World Of Warcraft

I want nelf pallies myself, but it would imply a "rework" of the class to change the name of certain things.

Gnome Paladins.

Give me my walking meter of righteous zeal!

Those would be actually great fun to play with.

"This Gnome's not for Puntin' "

Thwack goes the mace to the face of the idiot who tries it.

Here are some predictions of mine for Expansion 6.

- It will be set primarily in the South Seas

- Zones will include but not limited to: Kul Tiras, Zandalar, Plunder Isle, the Broken Isles, Kazen (now including Undermine), Darkspear Isle, and Tel Abim.

- There will be either a new class or two new races added. If it's a new class, it will be technology based.

- Azshara will be the primary antagonist. Gul'dan, now likely possessed by the spirit of Archimonde, will be a secondary antagonist who acts somewhat independently of Azshara. It will be his arrival to Azeroth that stirs Azshara to take drastic action as she believes a Legion invasion is now imminent and they are not happy about her changing allegiance after the Sundering.

- Azshara will be acting as a free agent. Either she'll have rebelled against the Old Gods or they'll simply not be in a position to do much directly.

- Aiding Azshara will be Zul's Zandalari followers and a substantial faction of Kul Tiras. King Rastakhan's remaining loyalists will join the Horde, and the rest of Kul Tiras will team up with the Alliance.

- In addition the various Pirate fleets will be back, although only some of them will be antagonists. The rest will recognize the value in not antagonizing too many people when the Naga are on an all out offensive...or how much obscene profit there is in looting the treasures of Zandalar and Kul Tiras while the Alliance and Horde look the other way.

- Warchief Vol'jin will be personally leading the main Horde fleet. However Varian will not be leading the main Alliance fleet, and instead be delegating that job to another character. I would prefer Shandris, but realistically it would probably be a different racial leader like Tyrande. This would solve the lack of exposure Vol'jin has had since becoming Warchief while avoiding overexposing Varian at the same time.

- The player will command a their own fleet from the Expansion 6 equivalent of a garrison. This garrison will be much more streamlined and with more focus on style customization rather then gameplay. It will also be adjacent to the capital hubs to which a lot of current garrison gameplay will be moved.

- This one is probably cartoonishly optimistic even by the standards of the above, but I feel the need to write it down somewhere just so I can justifiably yell I CALLED IT in the event it does happen. The expansion will be provided to all subscribers at no cost.

Now I do recognize that none of these predictions could turn out to be true. If it's anything other then South Seas then almost all of the rest are sunk. But I had fun writing them up and if I happen to get on the mark on a few of them, I'll be thrilled.

Guyz! Hai guyz! I have unveiled the secrets of the new expansion!

It will have more levels. It will have more dungeons. It will have raid tiers. It will have some new mechanics to play with. It will make a lot of people very mad because it doesn't meet their expectations.

Umm... it won't have flying until at least endgame. There will be... umm... NPCs. And loot! And the Bard class! And... demons!

edited 31st Jul '15 8:39:04 PM by Fighteer

Come on, Fighteer, "totally tru leak!!1!" are silly, but there's no need in making fun of people posting their guesses as clearly guesses.

I think you misunderstood me.

I did not post some shady "leak", I just wrote up some things I believe could be in the next expansion partly to see what other people on the TV tropes forums think about the subject, and partly so I have a public place to refer back to if I am on the mark on any of them.

What do you think could be in the next expansion?

I have tried to guess before and been very wrong each time, so I'm just going to remain quiet.

I can promise you this: endless bitching and crying from the fans about everything, because this is the Worst Expansion Ever(TM).

There is currently a bug going on that causes 5xFelblight to be just as common as single onces. I just farmed 90+ in an hour.

I'd be moving off the couch and go mining if I didn't upgrade my engineer's googles and bow this week to 6/6.

...and if I wasn't annoyed at wiping Mythic Skyreach for an hour :/ stupid 3rd boss.

I went through a dungeon for the first time about a week ago (Gnomeregan, I believe). I wasn't able to finish it - partly because people left halfway through it - but I did get some items out of it. Since I was a Brewmaster Monk and the party's tank, I would roll Need if a tanky item came up, Greed if an item boosts Agility, and Pass otherwise. Is that the right thing to do?

Honestly: Since the arrival of Cross-Realm-dungeon-finding people stopped caring about GIFT, so just roll need on whatever you can get.

Ugh Gnomer, the most annoying and longest dungeon in the game, not surprised people left. At one time it was even worse and it was avoided by the player base as much as they could.

As a tank you just want to hold aggro and do your best to not die, pretty much everything else is out of your control.

And yeah need tank stuff greed DPS or healing stuff assuming you wanna play those specs. However brewmaster likes AGI as a tanking stat so that is what you need to wear, your DPS healing and tanking leather gear is basically the same aside from jewelry (Neck, Rings and trinkets.) and cloak those items will be useful for just the spec you are in.

edited 1st Aug '15 10:43:06 AM by Memers

Gnomer is actually not that bad these days, though the current design encourages skipping a majority of the instance.

Mages love it for Hydrocane.

edited 1st Aug '15 10:41:58 AM by stevebat

I loved Gnomeregan. It took effort and situational awareness to do well in there but I enjoyed it.

Then again, my favourite city in the game when I was Horde was Undercity, and I've heard no end of complaints about how hard that place is to navigate around.

Undercity isn't that bad, you just have to remember which corner you are in.

Remember when Gnomeregan and Zul'Farrak were annoyingly hard? Now a monkey can run them.

>I went through a dungeon for the first time about a week ago (Gnomeregan, I believe). I wasn't able to finish it - partly because people left halfway through it - but I did get some items out of it. Since I was a Brewmaster Monk and the party's tank, I would roll Need if a tanky item came up, Greed if an item boosts Agility, and Pass otherwise. Is that the right thing to do?

You need Agility for your everything including tanky so don't be shy to roll on it.

>Then again, my favourite city in the game when I was Horde was Undercity, and I've heard no end of complaints about how hard that place is to navigate around.
Most of those complains are probably from people stopping by there on a random visit. It's fine once you're used to it, but a newbie doth get lost.

edited 1st Aug '15 7:41:00 PM by Adannor

UC is confusing due to the fact that each wing of the ring pretty much looks the same and there are lots of little places for npcs to hide.

It also has the issue of full circle cities, which is: If you don't happen to already be where you want to be, it will always take you long to get there. And due to it's subterranean nature flying did not fix this.

My random thought for the day: I'm glad Warcraft III made Grom Hellscream cool. :) In Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal, he talked like Grover on steroids.

Could the new Darkmoon Faire items all be hinting at a South Seas expansion?

All of them are bought using a specific fish fished up in the DMF zone and have some sailing themes.

The items: Day-Old Darkmoon Doughnut (bait, increases fishing by 200), Seafarer's Slidewhistle (toy), Blorp's Bubble, Translucent Shell (Battle Pets), Sugar-Crusted Fish Feast, Lemon Herb Filet, Fancy Darkmoon Feast (cooked food which increases versatility)

To be frank, South Seas has been baited for at least a couple expansions now.

And we know how much blizzard loves red herrings oh Pony and Moose loving fans.

And that's not mentioning the dance studio.

"Pony and Moose"? :S