So right now the most probable leak might as well be Corgis Unleashed
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MAGA - Make Alliance Great Again
Because it is an entirely boring expansion.
Every time you chat with someone who doesn't like the expansion, their arguments aren't compelling to you because you enjoy the expansion. Your lack of ability in understanding others point of view doesn't mean that they are wrong; it simply means that you refuse to accept their rationale. Don't worry, this is a common phenomena where you want to defend your choice as being the only correct choice. We see it all the time in Apple vs Microsoft vs Google, or Ford vs Chevy vs Toyota, or LG vs Samsung vs Vizio, etc, etc, etc. You made a choice based on your values...time that you recognize that others have their own set of values that are just as relevant as your own.
As for Lady Atia's nonsense, BC raiding wasn't remotely as bad as portrayed. I personally led a raiding guild back in those days, and we picked up all kinds of people that we taught to raid...many of whom moved on to more serious raiding guilds. Not everyone raided in BC because there was plenty to do with twice as many dungeons (just one element) as well as many new things introduced (none of which was clicking on a table and waiting hours later for a result). Those that wanted to raid absolutely could.
In my experience over the past nearly 2 decades, the vast majority of players really aren't very deep into the lore. Pointing out lore as the primary issue is a strawman argument overall, but it becomes laughable when people start hating on lore of old expansions that had over 5x as many active players as today.
Players want something to do. SL has been the continuation of lax development. Covenants are interesting but didn't add much content. We have the same lazy 8 dungeons and 3 raids as the last 3 expansions. While some love M+, it also causes burnout of seeing the same 8 dungeons over and over and over and over again, but have to race through it...about as fun as running around the track in elementary school all year long was to most people.
For what it's worth (nothing), I still think it will be dragons and I suspect that we will sadly not be getting a new class.
All classes so far have representation in the source games (e.g. WCIII), and there isn't much left to pull from. Classes are always themed to the expansion, and if it's dragons then I don't see any viable classes in the source material. They could create something new of course, but I just don't think Blizz has it in them at this current time to dedicate the resources needed for building a new class from the ground up.
SL does not feel like a WoD situation where they abandoned the expansion early to work on the next one, rather they just fell behind on SL due to a number of well known factors and (maybe) did cut some content. If stuff was cut though, I would guess it was more of a "we don't have the time/resources to do this now" and not a "we are going to MOVE resources from this to the next thing we're working on". I fear that the perfect storm of issues Blizz has been dealing with that put a damper on SL is going to affect the next expansion in the exact same way.
I do hope I'm wrong because 10.0 is a big number and it should have something huge and exciting to go along with it.
In this case, I'd think they'd reach out to the Dragonsworn idea from the non-canon Warcraft RPG: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Dragonsworn. While the RPG itself is non-canon, it has been mentioned that there will be times for the RPG's ideas & the like to make their way into WoW. If we do have dragons & there isn't enough of a link to another class to put it into this next expansion, I could absolutely see Blizz leaning on the RPG & building out the Dragonsworn as a class, similar to how the Monk was built out of the Brewmaster.
On SL being a WoD situation, I agree to a point. They definitely didn't cut bait the way they did with WoD, each patch has had far more than a selfie cam. But there is a decent amount of evidence to suggest that a patch was cut potentially looking into Thros, possibly due to just not having the time/resources at this point. I do feel though that the "perfect storm" you reference has mostly passed at this point...the company is sold, the harassment issues are more out in the open, and the team has gone through the WFH transition. I could see the issues causing the expansion to release later than many are expecting, but I'd be surprised if they don't try to hit the ground running with consistent content, even if with smaller content patches.
BC lore be like:
“Yeah I killed two beings that’ve been known to destroy entire planets, one of which created the Ethereals because his raw power was able to seep though their shields… the other one destroyed entire planets with just a whisper….
Oh yeah these both were killed just as a side thing in 5 man dungeons while we needed a whole raid to kill two moody elves.”
Y'all maybe ever thought that Anduin...and Wrathion...are more-so akin to how Goku and Vegeta (Or Krillin), or how Patrick and Spongebob are? As in they're...FRIENDS???!!!!!
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Just bros, that's it.
I understand not wanting to add new classes from a development angle: It's a commitment to a new thing you have to balance in perpetuity. New classes add to balancing development time, exponentially. But the idea that they "Don't have any more good classes based on Warcraft 3" is a wild statement. You might as well just declare "Our game is creatively bankrupt." They were seriously considering Runemaster in Wotlk and that's something that was never before mentioned in canon. At this point Dragonsworn, Tinker & Bard are all solid concepts. The biggest argument against Bard is "it wasn't in Warcraft 3" yet they keep referencing them in WoW more recently: Keeping their options open.
Last edited by Ersula; 2022-03-16 at 06:29 PM.
Of course the first example from you would be Dragonball.
Shippers gonna ship. If characters even so much exist in the same universe there's going to be confused and lonely probably-females writing about them. No matter how outlandish.
That being said, SpongeBob and Patrick...uhh...