1. #6841
    would you be interested in having the next raid or the last one being more titan focused?
    would you be more interested in having last expansion fight be Fyrakk and Vyranoth at the same time or Iridrikon alone?

  2. #6842
    Quote Originally Posted by Le Conceptuel View Post
    I maintain Legion as one of my favorite expansions, yet there's no denying the lack of visual variance post-Nighthold. This is especially baffling, given that the Broken Isles was a very well-executed expansion continent—in my opinion, at least—on account of it maintaining a consistent unifying aesthetic while also retaining the minimum degree of variety necessary to prevent fatigue. With the exception of Sex'offendaree, Broken Shore and Argus gave us a fairly repetitive environment, which is especially unfortunate because I'm of the mind that Tomb of Sargeras and Antorus were otherwise well-designed and interesting raids.
    I am still baffled by the Antoran wastes looking nothing like an Eredar seat of command. I really expected the Palace of the Diumvirate to be there and recall the Sargerai wing of HFC, Eredar architecture elements rendered in red, gold and black. It could have been quite more striking (and offered a much better dungeon to accompany 8.3 than the void vomit we got which could have just been part of questing).

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    Quote Originally Posted by Skildar View Post
    would you be interested in having the next raid or the last one being more titan focused?
    would you be more interested in having last expansion fight be Fyrakk and Vyranoth at the same time or Iridrikon alone?
    I suggested earlier that we could have the last raid be on the outskirts of Avaloren. We get there to stop Iridikron from getting inside and the raid is in a Titan facility the natives repurposed which generates a shield that keeps the rest of the island safe. We stop what we have to stop but the shield is damaged and then in the prepatch we assemble there as we wait for the shield to fail (which it does at expansion release )
    Then Avaloren could have a mix of Pirates (we protect the Isles from the Nightsquall's invasion), Void and Titan.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Cosmicpreds View Post
    Wrath isn't really multi themed either, cause everything ultimately connected itself with the Lich King plotline (Especially Yogg-Saron). At best, you could argue Algalon deviated, and the Ruby Sanctum happens post LK, but that's it really.
    Wrath's theme wasn't really the Lich King. It was Northrend.

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    Wrath's theme wasn't really the Lich King. It was Northrend.


    Wat. of fucking course it was. Lich King is in the title.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aeluron Lightsong View Post
    Wat. of fucking course it was. Lich King is in the title.
    The focus of the Expansion was exploring Northrend though. The Lich King commands the narrative but the theme of the expansion is the frozen arctic continent.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Utsuko View Post
    Wrath of Northrend. This forum is actually full of trolls.
    So TBC was about the Burning Crusade even though most of the expansion has nothing to do with it?

    And troll? I am just having an opinion. Just sad of you to go there. Do better.
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    The focus of the Expansion was exploring Northrend though. The Lich King commands the narrative but the theme of the expansion is the frozen arctic continent.
    Exploring Northrend because the Lich King attacked both factions and we took the fight to him. We did explore Northrend yes but it was mostly because of the war the Scourge was causing.


    So TBC was about the Burning Crusade even though most of the expansion has nothing to do with it?
    TBC was a mess, we went after Illidan, Kaelthas(lol). The expansion ended as Kil'Jaeden was about to be summoned. I'm glad TBC exists but storywise there was no need to make Illidan the bad guy, same with Kaelthas. Sure it was cool for a boss fight in a raid but....not worth the story potential though.
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  6. #6846
    I am curious about this Silent Star and if its something that might pop up if Elune is heavily featured in the Emerald Dream patch.

  7. #6847
    They outright said that they had to give Wrath diversity in both visuals and plot arcs so that it didn't solely consist of fighting Scourge in Dragonblight-esque wastelands across an entire continent. That concern came up again with the orc overload of 5.3 up through 6.0 (that lead to them rewriting entire zones in WoD and making the overarching story a mess), and then again with the Fel-themed onslaught of 6.2 through 7.3. Korthia feeling like a retextured Maw with dead trees definitely contributed to the vibe that 9.1 was just doubling down on all of Shadowlands' mistakes.

    Honestly, I have no clue what we'll see for 11.0. It's weird to be six months into an expansion's lifecycle where the playerbase isn't completely simmering over how it's going and pining for the total opposite!

  8. #6848
    Do you think that the person that was teasing/leaking Dragonflight before reveal, will return this time aswell?

  9. #6849
    Quote Originally Posted by ImTheMizAwesome View Post
    Do you think that the person that was teasing/leaking Dragonflight before reveal, will return this time aswell?
    Has any of the leakers ever been a regular poster? I assume that even if they are, they might post on an alt account.

  10. #6850
    Quote Originally Posted by Utsuko View Post
    Who was it again? I've forgotten his name
    Scaleface ..
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    Quote Originally Posted by micwini View Post
    Scaleface ..
    I hope so. Just to see the usual posters who hate that his leaks came true get massively butthurt again.

