Next WoW expansion "Leak"

[XDurionX]

Forgive me if I'm wrong but why do people think that it won't be 10 levels next expac?

The heirlooms that drop from garrosh are from 90-100 arnt they? and each expac's heirlooms only deal with one expac's levels ?

e.g. wotlk dealt with 0 - 80, cata dealt out alot of 80 - 85, mop I havent played much so I dont really know

First of all, the heirlooms were datamined, neither confirmed nor final. Second, this would be the first time heirlooms would be available for the CURRENT max level. All of this points to the possibility of being subject to change.

[SinR]

Since when has any expansion been centered around an added race or class. Maybe MoP? Other than that, it's been about much more than just one singular thing.

not sure if sarcastic or just dense.


Burning Crusade, Draenei and Blood Elves were a MAJOR lore factor (Tempest Keep? Sunwell? HFP and Nagrand and Terokkar and the whole Aldor/Scryer thing, just to name a few)
Wrath of the Lich King? DEATH KNIGHTS. DEATH KNIGHTS EVERYWHERE *points to the sky*. Ashen Verdict was an alliance between the Death Knights of Acherus (Knights of the Ebon Blade) and the Argent Crusade. the DK starting area was LK's death knights VS the remnants of the Scarlet Crusade, which we run into again in Northrend. Not to mention doing quests for Ebon Blade around and about in Icecrown
Cataclysm... I think you got me there. Goblins and Worgen didn't have much lore outside their starting areas, and very very little endgame lore.

MOP as you said was heavily based around Pandaren

[BatteredSausage]

Where the fuck do you people get this shit?

They've NEVER said that there'd be no content after players fought and killed Sargeras and they've NEVER said that the game has a future hard-level-cap of 100.

Seriously. What. The. Actual. Fuck. Goes through some of your heads.

you know what, i got like 3 pages in and thought, what the fuck type of idiots manage to post this shit and didnt bother carrying on.
There is some proper dillusional people that post in this place.

[SinR]

And, can someone link these heirloom weapons from Garrosh? All I'm seeing are the BOA ones that are strictly lvl 90

[babo7000]

I for one believe Anduin would make a fine Warchief. As long as Vashj isn't appointed as his advisor, and Vol'Jin fulfills ShaoHaos prophecy and becomes a Yaungol, I don't see why Genn would be angry, let alone corrupted.

[mini98]

you know what, i got like 3 pages in and thought, what the fuck type of idiots manage to post this shit and didnt bother carrying on.
There is some proper dillusional people that post in this place.

Yeah, I find all this imaginary fact spewing rather pointless. Instead of talking about the subjects raised alot of people seem to just shout random made up facts which supposedly prove said other possibly made up facts false...

[iamthedevil]

I for one believe Anduin would make a fine Warchief. As long as Vashj isn't appointed as his advisor, and Vol'Jin fulfills ShaoHaos prophecy and becomes a Yaungol, I don't see why Genn would be angry, let alone corrupted.

What did i just read...

[koimagheul]

First of all, the heirlooms were datamined, neither confirmed nor final.

not final for sure, but confirmed they have been.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...kly-News-Recap

Second, this would be the first time heirlooms would be available for the CURRENT max level.

Wotlk heirlooms were. cata's were as well, which made it a pain to enter heroics.

[Leakage]

I for one believe Anduin would make a fine Warchief. As long as Vashj isn't appointed as his advisor, and Vol'Jin fulfills ShaoHaos prophecy and becomes a Yaungol, I don't see why Genn would be angry, let alone corrupted.

This of course.

[mini98]

And, can someone link these heirloom weapons from Garrosh? All I'm seeing are the BOA ones that are strictly lvl 90

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...next-expansion

Also regardless of if they're final or not, 90-100 shows the intention for 10 levels even if they do change it...

[Cooper]

True story, 90-100 just means heirlooms would scale for those levels, even if those levels are split between two or more expansions.

[Deleted]

how about

Next expansion is 90-100
but you will only be able to lvl to 95 until a later patch/patches that will also open up new zones

will keep the expansion fresh all the way trough

[XDurionX]

not final for sure, but confirmed they have been.
http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/...kly-News-Recap

You´re right.

Wotlk heirlooms were. cata's were as well, which made it a pain to enter heroics.

I was talking about the coming xpac, you could never use heirlooms to level up to the highest level available. This is the first time we get them in advance.

[notorious98]

not sure if sarcastic or just dense.


