yeah so, some days ago i was lazily doing lazy stuff in game (since we can’t do anything exciting in it i do lazy stuff, yeah). went to open map, there was usual helltide, whispers, and… what’s that, wait?!
yeah, strongholds. but not one, two or three, no (and no, mind you: i’m not talking our usual strongholds, at the time i had finished all usual strongholds and all renown in all areas from a long while).
many, many, many entirely new strongholds.
like, a dozen or more. everywhere on all the map regions, usually in tiny areas where now there’s is… nothing (literally, an empty environment area with few ruins for example, or a usually inaccessible area on the border between this and that region).
so hop i go!, went to one of those, it was nothing special (if not for its existence): a small stronghold, of the kind “search corpses in the area to find this item to unlock entrance to the central court or whatever”, and once done that, entered mid arena where there was one of those usual stronghold mini-boss, killed it, rang the bell to claim the stronghold, end of it. went to look if i had got any reward and no, nothing, no renown, no particular title either. then had to go back to work so left the game, and when i was back at it later, no weird to see all of that was gone. puff, vanished in thin air. no strongholds on map anymore, none of those (bar the usual ones we all know and unlocked ages ago).
so… what i figure that may have happened, is that during one of their hotfixes (when they usually break something on their knee-jerked rush to fix something else), one of them must have unintentionally unlocked to players the access to content they are developing and testing for either a season, or seen the quantity of stuff an expansion, and in the future we are all going to see that some way or another in game.
i started looking for info everywhere but saw nothing about it, so i think i might be one of the few who noticed this. was very curious to know if others did and in any case, i simply wanted to let you know that is a thing indeed (yeah i wasn’t drunk, that map looked like a christmas tree with plenty of shiny new strongholds icons everywhere), and that’s something we can expect sooner or later to play.
now, i don’t know how you feel about that, i know how i did (more or less: “with all the troubles they have and claim they can’t fix since it takes sooo much time… they spend it on this? rly? are you serious?!”). and, anyway, since nobody spoke about it that i know of… well, day you see that, remind you heard it here first. you are welcome.
(not the first time bliz unintentionally self-leaks stuff btw. yeah, strongholds. that’s right. i didn’t dream that. strongholds. can you believe that? sigh)