8.3 PTR Datamining SPOILERS

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That might be where the Black Empire Assault Boss is.

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Finally get a good look at N’Zoth. BEHOLD!

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The Carapace of N’Zoth battlefield with the head in the background is N’Zoth’s body while the Tentacled Monstrosity in Ny’alotha itself is Il’gynoth(“the behemoth that may yet consume your world.” according to Xal’atath) who serves as the battlefield for Shad’har the Insatiable and Drest’agath(who carves through Il’gynoth’s flesh causing him to bleed).

N’Zoth’s body is as large as C’Thun’s in Chronicle it seems
 The smaller head representing N’Zoth’s mind which we see inside his carapace is probably what C’Thun and Yogg-Saron are.

We fought C’Thun and Yogg-Saron’s actual minds in their Raids not their heads! The fact that Titan Keepers didn’t consider that they could beat their minds to death explains a lot about why they decided to research the things.

Old Gods can only be killed the same way that Mordremoth and Kralkatorrik can it seems


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So when we were beating up yoggs brain, we were beating up the brain of a brain?

wat

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The Brain chamber is called the Mind’s Eye
 That pretty much says we are inside his Mind when fighting the Brain of Yogg-Saron. We were not inside Yogg-Saron’s actual head(which the Titanforged probably destroyed)!

His physical brain probably no longer exists thanks to the Titanforged and thus only his mental representation of his brain still remains.

N’Zoth straight up has Animus(a copy of the Fury of N’Zoth), Deathwing and Azshara(instead of his Brain) represent him in his Mind’s Eye according to the Dungeon Journal.

N’Zoth is the only Old God whose body was intact when we fought him
 The other 2 had their central bodies mangled with their projected mind chained within prisons with no one considering that projections of thought could be beaten dead.

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Edit: Adding observations.

  • Baine seems to be the head of the council and is the only racial leader to get a say on the Vulpera joining or not.
  • Baine, Thalyssra, and Ji are the only Horde racial leaders involved in the quest chain in some manner.
  • Baine rejects the Vulpera because the Horde is becoming stretched too thin.
  • We stop a peon revolution.
  • Looks like Nomi has joined the Horde.
  • After Kiro and we solve the different issues Baine admits it wasn’t his doing when the others try to praise him for it. Which leads to him admitting he was too hasty and the Vulpera officially join the Horde.
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I actually kind of dig this recruitment scenario. It touches briefly on the various statuses of the differing ARs, and sort of finds a neat little nitch for the Vulpera to play in the functional Horde. They’re essentially “odd jobs” or “support staff”. Not really specialized in anything, but competent enough in everything to be consistently valuable.

Also, Baine actually serving as a diplomat in between Horde Races is a nice touch. Seems he’s serving as go-between facilitating the needs of each Horde race; not just being an Alliance bootlicker. I’m strangely OK with that. Keeps him busy, out of the way, and gives him a very defined role within the Horde that he might actually excel at.

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Seems more probable that Baine’s position on the council specifically is a diplomatic one, which would also entail welcoming new members to the Horde. At least, that was my take on it. It’s possible any member of the council could welcome in new races.

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https://i.imgur.com/j6NXKGp.png

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Seeing those draenei models makes me hope that modders come in and create healthy draenei models and the like for a custom game mode where we can have WoW era battles.

So we can have the Fourth War we bloody deserve.

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There’s a separate thread for WCIII reforged stuff. Not really relevant to 8.3.

Baine’s role is a pretty good indication of what Anduin’s role should be, honestly. A “Chief Diplomat” position is a good fit for their natures.

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My bad got wrong thread. Just read datamining.

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A Song of Void and Ice: The Update

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is this a new VA for mograine?

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It is. :frowning:
I’m sure he’s a fine VA but he’s not the Mograine I’ve listened to since WotLK.

I hate Blizzard’s random VA changes. They’re just like “Eh, whatever. Get a new guy, who cares.” I get that Mograine isn’t Thrall, but that voice of Taliesin Jafe is one of the reasons I was hyped to play a Death Knight.

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We don’t know why Blizzard changes VAs. it could be a scheduling conflict, or contract dispute.

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That’s why Arthas’s voice changed between Warcraft 3 and WoW. The original guy wanted more money than Blizzard was willing to spend.

Though in regards to Darion we may not know if his VA was changed until they add the Death Knight echo effect. According to wowhead something like this happened when his Legion VA was data-mined with people thinking his VA was replaced only for it to be proven false.

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Void Corrupted Entities can be freed from the Whispers as seen with the text for that Void Dragon Mount
 Why Wowpedia continues to list Vexiona as a Twilight Dragon baffles me as there is nothing in the ingame text that calls her a Twilight Dragon.

https://wow.gamepedia.com/In_the_Shadow_of_Crimson_Wings

Furthermore her Dragonspawn aren’t called Twilight Dragons either
 They are called Void-Twisted
 How can Wowpedia continue to maintain this lie!?!