[Speculation] Bizzare "Leak" reveals screenshot of an upcoming Cinematic

[thilicen]

Bellular's made a video
and according to his team the graphics are bang on the ones blizzard use.

Some youtuber who gets a ton of shit wrong in a lot of videos and often posts complete bullshit had "his bois" look at it and they say it looks real. Guess that's case closed then..

[Darth-Piekus]

You got really salty when someone insulted holy boy.

I don't give a damn about holyboy. I want consistency in the Lore.

[Goblinounours]

I call total bullsh!t on most of that leak.

The ONE part which looks legit are the pictures. So my theory is that someone at Blizzard is paid to create red-herrings on the web, and that person's calling card is the tinker class.
Or it's someone who has A LOT of time on their hands and some odd motives.

And a map like the one we can see there, I have the means of making one myself, with a fake logo and all. I did the fake logo Total RP 3 used a while back, and before for Legion where I replaced the expansion's name by "Fan Service". Looked 85% legit.
Can't figure out why, but I can't post a link here. The picture feature seems disabled for me.

Also, the idea that Gallywix would find and awaken Mekkatorque is utter BS. I mean come on, think about it, Gallywix is the least tech-savvy goblin. Every tech he has, he pays for it. His big mech in the Battle for Dazar'alor, he has to use it with the user-manual. So you mean to tell me that Gallywix will awaken Mekkatorque, while every smart person in the Alliance has tried and failed? Sure.

Then the idea of Wrathion flying to rescue Anduin when he's corrupted to make him drink his tonic thingy... but he couldn't show up when the Legion was invading Azeroth? That sounds more like a continuation of the Yaoï madness that has been going around these two since MoP.

And Bolvar showing up? I mean, again, that sounds like something some fans would want to happen...
Seeing how he's in ice, with not armor or weapon, I don't see that happening out of nowhere.

Same with Calia Menethil suddenly becoming the "rebel Forsaken leader"... kinda out of nowhere since she hasn't been seen in-game since Legion.

Some points are totally possible and very likely.
But I don't believe it. The tinker class being the nail in the coffin, for me.
EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. We get a freaking "yeah, there will be a Tinker class in the next expansion!". There was that leak before Legion. There was that leak before BfA. There was that leak a few freaking months ago! Let it go.

[Verdugo]

I don't give a damn about holyboy. I want consistency in the Lore.

You only want it consistent when it comes to the horde, you dont mind when Alliance asspulls stuff constantly.

[Alanar]

Please remain on topic to the leak. This is not a thread about Thalassian affairs.

High elf fanboy mace again?

[Infraction]- Bringing up unrelated users is also derailing. Refrain from this also.

[Teriz]

Some points are totally possible and very likely.
But I don't believe it. The tinker class being the nail in the coffin, for me.
EVERY. SINGLE. YEAR. We get a freaking "yeah, there will be a Tinker class in the next expansion!". There was that leak before Legion. There was that leak before BfA. There was that leak a few freaking months ago! Let it go.

Thing is that there's been a massive Goblin/Gnome sub theme throughout BFA, starting with the Island Expedition Tinker teams, and leading up to Mechagon.

Blizzard typically doesn't create something like Mechagon without it having some relevance to the overall story. Since Mechagon has no notable impact in this expansion, it stands to reason that some aspect of its story is going to bleed into the next expansion. Some would say that it was all to just make Mechagnomes a playable race, but why would Blizzard go through all the trouble of creating a raid, tons of assets, and a sandbox zone just to introduce a AR race?

[Goblinounours]

Thing is that there's been a massive Goblin/Gnome sub theme throughout BFA, starting with the Island Expedition Tinker teams, and leading up to Mechagon.

Yeah but the Tinker class still sounds like something a little too anticlimactic.

Look at it this way :
Monks - Mists of Pandaria. Makes sense.
Demon Hunters - Legion. Makes sense.
Tinker - ...Shadowlands?... uuuuh...
You see what I mean? You tell me "Necromancer" or "Spirit-walker", I'd be like "*shrug* Makes sense".

And in the past, back before BfA was announced, there was already a big leak with a fake Azshara-themed expansion with Tinkers as a class for just Goblins and Gnomes. And again something similar before Legion. There is some anonymous person online who's having fun throwing fake leaks around with Tinkers as class, either because that person REALLY wants that class and nothing else, or it's some kind of calling-card. In anycase, for me, it's a dead-giveaway of the leak being fake.
There are some very legit things in it, though. The picture could be real, which makes it possible that the leaker could work at Blizzard or with Blizzard.
Blizzard has some level of leaking every year before BlizzCon. I wouldn't be surprised if it was part of the process to hype-up an expansion announcement.

[huth]

Yes? Which part of this is confusing you because I really don't follow. Neither do I know how does them losing ships since is supposed to be relevant here.

You mean aside from Sylvanas supposedly somehow mounting an assault on Stormwind with less ships than she had when she and Saurfang decided that doing so wouldn't be feasible due to lack of ships?

And we've seen the transports. We built them.

