So WoW.com recently posted an article regarding the photograph of a map taken some time around BlizzCon.  Now sure, this is old news.  And while WoW.com admits they somehow missed the map when it was first circulated, I in turn missed something myself:

There’s a dungeon now in Thousand Needles.

Why is this especially interesting?

Because there is really only one thing of interest in Thousand Needles that could survive a major flood, and be dungeon-worthy… the Grimtotem clan. [click to continue…]

Popularity: 11% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 9 comments }

SPOILERS ABOUND.

Granted, most of this is speculation, but hey.  You’ve been warned.

So this model popped up on the PTR’s last week and a debate began raging over whether or not it was Bolvar.

Enough time has passed.  It’s time to weigh in.

Yes.  It’s Bolvar.  In fact it’s so painfully obvious that it’s Bolvar, only someone heavily in denial could claim its not.

The belt and boots match, it’s obviously an altered human.  But that’s all nitpicky.

Here’s the real logic behind why this is definitely Bolvar (and what that means).

[click to continue…]

Popularity: 20% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 8 comments }

So a few hours ago WorldofRaids.com posted an article speculating who the next “Lich King” would be.

We’ve asked this question ourselves, and even hinted our thoughts, but we’ve never actually given an answer.

As it currently stands, the “Lich King” is entirely Arthas with the Ner’zhul half either dead or completely dominated by Arthas.

Suffice to say, we believe Ner’zhul still exists and will be freed when the Arthas half of the “Lich King” is killed.

So the heart of the question is, “Who will Ner’zhul pick next?”

The article on WorldofRaids discusses who Ner’zhul could target next.

What surprised us about the WorldofRaids article, was neither of our two picks made their list.

[click to continue…]

Popularity: 15% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 17 comments }

In storytelling, there is an element known as the midpoint.  Simply put, it’s the middle of your story.

And what does it do?  Generally speaking, the exact opposite of your climax.  In other words, if your story ends with the hero beating the bad guy, then at the midpoint your hero is going to somehow lose.

So… why is this relevant?

Go back to right before WotLK was released, during the “Zombie Invasion”. [click to continue…]

Popularity: 17% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 21 comments }

As we’ve discussed in the past, WoW’s Expansions follow themes.

Burning Crusade’s theme was Outland.  The two new races were strongly tied to it. The premiere event was the opening of the Dark Portal.    The creative seed everything grew from, was Outland (especially the setting).

With Wrath of the Lich King, its theme was  the Scourge.  The premiere event was the Scourge invasion.  Northrend was/is infested with them.  The new class was tied to them.  Once again, a creative seed.

Last week someone complained to me that Cataclysm had an incredibly weak theme.  “What do Worgen have to do with the Maelstrom?”, he asked.  And there I realized the problem.

[click to continue…]

Popularity: 14% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 5 comments }

We’ve had our “Are we reading too much into this?” radar cranked up to ten with this, and the consensus is, “We’re not…”

Did Tom Chilton make a slip of the tongue and give us additional insight as to when Blizzard’s target release date lies for WoW: Cataclysm?  We think he did.

Read on… [click to continue…]

Popularity: 23% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 4 comments }

So last Saturday I sat down to write this the big post I had been holding off on, but desperately needed to have published before BlizzCon.  The plan was to put together every single hint the lore has given us regarding the next expansion and post it all in one big, mega-post.

So I sat down, ready to write, but first decided to check my favorite WoW sites, and there it was. Boubouille had made his post spilling everything.

I read it over, thought, “Yup, that about covers it!” and decided the mega-post was now moot.

Then the controversy started.

Based on that, I think it’s time I weighed in based on what was going to be put in that post.

So what is Loregy’s official stance on Boubouille’s post?  Simple…

It’s true.  All of it.

Not only that, I think there’s a bombshell everyone’s missing regarding a particular class/race combo.  I don’t think Boubouille sees it, even though it’s boldly written between the lines on his post.

So why did Loregy take this stance?  Let’s start at the top… [click to continue…]

Popularity: 17% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 6 comments }

MMO-Champion has a great post up listing everything, and I mean everything, that has now been leaked about WoW’s next expansion.

Some of it is very surprising, some of it is stuff we’ve speculated for awhile.

Enjoy!

The article can be found here.

Popularity: 16% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 7 comments }

I’m sure it’s obnoxious that with all the leaks floating around about test server names and Halloween masks, the one  we keep prattling on about here at Loregy is the Malfurion novel that was announced a few months ago.

Sure it’s only a lore leak, but let’s face it… the lore told us years ago that expansion #3 would be either Maelstrom or Emerald Dream.  As we keep preaching to the “lorelol” crowd, it’s a fallacy to ignore this “lore dork” stuff when you want to answer the age old question, “What happens next?”

Well as was said earlier today, in patch 3.3 we’re going to kill Arthas.

But what about after that?  What happens next? [click to continue…]

Popularity: 17% [?]

Tweet This Post

{ 5 comments }