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    Dragonflight really was a buffer expansion, huh?
    Blizzard's cutting corners again? Yare Yare Daze...

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    The big feature of Midnight will probably be Lordaeron revamp.

    Not just Quel'Thalas; the entire Lordaeron subcontinent.

    The major storyline will be about the Void invasion of Quel'Thalas, but it's still an expansion, presumably it will have multiple patches and B plotlines going on besides the main one.

    So Blizzard won't ignore what's south of Quel'Thalas; we'll likely see the Void invade other parts of Lordaeron too. Plus, people have wanted revamped Stratholme for so many years, what better way than the Worldsoul conclusive saga of 20 years of story development?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Nymrohd View Post
    HS Duos look like crap. the crowd is so silent.
    If WoW would have "let's have another adventure" expac and only Classic news was Cata, Blizzcon would be disaster. Metzen carried whole thing, I don't think anyone else could sell this 3 expac saga concept.

    Quote Originally Posted by CrossNgen View Post
    Dragonflight really was a buffer expansion, huh?
    More like break expansion. People completely forgot how done we were with "end of the world" expansions after Legion, N'zoth and SL. Also they basically sort out gameplay/system side of WoW, so in TWW we don't have fixes, just content build upon what we already have.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Conceptuel View Post
    I'm especially concerned because I imagine they'll get some kind of dracthyr-esque lore of being the spehsulest, coolest nerubians EVAH!!!! instead of just being humanoid nerubians; I figure the lore either way is that they're some kind of hybrid between nerubians and the Arathi humans fighting them.
    They did go into the lore actually - the humanoid nerubians have been 'evolved' by Xal'atath is exchange for pledging alliegance to her.

    Makes me worried that the 'Nerubian Queen' we face in raid will just be... like, some Elisandre-esque lady. Instead of the big fat monstrous nerubian queen from the WoTLK artbook.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Myrrh View Post
    Oh shit, you're 100% right on Harrowsdeep. Had forgotten all about that. I'm so in with this. Wonder if he'll claim a Titan scalp then be forced to retreat back into his lair.

    Re: Azshara, getting a real sussy feeling about Metzen's 'it all goes to shit' vibes about the end of Midnight. I could see Azshara not actually appearing until right at the end and being the catalyst that distorts everything enough to bait the Titans out.
    If any villain gets to win, that's Azshara

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    I think it's actually insane that they were teasing an expansion 4-6 years away with War of the Scaleborn.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ersula View Post
    (Sword shown as focal point of the expansion)
    (Every new zone is nowhere near the sword)

    Clearly. Unless the Sword doesn't matter until the Northrend Expansion, but I doubt that, considering thats a Northrend expansion. I am hoping the 11.0 patch zones are Under Silithus & all of Kalimdor (You realize Kalimdor is smaller than a standard expansion continent during the Dragonriding cups)
    The Arathian zone is directly under the sword!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheezits View Post
    I think it's actually insane that they were teasing an expansion 4-6 years away with War of the Scaleborn.
    It is what they SHOULD do. And that means they are teasing Avaloren which may not happen for years. And let's hope we get more teasing in the years ahead.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Golden Yak View Post
    They did go into the lore actually - the humanoid nerubians have been 'evolved' by Xal'atath is exchange for pledging alliegance to her.

    Makes me worried that the 'Nerubian Queen' we face in raid will just be... like, some Elisandre-esque lady. Instead of the big fat monstrous nerubian queen from the WoTLK artbook.
    Sounds likely; honestly, if they're specifically pledged to Xal'atath, maybe we'll get a very desirable bait-and-switch and it will turn out the evolved nerubians are all comically-evil void monsters and we get more traditionally spiderlike nerubians as a playable race when they come grovelling to us after they realize that everybody out of Xal'atath's inner circle is slated for extermination.
    "We will soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four."
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    You hate dracthyr because you hate scalies, I hate dracthyr because I'm a scalie and know naga are better. We are not the same.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Puupi View Post
    And most importantly, m+
    and WW has Delve, which is a new pillar of endgame like m+ going forward. it even has a track on the vault.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Marlamin View Post
    The pre-order mount already has a unique dynamic flying ability/mechanic, so they're definitely experimenting in this department already.
    It's a really fun ability as well, changing how you maneuver, which is the kind of change I always wanted.
    You could go directly somewhere and move slowly, or you could try to maximize speed by flying close to a wall, potentially crashing, or potentially gaining massive speed buffs.
    The world revamp dream will never die!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Conceptuel View Post
    Sounds likely; honestly, if they're specifically pledged to Xal'atath, maybe we'll get a very desirable bait-and-switch and it will turn out the evolved nerubians are all comically-evil void monsters and we get more traditionally spiderlike nerubians as a playable race when they come grovelling to us after they realize that everybody out of Xal'atath's inner circle is slated for extermination.
    Nah, the humanoids only exist to be playable. You know this.

    Otherwise they would all just be HD spiders because it takes less effort to rig and animate mob races.

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    Really curious to see if anyone owns up for the Avaloren 4 image 'leak' now that we're here lol.

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    Metzen's last expansion was 'Legion' and now 'TTW' feels like a sequel to it... hmmm.. almost as if the last 3 expanions were filler..
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    Seriously playing Duos without being next to the other player and possibly being able to look at their screen will likely feel like crap.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JDBlou View Post
    The way they emphasised the term "Void Hunter" makes me fear that that will be our next class...
    Probably one of the Hero Talent trees for Hunter.
    My guess is Dark Ranger, Void Hunter and maybe something like Rexxar?

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    I am the only one who enjoys the 2 year cycle? with a .3 patch and everything? let the expacs have room to breathe????

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    So now I am confused. What happened to the Tigon?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cheezits View Post
    I love these Scrunkly guys.

    So they make bipedal Nerubians and instead of making them a playable race they instead give us rocky dwarves? That's almost as disappointing as the playable "dragons" we got.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Musta View Post
    I am the only one who enjoys the 2 year cycle? with a .3 patch and everything? let the expacs have room to breathe????
    The only expansion I have ever enjoyed playing through its entirety was Legion.

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    Quote Originally Posted by qwerty123456 View Post
    So they make bipedal Nerubians and instead of making them a playable race they instead give us rocky dwarves? That's almost as disappointing as the playable "dragons" we got.
    The devs said they have a rebellion-type plot so it is likely a patches-long plot to recruit them.

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