[Teriz]

Yeah but the Tinker class still sounds like something a little too anticlimactic.

Look at it this way :
Monks - Mists of Pandaria. Makes sense.
Demon Hunters - Legion. Makes sense.
Tinker - ...Shadowlands?... uuuuh...
You see what I mean? You tell me "Necromancer" or "Spirit-walker", I'd be like "*shrug* Makes sense".

Which adds validity to the leak, since the Tinker inclusion makes people question the leak's authenticity. If you're trying to fool people into believing a Shadowlands expansion is coming, you would put a shadow-based class in the leak in order for less people to question it. Putting the Tinker in this leak makes a lot more people question its validity.

And in the past, back before BfA was announced, there was already a big leak with a fake Azshara-themed expansion with Tinkers as a class for just Goblins and Gnomes. And again something similar before Legion. There is some anonymous person online who's having fun throwing fake leaks around with Tinkers as class, either because that person REALLY wants that class and nothing else, or it's some kind of calling-card. In anycase, for me, it's a dead-giveaway of the leak being fake.
There are some very legit things in it, though. The picture could be real, which makes it possible that the leaker could work at Blizzard or with Blizzard.
Blizzard has some level of leaking every year before BlizzCon. I wouldn't be surprised if it was part of the process to hype-up an expansion announcement.

Honestly that pre- BFA leak could still be taking place in the next expansion. In that leak it stated that Tinkers were used as defenders against an Azshara based invasion of Azeroth's coastal areas. With Azshara not dead in 8.2, and presumably still around in 9.0, it stands to reason that we could still have a scenario where Tinkers and the faction remnants are being utilized to defend the physical world from Azshara while the bulk of the Horde and Alliance are in the Shadowlands dealing with N'Zoth.

[tromage2]

Am looking forward to the shadowlands so hope its real.

Shadowlands is an unknown realm, blizzard can do anything with it what ever they want.
It is like Outland in TBC we dont know what is waiting for us in that realm.

[Mehrunes]

You mean aside from Sylvanas supposedly somehow mounting an assault on Stormwind with less ships than she had when she and Saurfang decided that doing so wouldn't be feasible due to lack of ships?

Jesus Christ, what does that have to do with anything when I made it explicitly clear that I was talking about how things were prior to siege of Undercity? You're so off point the point is on the other side of the planet from you.

And we've seen the transports. We built them.

Yeah, Garrison's shipyard arbitrarily dividing existing faction ships in various categories for the missions is totes canon. That's why the Forsaken ships that are totally "battleships" are used for any and all purposes by the Forsaken. Same goes with Orc "destroyers" and so on. Meanwhile the "dedicated transports" Horde had in their garrison shipyard are not actually used by any Horde race.

[Sarethion]

So...



"Lead the charge in the thrilling conclusion to the War Campaign."

I guess this debunks the Shadowlands leak as if we're going to end the war campaign in 8.2.5, it wouldn't make much sense for us to fight each other in 8.3 which the leak says that we would.

[Mehrunes]

So...



"Lead the charge in the thrilling conclusion to the War Campaign."

I guess this debunks the Shadowlands leak as if we're going to end the war campaign in 8.2.5, it wouldn't make much sense for us to fight each other in 8.3 which the leak says that we would.

Ahahaha. "Thrilling". Damn, that's probably the best joke Blizzard ever put into WoW.

[Super Dickmann]

I guess this debunks the Shadowlands leak as if we're going to end the war campaign in 8.2.5, it wouldn't make much sense for us to fight each other in 8.3 which the leak says that we would.

Sylvanas in 8.2.5 and N'zoth in 8.3. There's only one thing I can say.



Though it applies to @Tenebra too.

[steelballfc]

there was no hope

[Nize]

And people were fooled once more. Too easy.

[tromage2]

I guess this debunks the Shadowlands leak as if we're going to end the war campaign in 8.2.5, it wouldn't make much sense for us to fight each other in 8.3 which the leak says that we would.

Ofc it would make sense to fight each other past the war campaign.
Night Elves city is still burned down and the Zandalari still have their king dead and alot more conflicts going on past that.

Even if we kill all Sylvanas followers and herself the war would still make alot of sense to go on past that point.
This proofs nothing.

[Super Dickmann]

Ofc it would make sense to fight each other past the war campaign.
Night Elves city is still burned down and the Zandalari still have their king dead and alot more conflicts going on past that.

Even if we kill all Sylvanas followers and herself the war would still make alot of sense to go on past that point.
This proofs nothing.

Logically, sure, but if you think this is going to end in any way but Anduin and Sadfang sharing a hug while Tyrande apologizes to the Horde you're kidding yourself. Brennadam, what's that? Rastakhan who?

[Sluvs]

This does not prove much tbh, sylvannas can just come out of nowhere in the pre patch and try to take stormwind or some shit.

Not saying it's real, but it does not debunk it.

[TaliaKirana]

I think this one just got debunked by the new 8.2.5 PTR build. It includes the patch splash screen, which says the war campaign concludes there (beneath a picture featuring Anduin and Sylvanas).