knowing blizz. just really hope they are both alliance based and blizz finds someone else to lead the forces of light.

4)Tauren rogues! because it makes more sense to me than paladins

5) High elves playing a bigger role. Even if they are a new playable race. People say they would just be blood elves but panda's show that one race can be on both sides.

^this tbh..I agree with EVERYTHING except tauren rogues! 0_o

[ro9ue]

http://www.runescapeking.com/world-o...l-be-returned/

June 19 news: Despite the current World of Warcraft 5.4 piece of information has not been released, but the Internet has begun to spread about the next piece of information news. According to leaked information available, the next item titles as Rise of the Legion.

In the famous Warcraft Forums MMO-Champion recently appeared on a full World of Warcraft design draft new piece of information, including a new piece of information Logo. From this perspective, the next piece of information the story will once again come back to the Legion, is it to be dark and the final battle of the Titans do?

In addition, this design draft also includes a new login screen, new race and the career of the T17 suit. According to professional analysis, manuscript credibility is very high, reflecting all aspects of the Blizzard traditional style and habits.

At the forum before combining new piece of information leaked opening CG storyboarding, the new piece of information to third invasion of the Burning Legion basic outline of the story as the background can be determined. Also worth mentioning is that now riseofthelegion.com This domain has been registered finished.

[Quaddranipple]

I knew it!