Dragonflight 10.X Patches & 11.0 Speculation Thread

[Le Conceptuel]

So Anshe is a naaru?

Not strictly. My assumption is just that An'she is roughly Light-associated. As for the bit I specified as falling under the purview of headcanon—An'she having a reflection at all—I usually assume that every entity has a reflection in the Void, regardless of their associations. I envision every inhabitant of the Void as an embodied opportunity cost of everything the entity that exists in its place could have been and what could have arisen instead of it or in its absence.

[huth]

Wrath of Northrend. This forum is actually full of trolls.

Wrath of the Bolvar. Though so far i'm enjoying Explosion of Dragons more.

[Le Conceptuel]

Explosion of Dragons

The horror.

[Khaza-R]

Oh, then it's probably a Void star or some shit. J doubt there is just 1, and if there is, then it's unique in its own right.

There's definitely going to be more than one.

I think its just the narrative shifting and giving us a non-Old God void influence. I'll even go as far as to predict there will be some retcon that Deathwing was possibly directly corrupted by the void and not N'zoth. It matches the cloak whispers saying those unworthy can't hear them. Which is something repeated in the Legacy short story as well.

[Cosmicpreds]

So Anshe is a naaru?

I imagine he's in the Pantheon of Life, but represents the solar aspects of it, I.R crops growing, farmlands, valleys, etc.

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What if the Naaru are the equivalent of the Old Gods and An'she is the equivalent of the Void Lords?

Ehhh I doubt it. But there may be a Pantheon of Light.

[huth]

The horror.

Well, let's see what kind of nonsense people come up with for 11.0.

[Nymrohd]

Well, let's see what kind of nonsense people come up with for 11.0.

I really wonder with some "leaks", is it that they are not trying at all or are they not fluent in english and translating something through google?

[Kiivar86]

Given how multiple expansions had multiple themes concurrently, I am not sure why y'all think the game will give you solo themes from now on. More importantly, do people really expect for WoW to keep going for 30 more years???

If it makes money, why not?

Everquest's still going strong. 30th expansion due out this December.

I really wonder with some "leaks", is it that they are not trying at all or are they not fluent in english and translating something through google?

Some of it is the latter, I'm sure. There's always those weird Chinese leaks that annoy the hell out of me because they're just so weird. Doesnt' help that they're also often like "Oh you're here?" and the like to be even more vague.

[Dracullus]

I hope so. Just to see the usual posters who hate that his leaks came true get massively butthurt again.

You hope that whole excitement from reveal will be crushed cause it will cause butthurt for few people? It was so boring to watch reveal when you knew everything, both with 9.1 and 10.0. SL also had leaks, but it was very subtle, just Bolvar picture, logo and Bastion art.

Btw, since Blizzard also "leaked" Dragonflight name even before Scaleface, I think it's possible he had green light from Blizzard for his leaks. Notice that Blizzard was in panic mode and extremely careful with revealing new things, like they wanted "test" reaction in smaller part of community before official reveal. They still are, we knew/know about underground zone for 10.1, Galakrond/bronze theme and emerald dream for 10.2.

[Nymrohd]

You hope that whole excitement from reveal will be crushed cause it will cause butthurt for few people? It was so boring to watch reveal when you knew everything, both with 9.1 and 10.0. SL also had leaks, but it was very subtle, just Bolvar picture, logo and Bastion art.

I remember plenty of us were fairly excited with the Bolvar leak, mostly because we hoped he would put up a good fight against Sylvanas

[Fahrad Wagner]

The horror.

By far my favourite

[Le Conceptuel]

Btw, since Blizzard also "leaked" Dragonflight name even before Scaleface, I think it's possible he had green light from Blizzard for his leaks. Notice that Blizzard was in panic mode and extremely careful with revealing new things, like they wanted "test" reaction in smaller part of community before official reveal. They still are, we knew/know about underground zone for 10.1, Galakrond/bronze theme and emerald dream for 10.2.

That's a good possibility. I recall opening some inquiry into the magazine next to the guy who leaked the image. I also recall my folly in assuming the Dracthyr were bullshit. What a nostalgic time already.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I remember plenty of us were fairly excited with the Bolvar leak, mostly because we hoped he would put up a good fight against Sylvanas

It would of been fine if Bolvar was more involved in the story. Sadly it was not to be.

[Nymrohd]

It would of been fine if Bolvar was more involved in the story. Sadly it was not to be.

They should have kept Jaina and co home and given all those parts to Bolvar, perhaps they could remember that Bolvar and Anduin were fairly close.

[Skildar]

I suggested earlier that we could have the last raid be on the outskirts of Avaloren. We get there to stop Iridikron from getting inside and the raid is in a Titan facility the natives repurposed which generates a shield that keeps the rest of the island safe. We stop what we have to stop but the shield is damaged and then in the prepatch we assemble there as we wait for the shield to fail (which it does at expansion release )
Then Avaloren could have a mix of Pirates (we protect the Isles from the Nightsquall's invasion), Void and Titan.

Sounds like good fun that would allow a lot of creative designs! I'm always interested by the pirate fantasy bit it's rarely been done in a way that works on me in warcraft. I find more enticing to follow the story of the fleet of kultiran vessals that were trapped in the storm rather than the pirate shenanigans in freehold. So if we're able to have a new aspect of the pirate life that's a great opportunity!

[GabrielKnight]

TBC was a mess, we went after Illidan, Kaelthas(lol). The expansion ended as Kil'Jaeden was about to be summoned. I'm glad TBC exists but storywise there was no need to make Illidan the bad guy, same with Kaelthas. Sure it was cool for a boss fight in a raid but....not worth the story potential though.

I think we can forgive them because they were still trying to figure out how to create an expansion tied to the narrative. They were so lost with the story that there wasn't even an Illidan model until the patch he showed up. You meet him only once in the entire level process, and he's nothing but a talking crystal.

In hindsight is kinda hilarious, if you ask me - there was zero reason for us to go there, or even raid his temple and kill him. But hey, many years later, I'm in the Dragon Isles and I have no idea why either. I think there's some golem that fell of a tower or something? It's vital that I take pictures of animals and climb mountains though.

[Chickat]

Great video on World Revamp possibility.

[Marlamin]

Great video on World Revamp possibility.

Note on the filename part of the video before people take that the wrong way.

[Khaza-R]

Great video on World Revamp possibility.

Lets not just link 25 min bellular clickbait videos without actually discussing the contents.

[Marlamin]

Lets not just link 25 min bellular clickbait videos without actually discussing the contents.

It's basically just the same thing as has been discussed in here for the last several years, but condensed into a video for the general public. It's a good video speculation wise but it's nothing thread regulars here don't already know about nor contains anything that hasn't already been discussed here at length.