"We will soon be in a world in which a man may be howled down for saying that two and two make four."
— G.K. Chesterton
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.
Ion has been taking the backseat a lot lately, letting other people get the spotlight. It's kind of nice of him, although I do miss having a "regular" that feels reliable for their announcements.
Back in the day, you always had Morhaime + Metzen during the opening ceremony, then a few developers doing presentations on the panels. Usually the same 5-10 guys, which made them familiar to you.
I'm sure it's a strategic move to let the father of Warcraft take the stage for this one, and I approve wholeheartedly with this choice.
No one would be able to capture people's attention the same away as Metzen.
I mean, if you want to ignore the line from Il'gynoth where he describes the Val'kyr as "ravens" serving Sylvanas, sure.
My point was not "it's totally Ravencrest" it was the opposite: nearly all of these lines are wholly vague and can be retroactively applied to whoever. At the time it could have been a half a dozen different characters doing who knows what because "Lord of Ravens" means anyone even vaguely associated with black birds (it's not like Khadgar is even a lord of ravens, he literally just turns into one, the same thing half the druids do) and the three you listed as fitting the bill are significantly less "Lord of Ravens" than Anzu, Ravencrest, Sylvanas or Jorach Ravenholdt; and "turn the key" is entirely meaningless, because it's effectively a metaphor that means "do anything important".
People were very convinced that Turalyon was going evil and the "The golden one claims a vacant throne. The crown of light will bring only darkness." line was about him becoming regent, until a literally golden Pelagos wearing a golden, glowing crown took up the vacant "throne" of the Arbiter position. We still have no idea if it was even actually related, because who knows. Yrel could show up in 11.0 wearing a crown of pure light and calling herself the new High Exarch of the Army of the Light. Iridikron could show up in 10.3 in a new golden-scaled full on dragon form having made a pact with the void and light to box order out of controlling Azeroth and claiming to be the "true" new Earth aspect and steward of Azeroth.
The old god lines are amusing for tinfoil speculation, but they provide almost no value in terms of actual predictive power. There are solely a retroactive pay-off sort of thing.
There is no world revamp, but there is Cosmic Legion.
Either way, its still good for marketing so I am pretty happy about it even if its under worse circumstances than what it should have been.
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Classic becomes the new main timeline while retail gets put in maint mode
To be fair, we don't know if it is lore mismanagement until the expansion is actually revealed to be Danuser's Cosmic Wild Ride.
Until thats' the case there is still a slimmer of hope that Danuser can be restrained and Revamp can occur instead.
I don't think this is the case, though. I think that Steve will continue his waste of time story that he cannot conclude for the life of him until management get involved down the road.
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Not gonna happen. Classic doesn't have as big a team as retail, and while they have added some additions to the game like the Sons of Hodir tabard. They're not gonna do something as big as change certain events in Cata or change the gameplay aspect.
Classic is meant to be a look at the past, they're just gonna repeat the same beats as the original.
To be fair, they either cancelled SoM 2 or they have a bigger announcement for Blizzcon.
Either way, it has nothing to do with the Retail game and this is for Retail speculation and not Classic.
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some examples:
1) the world is kept relevant through levelling while on retail both are an afterthought
2) there aren't 20 different iterations of the loot system while retail is still struggling with loot 20 years later
3) original core concept (faction conflict) of the game is still alive and the lore hasn't been butchered yet. On retail they're still doubling down on shadowlands. Also, the vibe of the game is way different. It's harder to get attached to characters on retail because the lore sucks
4) class design is simpler but still meaningful. retail is filled with modifiers and gimmick abilities
could continue but i hope it's enough for you to understand me
Honestly the "boy king" may have got kicked back to the Scarlets, as they apparently have a new heir. And the Scarlets are always patsys to a greater threat/historically have been manipulated by the Nathrezim.
Also: it would be a huge swerve if Blizzcon is Classic+ focused but I hope not.
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They're gonna announce Cata Classic... and then it'll be one of two things.
Either 10.3 and we'll get the next expansion announced on the 20th anniversary.
OR we skip 10.3 and it is a revamp that will take much longer to get it off the ground.
That's all I'm going expect out of it... or it could just be Blizzard trying to announce Arclight Rumble and be like "HEY REMEMBER THIS THING WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON?" And everyone and their mothers are going to collectively groan.
I don't expect them to pull a diablo immortal at the blizzcon. that would be dumb af.
Arclight rumble is going to be announced 100% but not without announcing anything for the main game.
new expansion is for sure getting revealed at the blizzcon. we can only speculate on the theme/content.