Well considering that list seems to be changing, they may very well use it for the starting area for Worgen instead of the original plan, but Shego is right, "The List" shows Gilneas as a 77-80 zones to be an intermediate zone leading into the islands. I personally hope that part of it is altered, as something about the Gilneas militaristic culture as werewolves makes me all happy on the inside, but we will have to wait and see. There is no evidence saying they will even be cursed humans in the end.
Where are you getting this info? I trust it I am just wondering where because I love reading up on this type of stuff.
It was a list that surfaced a long time ago, before WoW was even taking it's first steps on the market. Most discounted the list because it was during a time no one felt they could be accurate, but then the expansions started coming out. Then we started hearing about the Burning Crusade, and here is the first part of the list.
- Draenor Set
Azuremyst Isle - 1 to 10
Bloodmyrk Isle - 10 to 20
Eversong Forest - 1 to 10
Quel'thalas - 10 to 20
Hellfire Peninsula - 58 to 62
Zangarmarsh - 60 to 64
Terokkar Forest - 61 to 65
The Deadlands - 63 to 67
Nagrand - 64 to 68
Blade's Edge Mountains - 66 to 70
Netherstorm - 67 to 70
Shadowmoon Valley - 69 to 70
Notice that other then the Deadlands being missing, and Bloodmyrk now being called Bloodmyst, that breakdown is pretty much exactly what we got. We knew about what the Draenei starting area was going to be called long before we even knew what the Draenei were, and up till this list no other source even mentioned Azuremyst Isle. Now lets look at the next down on the list.
- Northrend Set
Borean Tundra - 67 to 70
Howling Fjord - 67 to 70
Dragonblight - 69 to 72
Grizzly Hills - 70 to 73
Crystalsong Forest - 72 to 75
Zul'drak - 73 to 76
Sholazar Basin - 75 to 79
Storm Peaks - 76 to 80
Icecrown Glacier - 78 to 80
Again, the trend continued. This was the one listed as the next one following the "Dreanor Set".
Now, the list continues on with The Maelstrom Set. So considering the pattern has been doing so well, many of us WarCraft geeks are being less skeptical about it. Obviously we believe some factors of it will change, but you have to admit, it is kind of strange how accurate it has been overall.