World of Warcraft: Age of Darkness - another 4chan "leak"

[Nyel]

Well, we know it's leak season and after browsing through WoW's subreddit I just found yet another leak that apparently was posted earlier today on 4chan:

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...ss_4chan_leak/

This is the summary for what the leak was about, just copy pasted it from the reddit post:

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World of Warcraft - Age of Darkness (AoD)

- Level squish to 50, new level cap 60 (Vanilla 1-20, TBC / WotLK / Cataclysm 20-30, MoP / WoD 30-40, Legion / BfA 40-50, AoD 50-60)

- New class Tinker, two specializations “Explosives” (ranged dd) + “Combat Medic” (healing), exclusive to Gnomes / Mechagnomes / Draenei / Goblins / Gilgoblins / Forsaken (pre-purchasable with Mechagnomes & Gilgoblins in 8.3 or 8.3.5)

- Story: N’zoth unleashes darkness over Azeroth as foreshadowed in the Nighthold raid encounter with Star Augur Etraeus. Starting point is the attack on Thunder Bluff raid where he interrupts the Horde and Alliance forces in the final battle. Kalimdor is his first goal as the strives to revive one of our oldest foes, C’Thun in Silithus. To do this he’s seeking to destroy the Bronze Dragonflight and turn Nozdormu into Murozond so he alters the timeline where C’Thun doesn’t get defeated and the battle of Ahn’Qiraj is lost by Horde and Alliance in consequence.

- No real dragon focus yet Bronze and Infinite dragonflight play a major role

- Xal’atath will play a major role as the main antagonist of the Old Gods (some kind of evil neutral); she commands us to captivate and imprison Sylvanas instead of killing her because we need her

- Partial old world revamp: only unlocks after finishing the pre-quest for Age of Darkness; for new players it will be the same as live until they do the pre-quest at level 50

- Starting with Kalimdor: Un’Goro, Feralas, Desolace + Mulgore as new high level zones, Silithus will be the endgame zone akin to Suramar (?)

- Eastern Kingdom will be revamped later on with something special planned for Gilneas, Tirisfal and the Plaguelands (hint towards the Old God underneath Tirisfal?)

- New features:

- Essence system unlocked at level 50: every class gets several new skill and traits from 50-60, similar to the Glyph system we once had; 5 sockets, 2 for passive traits, 2 for active skills and 1 ultimate ability

- Reshaping of the talent system: offensive and defensive talents per bracket at level 10 / 20 / 30 / 40 / 50; you can pick one offensive plus one defensive talent per bracket

- Conquest points (new max level leveling system): unlocked at level 60, account wide, different bonuses you can spend points on (more execute damage, higher run speed); once unlocked it’s available for all characters on the account that are at least level 10

- Release date planned for Q4/2020 but they want to polish this expansion so it might get delayed

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BfA's ending:

- 8.2.5 will introduce new heritage armor and new models

- Will deal mostly with factions and the aftermath of the events from Eternal Palace

- Final patch 8.3 set in Mulgore

- Centered around Sylvanas plan to attack Thunder Bluff

- Mulgore will be turned into a new max level zone similar to Mechagon with ongoing progress and weekly unlocks, culminating in the attack on Thunder Bluff raid

- Sylvanas is the final boss with Nathanos aiding her; Nathanos will be killed, Sylvanas will be severely wounded, captivated and imprisoned by her sisters Alleria and Vereesa

- Shortly before the fight is over N’zoth’s minions enter the battlefield and fight Sylvanas and us, everything turns dark (?)

- No schedule for the patches yet as everything during BfA took longer than expected; plan is for 8.3 to be released this year yet it might not happen

- Mechagnomes and Gilgoblins will be the last pair of allied races coming in 8.3(.5)

- Factions won’t merge / get removed, there will be some kind of neutrality and inter-factional group play / communication enabled (one of the reasons given is the huge discrepancy of Alliance vs. Horde on most realms and in the raiding community)
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What you think?

[Paperfox]

I'm still hoping the faction war will go away.

Interesting reading, only time will tell which leaks are correct.

[Marweinicus1]

Yeah fake.

- Eastern Kingdom will be revamped later on with something special planned for Gilneas, Tirisfal and the Plaguelands (hint towards the Old God underneath Tirisfal?)

https: //wow.gamepedia.com/Zakajz_the_Corruptor

[Golden Yak]

I don't buy leaks, but the premise is cool.

[Codah]

I would be happy with this.

[Raetary]

(hint towards the Old God underneath Tirisfal?)

oh fucking cmon, at least they could've done some fucking research.

