Future expansions planned by Blizzard, from late 2003.Follow

What amuses me most is that it was made up, and still is nearly entirely accurate (excluding that the five level increase was 80-85 instead of 95-100), and the zone names become more off the further you go. But I mean, this set dealt directly with the maelstrom, the name Mist of Pandarean, or whatever it is, was just copyrighted, which would reflect the planes set, etc. My guess, since this was made up, the person who made it up watched some interviews that devs accidentally hinted at future plans that panned out pretty well, or maybe this progression has just been really come sense from a design perspective...no clue.

You really can't be that retarded. Seriously. You might be able to apply for some financial help from the government for your low intelligence.

I can't believe I need to explain this but you're a dumb *** ... A video game making company did not use some advanced government hardware to trace the location of a random internet person and then send violent men to the person's house to assault them because of a list that seemed to be similar to the settings for World of Warcraft expansions!!

This is not a crappy Michael Bay movie and the government are not tracking you with little bugs hidden in your teeth. It just turns out that you're a poorly evolved advanced ape on planet Earth who likes to find patterns and reasons in things that aren't there. I really hope you don't have kids and don't work as a teacher or anything.

Frankly, I'm highly disposed to think that this is fake (as I was then).

First of all, consider that a lot of this information (as for locations and races) is available in the lore already. So it isn't like the names are such that they should breed confindence.

Then remember that many of these names naturally go together. Of course you'd see all the Northrend areas together, for instance. Same with Draenor, the Emerald Dream, the Elemental Planes, and Argus.

The lowbie zones they selected were no-brainers as well. They picked the new races that seemed likely, tried splitting them into Horde/Alliance pairs and selected the home zones of those races as the starters. Since the two they chose (Pandaren and Worgen) didn't really fit with any particular theme, they just ended up with the hodgepodge expansion (planes).

Really, it wouldn't be difficult to do this for anyone who actually is crazy about the lore (meaning, much more so than I am, and I call myself a lore buff).

One of the things that gives it away, imo, is that they didn't construct Goblins as a new race. I seriously doubt that Blizzard hadn't planned to put them in at some point. Chris Metzen said in an interview early on that Goblins were definitely a race he'd like to see be playable at some point.

The order they put them in makes perfect sense as well. Stop to think about the lore. Well, you have a handful of expansion-worthy villains (even if only potentially). Burning Legion, Illidan, Azshara and Arthas were all well established lore characters who could serve well as major bosses for the expac.

Well, in lore terms, Arthas demonstrated he was stronger than Illidan as a DK, and now he's the LK. So obviously he'd come after Illidan. Azshara was said to be as strong as Archimonde, who was around the strength of Kel'Thuzad, who created the LK. So naturally you'd want her to come after the LK, since she should definitely be much stronger (his strength lying primarily in his army).

Naturally, the Burning Legion (probably with Sargeras) would be the final major expansion.

That really just left the Emerald Dream expansion. And considering the lore behind the Nightmare and the elemental lords, there was plenty to work with there. Not to mention Death Wing, who has connections to all these things.

The only thing someone making a list would need to debate was whether or not to include Old Gods in the calculation. But only Yogg-Saron was really known by name, and none of the fine details about him were known (afaik). It makes sense to leave him out of a list.

So yeah, I see absolutely no reason to think that this is real. Its accuracy is such that it only fuels my belief that it isn't. And, iirc, MMO-Champion confirmed that it was fake not long after it was "leaked" on the net.

I'm still of the opinion that Pandaren aren't going to be a playable race, if only because that would deprive the other faction of a fan favorite race.

In addition, Mists of Pandaria is a title that implies that Pandaria will be the focus of the expansion. If it is, then it's obviously not going to be a starting zone. Sure, they could do an alternate zone for starting for the Pandarens, but that still leaves the issue above. Pandarens are virtually non-existant in lore, meaning that there's not much of a connection to either the Alliance or the Horde. Weak arguments can be made for both parties, but there's no telling how it would fall if they gave Pandarens to one or the other. Then there's still the issue of the other race for the faction that doesn't get it.

Pandaren are famous for being Brewmasters, but I can't see how they could make a Brewmaster class work. Do they heal by pouring alcohol down your throat? Do they DPS by getting the mob so drunk it falls down and hurts itself? Do they tank by getting themselves so drunk they no longer feel pain?

I see it as Pandaren are going to be a neutral playable race. You do the starting quests and at the end you get to choose your faction. That way both sides get the most asked for race in WoW.

Upon completion of the “brewmaster” achievement, a hero class is unlocking: Panda/ninja. Dodge Tank, you just can't touch this!!

I still want my hero healing class.

Something monkish or bardish... perhaps.

Please.

I just want a caster hero class period. I'd prefer one that was a hybrid like DK's are, but as long as I can DPS I'll be happy. Sorry, but a hero class with 3 healing trees would bite.

I think some more esoteric classes would be interesting, like the Dancer, Puppetmaster or Bard from FFXI. Or maybe something more mundane like Logistics officer, Supply clerk, Bean Counter, Cook, Farmer, etc. Can't move and feed an army without having all of the support people....

If there was a buff/support class I'd speculate it'd be set up more along the lines of the hunter with it's various pets. A class that could bring a large amount of different buffs or utility spells to the table could be useful in catering to a smaller/casual 10-man raiding/RBG group.

Edited, Aug 11th 2011 4:44pm by someproteinguy

I would just want a real, honest to God support class. This is, of course, something that will never happen in WoW because the game's model and the devs' paradigm doesn't support this.

My vision of a support class is a class that makes others do better at what they do.

Like, a support damage class would be someone who improves the damage of others. In a 5 man group, you normally have 3 dps. With 2 dps and a support class, the support class would make the 2 dps hit hard enough to make up for the lack of a third dps. Basically, the support class would, through the other dps's increased output, create enough dps so that total dps would be equal to an additional dps.

Gear/playstyle could affect this, but I think this would be a better way to balance a support class without making them mandatory.

Enchanters!!! Give me enchanters!