Burning Crusade, Draenei and Blood Elves were a MAJOR lore factor (Tempest Keep? Sunwell? HFP and Nagrand and Terokkar and the whole Aldor/Scryer thing, just to name a few)
Wrath of the Lich King? DEATH KNIGHTS. DEATH KNIGHTS EVERYWHERE *points to the sky*. Ashen Verdict was an alliance between the Death Knights of Acherus (Knights of the Ebon Blade) and the Argent Crusade. the DK starting area was LK's death knights VS the remnants of the Scarlet Crusade, which we run into again in Northrend. Not to mention doing quests for Ebon Blade around and about in Icecrown
Cataclysm... I think you got me there. Goblins and Worgen didn't have much lore outside their starting areas, and very very little endgame lore.

MOP as you said was heavily based around Pandaren

And all of them were more than capable of existing without adding any of those races or classes. Also, the lore may have been centered around it, but the marketing and selling factors were not. Considering the argument you decided to jump into had nothing to do with the lore, perhaps next time you should do your research before just jumping in all willy nilly into a conversation when you don't know anything about the topic.

So, when it comes to your post, I believe we can rule out "sarcastic".

[Racthoh]

i don't see the problem with hitting level 100 and having multiple expansion for it. wouldn't we just stop gaining experience. however unlocking new zones, quest chains, raids would remain the same?

[XDurionX]

i don't see the problem with hitting level 100 and having multiple expansion for it. wouldn't we just stop gaining experience. however unlocking new zones, quest chains, raids would remain the same?

Don´t want to imagine the uproar.

Levelling is an integral part of RPG.

[xanos]

The aggression in many of these posts is... laughable really.

Is it a true leak? Plausible? Who cares, it raises some fun topics to consider.

Pretty cool idea, I personally like the idea of 10 levels per expac, I feel it gives more room for an 'adventure' on the way to level cap, which to me is half of the fun of these games.

The setting/theme is pretty sweet, again I am kind of hankering to get out of Pandaria, not that it did not have its moments but... I am keen to get out of 'asia' and back into the darker / bizzare themes we saw in BC/WOTLK/CATA. (Yes Pandaria had its moments, Dread Wastes was cool )

As for our dear Warchief. It could seriously be anyone. I remember a while back someone tweeted Metzen(I think it was him? , or Kosac) and asked if the new Warchief had been decided - the answer was a no. So whether that was true or not, it is clear they want to pull the wool over our eyes and keep us in suspense, which is fine by me! I'm sure any warchief we get can't be any worse (on morals) or any less interesting than Garrosh. So bring it on.

On the note of 'subraces' ... this is something I've been shouting in my little wow circle of friends for a while now, bring on the character diversity like DnD , I think there is a lot of potential here. We could have humans from different regions/kingdoms, the base humans are obviously from Stormwind - we could have Arathi/Stromguard humans with perhaps a slight racial 're-imagining' to give them an identity of their own, much like how the Gilnaens are clearly British inspired.

There could be a forest troll clan to join the horde , you have the Dark Irons/Wildhammers, Dragonmaw orcs(after Garrosh is defeated they could be forgiven/assimilated?) , hell even Vrykrul could be termed a 'subrace' of humans for gameplay reasons, even if technically humans are subraces of them.

I'm just rolling ideas out here but my point is... anything can happen and anything can be explained/written in if they really try. I am a firm believer of this now, once I hated the space goats, now they are my favourite Alliance race (from a lore perspective).

Expansion time gets me too excited -_-.
The time between now and blizzcon can't pass soon enough!

[Cooper]

And all of them were more than capable of existing without adding any of those races or classes. Also, the lore may have been centered around it, but the marketing and selling factors were not. Considering the argument you decided to jump into had nothing to do with the lore, perhaps next time you should do your research before just jumping in all willy nilly into a conversation when you don't know anything about the topic.

Highlighted text from "The Burning Crusade" box:

Official Expansion to the Game of the Year!
Pilot Flying Mounts
Battle to Level 70
Master Two Bold New Races
Seize the Dark Frontier

Highlighted text from "Cataclysm" box:

A New Age has Begun
Discover a World Transformed
Level 85 Awaits
Battle as Worgen or Goblin
Conquer the Elemental Planes

"Wrath of the Lich King"

Rise as the Death Knight
Battle to Level 80
Brave the Lich King's Domain
Lay Siege to Your Enemies

"Mists of Pandaria"

Unlock the Mysteries of Pandaria
Master the Path of the Monk
Battle to Level 90
Unleash the Mighty Pandaren
Discover a Lost Continet

So marketing has absolutely centered on three things: New Race and/or Class; New Areas; New Level Cap.

[leviathonlx]

It's not real. But you'll find out why in 2 weeks.

[Koreche]

:p

How can they do a Naga expansion without finally adding the playable naga?? That just sounds wrong.

No addind playable naga sounds stupid, not doing so sounds like what they should do.