(Leak?) Redshirt guy finds release date, main villain and allied race with preorder

[Syegfryed]

Did everynody just give up on wanting Covenant Allied Races?

Vampires plz blizz

Woerd as f

Everyone wanted the shadowland races, the vampires and the night fae

Now seems like everyone is sure to be more elves, for some reason

???

Devs confirm no Allied Races until after 10.0, focus is only on Dracthyr for now
https://www.breakflip.com/fr/world-o...onflight-36185

Can we stop talking about this ""leak"" now?

wush thank god.

Hopeful they WILL actually focus on then, beyond adding multiple hair color options, cause i mean, there is a limit of colors the human eye can see

[nysisyn]

Devs confirm no Allied Races until after 10.0, focus is only on Dracthyr for now
https://www.breakflip.com/fr/world-o...onflight-36185

Can we stop talking about this ""leak"" now?

While I agree this leak is probably true and just jumped on Scaleface info. There is still no confirmation.
The dev basically say have no sure plan for 10.0 and that they focus on Drac'thyr

Which mean that if another race if already done for a 9.2.5 or another update before 10.0, an allied race is still a possibility.

[confety]

maybe its not an allied race but a new customization like the night elves night warrior.

if it has to do with calia, maybe a undead customization with the undead dark ranger elf model, or the undead humans like the scholomance bosses

maybe they didnt announce preorder yet because its not properly finished

still too early to know tho

[Xilurm]

No, it's pretty definitive in Cata:

Defeated
Murozond yells: You know not what you have done. Aman'Thul... What I... have... seen...
Nozdormu says: At last it has come to pass. The moment of my demise. The loop is closed. My future self will cause no more harm.
Nozdormu says: Still, in time, I will... fall to madness. And you, heroes... will vanquish me. The cycle will repeat. So it goes.
Nozdormu says: What matters is that Azeroth did not fall; that we survived to fight another day.
Nozdormu turns away from where Murozond died and looks up at the Hourglass of Time.
Nozdormu says: All that matters... is this moment.

So bringing him in to be a raid would be a retcon. Note in the above dialogue, Nozdormu knew this moment was coming.

And yet, the new raid could take place during any moment of Muruzond's life between now and the day he dies in the End Times dungeon.

[KayRule]

Jesus, Dark Ranger friends. Your shot was in Shadowlands, it's over. No Dark Rangers, sorry. Move on. We're on to Dragons and Adventure. Just be happy Tinker friends didn't get what they wanted either.

[Weebos]

Devs confirm no Allied Races until after 10.0, focus is only on Dracthyr for now
https://www.breakflip.com/fr/world-o...onflight-36185

Can we stop talking about this ""leak"" now?

Here's a DeepL Translation of the relevant question from this interview:

Will we be able to play as a Sethrak?

Patrick Dawson: "Allied races are a very important topic, a lot of people come to us even colleagues who ask "can I play as a sethrak?" or murloc, or centaur etc. There are always ideas though when we add a race to WoW we want to make sure that there is a clear intention behind the decision. We'll discuss this with the team, you never know what we're going to add, there's no clear plan for 10.0 we're really focusing on the Dracthyrs."

[Eosia]

And yet, the new raid could take place during any moment of Muruzond's life between now and the day he dies in the End Times dungeon.

Just what we need, the Terminator sequels of WoW expansions. As if the alternate universe wasn't enough.

[Triceron]

So which leaker is right? Scaleface said a November 2022 release. Redshirt leak says Q1 2023. I guess it is possible both are correct and Blizzard change the planned date after some promotional material was created/sent. It could explain why pre-orders are not out even though some of their Dragonflight e-mails have "pre-purchase" as part of the link in the e-mail.

Dates get shifted and pushed back all the time, so I wouldn't discredit anyone on dates alone.

[Coronius]

A lot of people in this thread don't seem to take into account that Blizzard are highly unlikely to add an Allied race for only one of the two factions. Most likely, it's going to be a race for both factions.

In that regard, Tuskarr would make sense. Darkfallen, not so much.

[TheRevenantHero]

They never made sense to begin with. Maybe Blizzard (read: the new guys in charge) is actually taking their own lore a bit more serious now that they've made it their own.

After what Danuser said about the plot of Dragonflight, no they are not.

[Cosmic Janitor]

After what Danuser said about the plot of Dragonflight, no they are not.

