1. #34201
    Why would promotion material would have the "buy now" button? And why it looks like the "official site" area was pasted from a different image?
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  2. #34202
    Quote Originally Posted by ZyntosAran View Post
    I would actually not be surprised if alpha ends up starting shortly after announcement on the same day. There has to be a reason why they are putting the announcement on that day, maybe its because they are sure they are ready with releasing the alpha at that point.


    Apart from that, how do you think the Announcement will go? Video or Livestream? Only a trailer / cinematic + gameplay teaser or panels afterwards?

    I for one wish for a long livestream (prerecorded I guess is a given), in the form of how they handled it at gamescom: Show a teaser, a cinematic and the feature trailer, and then talk about the key points in a 1 - 1 1/2 h panel. Afterwards, bring up the alpha so people are invested in the datamining etc.
    I wouldn't be too surprised either but I'm not quite that optimistic. They'd need to get invites out for people etc.

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    Quote Originally Posted by GabrielKnight View Post
    Why would promotion material would have the "buy now" button? And why it looks like the "official site" area was pasted from a different image?
    Dunno, because it's fake?
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  4. #34204
    Lets show you key art of a new expansion zone by cropping it so you can only see the sky

    Impressive

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    Quote Originally Posted by GabrielKnight View Post
    Why would promotion material would have the "buy now" button? And why it looks like the "official site" area was pasted from a different image?
    Because its just a shopped Shadowlands homepage.
    https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/shadowlands
    https://imgur.com/a/n86L27R


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    Quote Originally Posted by Khaza-R View Post
    Lets show you key art of a new expansion zone by cropping it so you can only see the sky

    Impressive
    It’s because it’s attempting to hide the fact that it’s hanamura from Overwatch.
    The symbol on the building shown gives it away.
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    what exactly makes Dwarves an underground race?

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    World of Warcraft: The Flagon Isles

    New core mechanic: Sailing - Player housing finally comes to the World of Warcraft in the form of player owned boats. Players will earn their first boat early on in the story, and gain access to bigger and better boats throughout the expansion. Player boats may be decorated with a variety of cosmetic items, including banners, furniture, and trophies from achievements, new and old. Players will also be able to recruit various NPCs throughout the world to join their crew, granting access to features such as transmogrification, banking, and auction house use onboard their personal ship.

    New social mechanic: Flagon Fights - Players may choose to align themselves with one of five different groups of Flagon Fighters that are scattered across the different inns, bars, taverns, breweries, and pubs of the Flagon Isles. Players can earn new Flagon Fighting themed transmog sets based around the group that they choose to align themselves with, in addition to gaining access to alcohol themed buffs unique to each Flagon Fight.

    New profession: Piracy - Players will be able to learn the new Piracy profession, allowing them to "invade" other player's boats or NPC boats to gain access to new treasures. Piracy PvP is opt-in only, but offers unique rewards unavailable in PvE Piracy.

    New Class: Tinker - Players gain access to a new player class upon purchase, or pre-purchase, of The Flagon Isles. This class, the Tinker, has access to three specializations. Tailor (Melee DPS), Soldier (Ranged Tank), Spy (Melee/Ranged DPS). The Tinker class wears mail armor, and is primarily focused on the intellect stat for the Spy specialization, agility for the Tailor specialization, and strength for the Soldier specialization.

    The story revolves around The Nailer, an ancient, immortal pirate forged by the Original Creators. The Nailer's original identity is lost to time, but his nickname was earned for his habit of nailing his victims to the sides of the ships under his command. The Nailer leads a faction of fearsome undead pirates known as The Shadowhands, which he was able to raise and control using the secret lost art of Flagon magic. The Nailer, after having been locked away in slumber deep beneath the sea for over 9,000 years, finally awakes as a result of the attack against Azeroth. The Alliance and Horde must put aside their differences to discover the mysteries of the Flagon Isles, and defeat The Nailer once and for all.

  8. #34208
    Quote Originally Posted by Yeah its Dragons View Post
    Dragon Knight uses polearms and plate armor. Two specs, one tank and one dps spec.
    Classes aren't really designed like that. Demon Hunters use warglaives because their entire identity is built around being warglaive users. But even DKs, who were very firmly of the "runeblade" category, were made "uses any 2H or 1H mace, sword, axe".

    Also, 0% chance of them deliberately adding "Dragon Knight" to the game, when there's already a "knight" named class that also uses that exact same shorthand. They couldn't get around it with DH, because that's what they were already called in warcraft before hunters were even a thing, but here they'd just be arbitrarily choosing to call it Dragon Knight for no benefit and a bunch of problems, when they could call it dozens of other iterations of Dragonsworn/blessed/bound/whatever.

  9. #34209
    i must say, that Wrathion model from 8.3 really does just work it's ass off in these reveals. Cannot remember who actually took the time to clean up the first model to remove the earrings and such, but damn this model really is making the rounds in all these fake leaks.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Makabreska View Post
    Dunno, because it's fake?
    Quote Originally Posted by Arafal View Post
    Because its just a shopped Shadowlands homepage.
    https://worldofwarcraft.com/en-us/shadowlands
    https://imgur.com/a/n86L27R
    Those were rhetorical questions, come on...

