Well, I just saw something about a possible leak and if it is accurate then there is no San’layn. I don’t trust leaks that but this is the second so called leak and both never mention San’layn at all. This one does mention Vulpera, no more factions, most AR’s being combined with there core race as cosmetics and other stuff. I’ll post one players reply that gave the MMO-Champion notes below.
MMO-Champion notes
Yeah I just finished watching it. Taking it with a grain of salt of course, but was a fun leak to read through.
Just pulling this from MMO-Champion for folks that also enjoy the expansion speculation season:
8.2: Azshara survives.
8.2.5:
8.3:
9.0+ Next Expansion:
Upcoming Class design:
State of the Game:
Classic:
Future:
Obvious and Extra Stuff:
Here’s someones summary from Reddit:
World of Warcraft: Shadowlands
Two new continents: Dragon Isles, Shadowlands. New class: Tinkerer DPS with turrets, bombs and ‘ghost buster’ gimmicks. Also healer and tank specs. Uses mail armor. Primary stat is intellect. Vestiges of Power (secondary talent system a la artifacts/essences). Level squish postponed. No world revamp. New scaling tech that will do away with the frequent item level & stat squishing. Raid tier sets are not returning, but there will be class-specific challenge sets. Champion system: We will reunite with the spirits of fallen heroes: Uther, Cairne, Vol’jin, Varian, Saurfang, Rhonin, etc. But also certain villains. The Old Gods are not dead. They are sleeping in Ny’alotha. N’Zoth has been redirecting souls to fuel the Old Gods’ ascension back into the world. The Black Empire will rise again very soon. This is what Azshara saw when she died.
Forces of death aka “Death’s Vanguard”:
Elune, Helya and others are working together to fight the Void incursion into the Shadowlands. Bolvar brings us there. Sylvanas has been honoring a pact, waging war in Helya’s name. Elune’s night warrior also transports the souls of its victims to the Shadowlands. Alliance has inadvertently helped the war against the Old Gods in the Shadowlands. They will be reunited with all of the casualties (almost). Bwonsamdi is working for Hakkar the Soulflayer, who seeks power for himself, also by consuming souls. Old Gods: The void exploited the defeat of Argus to gain access to the Shadowlands. Xal’atath may have sold us out. Ny’alotha is threatened by the advance of Death’s forces N’Zoth instigated the battle for Azeroth to cause death & consume more souls. Sylvanas propagated the war to usher souls toward Helya instead of Ny’alotha.
DARKFRONT:
“Starting point” for Shadowlands. Three minor factions: Night elves, death knights, Helya/Sylvanas. Helya is kinder now & prettier. Main goal is to prevent Ny’alotha from consuming the souls of the fallen. Huge rivers of souls run through each zone.
MORBARA:
All the blood trolls we killed in Nazmir are here. Bwonsamdi has been roped into working for Hakkar the Soulflayer. We help him overthrow Hakkar and reclaim his title as the loa of death. ALNIR RIFTLANDS: A crucible for the primordial energies that comprise the fabric of all realities, with portals to each one. Everything is spilling in and out of rifts. Source of void incursions on Dragon Isles and Emerald Dream.
XIROS:
Semi-peaceful zone where spirits go to rest according to lore. Main city and sanctuary is here. Lots of questlines and two dungeons. Greek inspired, a la “Hades’ front yard”. Ethereals have a big presence here.
There will likely be 9 dungeons total at launch, 5 in Shadowlands and 4 on Dragon Isles. No names for them yet.
Dragon Isles:
Don’t know much, but it has void dragons We will help rebuild the black dragonflight Storylines for each dragon aspect
Here’s the ‘leaked’ map as well:https://www.buffed.de/screenshots/1020x/2019/07/WoW-Battle-for-Azeroth-Erweiterung-Leak-4chan-nr-2-Shadowlands-pc-games.jpg
Still going to wait till Blizzcon or some official post but I’m speechless right now.
Bagzak:
Aside from creating the player models and rigging them, they have all kinds of things to test and make. They need to test out all the weapon/armor graphics, all the mounts, test out all the animations, record voice recordings for speaking and combat noises, and all sorts of other things. Allied races also need their starting hub designed and populated with NPC’s and quest text as well, along with testing all kinds of quests to make sure they function with allied races. For something like Kul’Tirans, who had to be built from the ground up, I can understand why it took over a year for them to actually come out, but even if you cut corners with pre-existing models and rigging them, it still requires quite a bit of testing.
That is true but they must have more then one guy working on an AR. I can see that taking as long if it is only one person working on an AR but there has got to be more imo.
Even if there is one for modeling, one for texture painting, one for rigging, one for animations, one for armor, etc. it should not take this long. Once it is made you can send a copy to each and let them do their work and then just combine everything once it’s all done.
I’m going to finish up the two models I have been working on and then I’m going to time how long it takes to make a new model, paint it, rig it, bake onto low poly, animations, voice, etc. and I’ll post my results somewhere on the WoW forums because it cannot possibly take that long to do. I’ve done most of the above mentioned and it took maybe 2 weeks at 8 hrs a day to get most of that stuff done.
I thank you for your reply but I still don’t get it.
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