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Early Community April Fools 2021 Roundup for WoW: A Very Strong Start

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Depicted above: your average April Fools day start and people's minds being blown.

The first of April is upon us and some have gone for an early pitch of their pranks, hoping to catch some more people unaware as the date technically hadn't passed the 31st, or had just recently done so.

We have one major effort featuring a patch 9.0.9 datamine, a pretty standard next expansion leak and a secret mount one that actually got some people excited! We'll start with Handclaw, the amazing artist that made oh so many racial class based armor sets, as he spent quite some time on his prank, World of Warcraft: Undermine.

We can see the expansion trailer already, with Gallywix taking over the Horde, as it's been a while since they had a new Warchief and the power structure there has just been too solid for too long.  Perhaps we get to finally see that damn Azshara cannon fire?

The it's on to another lone project, this time from redditor Kruithne, who used one of the rarest mounts ever in WoW as bait, and got quite a few bites, as they explained a newly found secret on how to obtain said mount! Note the appropriately named zone and time of day:

"NEW SECRET FOUND! The mythical Bengal Tiger mount."

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As the best pranks are often based in as much reality as possible, there actually is a Bengal Tiger mount in the game, and one person has it on their account, as we covered a story on it just last year which you can check out here.

And last but certainly not least, the big one, as Wowhead really went in heavy this year, starting with a series of tweets about some unexpected activity on the Shadowlands PTR and an apparent patch 9.0.9 (which was likely intended to be 9.1 before Blizzard messed those plans up by announcing the PTR start date). What followed were some pretty outlandish datamined snippets of the patch, from some really awesome things players would want, to some bizarre things that would never ever happen in a million years, to a lot of players' greatest lore/story fears.

Let's start small, with Anduin's new mount, ability_mount_pegasus.gif Reverence, which would parallel Invincible, story-wise:

The never happening in a million years part is the fact that the mount is supposedly a reward from the brand new Maw Covenant, which you have to betray your current Covenant for with the inv_torghast.gifSworn to the Mawsworn achievement!

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And then then, just in case it wasn't obvious quite yet, the prank that probably had some people yelling "I KNEW IT" angrily at their screen:

Apparently part of her Sanctum of Domination raid encounter, this one is both extremely far fetched AND somehow completely plausible at the same time, so damn good job there!

There were also a couple more snippets from the "patch", like a Lich King Pepe disguise and The Dark Lady's Necklace dropping off Sylvanas, and you should head on over to Wowhead to check the full roster of pranks there. But we'll just leave this one here at the end, as it's the most likely to actually have Blizzard curse April Fools, as everyone and their mother will be yelling at them to actually implement this one into the game:

 

So some really great work all round, especially by Wowhead, but the day has barely started and we're in for a LOT more, including some "official" Blizzard entries!

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