    Although if by some crazy coincidence they go with that awful asian stuff again I'll probably burn my computer. Can't even start to imagine facing pandas again.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    i must say, that Wrathion model from 8.3 really does just work it's ass off in these reveals. Cannot remember who actually took the time to clean up the first model to remove the earrings and such, but damn this model really is making the rounds in all these fake leaks.
    Simaia did the models

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  12. #34212
    Quote Originally Posted by Hitei View Post
    Classes aren't really designed like that. Demon Hunters use warglaives because their entire identity is built around being warglaive users. But even DKs, who were very firmly of the "runeblade" category, were made "uses any 2H or 1H mace, sword, axe".

    Also, 0% chance of them deliberately adding "Dragon Knight" to the game, when there's already a "knight" named class that also uses that exact same shorthand. They couldn't get around it with DH, because that's what they were already called in warcraft before hunters were even a thing, but here they'd just be arbitrarily choosing to call it Dragon Knight for no benefit and a bunch of problems, when they could call it dozens of other iterations of Dragonsworn/blessed/bound/whatever.
    It won't only use polearms, it's just the trademark, like Demon Hunters use warglaives.

    And the abbreviation the community can use could be DRK for Dragon Knight and DK for Death Knight.

    Some reasons people come up with for why something can't happen don't actually matter as much as people think.

  13. #34213
    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    Cannot remember who actually took the time to clean up the first model to remove the earrings and such, but damn this model really is making the rounds in all these fake leaks.


    I did that on this one. Changed the horns shape a bit as well to match the more typical dragon-crest, rather than Wrathion's specific Neltharion-like horns.

    NVM ^^ looks like you meant what the other fellow linked. my bad
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  14. #34214
    Quote Originally Posted by Yeah its Dragons View Post
    It won't only use polearms, it's just the trademark, like Demon Hunters use warglaives.

    And the abbreviation the community can use could be DRK for Dragon Knight and DK for Death Knight.

    Some reasons people come up with for why something can't happen don't actually matter as much as people think.
    Man you just copied a horrible "leak" with hanamura images in it. Give up you failed

  15. #34215
    Quote Originally Posted by Archmage Xaxxas View Post
    [IMG]https://i.imgur.com/ZsIYN65.png[IMG]

    I did that on this one. Changed the horns shape a bit as well to match the more typical dragon-crest, rather than Wrathion's specific Neltharion-like horns.

    NVM ^^ looks like you meant what the other fellow linked. my bad
    I was actually thinking of that picture, so there is that.

    Still, quite a few who seem to treat that model like free real estate when it comes to leaks. I guess only time will tell whether it will actually be used for a HD resin of the old dragon models, wouldn't really be shocked if it ended up being the case.
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  16. #34216
    Quote Originally Posted by Therougetitan View Post
    I like these, but I've got to say the little strap around the mouth feels very awkward on a sapient lifeform. I have a hard time imagining a Dragon accepting the bite unless it's been enslaved in some context.

  17. #34217
    Quote Originally Posted by ZyntosAran View Post
    "and using it to reshape Azeroth."

    weird. Its like...I have heard that plan somewhere...cant remember where......

    Nontheless, nice effort copying the living world leak! awesome job
    the living world "leak" was different

    it had a tinker in it I think

    here





    Last edited by Yeah its Dragons; 2022-04-02 at 08:52 PM.

  18. #34218
    I really would be surprised with a Dragon themed class tbh. Honestly I'd rather the main theme of the xpac is shared by all. I think the best idea was the Ashes of Galakaros one; make completely cosmetic Dragonflight "covenants" give each spec an ability and just reskin it depending on people's choice of Dragonflight. Not to mention there are several Dragonsworn in lore and they are all very specifically other classes; Dragonsworn is a title more than a class.

    I would not mind not getting a class. I'd rather they made a solid effort to get all or at least more specs to feel good like they did with Legion (and mostly managed by the end of the xpac) and would definitely prefer class customization the most. I'm a TRPG player and I am used to having tons of classes. In a TRPG setting I could see WoW having close to a hundred archetypes and that can be pulled off there with classes/subclasses and prestige classes. But WoW itself can never really pull that off. There are many very cleanly presented archetypes in WoW that can never really become classes; they would be too narrow and really at the end of the day there are too many of them. However if they were willing to take more risks with customization and the talent system, it's definitely possible to broaden how we play our characters without having to add many new classes. Not saying that you can't have classes added btw. Tinker is one of them were the theme is wide enough that you could easily add it. But you could just as well have engineering unlock class skins for a dozen different specs and make them tinkers instead.

    Now what I think would be truly innovative if we do get Dragon Isles would be to actually see them try and use flight. One of the best gameplay features I've seen in wow in quite a while were the Mechagon back packs. I think a great way to do Dragonflights would be to give us DRAGON WINGS which would function only in the Dragon Isles and work like the backpack. Then just make sure to actually add flying threats. It can be done. TBC had so many flying threats, they did it in Zereth Mortis in the desert area. As long as flight doesn't just let you go straight up and avoid all combat it is not problematic. It would also let them make a more 3D environment and allow for the zones to be vertical or even floating! without them feeling disjointed. For me one of the worst parts of Shadowlands is how disjointed the zones are. In no other xpac did I constantly tab out waiting for a flight path. Even with Cata we had flying on day one and numerous portals so moving around was easy.
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    I am so proud that we’ve reached 1759 pages on this thread! I predicted back in January (when we were in the very low one-thousands) that we would be closer to 2000 pages by the time the official announcement happened. Almost to 2000!

  20. #34220
    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade711 View Post
    It’s because it’s attempting to hide the fact that it’s hanamura from Overwatch.
    The symbol on the building shown gives it away.
    it's a placeholder

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