my optimistic conspiracy theory is that underground expansion will secretly have more than is currently announced, like more allied races in patches or something.
Single rock dwarf allied race is just too weird as a sole new feature.
I am super skeptical that they wonât hit a reset button after the three. Even if they donât admit it now (or donât know), I just donât think thereâs a way forward.
A 20-year-old game with a storyline so convoluted you actually have to ask a dragon to break it into individual chunks for you? Systems wildly behind the times? When they gave Overwatch a sequel?
I know what Blizzard said. And I know Blizzard says a lot of things. Iâd still bet on WoW 2 or something similar.
I dunno how calling the next thing âWoW 2â would change the difficulty of proceeding with such an old franchise. The story is super convoluted, but having Azeroth âhatchâ and delete the timeline or something could be done within the current game without losing so much legacy stuff (by just having ânew eggshell azerothâ be a new continent with legacy content accessible through magic)
WoWâs systems donât really feel far behind other MMOs, and there really arenât any young, innovative challengers out there. FFXIV and ESO are like 10 years old at this point and FFXIV just feels like slower WoW, while ESO feels like the freshest combat systems of Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, 2012âs most okay game
I do wonder how long WoW can keep going, but it will probably survive longer as a weird legacy game that people come back to every few years than as a risky new game which deletes that nostalgic legacy experience. I donât know a lot about Overwatch but it kinda looks to me like Overwatch 2 would, in WoWâs parlance, just be considered an expansionâtweaks and redos of old mechanics which replace the previous game. Idk why it wasnât marketed that way but maybe Iâm underselling how much was changed?
anyway I did buy some time and I am now Dark Miko, eater of planets and liker of Red and Green, but not in a Christmasy way, in an evil way
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Yeah, Azeroth hatches, thereâs a level squish, maybe some aesthetic upgrades, expansion of Chromie time and/or re-origination, timewalking expansions. They know the player base isnât going to switch to a totally new game. Weâll all be dead before this game.
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They may even do something totally new like⌠rip off Epsilon and finally give players the ability to use the world and create content 
They did say a lot of new features and surprises were coming so I wouldnât throw in the hat just yet for housing and when it might show up.
We may be on Club Penguinâs level sooner than we think!
Guys the question was, would you cut down the world tree for player housing. It sounds like the resounding answer is yes, so Iâm going to send blizzard a letter letting them know that we all stand behind this drastic, necessary action.
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And I really, really donât see where anything I suggested comes close to âraid mechanicsâ and is actually extremely close to if not exactly what you want.
I currently have a city and 3 pyramids on one Conan server and I just built a galleon ship on another last night. One of my friends built a 27 room dungeon on Conan complete with boss spawns, sound, lighting, etc. We did an underground cavern once with a full Dwarven city. I had a tea house for awhile. Iâve had a mage tower that was shaped like a mushroom, several taverns, a Grecian looking villa, a 2-story library, a garden with sunken bath, castles, keeps, ruins, and hidden bases in caves. A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine set up an RP event in an outdoor setting where everything was glowing (trees, mobs, etc.). The event was the Conan version of an acid trip where everyone had been drugged, so he got to use a lot of fun decos.
Iâve used housing on SWTOR and ESO as RP sites. Changing up the decor, you can go from a casino to a safe house to a military base. You can have an inn, a personal residence, a university, a prison, an arena, a villainâs warehouse, a black market, a windmill, a cathedralâŚbasically if you can imagine it, you can make it in another gameâs player housing.
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Coming soon to your transmog closet; you too can mog your character to resemble a pyromaniac:
I hate when the Dark Lady just leaves her armor around for anybody to find and put on.
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Iâm just getting my hopes up that weâll get the Arthas /Lich King transmog.
Idk how many people will be able to pull off a sylvanas cosplay but the chestpiece will work really well just for a quiver if you wear a tabard over it, I like that
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Looking at the item list, it seems the quiver is actually a separate piece in the back slot.
With the addition of a shirt and one of the chainmail-texture tabards, I might go ahead and put this on my dark ranger. Iâm weak for the aesthetic, and I havenât been able to come up with a different dark ranger mog that I really love.
In the dressing room it is attached to the cuirass, but I do see the quiver as a back-item standalone too. Which is pretty cool that it is customizable in that way, you can wear the quiver by itself or in its cuirass-attached variant which includes a strap going over your chest. There are also two different cuirass variants, one bellybutton-revealing and one more modest, which is also a neat level of customization.
Clearly, we murderhobo-adventurers were so angry by Sylvanas disappearing in a puff of smoke without (gasp) leaving any loot behind, we raided Windrunner Spireâs wardrobe just so that weâd have some items to roll over and blame the hunter for stealing.
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Ohh, I see. That is neat, I agree!
Iâll have to look at it more when I get the chance. I havenât seen the more covering cuirass variant.
Iâm imagining a Pandaren sliding into Sylvanasâs old pants and suddenly acquiring an Elfâs waist and legs because of the magic within the garments, and admiring the change in the mirror right as somebody else walks in, and the hilarity that would ensue.
Plot twist was that Sylvanasâs corporeal form was just as rotten and decayed as the rest of the Forsaken, she just had a whole wardrobe that lifted and supported her everything.
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I always have to laugh at this. The playerâs character and most forsaken are falling apart. skin, limbs and all and yet the NPCâs leading the Forsaken generally look like they stepped out of a Bauhaus music video.
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I am fully willing to declare the Sylvanas Mog set is equivalent to the Princess Crown of the Mario universe if you are.
But yeah, the whole thing with Sylvanas possessing her own corpse and then, post trying to remove herself from the census after the Lich King was defeated, somehow coming back stronger than ever courtesy of Valâkyr sacrifice and then making Nathanos âjust like herâ because one of the big names at Blizz starched the hell out of his dakimakura of Sylvanas âŚ
Afrasiabi really was desperate to crack open a cold one, wasnât he?