Warcraft... Relaunched? The Signs of Warcraft RTS News Coming Up on Warcraft Direct
Blizzard has been dropping hints that we may expect announcements related to Warcraft III Reforged during the upcoming Warcraft Direct. Let's look at these hints and see what we can expect.
November Trading Post Rewards
First previewed on Blizzard's reveal of Patch 11.0.5, the November trading post will feature racial crests of the three Warcraft III races: Human, Orc, Undead, and Night Elf. On its own, it doesn't mean anything, but there's more.
Human Crest
Orc Crest
Night Elf Crest
Scourge Crest
Mount Changes from Trading Post to Promotion
During Patch 10.2.7, we datamined a couple of new Horde Nightsaber and Alliance Wolf mounts. These mounts originally featured the Trading Post tag. However, during the final 11.0.5 PTR build, Blizzard changed two of these mounts to have Promotion as their source. This could mean they will be rewarded in some… cross-promotion with a different game.
30th Anniversary Mounts
Together with the announcement of the Warcraft Direct stream, Blizzard also released the 30th Anniversary Bundle, which features eight mounts, four for TWW and four for Cataclysm. These mounts are, once again, based on the four Warcraft III races. Another hint lies in their name, as they are all called CHAOS-forged, a likely reference to Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III's title.
- Chaos-Forged Gryphon (Human)
- Chaos-Forged Wind Rider (Orc)
- Chaos-Forged Dreadwing (Undead)
- Chaos-Forged Hippogryph (Night Elf)
Warcraft III PTR «Leak»
One of the strongest pillars of these hints is the «leak» that happened last week. During a brief period of time, the PTR for Warcraft III: Reforged was updated to version 2.0, build 22230:
Around 16 hours later, this change to the internal Warcraft 3 build, also called “w3d”, was reverted back to Patch 1.36:
This «leak» all but confirms that Blizzard is working on a Warcraft III Reforged version 2.0 in some capacity.
Blizzard Press Site
Blizzard did updates to their Press website this week, to support the 30th
