1. #21541
    Quote Originally Posted by Hitei View Post
    I'm gonna laugh when the reason why the silhouette seen in Dawn of the Infinite has night elf ears is that it's not Xal'atath or Azshara, and the "Harbinger" has just been Elune's avatar this entire time.
    And I'm gonna cry.

  2. #21542
    Quote Originally Posted by ro9ue View Post
    Is Storm Rider the expansion name? Whats with the Bronze, Silver, Gold? Sounds like the sales tiers (base, heroic, epic editions).

    maggz = magma/fire, squally = air/storm, fyrn = earth/plant, frostwing = water/ice (elements) so earth may be featured but all 4 elements likely included throughout
    It's probably just a race achievement.
    https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=...ur-sprint-gold

    Maybe there's some initial promotional event that includes a dragonriding race? Or there's a race component as part of the gryphon mount? Like how the anima worm had a quest for transmog set.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sondrelk View Post
    Honestly, the big question to me now is the existence of 10.3. Because Blizzard would have to be pretty confident in Avaloren being a slam dunk to make players accept slower expansions being the likely outcome going forward. Even more so when they talked about how proud they were to have an 8 week patch cadence.
    If you think about it, if we assume they show 2024 roadmap, it's pretty impossible it won't be filled with patches until end of expac, even if they would be small. They won't show roadmap with big hole in the middle.

    There is also possibility that expac is scheduled for August/September, with full Season 3 (5/6 month) and 12 week Season 4, which would cut any talks about content drought.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hitei View Post
    I guess. It feels like wasted effort though. They could have the quest team throwing dozens of little story quests around rather than bottlenecking themselves with updating assets. It's not like being restrained by older graphics stopped them from doing Secrets of Azeroth.
    Or the Blue Dragonflight questline

    Ofc it might be that they WANTED to have it ready for these things, it just wasn't ready to launch.
    We have speculated that they might be trying to automate the update. Maybe they had proof of concept for it when they started those questlines but it messed up on the large scale and they delayed it, gods knows that happens with projects.

    I did have the idea that they could use a visually updated old world as part of timewalking if they expand timewalking to include zones and/or move to an evergreen version of timewalking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Worldshaper View Post
    Here's my updated interpretation of 'A Song of the Depths', with my annotations in red:
    I wonder if Xal’atath/Iridikron will use the dark heart to revive K’tanth (or whoever the 5th old god was)
    And that’ll trigger Azshara to return.


    But watch it be a plot twist where Azshara returns to help us kill the 5th old god & we get a Naga race or AR.
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    Uh Demon Hunters literally had an ability called Spellbreaker.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pacotaco View Post
    Hello? Djaradin? Those are the Children of the First Flesh. It's heavily hinted since the first time we heard about that name: the paintings on the caves, the stories from the blind Djaradin, etc.
    Could be, but that sounds off to me. Because it reads "While they toil in the deep places, yada yada, we will travel to the Dragon Isles". That makes it sound like the Children of the First Flesh are not on the Dragon Isles.

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    The elemental themed pet names are definitely sussy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nightshade711 View Post
    I wonder if Xal’atath/Iridikron will use the dark heart to revive K’tanth (or whoever the 5th old god was)
    I think that's a possibility, although I'm not sure if the 5th Old God could perhaps be Xal'atath herself. But the "dark heart" could just refer to the body of the Old God itself. That could be what the children of the first flesh are digging up. But it's just one possibility out of many.

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    The elements answer to me!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xilurm View Post
    And I'm gonna cry.
    If it isn't Xal'atath, my best bet would be on Sinestra/Sintharia, Deathwing's Prime Consort and Brood Mother of the Black/Twilight flights. IIRC her Visage form was an elf?

  11. #21551
    Algarian must be some sort of culture within the new expansion.

    Is Lil Maggz, a chibi Magtheridon?

  12. #21552
    Quote Originally Posted by Ersula View Post
    Algarian must be some sort of culture within the new expansion.

    Is Lil Maggz, a chibi Magtheridon?
    I'm thinking it's:

    Quote Originally Posted by ro9ue View Post
    maggz = magma/fire, squally = air/storm, fyrn = earth/plant, frostwing = water/ice all 4 elements

  13. #21553
    Quote Originally Posted by Dracullus View Post
    If you think about it, if we assume they show 2024 roadmap, it's pretty impossible it won't be filled with patches until end of expac, even if they would be small. They won't show roadmap with big hole in the middle.

    There is also possibility that expac is scheduled for August/September, with full Season 3 (5/6 month) and 12 week Season 4, which would cut any talks about content drought.
    Release in August and then during the Anniversary Blizzcon announce the Revamp which would come with removing level progression and replacing it with some form of horizontal progression.

  14. #21554
    Quote Originally Posted by Ersula View Post
    Algarian must be some sort of culture within the new expansion.

    Is Lil Maggz, a chibi Magtheridon?
    Algarian is the mutated dwarves of Khaz Algar.

  15. #21555
    Quote Originally Posted by Worldshaper View Post
    If it isn't Xal'atath, my best bet would be on Sinestra/Sintharia, Deathwing's Prime Consort and Brood Mother of the Black/Twilight flights. IIRC her Visage form was an elf?
    I'd need a good explanation for how the fuck (even though it's in Blizzard-fashion) she survived BoT, but.. "According to Zeryxia, Sintharia's whispers from beyond the grave sent her to lead the Twilight's Hammer and reborn twilight dragonflight in an attack against Deepholm." .. she or somebody impersonating her was whispering as far back as Legion, so..

    Edit: Her old TBC Visage Form also has the exact same hair, that the figure in the Dawn Cinematic uses.

    Though I do have to say, just before the Screen fades to black on the dawn cinematic, you can get a very good glimpse of the pose of the model in the Portal. And that's not the Belf pose, that's the Night Elf idle. The angle makes it look like the belf model, which can happen if you view both at this angle and obfuscate the actual model to where you do not have anything else to go on. But the position of the arm gives it away.
    Last edited by Dismayxz; 2023-09-29 at 10:48 PM.

  16. #21556
    Quote Originally Posted by Cheezits View Post
    The elemental themed pet names are definitely sussy.
    Could be that the elementals are the rewards of the 19th anniversary?
    Or heck, Maybe Hearthstone will have an elemental expansion and they give all these pets as a cross promotion. The Promotion tab includes more things than collector edition items.
    Last edited by Nymrohd; 2023-09-29 at 10:48 PM.

  17. #21557
    Quote Originally Posted by ro9ue View Post
    I'm thinking it's:
    CE pets are usually thematically connected to the mounts, so I'm gonna guess that Squally is a baby spooky gryphon.

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    Actually yeah I think Maggz is Lil Magtheridon, it fits the Lil KT nomenclature. But then that means two Blizzcon pets?

    Which leaves Fyrn and Squally as possible pets. If Squally comes with CE, Fyrn could be preorder pet. Sounds like a plant creature.

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    Arsenal: Stormrider's Stormhammers
    Use: Collect the Regal Stormhammer and the Thundering Stormhammer appearances
    "The weapons of a Stormrider are renowned across Azeroth with many mastering the power of the storm itself."

    Algarian Stormrider

    Storm Rider: Bronze/Silver/Gold

    I mean, for one, it screams out shamanism and Wildhammer Gryphon riders. Somebody who masters the power of the storm, riding a dark Stormrider gryphon, while wielding a Regal Stormhammer in one hand and a Thundering Stormhammer in the other.

    It's a pretty typical theme for the Enhancement artifact weapon appearances, too. One weapon being more regular and the other more elemental.

  20. #21560
    Have to say, the Elements connection is very sus now.

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