  12. #6852
    Quote Originally Posted by Teriz View Post
    -New WoW expansion
    -10.2 preview
    -New HS expansion
    -New Overwatch 2 Hero
    -New Diablo 4 patch
    -Surprise announcement

    I think that could be a solid show.
    Gameplay for the survival game too + I'd say a Starcraft IP game.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KOUNTERPARTS View Post
    I hope so. Just to see the usual posters who hate that his leaks came true get massively butthurt again.
    I mean it makes sense. It sucks to have your ideal next expac theme be debunked for one. Second, there is so many fake leaks here that it is really a needle in a haystack and its easy to just dismiss it. Even after the leaked screenshot of the cinematic it was still questionable, because of its best quality.
    It's fun that we had a leak that was actually true, but I will still not ever take a leaker seriously until they build a rep. Which is hard, because I think said person might make an alt account since his name is kind of related to the expansion he leaked.
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  14. #6854
    Quote Originally Posted by micwini View Post
    Scaleface ..
    There was more than just one. I don't remember their names. They didn't drop as much detail but they definitely knew all the leak details same as scaleface.

    Quote Originally Posted by Cosmicpreds View Post
    The Silent Star stuff is basically just Sarkareth throwing dead stars at us.
    Except his cloak literally whispers to you and tells you you are special. The Silent Star is definitely an entity of its own.

  15. #6855
    Setting = location and visuals
    Theme = subject

    If we're talking about visuals i'd say you want to be discussing the setting and not the themes. Sometimes they are strongly linked (setting: frozen continent, northrend -- Theme: Scourge, undead, Lich king) and sometimes they are not linked at all (Setting: Pandaria/uldum, -- Theme: Old gods).
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    I remember scaleface........vaguely.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Aeluron Lightsong View Post
    I remember scaleface........vaguely.
    Among other things he predicted (successfully) he also left us the trail of crumbs for MMO-C to uncover the name of the Evoker class without him directly spoiling it. It was pretty fun, those 2-3 days. I remember some meme images specifically one with Drek’Thar in the background? I forget the context of it.

  18. #6858
    Quote Originally Posted by Utsuko View Post
    What if An'shuul is none other than An'she corrupted or slain by the Void? Their names are really close. If it's a void "star" and An'she is the sun...
    I have three theories on An'shuul:

    1. An'shuul is an asteroid, meteoroid, or comet caught in the orbit of An'she, which it employs to eradicate the influence of the Void. My reason for thinking this is because "Shuul" translates to "death" in Shath'yar. Either its translation is a truncation of the translation of "death (from) An'she" or "An'(she's) death(-bringer)".
    2. It has nothing to do with An'she: An' as a prefix in Shath'yar seems to be analogous to "the" (though it is not the only word serving in the capacity), so it may simply mean "the death, the Cosmic Wanderer". Since it is also a "cosmic wanderer", it may be some kind of astrological object of some importance to any number of cultures. It may, for instance, be the shadow of death cast from the Void that wanders from planet-to-planet.
    3. This one is solely a matter of headcanon and has no basis in canon. An'shuul is the reflection of An'she in the Void; more precisely, it is everything that An'she is not, could have been, or any other opportunity cost from the existence of An'she.
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  19. #6859
    Quote Originally Posted by Le Conceptuel View Post
    I have three theories on An'shuul:

    1. An'shuul is an asteroid caught in the orbit of An'she, which it employs to eradicate the influence of the Void. My reason for thinking this is because "Shuul" translates to "death" in Shath'yar. Either its translation is a truncation of the translation of "death (from) An'she" or "An'(she's) death(-bringer)".
    2. It has nothing to do with An'she: An' as a prefix in Shath'yar seems to be analogous to "the", so it may simply mean "the death, the Cosmic Wanderer". Since it is also a "cosmic wanderer", it may be some kind of astrological object of some importance to any number of cultures. It may, for instance, be the shadow of death cast from the Void that wanders from planet-to-planet.
    3. This one is solely a matter of headcanon and has no basis in canon. An'shuul is the reflection of An'she in the Void; more precisely, it is everything that An'she is not, could have been, or any other opportunity cost from the existence of An'she.
    So Anshe is a naaru?
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  20. #6860
    Quote Originally Posted by micwini View Post
    So Anshe is a naaru?
    Not strictly. My assumption is just that An'she is roughly Light-associated. As for the bit I specified as falling under the purview of headcanon—An'she having a reflection at all—I usually assume that every entity has a reflection in the Void, regardless of their associations. I envision every inhabitant of the Void as an embodied opportunity cost of everything the entity that exists in its place could have been and what could have arisen instead of it or in its absence.

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