Xal'atath acquisition and Arms artifact acquisition quest say hi.
https://wow.gamepedia.com/Zakajz_the_Corruptor

*sigh*

Anyways, besides that fuck up the leak isn't that bad.

[Traveler Voltin]

hopefully one of these "leaks" wont have the stupid level squish.

[ro9ue]

Mechagnome and Gilgoblin as allied raceS? Sounds fake.

Vulpera are the obvious candidates.

[Raetary]

hopefully one of these "leaks" wont have the stupid level squish.

A lvl squish is insanely likely with the polls that came up some time ago aswell as Blizzard bringing it up last Blizzcon. (?)


Nor is the idea stupid, quite the opposite as the current lvl cap can be and is off-putting to new players and makes lvling for already active players less of a pain the butt.

[Harbour]

This leak sucks but it sounds literally like the shit Blizzard may do. Other leaks have too difficult stuff like the total talent overhaul, too complicated plot lines and faction merge. Thats bullshit they will never implement all in one expac.
This one have pretty adequate amount of features (that sound like BFAv2.0), meh plot and shit.
I believe this one may be legit.

[GreenJesus]

Can we stop giving 4chan trolls attention? None of these are “legit”. They are half assed and just use info that is already public to speculate and make up bullshit.

[Traveler Voltin]

A lvl squish is insanely likely with the polls that came up some time ago aswell as Blizzard bringing it up last Blizzcon. (?)


Nor is the idea stupid, quite the opposite as the current lvl cap can be and is off-putting to new players and makes lvling for already active players less of a pain the butt.

WoW is the only game where i have seen people whine about the level cap. the level squish is not about new players(blizzard doesnt care about them anymore). its about blizzard picking the lazy solution to trying to make leveling interesting and feel reward. they can do it with a high level cap they just refuse to do it because it would be more work.

this is one change i want to blow up in their face to force them to rethink everything.

[Sanguinerd]

One of the few leaks I wish would come true for one simple reason: Nathanos will be killed

[Sondrelk]

I especially love the "Silithus as an endgame zone" because that implies that either the zone has to be massively enlargened, or the sword will be removed, neither of which makes much sense. (Though thinking about it, it could be kind of cool if the zone is based around the cultists having built a city on the sword, scaffolding all around and stuff)


I will give him props for suggesting a partial revamp instead of a full revamp. And i did have to chuckle at the Old god beneath Tirisfal theory that was explained in full during the opening quests of Legion. By 3 different classes no less.


The most damning point for me here though is him going for the old "Here is news you already knew if you had seen any WoW blue posts the last year" and spinning it as this groundbreaking news that will definitely prove his theory true when the PTR rolls around.
If he really wanted to be ballsy with this he would give specifics on storylines and cinematics, like what a leaker did couple days ago with teh Azshara cinematic. He was wrong, but at least he was willing to gamble on maybe striking gold and getting recognition.

[Toby451]

hopefully one of these "leaks" wont have the stupid level squish.

Pretty much all of these "leaks" are just guessing based off of information that we know/think we know. Blizzard has all but confirmed a level squish is coming, so its logical all of these "leaks" would mention the level squish.

[Sondrelk]

WoW is the only game where i have seen people whine about the level cap. the level squish is not about new players(blizzard doesnt care about them anymore). its about blizzard picking the lazy solution to trying to make leveling interesting and feel reward. they can do it with a high level cap they just refuse to do it because it would be more work.

this is one change i want to blow up in their face to force them to rethink everything.

A level squish is an easy solution ot a complex problem.
It is the exact same thing that happened with Stat squish. Sure, Blizz could probably have fixed in in some amazing groundbreaking way that noone had thought about before, afterall, the numbers were not a direct problem.
However, doing a stat squish is also quite the elegant solution, as it removed the stack overflow problem with the old health numbers, and made numbers more meaningful.

Squishing levels to 60 allows Blizz to make levels more meaningful than if they spent all their time trying to squeeze in a system that could realistically make potentially 130 levels feel just as meaningful each time. With 60 Blizz only needs to put in half the effort, which could be put to better use somewhere else.

[Ettan]

You think we can expect the twin brothers darkness?

[therealstegblob]

A lvl squish is insanely likely with the polls that came up some time ago

It's not "insanely likely", it's directly confirmed. The poll literally said "When we do the level squish what will your reaction be?".

[Raetary]

WoW is the only game where i have seen people whine about the level cap.

No fucking shit when it's the only popular MMO that has a lvl cap of 120 AND has a boring and terrible lvling experience.

[TigTone]

Imagine a space traveling race passes by Azeroth and they see a planet with a massive sword stabbed into it.

They would be thinking wtf happens there, let speed pass this planet.

Also call fake since kultiran are not being allowed as tinkers or humans/dwarfs.