And the importance of the ongoing events. Some expansions had an impact, others didn’t. Expansions like WoD and Shadowlands didn’t contribute anything or helped improving the overall perception of the World of Warcraft. For the greater context you could remove them from the expansion list and not much would happen as their impact is so meaningless. We don’t know where Dragonflight is aiming at, but right now it’s definitely more on the side of WoD and Shadowlands than it is on the side of something world-shaping like Cataclysm or Legion.
So even if those expansions felt similar to the ones before (we really cannot count Legion here as it introduced so many new things that are to this day part of the game), their overall lasting impression on the universe was way bigger.
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How is it insane? Those pics look like a retread of the environments we’ve already spent almost a year in, and they simply don’t look interesting because we’ve already done it. If this is played on the big screen of BlizzCon as the new expansion, WoW’s going to take a massive hit, because this looks lazy.
Avaloren/Khaz Algar is just an excuse for Blizzard to add more dwarf lore/zones to the game. Of course they will have the same iconography, they also have gryphon riders and they named their home turf Khaz Algar (pretty similar to Khaz Modan). Blizzard is just trying to get ahead of the lore nerds who will point out how none of it makes any sense.
A contingent of earthen was sent by the titan keepers to investigate a geological anomaly in a fissure detected on Sector AR-938. In time, these earthen begun to display behaviors similar to those who had fallen under the influence of the flesh, despite being separated by a great distance and sharing no cultural ties whatsoever. To the keepers, the similarities were uncanny. Although both groups remained physiologically distinct, the earthen had started to refer to Sector AR-938 as Khaz Algar, and their behaviors, language, and demeanor showed many similarities to other former earthen groups.
Although I agree with you, it's all really subjective. When you talk about lasting impacts do you mean story-wise, in that sense for better or for worse SL and WoD become more relevant, from the gameplay side I could argue all expacks had an impact, except for WoD maybe. But even WoD added some feature we have today.
Edit: and indeed we don't know where DF is going so we can speculate all we want, but if Blizz decides a meteorite strikes azeroth and we must resettle to Avaloren then my kudos to whoever could figure that out
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Just story-wise, not in regards to any gameplay they added.
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When your last two expansions have been lows for your franchise, being a massive improvement is less spectacular than it sounds. Why compare it to the lows when we can and should compare it to the highs? And in that regard Dragonflight is at best middle of the road. At best.
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So either the person who made the website leak made these as well, or both are real?
If the person is a very good modeler I can see them being the creator of the new models.
The more I look at that storm d0rf the more I think it is real....
Those arms evenly becoming those fist weapons looks very well made.
The blur on the outlines everywhere but the d0rf certainly comes from the camera moving around with the d0rf being the center I guess.
I believe Shadowlands was mentioned before, but they re-imagined it to fit as an expansion, but yeah, Zereth Mortis is totally new one, yet it's still a single zone.
Avaloren seems to be a brand-new continent that has a variety of biomes in it. Interesting, altough the images don't look so exciting to me