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    Something tells me it will be a Wild West themed xpac.

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    Hearthstone takes quite a few liberties, so tunring the Badlands into a wild west themed zones isn't that much of a stretch.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    Something tells me it will be a Wild West themed xpac.
    Which would be an interesting premise for the Badlands if we ever do get a world revamp. It’s one of the heaviest Cataclysm era zones in terms of being locked into that story. Prior to that in Classic it was a nothing zone, which I guess fit the theme.

    Some outlaws moving in and building a Wild West town is a fun possibility for the zone that I’ve never seen considered. I assume the option that makes most sense would be expanding Fuselight.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marlamin View Post
    I mean, there are a few missing IDs in the character race DB2 before the 10.2 mount, which considering customizable mounts also go in there might not mean much (e.g. the Algarian Stormrider is probably in there) as well as there just being gaps for other reasons, but the only thing it does mean is that I can't easily shoot down the possibility.

    e.g. if there were 0 missing IDs in between the Dracthyr race and the customizable dragonriding mounts, the likelihood of them working on a new race are very low as those take way more time to cook up than the 10.2 mount would have, so they would take up an earlier ID spot.
    Oohhh interesting, thanks for sharing.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marlamin View Post
    I mean, there are a few missing IDs in the character race DB2 before the 10.2 mount, which considering customizable mounts also go in there might not mean much (e.g. the Algarian Stormrider is probably in there) as well as there just being gaps for other reasons, but the only thing it does mean is that I can't easily shoot down the possibility.

    e.g. if there were 0 missing IDs in between the Dracthyr race and the customizable dragonriding mounts, the likelihood of them working on a new race are very low as those take way more time to cook up than the 10.2 mount would have, so they would take up an earlier ID spot.
    That is interesting. We never had two expansions in a row with a new race.
    EDIT: I'm dumb. Pandaren came after cataclysm.
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    I'm still waiting for the Brazilian or French websites to leak something.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Santandame View Post
    Which would be an interesting premise for the Badlands if we ever do get a world revamp. It’s one of the heaviest Cataclysm era zones in terms of being locked into that story. Prior to that in Classic it was a nothing zone, which I guess fit the theme.

    Some outlaws moving in and building a Wild West town is a fun possibility for the zone that I’ve never seen considered. I assume the option that makes most sense would be expanding Fuselight.
    It's already a lawless area, all it needs is a resource. Could be gold, could be Azerite, could be black dragon guano.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Northelim View Post
    What chinese leaker? What he says exactly? Translation to english pls?
    He wasn't a leaker.

    There was a post on NGA (a major Chinese forum) during Legion that was attempting to establish a pattern in expansions, where he pointed out that themes in old expansions show up again in new expansions. e.g. "Burning Crusade was about Draenor and about the Legion, WoD is about Draenor and Legion is about the Legion". So he then concluded that following that same pattern, Wrath (Old Gods and Scourge) meant that the expansion after Legion would be about Old Gods and the one after that would be about the Shadowlands; and Cata (dragons and elements) meant that 10.0 would be about dragons and 11.0 would be about the elments.

    People now mistakenly call him a leaker and also take his guesses as prophetic word.

    Except we already know that expansions aren't developed like that, because the devs have outright said (on at least two occasions) that they just collaboratively brainstorm where would be cool to go next a couple expansions in advance and then decide on the story to get there. We also know that his lucky guesses have already sort of run out, because Dragonflight is both a dragon and elemental expansion, and his guess for 12.0 and 13.0 was that MoP was "Faction war and Sha" so 12.0 is gonna be Horde vs Alliance and 13.0 is going to be about the Sha, but even he recognized how the Sha coming back made no sense and suggested 13.0 was going to be the end of wow and about the Void instead--and of course, we already dealt with the faction war storyline back in 8.0 at the same time as the Old gods, so the pattern isn't actually a pattern.


    tl;dr it was a regular forum poster who self-admittedly was guessing about random ideas and got lucky a few times, the guesses of whom people now really stupidly take as evidence of stuff happening in the future. In this case, Teriz really wants an Underground expansion, so he's arguing that the guess about 11.0 being "elemental" is proof of an Underground expansion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jaggler View Post
    Hearthstone takes quite a few liberties, so tunring the Badlands into a wild west themed zones isn't that much of a stretch.
    If Badlands were more to scale instead of essentially a single fairly small canyon, it'd make more sense for it just to be a desert-y western area. It's just such an out of the way zone though.
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  8. #29308
    Shame about the Stormfall leak, The sad thing is now future fake leaks will feature this Hearthstone expansion confirmation to it to try and seem legit muddying the waters a lil, also @Chickat love the new Ava!

