Dragonflight Alpha/Beta General Discussion

[Revamp Man]

Let’s say no time skip because dadgar has been in the shadowlands all this time and outside of the elf kid becoming a blood knight there’s not much supporting in game evidence currently

This means khadgar lied to jaina about how and why he was there. He acted like he just heard about the stuff we’ve been doing but he was obviously there as the raven. He could easily be looking for his old master or perhaps an old lover because his son showed up and he needs answers. This also means that azeroth’s current defenses consist of
2 aspects one of which is MIA
A speaker
Kirin tor minus canonically the two strongest mages
The horde and alliance Both missing leaders

Sounds like SL was the perfect time for a red militia to make some moves in securing support

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Yes, but the text "A DIFFERENT AZEROTH AWAITS..." and the different background map indicates way more that it is a revamp than "The Awakenings" since that shows no indication towards what the expansion is

It is April 1st. Any leak that pops up is by default dismissed unless the leaker is playing top-tier 4d chess.

[Elflover99]

Just wanted to add that if Darkfallen are two races, it perfectly balances the Explosion of Elves into an Elfen Ring.

Life: Alliance
Void: Alliance
Light: Horde
Order: Horde
Fel: Originally Alliance/But also Horde
Death: Originally Horde/But also Alliance

PERFECTLY BALANCED....

[AOL Instant Messenger]

I'm pretty sure Awakenings or some variation of it is the most used leak name. Every expansion we have leaks over Awakening. It's almost a tradition at this point

It's almost like a new version of the old Eye of Azshara leaks.

[Revamp Man]

found on a 4chan thread

Isn’t that just a flipped version of the current map

[Marlamin]

There's the build!

[Fiercelord]

Hoooroaaaaaay

[Khaza-R]

Isn’t that just a flipped version of the current map

No. There's some significant differences. Especially with Quel'thalas

[Raetary]

They just edited QT to look like its pre-bc iteration and fixed the gap between Dun Morogh and Elwynn (Why would that even be fixed?)

[Constellation]

No. There's some significant differences. Especially with Quel'thalas

There's also a lake above "The Loch" in Loch Modan that's not in any of the ingame clients.

[ercarp]

found on a 4chan thread

There's no way this logo would be real. It's way too box-shaped.

I can imagine this being the logo for a WoW-themed mobile game or some sort of spin-off thing, but not an expansion to the main game.

Also they forgot the ™ and ® bits from the logo. Oopsie.

[Elflover99]

Nothing about Kalimdor in the files yet, huh?

[Ferlion]

It's not.



The in game map.



I've used that, specifically, because you can see what is different at a glance.

The logo (and day) 100% says it's fake. Art style is all wrong, coloration is all wrong. I just want to know where the map came from. More work than usual.

[ercarp]

It is April 1st. Any leak that pops up is by default dismissed unless the leaker is playing top-tier 4d chess.

I don't think it being April 1st means much for the leak season when every day leading up to the expansion reveal is basically April 1st, if you catch my drift.

[Constellation]

It's not.



The in game map.



I've used that, specifically, because you can see what is different at a glance.

The logo (and day) 100% says it's fake. Art style is all wrong, coloration is all wrong. I just want to know where the map came from. More work than usual.

Ok that pic has the above lake I previously mentioned, but take a look at the area between Dun Morogh and Elwynn, its connected.

[Raetary]

There's also a lake above "The Loch" in Loch Modan that's not in any of the ingame clients.

No, that's just the water mass in the Wetlands.

[Nymrohd]

Tbh the map on the "leak" is far more correct than the actual map. Zul'Aman exists after all. Heck in a revamp you could even add a zone there. Could call it Maisara Hills

PTR could be up today btw. Already updated

[Khaza-R]

They just edited QT to look like its pre-bc iteration and fixed the gap between Dun Morogh and Elwynn (Why would that even be fixed?)

Its a bit more nuanced than that

The islands above Tirisfal added back.
Stormwind juts out from the coast
Area around Gnomeregan extends further out to the sea
Loch Verrall position completely changed to be south of Loch Modan and not east of it
Something weird with Blackrock Mountain and Elwynn looks almost like a fissure

Not saying its real but there's a lot of small and unexplainable details they added that would go unnoticed if it is a fake.

[ercarp]

The logo (and day) 100% says it's fake. Art style is all wrong, coloration is all wrong. I just want to know where the map came from. More work than usual.

Editing the EK map to look slightly different in this manner isn't that hard, especially since they've gone ahead and obscured it slightly with the dark blue filter.

I'm not saying I could do it, I'm just saying that it's entirely possible to do something like this with a few hours in Photoshop. So the map doesn't need to have "come from" anywhere.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

Tbh the map on the "leak" is far more correct than the actual map. Zul'Aman exists after all. Heck in a revamp you could even add a zone there. Could call it Maisara Hills.

I imagine that's what the artist was hinting at—it's probably meant to be Zul'Aman for the sake of the hinted revamp they're communicating.