Eh...the pattern with AOTC being a hint at future expansions seems to have a weak pattern. The Kor'kron War Wolf only indicated anything surrounding Warlords by virtue of WoD's aesthetic being just an extension of much of Siege of Orgrimmar anyway.
Obviously the Grove Warden was a sign of Legion, but the Violet Spellwing was generic enough that it didn't really indicate anything specifically about BfA. And now we have a Zereth Mortis looking Protoss Dragoon vehicle as the likely AOTC candidate for SL, so really it may not be a sign of anything.
The Uncorrupted Voidwing may have just been a mount simply because...we were dealing with N'Zoth and Wrathion was there. Simple as that.
EDIT: Beaten by literally one minute!
Back in the 9.0 speculation thread there were folks ('leakers') claiming the dragon theme was scrapped and moved up in favor of Shadowlands. Probably untrue but it's worth noting that during Blizzcon's SL livestreams the environment artists were BARELY working on the terrain. Expansion concepts may be created ahead of time, but might not be approved until late.
Let's start day 1 of hoping it's today, even if it's totally Thursday.
Exactly. Plus, Old Gods were a part of the game at least since Vanilla, so people knew what to expect. If they teased the Eternal Ones way before Shadowlands, it could have worked as well. They didn't, they failed. Let's just hope they've learned their lessons.
By the way, I'm laughing so hard if Dragon Isles isn't the location for the next expansion and it's something completely different yet somehow related to Dragons. They perverted the South Seas expansions with the Battle for Azeroth theme, so let's just wait and see what's their twist for the Dragon stuff.
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An interesting speculation thread, i have a question because I'm interested:
Which regions or stories would be possible in future expansions?
Hasn't everything been completed?
There are at least two major forces that are not yet dealt with: Shadow/Void Lords and Light/Naaru.
Plus, we have Azeroth herself that has not yet recovered from all the stuff that happened recently.
And on top of that recent bits of data-mining seem to indicate that next expansion may be tied to dragons in some way.
Not to mention that Blizzard can always pull something out of their ass in style of WoD.
I'm -really- hoping that if we go back to Azeroth as Ion implied a while back that they'll finally bite the bullet on either expanding the map phasing/loading-screen less teleporting to the point where we can finally fly from EPL/Quel'thalas OR they merge those maps together as the technical reasoning they had for splitting those up in the first place is over a decade+ old at this point. That and the Hearthstone Tavern are some of my top "wants", really.
I do not know if merging the old zones would be much work. But in the case of a world revamp, would it not be better to treat it as a new continent? Like they did with Draenor, built from scratch, in such a way that they can always add new zones. Let the world as we know it today be accessible from the Caverns of Time, make 9.2 finale disastrous to Azeroth so that they have a justification to restart the world, so that we can always look up for more stuff in Azeroth.
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Because those are Single Player games.
When there are 0 online interactions with people there are 0 issue on enforcing dumb 0.5% top meta or whatever bs that makes the game insufferable for casual players.
No rush rush mindset, you have all the time of world to do other stuff, explore etc etc
Things that wow lacks currently unless your RPG taste is so that even a warm shit like current wow is a delicatessen
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Oh, that could be quite interesting! Since it was suggested that Galakrond was a result of an experiment by Tyr, perhaps he's a microcosm of these Proto-Proto Dragons? He could have been equivalent to G'Huun for these dragons, in a sense. And, by extension, it would make sense, as we know that the Proto-Dragons may have been descendants of the elemental Dragons we've already seen in Cataclysm, who naturally would've served the Old Gods.
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They could've simply been sealed there, and for whatever reason N'Zoth or Deathwing never got them out (perhaps they tried, but simply couldn't do so directly for whatever reason?)
Because and this is the only lucky way to make it work with the current dogshit storytelling
Because those Dragons were actually imprisoned in some titan facility/prison like Uldir ulduar that nobody knew about it
Just like we saw Raden the top dog watcher had no idea about Heart of Azeroth existence and Mother told us various other Uld-alike location
So we can assume there are location / facilities that are secret even to the watchers
I mean I know that they can come up with whatever reason, but It would be weird that Deathwing or N'zoth did not know about this prison, and if they did and did nothing to free them It would be even more bizarre.
But hey, if they come up with a good story and an acceptable explanation I am in.
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