It hits too many of my bullet points for me to believe it’s real. Also I kind of like it so clearly it’s fake.
I think one of my biggest dissatisfactions is that it always comes down to Old Gods.
Which, I realize, is basically the only road left untraveled since we’ve defeated everything else, but…am I alone in thinking they’re actually not that impressive? They do the same things and have the same hierarchies as the Scourge or the Legion, but they have zero personality or style.
At the very least, when fighting the Legion, you knew you’d probably get to fight a demon, an evil dog and a giant robot in the same raid.
You’re not, it’s Blizzard failing to do Lovecraft but I’d take a souless ripoff of cosmic horror over BfA’s dumpster fire 100 times over.
I’m kind of sick of seeing “the Old Gods did it” as a reason for literally everything evil that isn’t the Legion’s doing.
Like, what’s wrong with having someone just be bad? Why does everyone have to have been driven evil by the Old Gods? We need more villains like Edwin VanCleef. Misguided and evil, sure, but at least it’s their doing.
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I’m frankly sickened by all the parts of this I love, coupled with the fact that I know it’ll never happen. It’s cruel to put this stuff out there. Why beat down a people with no hope left?
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You know, I don’t even think I need the misguided part. Just a coherent motivation would be enough for me.
Privately, I think this is why Garrosh was popular amongst players. He identified a problem (“hey, my people are suffering in this desert, we’re supposed to be heroes, what gives”) and then went out to fix it. He was evil, terrible and vile the whole way through (I don’t buy for a second that Stonetalon was incoherent in its depiction of Garrosh as a maniac who shunned responsibility), but we knew why he was doing it.
Coincidentally, this is also why Naga, despite having one of the most amazing aesthetics of the game, are such lackluster villain. Every time they show up, it’s some quest for some vaguely nebulous definition of power for…for some reason.
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I want a timeskip partially BECAUSE of this. It’d be cool RPing my characters 5 years down the line! Especially the short lived ones, in some ways. What have they accomplished in that time? How have they changed? It’d be an interesting thing to do.
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There was a great image posted on reddit for something like this, I really want it. And I’m a snob when it comes to this stuff but yeah, it’s an awesome idea.
There really is a lot of dragon stuff bouncing around.
Gonna add that I’m also sick of a new, world-ending crisis every canon year. Let us at least have an offscreen period of peace.
I mean, if that happened IRL, I’d probs get tired and quit. 
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See, “Time-skip” is one of those words that instantly prove to me that a leak is fake. WoW has never and will never have a time-skip as the “World is constantly under threat” is what blizzard is going for. It’s their excuse for powercreep too, We just constantly get stronger cause we are forced to.
I remember back in WoTLK when everyone thought there was a timeskip because one of the trailers said years had passed, but no one put 2 and 2 together to figure out they meant “Years have passed since Warcraft 3 The Frozen Throne.”
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The DH intro involves a time skip. Its not quite the same thing but it does show Blizzard is willing to use them.
I agree the leak is fake if for no other reason than it looks fun and I dont think Blizzard is capable of fun anymore.
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It’s what they’ve done. We can’t really say for certain what they’re going for now. They’ve been proven to have some kind of “rebrand” planned, and want to change things up, as well as reign in the power creep. I mean there’s plenty to point to as evidence that the leak is fake, but this point doesn’t really prove anything.
Also I recall that, and first of all- plenty of people did. For me specifically I can remember a handful of people considering it a possibility. Second, with no context it’s not a stupid assumption or guess. We all knew as much as anyone else, which wasn’t much at the time.
Yeah they’re willing to do so for some backstory questing. The human element of the Worgen storyline canonically takes place in WotLK. A year passes before you play as a worgen in Duskhaven. During all that time you were supposedly feral.
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Now that we know 8.2.5 is going to involve Wrathion and will feature “new stories and adventures across Azeroth” I’m even more 
about the 8.4 leak.
PTR usually gets updated Thursday, right? Maybe we’ll learn more then.
Oh, and here’s yet another “leak” to ponder:
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2509480-8-3-spoilers-Sylvanas
Wait, hold on, here’s another one (with a screenshot lol):
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2420660-BfA-Patch-Speculation-thread-(8-3-and-later)?p=51610226&viewfull=1#post51610226
wow its fun being in the 8.3 alpha watching these cool in-game skits, better take a screenshot and crop out everything that would be hard to fake but leave the easily faked text
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he should have taken a blurry picture of his screen at an odd angle for that Authentic Leak™ feel
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Love all these leaks revealing a climactic conclusion to the war at the end of the expansion.
Basically all rendered moot by the fact that the war concludes in 8.2.5.
That said, I wonder if that leak with the cinematic screenshot is a real screenshot, and they’re just attaching what they think would work with it. Because that image really does look like a real cinematic.
Tinfoil Hat Theory
Blizzard did leak that image, but has not provided context to generate hype without spoiling things.
Why the hell are people still posting fake leaks about the war ending when we already know when it ends?
It’s like me posting The Last Jedi leaks, today.
https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/2509485-New-9-0-LEAK-World-of-Warcraft-GLOOMSPLASH
LOVE the name of this one
Desolace has suddenly vanished. You’ll come to find that it now resides under the ocean and is mostly inaccessible. Centaurs have changed into seacentaurs, most all of whom are affected by the Gloomsplash.
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