What did he say? I mean I'm not expecting them to come up with good stuff, I just could see them be less dismissive about the details, unlike the stuff their predecessors made.

[Ersula]

Devs confirm no Allied Races until after 10.0, focus is only on Dracthyr for now
https://www.breakflip.com/fr/world-o...onflight-36185

Can we stop talking about this ""leak"" now?

KayRule is spreading false information. That Breakflip interview specifically asked about "Centaur, Furblog, Murloc, Sethrek & Gnoll" allied races, to which they said there's no storyline that would facilitate them being allied races in 10.0.... There's no confirmation a different allied race isn't coming in 9.2.5 - Only those 4 are ruled out.

Will we be able to play as a Sethrak?

Patrick Dawson: "Allied races are a very important topic, a lot of people come to us even colleagues who ask "can I play as a sethrak?" or murloc, or centaur etc. There are always ideas though when we add a race to WoW we want to make sure that there is a clear intention behind the decision. We'll discuss this with the team, you never know what we're going to add, there's no clear plan for 10.0 we're really focusing on the Dracthyrs."

This doesn't rule out anything about 9.2.5 - Fine that they're focusing on Dracthyr because any allied race designed for 9.2.5 would have been created before them.

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And yet, the new raid could take place during any moment of Muruzond's life between now and the day he dies in the End Times dungeon.

That's just one timeline. We're already past Endtime because Deathwing didn't destroy the planet.

[Xilurm]

That's just one timeline. We're already past Endtime because Deathwing didn't destroy the planet.

Case in point. We could fight Murozond in every single raid from now until WoW gets shut down and kill him each time and it would still never be a retcon.

[HansOlo]

It was about 6.5 months going from BfA alpha start to release, about 7.5 months for Shadowlands, and about 9 months for Legion, though the later one had a christmas break in between.

If they're fast and start testing by mid may, we may get a november release - as "leaked" by Scaleface. If they're on the slower side of things, I'd say february 23 would be a good bet.

I really can't see the logic of november release. It seems too soon, no matter how I turn it around. Given we still have 4th season of SL ahead of us and I think that they are buying time.

Q1 is where all my money is(feb. more specific).

[Ersula]

I really can't see the logic of november release. It seems too soon, no matter how I turn it around. Given we still have 4th season of SL ahead of us and I think that they are buying time.

Shadowlands wasn't done when 9.0 released.

[Xath]

Im going to shoot myself if they blurt out Tuskarr before Sethrak.

Then again, while i don't give a rats ass, more people want those than Ogres and i can get behind them as a more unique thing. We will see if this isnt just another stupid hoax.

Yay more dev time wasted on a race that nobody will play just like mecha gnomes and fat humans. People like to play attractive races I realize that mmo champ doesn't understand this but numbers show it. If anything the vampires from ICC would be a much better use of time because people would play them.

[ClassicPeon]

What did he say? I mean I'm not expecting them to come up with good stuff, I just could see them be less dismissive about the details, unlike the stuff their predecessors made.

I cant answer your question but i can tell you that the dude you where asking the question to has literally not had anything positive to say about anything in a long time. All his posts are negative, every single one. I wouldnt expect any reasoning behind it, he is just angry.

I honestly think Blizzard has tried to take the lore seriously but i think they have mostly done a poor job of telling their stories in wow lately. Especially the motivations and feelings of the characters that we are supposed to root for or hate have just been really hard to follow in general.

The Sylvanas book really did a lot to explain what was going on, but its not in the game. I think their major problem is that they are trying to push too much of a narrative into too short of a spawn of ingame time.

A character in a game that changes allegiances multiple times in an expansion(soul split or not) is just really hard to follow.

Anyway i'm rambling: i just hope blizzard learns to tell smaller stories in the game or at least span them out over a longer period of time.

[HansOlo]

Shadowlands wasn't done when 9.0 released.

You think it's standard/expected, that they are releasing unfinished projects or what should I understand from the message?

[ChairmanKaga]

Did everynody just give up on wanting Covenant Allied Races?

Vampires plz blizz

Revendreth was the only zone I enjoyed of SL and even I'm lukewarm on the quasi Vamps as ARs.

[Amnaught]

Revendreth was the only zone I enjoyed of SL and even I'm lukewarm on the quasi Vamps as ARs.

Gargoyles wouldve been a better choice imho. But I'll gladly settle for vampires.