Hot off the YouTube presses, YouTuber Nobbel87 has announced very big news to WoD’s development. The #1 question on a lot of people’s minds is planning to be answered… the official release date for Warlords of Draenor. Will it be late September, or late October-early November? These debating questions will be answered in a Live Stream(available on WorldOfWarcraft.com for free) in three days from now(Thursday, the 14th), at 12:30 PM EDT(for me. The actual time is 9:30am PDT. You can use a time converter to get your local time).
Nobbel believes, we’re going to see a December release(similar as Cata) due to the 10th year anniversary. We shall see.
Also, the possible “why” we’re going to Draenor could be answered, with the official cinematic trailer of WoD. We already know it may or may not involve time travel, and it involves Garrosh trying to stop the orcs from drinking the fel blood of Mannorth, to have orcs be what they should had been in WarCraft 3 and the start of WoW.
If this is related to time travel, I know I won’t be able to see myself from the past, because I never played WarCraft 3.
And to be perfectly honest, it should be obvious by now the real “why” reason. This year, will be the 10th anniversary of WoW. 10 years. From 2004 to 2014(and I joined in 2005). And what better way to celebrate this, then to take us back in time, beyond the first ever EP of WoW?
There’s two other ways Blizzard is celebrating 10 years of WoW, and both..I will not be a part of. The first one, is a new BG called “Southshore VS Tarren Mill”. It’s for PvPers to relive nostalgia, of life as a Level 60. Back when I was trying to group for SM(before they redid it in MoP), I’ve seen my share of battles(mostly after dying and having to run allllll the way back to the dungeon… that wasn’t fun). It was when World PvP first started. And for them to recreate this first of WoW history of it’s 10 year, is a good idea.
The second one, MC(Molten Core) will no longer be soloable by me. It’ll be buffed into a 40 man LFR. This is definitely going to make me want to solo it and soon, before this change happens(I didn’t work my ass off to get attuned for nothing). And from the final boss, has a chance to drop a core hound mount which looks sick. There’s also a mention about a “Core Houndgi”(a Corgi on fire, which looks like it was modeled after a real Corgi..perhaps one of the devs pets) given to people who participate in this(I think).
Currently, it’s unknown if the required level for entry will be 90 or 100, or if it’ll even be released before, during, or after WoD.
And that is pretty much it for now. The rest of his video is a lore Q&A section, which is pretty cool as well.
Given this news, I think I’m going to come back to WoW as early as tomorrow and get to work leveling my Tauren Hunter to Level 90(then get him to the Timeless Isle to get some better gear), so after I get Benie and my Monk(before getting them also to the Timeless Isle to get better gear) to Level 100 in WoD, I’ll be able to check what leveling to 100 on the Horde side will be. I’m sure it’s going to be a lot cooler, seeing Thrall again like I did in TBC, in Nagrand.
Don’t think there’s going to be maintenance. If there is, then..*shrug* so be it, then. Big deal. Servers’ll come back up.
Note that this wouldn’t be my ‘prepare for WoD’ comeback. That one will be either a month or two weeks before the release, and I got that covered, and it’ll be discussed in a future blog post of when the release is set in stone, the EP has gone gold and can be preordered, and is one month away.