The War Within 11.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[kavikor]

So everyone knows, @Algarstorms is the user who posted the Storms of Avaloren leak from October 18th.

I actually had it rated fairly high since it seemed to share a lot of details with the zone screenshot leak (which I also believe to be fake now, but that's besides the point).

Anyway, @22mage22 and @Algarstorms just randomly happening to browse the forums at the same time makes me think it's probably the same terminally online hoaxer having fun muddying the waters of what is and isn't real.

God that's so fun and exciting. Now idk what to believe and its all in the air, im so hyped!

[Algarstorms]

So everyone knows, @Algarstorms is the user who posted the Storms of Avaloren leak from October 18th.

I actually had it rated fairly high since it seemed to share a lot of details with the zone screenshot leak (which I also believe to be fake now, but that's besides the point).

Anyway, @22mage22 and @Algarstorms just randomly happening to browse the forums at the same time makes me think it's probably the same terminally online hoaxer having fun muddying the waters of what is and isn't real.

The screenshots lining up with a lot of what I wrote was a pretty funny coincidence, to be honest. There were a few other "leaks" since then using my leak ideas, like a revamped silvermooon/ gilnaes and boat mounts, so you can chalk those up to be bullshit as well,

[kavikor]

The screenshots lining up with a lot of what I wrote was a pretty funny coincidence, to be honest. There were a few other "leaks" since then using my leak ideas, like a revamped silvermooon/ gilnaes and boat mounts, so you can chalk those up to be bullshit as well,

I thought your idea of the Algaren race was super cool

[Catastrophy349]

Time to quit my job and live on these forums. It's getting hot in here!

[ercarp]

I think Algarstorms and 22mage22 are the same person, or at the least in on it, and responsible for the avaloren leaks.

Once one shows up, the other does.

Yeah, I'm thinking the same. Their antics just now killed the credibility of two leaks with one stone. I'm honestly impressed.

[22mage22]

algarstorm is trying to discredit me by lying. i just wont post anymore.

[kavikor]

it gets so spicy! What are the screenshots? Are they fake? its getting real intriguing

[klaussf]

algarstorm is trying to discredit me by lying. i just wont post anymore.

its mythic 10 man coming?

[Makabreska]

WTF is going on.

[Vakir]

If that is the case, I can't fathom why someone would post two concurrent fan-fictions when it doesn't even produce good trolling. Nobody was angry, upset, genuinely bamboozled, or frustrated, just...blandly discussing two variations of similar premises for a week or so.

Leak season sucks. I get I'm in the minority on that, and I do not care. Improvements in AI and further talent with machinima can only be hoped to kill it forever.

[Catastrophy349]

Jack Nicholson meme "Yes, Yes!"

[Neoplanet]

WTF is going on.

leakers fight it is

[Ferlion]

Yeah, I'm thinking the same. Their antics just now killed the credibility of two leaks with one stone. I'm honestly impressed.

This is like, the single best way this troll could have ended short of another set of screen shots of the same places, just from a different angle.

[Algarstorms]

I thought your idea of the Algaren race was super cool

Thank you, I pictures a dwarf mixed with a gronn, based on that website image of the ogre dwarf.
Also Bellular said my leak looks legit. Sorry bro.

[Nymrohd]

WTF is going on.

Drama, mama

[Neoplanet]

algarstorm is trying to discredit me by lying. i just wont post anymore.

you can tell something more you know but nobody asked , to help you get credibility

[Algarstorms]

algarstorm is trying to discredit me by lying. i just wont post anymore.

I at least admitted I am full of shit.

[Joszef Kiprich]

22mage just started another thread with another account. Come on guys, it was obviously fake from the get go.

[Teriz]

It's all been asspulls since Cataclysm as far as I can see. Pandaria going from a small island to a big continent, Zandalar and KT doing the same. Up until WoD all we knew about old Draenor was a little penciled up map that didn't mention spires, gorgrond, highmaul, talador.
You can use the way back machine on the wiki and see up until 2020, nothing about the Dragon isles aside from a brief mention from a dev, and a reveal that it was a scrapped potential endgame raid for alpha WoW.

This is entirely revisionist history. Pandaria was a continent back in WC3, being referred to as the Pandaren Empire;

Hailing from the secretive Pandaren Empire, the mighty brewmasters travel the world in search of exotic ales and the finest brewed spirits. These affable warriors rarely seek out danger or trouble, preferring instead to spend their time concocting new and tasty beverages for any brave enough to imbibe them. However, if attacked, the laughing brewmasters bring all of their pandaren agility and ferocity to bear! They are peerless warriors and world class drinkers all in one!

http://classic.battle.net/war3/neutr...ewmaster.shtml

Even beyond that, at least we've heard of Pandaria long before (8 years) before it became an expansion location.

Same with KT and Zandalar. We had major lore characters from those locations. We knew Admiral and Jaina Proudmoore from KT, and King Rastakhan from Zandalar. We knew that KT was a naval power, and we knew that the Zandalari were dinomancers and physiologically different than other trolls.

Who do we know from Avaloren? Nobody.

So basically, dragon isles had as much in-game info about it as Avaloren does now. That may sound like I'm making that up, but it's true. Dragon Isles were 100% just kept alive by mild interest from the most diehard lore fans for 2 decades.
Shadowlands? Do we need to say more?

Again, we knew characters from the dragon isles. Through the dragons that we've known and fought with for years, we knew the dragon isles. So when they took us there, we kind of already knew what to expect, and they guided us through the aspects that we didn't. Wrathion, the young dragon we've watched grow from a hatchling to a whelp was assuredly going to be there to guide us.

Again what in-game info do we have on Avaloren in comparison? Who is going to escort us there? Who's going to familiarize with this place?

Condition yourself now Teriz. The game is getting freaking old, among the oldest still being actively worked on. They spend more time writing up the settings and locations for each expansion... than Metzen, Didier and the rest of the original Blizz tabletop nerds spent writing the entire planet of Azeroth.

To add to that, for all we know, Avaloren could have been an idea that Metzen had for years that he just never talked about. If Metzen stood up on stage at Blizzcon and said "THIS CONTINENT. MAN, WE BEEN DYING TO SHOW YOU THIS SINCE WRATH" people would lose their minds. None of this matters.

That's all well and good, but that's not how Blizzard typically rolls out expansion locations. Typically Blizzard lets things cook a bit before pushing us to the next location. Giving us a little taste here or a little taste there and then a few years later we get the full course. Right now, Avaloren sounds half-baked, like a rehash of Dragon Isles, and if that's the next expansion, that's rather troubling.

[Syphin33]

my leak is fake. im sorry

What is wrong with people like you? Seriously?

Do you like crave attention on the internet? Weird behavior from a adult man