World of Warcraft 9.0 leak (Codename Dragons)

World of Warcraft 9.0 (Codename Dragons)

I only have partial information about the expansion since I have been working on the new features team.

About the Lore
- Pre-expansion patch will bring invasions of the Black Empire. The Empire has not yet risen but threatens to do so. The first minions of the old Gods rise in Azeroth as a warning, invading Old World areas.
- Dragons and the Black Empire are the main theme of the expansion.

New zones

Dragon Isles

- Long time lost in time the Dragon Isles are home to many of Azeroth's best kept secrets.
- Now that the Twilight's Hour is approaching it will be necessary to travel towards them and recompose the Black Flight with the help of Wrathion and the other Flights to acquire the necessary knowledge that will allow us to fight with the rise of the Black Empire.
- The Dragon Isles are composed of 6 subzones, in each of them a Dragonflight predominates.
- Red, Blue, Green, Bronze and Black dragonflight.
- The Dragonflights will have a great role, mainly the Black Dragonflight that will create a new lineage with Wrathion as leader.
- The Demonic Island will be the sixth zone of the Dragon Isles as end-game zone.

Features

Full Visual Old World revamp.
- Using all the graphic improvements implemented from WoD, Legion and BFA, World of Warcraft will have a spectacular new visual appearance.
- From land, buildings, assets, trees, flora and fauna of WOrld of Warcraft.
- Imagine areas like Tanaris that look like Vol'dun.

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Level squish and new maximum level: 60.
- All level 120 players will become level 60.
- The new leveling will go from 1 to 60.
- From level 60 we will find 2 new ways to progress with our character:
- The Path of the Titans
- Your main progression system by unlocking new talent and forge improvements as you make top-level content.
- The Path of the Light & Shadows
- Secondary progression system that will allow you to obtain visual improvements for your class that you will unlock by making specific content with your character (Like "skins" for your class).

A new leveling experience
- Alongside the new level squish and the visual revamp of the world, live a new experience by leveling your characters like never before.
- All quests chains, starting zones and stories of each of the zones have been revamped.
- Now the areas have grown larger, joining nearby areas that were previously divided.
- A large number of trivial quests have been eliminated. Now history matters and the new system of leveling tells you the lore of each zone to help you understand the world of World of Warcraft.
- There will be a Legacy mode that will allow you to do several old quests to unlock an achievement although they will not count in order to level up.

World of Warcraft Codex
- As you level up a new character with the new system, everything you discover about races, creatures, characters, magical items and a long etc will be automatically recorded in your codex.
- Each combination of Race and Class plus the areas you choose to level up will add one type or another of information to your codex.
- Completing your codex will be a challenge! The codex is shared account-wide and can be consulted at any time.

New Talent and Forging system
- The Talent system is revamped with a larger tree with the best of the current system and the old system.
- Now the Talents can be improved through the Path of the Titans and will allow you a huge amount of variables depending on what you choose.
- The system will have such depth that only at the end of an expansion can it be fully enhanced by ensuring the character's progression throughout the entire expansion.
- The new Forging system will allow you to add extra effects to your main skills by making them customized for you. The Path of Light and Shadows will allow you to achieve these improvements.
- Talent and Forging improvements will have distinctive visual effects to indicate the modifications of each player.

10 New Dungeons
- 5 in the Dragon Isles, one in each leveling zone.
- 2 in the end-game zone Demonic Island.
- 1 in Mount Hyjal
- 2 in Caverns of Time

2 New Raids
- No info yet

The Warforged and Titanforged systems evolve
- World Quests, Normal/Heroic raids and trivial content can only be improved with Warforged items (+10 ilvl).
- Titanforged items will only be activated for the maximum difficulty content such High Keystones and High rating of JcJ.

The Keystone Dungeons evolve
- A new currency that is earned by making Mythics+ is added.
- Players earn this currency according to the level of Mythics+ made.
- With this currency players can get cosmetics, which include awesome Armor-set for each class and exclusive expansion-themed mounts.
- Rewards will be divided into levels. Higher levels will have level requirements of Mythic+. The most important rewards will be unlocked after reach certain level of Keystone.
- For example, the Demonic Fire set for Mages will require to have exceeded +20 in time.
- New rewards will be added every season, but the previous ones will not be lost.
- If you want to get each and every one of the rewards you must work throughout the expansion.
- This new currency will allow players who do not make high keystones to get lighter versions of these rewards.
- The gear awarded at the end of each dungeon will scale with the level of the dungeon, being able to get at least 1 piece of similar ilvl of Mythic raids in very high Keystone.

New 20-man Keystone Mythic Raids
- In addition to the current lfr/normal/heroic/mythic raids, a new Keystone mythic raid for 20-man is added.
- The mythic+ raids will be versions of the regular raids that will have affixes and keystones from 1 to 10 (they will not scale infinitely).
- Although there will be a timer and there will be time records, the Mythic+ raids will improve if they are completed regardless of the time taken.
- The rewards of the Mythic+ raids will reach the same level as the Mythic raids although the Titanforged system increases the chance of drop each level. They will also grant a new currency similar to the Mythic Keystone's Dungeons that will allow get high-quality cosmetic class armor sets and mounts.

Portal System
- Portals are instances for 3 players where we reach other worlds of the Great Dark Beyond.
- In these worlds we will face Bosses directly and fight for their loot.
- There will be Normal / Heroic / Mythic and Mythic+ portals
- The Mythic+ Portals system will scale from 1 to 10 in a similar way to raids with affixes.
- The bosses of these Portals will have a complete loot table with gear, cosmetics and special recipes for professions.
- The gear will have a visual appearance themed with the world visited.

PvP Warfronts
- BFA Warfronts have a PvP mode and are added to the queue of World of Warcraft'ss Epic battlegrounds.
- Several adjustments have been made to make it a true experience to fight against the opposite faction.
- All will be available at launch: Stromgarde, Dark Shore and The Barrens.

PvP
- The system changes completely allowing more possibilities to get the desired loot.
- The RNG will continue to exist but will be minimized versus past expansions.
- New Rated PvP+ mode is added. As in the Mythic+ Keystones system, affixes are added to several selected battlegrounds and arenas.
- These affixes add traps and other unexpected features that we have prepared for players.
- Participating in this new mode will allow you to win a new currency with which you can obtain high quality exclusive cosmetic class and mount rewards.

Which character will be revealed to be gay?

Anduin probably

I don't get the autism with making shit up, like what do you gain from wasting so much time for actually nothing?

Fake and gay

Especially something so unbelievable. With how much buzz Classic has had obviously 9.0 is going to be a "back to basics" expansion without any of this dumb shit