They portrayed it as reclaiming Gilneas, which is what you got.
People were complaining about it because they hyped themselves up on speculation.
At the same time, the new season does not appear to have a patch number attached to it, so presumably everything the new season needs will be in 10.2.6?
As far as code, maybe but we wouldn’t notice a difference until the season starts many weeks from now.
Wouldn’t be the first time it happened. The entire plotline for the Throne of Tides got cut back in Cataclysm. It wasn’t until Legion that we find out Neptulon just magically escaped from his Naga captors. They even went in and retcon’d the dungeon’s ending when they redesigned it for M+.
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Could Microsoft have had some big changes planned that they will unleash all at once?
The only thing the new season needs is “new open world rewards” because everything else is being reused…so sure, why not. I guess they could tuck them into the patch until they are ready for them.
Tuning doesn’t really need a patch.
I hope it has not a single thing to do with Pirates but revisit some lore to build us up to “The Sword” (the reason Sargaras did what he did) that will be immersive content that requires some revisiting the content of past expansions to learn of the ramifications of the Sword in Silithis and its effect on all the Titan Constructs throughout Azeroth.
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I doubt it, Microsoft isn’t going to be pushing creative direction on the game. Something like porting it to console or switching to f2p would be up their alley but I doubt they would have had the time for something like that in 10.2.6 since the acquisition wasn’t that long ago.
Its down on a Wed for an hour
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Yeah, that happens. Usually when something needs to be fixed. There was maintenance every day for a little while after 10.2 as well. None of this is out of the ordinary.
The pirate flag is a pretty good indication that it’s pirate themed. A lot of people have speculated that it’s something else, but if I were to put a pirate flag on something it would be because it had something to do with pirates.
Pirates?! We don’need no stinkin’ pirates.
I’ll belly bump’em to the sharks and laugh at the riling red water it makes.
Sure, but they didn’t bring it up at the end of the story like they did this time.
That’s the difference I’m trying to get at. If they didn’t go out of their way to mention it specifically in the epilogue then I could see them pulling the same thing as Throne of Tides.
But since they went out if their way to say “Rot Gnoll Lady is coming for your tree!” In the last story quest we did, we have to assume they’re doing something with that story line.
Sound reasoning, what do you think about the possibility it is a reference to poison?
To be fair it’s just nice to think we’re getting a surprise before WoWhead gets to make an article about it.
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I think that’s unlikely. A skull and crossbones can be a symbol for poison, but that flag is obviously the Jolly Roger.
The Skull and Crossbones are so universal, poisons, hazards, etc. though it is primarily identified as Pirate-related. To recall, Blizz has done some “easter eggy” deflection before.
Yea seems really pirate-y to me. I don’t think I can huff enough hopium to get on the poisen bandwagon, no matter how much I want a gnoll mega-dungeon.
It’s the black tattered canvas flag that really sells the pirate to me
Whatever else they have planned, hopefully they have been working diligently to open druids and shamans to all races and include that in 10.2.6
It could gnoll pirates… or if we’re really huffing the hopium a reworked deadmines for max level to go with the new M+ season.
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