In the past, people have discovered trademark registrations by Blizzard that gave away expansion names: Cataclysm, Mists of Pandaria, and Warlords of Draenor were all 'announced' this way.

We are less than a month away from Blizzcon, but so far I don't believe we've had any other major leaks. The armor textures even have a rope-like motif, which would tie strongly into the nautical country of Kul Tiras, and given that we'd be likely to see simple color variations for different zones, would point strongly to a nautical-based expansion. This Kul Tiras stuff is much stronger evidence that that had been. In 5.4, the Siege of Orgrimmar patch, we got a texture (in this case just a nondescript grey square - nothing as detailed as what we've seen this time) that was labeled 'Iron Horde.' While many of us assumed this had something to do with Garrosh's 'True Horde,' it of course presaged the Warlords of Draenor expansion. This is not the first time that a texture proved promising for a future expansion. Now, I don't know if the quest gear in Legion was labeled as simply 'Broken Isles Quest' or tied to specific zones, like 'Highmountain Quest.' Given that each zone had its own color variant, I would guess the latter, which would suggest that Kul Tiras will likely be a zone, rather than the whole continent for the next expansion. The gear textures were labeled 'Kul Tiras quest' which is generally how the game denotes the green and blue quest rewards from the leveling process. This was a set of textures related to armor and 'doodads' (aka bits of decorative stuff for in-game environments.) The textures included maps (again, not for the player map screen, but rather for in-game objects) as well as what appears to be cloth gear.

Right now the only really believable leak is a bit of datamining that we found in the 7.3 PTR patch.

This time around, it's no different, so let's look at what we've got: In prior years, we've gotten occasional leaks to clue us into the next World of Warcraft expansion.

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