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[whoisqnx]

My take: they used AI to generate a fairly convincing image of an Orc and possibly a Human in the background, then took a picture of the screen, distorted it some more, and uploaded it.

Personally I prefer fake logos but this is good effort! 8/10, OP. Good job.

This.
Just for reference i tried to prompt an orc from WoW with MidJourney after seeing this post and took a photo with my phone. https://imgur.com/a/JhqGUn8

[melkesjokolade]

This.
Just for reference i tried to prompt an orc from WoW with MidJourney after seeing this post and took a photo with my phone. https://imgur.com/a/JhqGUn8

Thats good but I personally still think OPs picture looks more like a Gargoyle than an orc. Longer ears, cut off nose. I feel OPs pic looks more like a legit leak.

There is also the blur in the picture, the character behind is blurry and the shoulder pads is blurry as if the character is moving. The AI pics doesnt have that.

[KurtMash]

For everyone who still thinks the text is not aligned with the image - here is a version with fixed perspective. The text is fine.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

There is also the blur in the picture, the character behind is blurry and the shoulder pads is blurry as if the character is moving. The AI pics doesnt have that.

The one big sticking point against it being ML-generated—which I otherwise think is plausible—is the lack of focus on the character in the background. I don't think I've ever seen ML-generated art with focus blur. Still, if we're to consider that it is ML-generated, I would be inclined to guess that some of the blur may be due to the overall blur of the image itself, with it just being less visible on the face because of the usual idiosyncrasies of ML-generated art.

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This.
Just for reference i tried to prompt an orc from WoW with MidJourney after seeing this post and took a photo with my phone. https://imgur.com/a/JhqGUn8

Looks convincing enough. Not sure if it's quite as true to the style of WoW cinematics as the leaked image, but it's definitely believable enough. It actually even shares the unusually high ears with the leaked image, though it's a bit more egregious on the one you generated. The one thing that does stick out is the relative lack of blur on the image, even when taken from a phone. It may just be due to a different kind of monitor or the leaker being savvy enough to quickly edit the blur in their image editing software of choice to cover up any peculiarities.

Thanks, by the way. I was actually waiting on someone to do that and was considering just outright asking someone to see if they could plug in some things for me since I don't have the money to renew my account right now.

[huth]

I'm squarely in team "this is meant to be Fyrakk but for whatever reason his CGI model is entirely inaccurate to his in-game model" after what happened with the Jailer

This doesn't even look like his CGI model though.

[Progenitor Aquarius]

It can be fake or taken from movie or other game. Don’t get fooled guys.

[loras]

Wrath of the Lift King

The Gains of the Titans

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Thats good but I personally still think OPs picture looks more like a Gargoyle than an orc. Longer ears, cut off nose. I feel OPs pic looks more like a legit leak.

There is also the blur in the picture, the character behind is blurry and the shoulder pads is blurry as if the character is moving. The AI pics doesnt have that.

There is also the detail that its spatial symmetry seens to be in order, and that the worn pieces are distinct enough. AI generated imagery often falls through on that.

[Nightshade711]

Watch it be Med’an. Mans is human/Draenei/orc and is bound to look weird.
/s

This.
Just for reference i tried to prompt an orc from WoW with MidJourney after seeing this post and took a photo with my phone. https://imgur.com/a/JhqGUn8

We’re so gonna see even more of these AI generated “cinematic leaks” this season.

[Engal]

man I am not brave enough for that

EDIT: ok I was brave enough, here's the pic

Maybe that's the " Children of the First Flesh " the Harbinger is supposed to gather, mentionned in the prophecy

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

That's a new cool looking version of Drakthyr we're going to get.

[Al Gorefiend]

An all new original enemy that looks nothing like what we've faced before, featuring the Warcraft signature underbite fangs

[DarkAmbient]

Looks like a gremlin that hit the gym.

[Floot]

man I am not brave enough for that

EDIT: ok I was brave enough, here's the pic

This looks like the art-style of Diablo 4, not Warcraft.

[Twdft]

Why would it be Fyrakk? He'll be long dead on account of us killing him in 10.2 raid...

[FossilFree]

The guy in front looks void-twisted. The forehead skin especially looks similar to faceless ones. It could be a void orc, but really the only thing orcish about him is those bottom tusks. It actually reminds me of the Void Broken like Zuraal in Seat of the Triumvirate.

If you see the zoomed in pic of the guy in back, he really looks like one of those void humanoids with tentacles where their mouth should be. The triangular shape of the head is also similar. The spikes look like two large adornments to shoulder armor. The reason they are different heights is because his torso is facing to the left of frame, while he has turned his head towards the camera to look at the dude in the front.

[KayRule]

I literally don't understand how fucking blind and stupid so many of you are.

It's not Fyrakk, it's not a Faceless One. It's a Stoneborn Venthyr/Dreadlord, we can literally look at their models and see the same kind of facial distribution, the horns, the bat ears, the little beard (it's not a pointy chin or tentacles).

The new patch even accidentally has Dreadlord armor sets shipped with it in the icons.

[Palapop]

I literally don't understand how fucking blind and stupid so many of you are.

It's not Fyrakk, it's not a Faceless One. It's a Stoneborn Venthyr/Dreadlord, we can literally look at their models and see the same kind of facial distribution, the horns, the bat ears, the little beard (it's not a pointy chin or tentacles).

The new patch even accidentally has Dreadlord armor sets shipped with it in the icons.

link to that new icon pls?

also, 10.2 is final raid of the expansion.

(not saying there wont be 10.3... but def wont be new raid)

[Mecheon]

I literally don't understand how fucking blind and stupid so many of you are.

It's not Fyrakk, it's not a Faceless One. It's a Stoneborn Venthyr/Dreadlord, we can literally look at their models and see the same kind of facial distribution, the horns, the bat ears, the little beard (it's not a pointy chin or tentacles).

The new patch even accidentally has Dreadlord armor sets shipped with it in the icons.

Stoneborn and Dreadlords got fangs from the upper jaw though like bats, the lower jaw tusks is an orc thing

Which is why my theory as to what the image is (Not its validity, just what it is) is 'vampire/dreadlord orc' because, yeah, that's stuff we'd associate with venthyr and dreadlords but on an orc

[Bwgmon]

link to that new icon pls?

also, 10.2 is final raid of the expansion.

(not saying there wont be 10.3... but def wont be new raid)

From the icon pool:



The filenames of all of these items are "armor_dreadlordsregalia." Granted, it could mean nothing, since there are also a bunch of icons for cosmetic sets for Sylvanas and Varian(as Lo'gosh) armor, a Mad Max looking "Tanaris Wasteland" set, a few cosmetic "Teldrassil" and "Silvermoon" pieces of gear, and icons for what look like updated versions of classic items like Herod's Shoulder and the AQ40 "exotic" dress.

One of the icons is for a "motorcyclefelreaver" mount, which I'm very eager to see the model of.

[Palapop]

From the icon pool:



The filenames of all of these items are "armor_dreadlordsregalia." Granted, it could mean nothing, since there are also a bunch of icons for cosmetic sets for Sylvanas and Varian(as Lo'gosh) armor, a Mad Max looking "Tanaris Wasteland" set, a few cosmetic "Teldrassil" and "Silvermoon" pieces of gear, and icons for what look like updated versions of classic items like Herod's Shoulder and the AQ40 "exotic" dress.

One of the icons is for a "motorcyclefelreaver" mount, which I'm very eager to see the model of.

O yeah... that's a sign for something.

just as we had "Emerald dream glaives" in 10.0.7 files.