Yeah this is my vibe too like seriously looking at this:
https://imgur.com/a/JPoVKAQ
I cant make out enough Details there to really say its those exact stairs or not Titan stairs number 34579957788. Same with the golem
https://imgur.com/JbDTmow
It's some generic worldbuilding mumbojumbo. It could be summarized to something like "after the Sundering the sea serpent seas remained silent until now" or "the mountains of ancestry keep the secrets of the ancient races of Azeroth, with the Sundering the mountains shook and unearthed threats new and old".
Folks did the same kind of deep analysis on the Dracthyr model, as well as the in-game screenshot of the new UI with the reagent bag slot. I'm not saying that automatically proves it's legit, but if you have to squint at some of the comparisons, you're probably grasping at straws.
Also, many of the model comparisons in the initial tweet are a big stretch. The staircase in the leaked screenshot is so far back in the environment you can't really tell. Also the bronze neck piece on the direhorn is the same/similar texture to the railing, but it's an entirely different shape.
As far as some of the smaller stuff like butterflies and the titan golem; there have always been re-used models and props in new expansions to a certain extent. Blizzard has never made an entirely new suite of assets for every existing thing in a new expansion before. The same concept applies to the titan architecture. Why make new titan assets for a titan pillar with an orb on top if you have a version of the same thing you made for Dragonflight?
The albatross in the spanish images is omega scuffed. Seems AI.
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I agree that the swirly thing and the tree branches aren't 1:1 matches. But they're close, and could easily be altered. It's also plausible that there are other similar models in the game that she couldn't find, but which more closely match those two.
Everything else is pretty damning. The pillars are exactly the same, so is the bridge. The butterflies are all right to re-use, no big deal. But Marlamin suggested earlier I think that we only had green ones so far, or something like that? Correct me if I'm wrong Marlamin.
The dinosaur, arguably the model meant to be the standout feature of the image, can be created by a decent enough Photoshop artist using the leaves from the Wildhammer helmet, and by creating a skin texture. At least for a still frame such as this, where we can't scrutinize it from other directions.
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Part of the reason is that Battlegrounds are like ducks.
I think that a clever leaker could realize the triceratops pet was based off some model that doesn't exist yet, and reskinned a regular trike to resemble the baby.
It doesn't look like a new model, it looks like a reskin... like most of this goddamn leak. All reskinned shit with nothing new.