Imagine stealing a fake leak for extremely minor attention on the internet. This has to be done with malicious intent.
I've got to say that the original Living World leak, save for the horrendous logo, was pretty well-composed and I do spy a few original assets on the website itself (though they are still too aesthetically-reminiscent of Shadowlands for my tastes), so I've got to give credit for the effort, even if it's not as high-effort as Empire of Dragons was.
I'd say if I had the artistic talent, the first thing I'd try to do is change around the website formatting more. That would make it more convincing—we've never had two identical hype websites for an expansion.
I'd be down for a region inspired by Japan. As much as I hope for Dragon Isles, I'd get a kick out of a place with Japanese flair too.
As long as Blizzard wants to work in China, using their favored animal together with anything Japanese is absolutely a no go. I do think however that if they revisited Pandaria, the Jinyu could easily work with a strong Japan theme; they have a lot of potential and imo were fairly underused compared to the Hozen.
The Jinyu would work very well with that, really. They have a look, and their lore is a blank slate as it is. Lots of room for adaptation.
I dunno, though. You're right about the China part, but a faerie can wish.
EDIT: WHY ARE MY IMAGES SO SMALLLLLL, did MMO-C image imbed rules change since the last time I was here?
So I might be completely late to this, but... did anyone here notice that the new Hillsbrad skybox was removed?
https://twitter.com/TheRedShirtGuy/s...75687868284931
Looks like a name leak:
This is my own picture saved from the HTML source of wow's official site.