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Kottkrig🎃 @kottkrigart.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Portergauge #art #warcraft #gnome

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Starting Act 2 of Forsaken Kingdom! Here be spoilers! I absolutely *love* seeing the city all built up after the struggle to secure it in Act 1, I didn't think I could love Undercity more but changing its origin to being built from scratch by the Forsaken is SO good.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Comparisons between Doctrine and Moira are fascinating because to me, Moira is basically what Doctrine *thinks* he was prior to saving his brother: crossing the line for the sake of bettering humanity. The big difference, I think, is that Moira is 100% genuine about that.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Hmm.... which purple woman game should I play today...

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

After looking at the new Hunter talents in Forever, I've realized that you can officially play as a pet-free melee Survival Hunter now, thanks to the addition of Lone Wolf for Marksmanship.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

It even has a matching mage mount oh my god

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This Trading Post pet was made for me specifically, and I thank whoever gave it a Kirin Tor variant very very much

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Interesting detail in one of the Forever class overviews... there's a faction of night elves hostile to Horde *and* Alliance in Hyjal, it seems. Super interested in seeing their motives, and potentially exploring more anti-Alliance night elf sentiment like in SoD.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

His poke lines are both hilarious and *terrifying* when he has that brief moment of lucidity, the goofiness of abominations can hide the horror aspect of them most of the time. At least Garithos is dead last on the list of people that anyone would mourn for this fate lol

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Given her Silver Surfer inspirations, this mount is pretty perfect for Xal'atath lol

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Breaking my rule of avoiding any of the undead paladin lore in Forever until I finish Forsaken Kingdom, because holy fuck is this peak lmao Devotion to Sylvanas and the Forsaken is *such* a perfect way of framing undead paladins.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Thank you *so* much to whichever dev let Sylvanas be mean and abrasive about her undeath in Forever, I was so worried they'd have her be nice and amicable to the Skyborne lol

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Some of the Skyborne NPCs use undead skin tones, and it makes me sad that I can't play an undead elf in Forever. I'll take it even just as Skyborne skin tones Blizz, I've already pretended for long enough on Retail lol

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Did his mother sneeze in the middle of naming him or something lmao

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh hey, they added the Cataclysm Doomhammer model to Thrall in Forever

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I still need to give him a backstory and see the Forsaken Kingdom lore for myself, but I am tentatively making this guy as my Undead Paladin for now...

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

First day of Xal'atath in HotS has been going great lol

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Love that the lore for Xal'atath's HotS skin pokes fun at the original theory that she was a fifth Old God

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Seeing Heroes of the Storm with a brand new patch makes me so emotional, 6 years of maintenance mode finally over. So glad they're making it clear they're planning for more content, and I *really* hope it works out to revive the development cycle. news.blizzard.com/en-us/articl...

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

If I had to place my bets on where Dagran's story is going to go, I honestly do think he's a very long-term set-up for Tinkers... just not the traditional kind. They've put *such* an emphasis on his growing connection to Titan machinery in TWW, it can't be for no reason.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

But yes, the *only* tease we get for The Last Titan being a massive mech using electricity to power its attack? My “Dagran and his Overcharged Delves questline was setting up Tinkers” theory is alive and well!

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

I need it to be known that if we do get Tinkers in The Last Titan, I will become their ultimate stan. I will become a top Tinker player in high end content and make XxGelbinxx alts and nitpick every last bit of the class during testing, it is *the* class I most want for WoW.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I hope Blizzard adds more of the vanilla cinematic outfits to the game because I love seeing John Warcraft roaming around the capitol city

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After 7 years of maining Survival Hunter, I only just this week *finally* gave Cynya a canon pet in my ongoing RP campaign. Better late than never lol

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Huh, there's a dwarf mage in Dalaran in Forever, despite them not being playable yet. Maybe they'll get a unique plotline to become an option down the line?