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    Quote Originally Posted by ercarp View Post
    Good catch.

    RIP Stormfall 2023-2023.
    Are you doing a speedsheet for 11.0?

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    Quote Originally Posted by flan1337 View Post
    https://gear.blizzard.com/collection...on-merchandise YO THE BLIZZCON STORE IS UP? Seems like its pre-store stuff but I seen no news on this.
    Thanks for the hint Red Lilith and LK armor preordered

    I hoped that some item would have hidden logo or hint of the 11.0 but only HS have probably one

    19 days left
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    Quote Originally Posted by locketto View Post
    Are you doing a speedsheet for 11.0?
    I'm working on it right now actually! I've collected 37 "leaks" so far, but it's not ready to be shared yet. And imgur keeps giving me errors atm ("Something went wrong with CREATE_ALBUM_FAIL. Please try later") so I can't host the mirrors.

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    Had an awful dream last night that Blizzcon came and next WoW expansion was a continent to the south of Pandaria and was Pandaren themed with none of the interesting themes from Pandaria and would just be an expansion about farming and helping those particular Pandaren with their every day lives and no real overarching story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Auxis View Post
    I'm pretty sure I see cactuses i this imagewhen I zoom in. Bit blurry tho and I am on my phone.
    There are indeed cacti in Badlands.

    Look at this blog showing some of the rares in the zone. You can see cacti next to quite a few of them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Santandame View Post
    Had an awful dream last night that Blizzcon came and next WoW expansion was a continent to the south of Pandaria and was Pandaren themed with none of the interesting themes from Pandaria and would just be an expansion about farming and helping those particular Pandaren with their every day lives and no real overarching story.
    I wouldn't mind getting more panda content as a patch zone, but probably not an entire expansion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Santandame View Post
    Had an awful dream last night that Blizzcon came and next WoW expansion was a continent to the south of Pandaria and was Pandaren themed with none of the interesting themes from Pandaria and would just be an expansion about farming and helping those particular Pandaren with their every day lives and no real overarching story.
    That sounds like great side content. But not a main expansion theme.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ercarp View Post
    I wouldn't mind getting more panda content as a patch zone, but probably not an entire expansion.
    Perhaps at an ancient time, the fifth August Celestial, the Golden Windsteed moved together with their monks to Avaloren on Freya's secret request to safeguard Elun'ahir (the Yellow Dragon or Qilin is the Fifth of the Four Symbols/Auspicious Beasts on which the August Celestials are loosely based).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    Perhaps at an ancient time, the fifth August Celestial, the Golden Windsteed moved together with their monks to Avaloren on Freya's secret request to safeguard Elun'ahir (the Yellow Dragon or Qilin is the Fifth of the Four Symbols/Auspicious Beasts on which the August Celestials are loosely based).
    I mean Pandaren from the Wandering Isle migrate a lot. Shen Zin Tsu has the potential to be a zone in every continent. It moving is the whole bloody point.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Wangming View Post
    I mean Pandaren from the Wandering Isle migrate a lot. Shen Zin Tsu has the potential to be a zone in every continent. It moving is the whole bloody point.
    I mean you could do that but I'm offering a chance at adding new lore.

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    Quote Originally Posted by flan1337 View Post
    https://gear.blizzard.com/collection...on-merchandise YO THE BLIZZCON STORE IS UP? Seems like its pre-store stuff but I seen no news on this.

    Edit: There is an illidan and deathwing shirt

    Edit2: Is this hearthstone next xpack??? https://gear.blizzard.com/products/h...44009765830905

    I dont see any infomation on showdown in the badlands at all anywhere
    Welp they finally nuked the HS shirt page. Only took like... what 4-5 hours? Can only laugh at the Blizzard store, they manage to leak (and I use that term generously) something every announcement cycle these days. Like clockwork. Better check the source data...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Merryck View Post
    It happens quite frequently though. Particularly with Blizzard. Maybe it's a strategy?
    it's 100% intentional. It's the same laughable excuse "we accidentally forgot this new model smartphone in a bar/club" that was hip to use as marketing trick years ago. Anyone who believes this is accidental is exactly the group of people that this type of marketing works best on.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    I mean you could do that but I'm offering a chance at adding new lore.
    Thre is no reason not to combine it. When the Isles pass there, some Pandaren drop off. Even better if the isles return, they can compare notes.

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