Warlords of Draenor

http://www.mmo-champion.com/content/349 ... -Expansion

With commas as not confirmed but still.

Assuming this is true and just a VERY EVIL teaser from Blizzard few days before Blizzcon, and not a joke...


Sounds very expected to me, after all the fuss with the Legion in Wrathion storyline.

Is there a particular reason why this has to refer to WoW (if real)?

Because it's kind of a dumb name for a WoW expansion, the thing that sprang to mind for me was: "Heroes of Warcraft" -> "Warlords of Draenor".

Well remember Mists of Pandaria had the same treatment, it got registered few days before the Blizzcon of that year.

I thought the Dark Below sounded very cool, and that title is certainly better than "Warlords of Draenor".

But I think that Warlords sounds like a better WoW expac than the Dark Below. Get back to the Burning Legion.

Dark below was confirmed to be a fake though.

Ugh, I really hope it's not time travelling to Outland/Draenor.

Unlikely (though, it might fit the storylines).

Remember Bronze Dragonflight powers got nerfed a ton with Nozdormu becoming mortal, and they can no longer just randomly travel in time.
Though, there's the quest about the traitor in the flight...

Newsom wrote:Ugh, I really hope it's not time travelling to Outland/Draenor.

Why would we need to time travel?

The Burning Legion arrives in Outland for another shot at invading Azeroth. We need to kick them back out again. Culminates in a big battle at the Dark Portal which we win, but Sargeras escapes (or maybe turns up at a bad moment and slips through the dark portal).

Cue next expansion, Sargeras has over-run Azeroth and we need to kill him. Titans enter stage left, who restore the powers of the dragon aspects and give us places like Un'Goro crater and Sholazar Basin as a starting point because they feel bad for getting there late. Over the expansion, we kill Sargeras' minions, rout them out of their strongholds with the final battle with Sargeras in Northrend who wants the helmet of the Lich King to add the Scourge to his army. Then we have an epic battle with Sargeras alongside the dragon aspects, various factions we have helped in the past and the leaders of the Horde and the Alliance in which Lorewalker Cho gets trodden on accidentally by a Storm Giant and turned into a rug, but nobody cares.

Fetzie wrote:Lorewalker Cho gets trodden on accidentally by a Storm Giant and turned into a rug, but nobody cares.

I would care

Same, I like the guy =(

Worldie wrote:Same, I like the guy =(

Lorewalker Cho is Bran Bronzbeard in a panda suit... nothing but trouble.

So we are really getting another 'go fight Orcs' expac? If I played Orc, I would be annoyed. While Wrathion's talks obviously say that we'll be fighting the Burning legion at some point, the whole 'back in time' aspect of this seems like rehash.

I would have much preferred The Dark Below as the "leaked" info suggested.

Some speculation is saying that WoD is actually Warcraft 4, with an option for tablet play, based on the registration mentioning phones and tablets.

Would a "WC4" make sense though with WoW going on? The storylines would inevitably end up clashing.

Worldie wrote:Would a "WC4" make sense though with WoW going on? The storylines would inevitably end up clashing.

RRREEEETTTTCCCCOOOONNNNNN!!!!!!!

(wanted to find a meme with that, but didnt find one and too lazy to look more)
and hell, does wow match up with WC 1-3 still?

Thing is, WoW is successive (not same-time) as WC1-3 and the storylines are perfectly continued.

If WC4 was released now, we'd have 2 storyline at same time. Everytime you do a patch in one, you'd need a patch doing the same thing in the other one.

Reading all the speculation and the leaks about time travel and whatnot... Not impressed at all, and contemplating retirement. If the whole thing winds up being Garrosh redemption in Outlands 2.0, I might really be done.

halabar wrote:Reading all the speculation and the leaks about time travel and whatnot... Not impressed at all, and contemplating retirement. If the whole thing winds up being Garrosh redemption in Outlands 2.0, I might really be done.

Same. I'll keep playing as long as the raiding is good but not excited about this at all. But let's see what happens at Blizzcon first.

How about that rumour that the Siege of Orgrimmar was originally intended to be the first raid of the next expac? Assuming that's true, what kind of storyline would follow that?

Paxen wrote:How about that rumour that the Siege of Orgrimmar was originally intended to be the first raid of the next expac? Assuming that's true, what kind of storyline would follow that?

The obvious one would be that Anduin releases Garrosh for some reason, and Garrosh escapes back in time and we have to go kick his daddy's butt, all the while the Burning Legion are attacking...

Orgrimmar was merely a setback?

Not as it ended up as - as the end of expac raid. But rather than what the next expac would have been like if Garrosh hadn't cracked just yet, and instead of SoO as we have it would have been the boss of the first raid of WoD.

Okay. Why in the FLYING F*CK am I asleep when all the shit hits the fan only to wake up when all the interesting stuff is deleted? How am I supposed to be productive at work after that?

F*ck sleep.

Sagara wrote:Okay. Why in the FLYING F*CK am I asleep when all the shit hits the fan only to wake up when all the interesting stuff is deleted? How am I supposed to be productive at work after that?

F*ck sleep.

que?

There appears to have been a leak of some sort on the official forums, MMOC and other places.
Blizz released its MiB pronto, and well, cleaned up the place.

If there had been someone would have managed to keep hold of it and repost, surely?

If it's an hoax, it's a goddamn long and complex one, as it implies two people clearly collaborating to spread the story, at least one more to say "hey, where did this leak go?", not even mentionning how Scrolls of Lore has seen a near-complete shutdown on its expansion theory thread.

Further, there ARE a couple of versions to be found on MMOC (and possibly elsewhere), but at this point, it's hard to separate honest retellings of the leak from hoax, jokes and copycats. So it's not "it's no longer available", it's more "drowned in the static".