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

My favorite WoW couple, Nathanos and Sylvanas 😍

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fascinating little interaction in Forever Dalaran, a Kirin Tor high elf talking with an untargetable rogue who vanishes when you get close. Armor looks like Blacktalon/Uncrowned armor from recent xpacs, so maybe this guy is working with Ravenholdt?

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Blizzard giving Mimiron, mechagnomes, and TINKER to Hunters in the new Hearthstone expansion… they made this set for *me* specifically.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Horde version of Skyborne now, I'll show off the specific bits that are different from the alliance. I tried to make as distinctly Skyborne of an elf shaman as possible, to contrast my mage lol

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think the whole Asmongold mess exposes an unfortunate downside of the 'Realmless' server system: it is significantly harder to choose your experience. When Classic launched, it was incredibly easy to choose a server out of dozens with no streamers, but now? Only 3 options.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One thing that frustrates me in Forever is that I really do just... want my character to be named Portergauge haha I can use his full RP name since it's necessary, but I'd love to be able to have Portergauge be my first name without needing to make some goofy disabled last name.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Something fun about Dalaran in Forever is that because all of the big-name characters like Khadgar or Jaina are locked away in other plots, the Kirin Tor stories are forced to use their less prominent characters like Modera or Ansirem.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

....is Forever implying that the Horde kicked orphans out of their orphanage to create the Sunreaver Sanctuary in Wrath Dalaran? Because this place becomes the Horde inn lmao

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Huh, the goblin NPCs in Forever still use the vanilla textures and faces, but got updated to use the Cataclysm model animations. Maybe a sign they might become playable down the line?

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Oh neat, Tyrande has some dialogue for Skyborne in Forever when they interact with her on their exploration quest. She seems surprisingly accepting of mages this early in the timeline haha

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Also, the Alliance racial leader is a melee mage, which feels like a pretty blatant hint for future mage talent options in Forever

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Oh thank god, there are lore items of Zephras Isle, I will be going on a hunt for these later lol Mostly recap lore we knew here, but I'm glad they remembered Goldrinn's involvement in saving Eldre'thalas.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Finally have time to do some Forever testing, starting with Skyborne Alliance (I will be saving Forsaken Paladin until after I finish the WC3 campaign lol) Very glad I can make this incredibly unique, definitely not High Elf character :)

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oh neat, Forever has SD versions of the darker skin tones added in Shadowlands! Was wondering how it would work with the toggle option

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Blizzard has already begun implementing lore-accurate changes to Heroes of the Storm 😍 Sylvanas is now constantly haunted by a static floating model of Dori'thur when grouped up with Tyrande

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I appreciate the interviewer here *trying* to explain that faction identity =/= faction *war*, but... It really sucks that they don't seem to get that the occasional side mention in an otherwise identical story doesn't evoke the core faction story of Warcraft.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Every time we get a new classic WoW mode, I'm reminded of the tragic aura loss of female forsaken in the model updates. Give me back my skull-face Blizz, please...

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Okay so the Forever Q&A section basically confirmed that they are doing High Elves in Forever. Their plan was straight up just putting High Elves into Northshire Abbey, but they decided to expand it into a full Quel'thalas story that makes sense in the timeline of vanilla WoW.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Starting the *real* campaign for Forsaken Kingdom now, with Act 1. Spoilers for the whole thing ahead! I already love this login screen so much, absolute vibeshift with Anya looking incredible in the background.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

A weird thought I had throughout Blizzcon about Forever is that all of this content and low-stakes vibes are *so* perfect for me… they’re just in the wrong game version. It’s the kind of stuff I want for Retail WoW, with the gameplay I love and characters I’ve invested in.

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Portergauge 🏳️‍🌈 @portergauge.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Fourth (and I assume final?) chapter of the prologue, I am shocked at how *big* even this prologue is. Basically half of a campaign from WC3. Spoilers ahead, as usual. I love that they're using the layout of WoW Stratholme and having Ilastar enter through the side gate.

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