Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Monkey and Rooster year mounts will be wild.
Ride a giant cock.
I dare you Blizzard, I double dare you.

Instead of elemental mount, they should have blizzcon cock mount.

[Wangming]

No real reason they can't be the same honestly. The Dwarves of Khaz'algar named the island they live on Avaloren.

Avaloren is the island, Khaz'algar is the settlement. Problem solved.

[huth]

Monkey and Rooster year mounts will be wild.
Ride a giant cock.
I dare you Blizzard, I double dare you.

We already have a giant cock in the game.

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No real reason they can't be the same honestly. The Dwarves of Khaz'algar named the island they live on Avaloren.

No reason to believe they are, either. And they named it Khaz Algar, not Khaz'algar.

[Alanar]

Avaloren is the island, Khaz'algar is the settlement. Problem solved.

I hope this dwarf stuff is very limited we get eventually and will end up being a zone and thats it.

I just dont care for dwarves lol.

[Ersula]

Sorry, little out of the loop on that regard, we meet n'zoth during DF and he recognizes us. it was theorized N'zoth could have pinpointed the right "future" giving him a substantial advantage, did anything come from that?

Well, if Elisande can do it, I suppose Nzoth could too. Also, why isnt Elisande on the blizzcon hype train yet?

Because having invincible gods is such good writing.

Lets not bring catholicism into this.

[NikolaiShade]

Lets not bring catholicism into this.

NO please no! I went to a catholic elementary school and I still have nightmares about nuns

[Makorus]

I mean, Khaz Algar can't really be on Avaloren, as they couldn't reach Avaloren, but they have intelligence reports on the Khaz Algar dwarves.

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If an ant had a degree of consciousness at any level comparable to human, it'd view any human as a potential destructive natural event as an earthquake at best. At the worst, an extinction level event.

Man, you can keep waxing philosophical as much as you want, having the Titans be untouchable because "nuh uh, they are invincible because they are big!" when realistically, we know nothing about their power is stupid and even worse writing than whatever Legion gave us. The precendence has been set in Legion.

[3vyan]

As a long time lurker who has only recently refound his login information. I want to thank the Dragon guy in this threat for being so positive <3. Also Marlamin is a voice of reason. I love reading speculation but some people can be a bit dramatic.

As an actual contribution to this thread: I am a bit torn on the current leaks. I think it's obvious we go to the other side of Azeroth and we will need stormriding to get there or navigate there. All the clues from the books and pre-order seem to add up.

My personal wishlist was revamp, bards & housing. It seems unlikely one of these 3 will make it in the next expansion since blizzard loves to couple new features directly to the expansion theme (which is not always a good move).

Despite that I'm excited to see what comes next.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

I wonder if this week blizzard will tease another thing for wow from the blizzcon bundle.

Last week they showed first look at blizzcon and teased the elemental mount.

[Wangming]

We already have a giant cock in the game.

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Nathanos? He died didn't he?

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As a long time lurker who has only recently refound his login information. I want to thank the Dragon guy in this threat for being so positive <3. Also Marlamin is a voice of reason. I love reading speculation but some people can be a bit dramatic.

As an actual contribution to this thread: I am a bit torn on the current leaks. I think it's obvious we go to the other side of Azeroth and we will need stormriding to get there or navigate there. All the clues from the books and pre-order seem to add up.

My personal wishlist was revamp, bards & housing. It seems unlikely one of these 3 will make it in the next expansion since blizzard loves to couple new features directly to the expansion theme (which is not always a good move).

Despite that I'm excited to see what comes next.

Welcome to the team, lurker I would have loved your wishlist to be true. But yes, that does not seem to be the direction we are heading towards. Which is a shame cause this anniversary would be a great time for a revamp. Besides the assets are ready.
Besides FFXIV will have a graphics update next expansion. And every action needs a reaction.

[Makorus]

I wonder if this week blizzard will tease another thing for wow from the blizzcon bundle.

Last week they showed first look at blizzcon and teased the elemental mount.

The last Blizzcon Virtual Ticket/Blizzconline Bundle was revealed on the 1st of February and Blizzconline was on the 19th, so based on patterns, we should get it next week.

[Beerplz]

I wonder if this week blizzard will tease another thing for wow from the blizzcon bundle.

Last week they showed first look at blizzcon and teased the elemental mount.

So i might be high on hopium, but maybe this "eventuful day" might be something to do with WoW ? Either that or am reading too much into it and they guys are just gonna have some fun lmao

https://imgur.com/XLj3xpF

[Santandame]

Firmly in my belief(hope) that this is the next expansion concept:

Avaloren - Five Zones

- A zone based on Camelot. Picture Toussaint from Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. Bright, colourful, a giant castle that takes up a large portion of the zone, with a section serving as the expansions main hub. Enchanted woods, mushroom forests, mystical lakes, fairy glades, hamlets & villages. Lots of life in the zone, festivals, tournaments and games taking place around. The folk that live here being some sort of human/elf hybrid who are very much formed around worshipping life and spirit, as well as the light. Knights, wizards, dragons, an offshoot of goblins that are more primitive than the playable kind, ogres in the hills raiding villages. Typical traditional fantasy zone. One of the expansions features will possibly even revolve around minigames or some sort of content involved with the tournaments and festivals.

- Khaz Algar which is essentially the Shattered Plains from Brandon Sanderson's the Stormlight Archive. A land ravaged by thunderstorms, deep fissures and ravines. Algarian cities littered within the fissures, as well as monstrous creatures. The Algarian's are mutated Dwarves and are linked to Xal'atath in some way. Xal'atath's corpse is present in this zone.

- A celtic/gaelic highlands zone. Some of the Algarian's have began to resist their void corruption and have moved away from Khaz Algar, and have evolved into something else - Halflings, durable, hardy folk. They'll be related to the pre-order mount and help us with pushing into Khaz Algar. Some of the Halflings have moved into the Camelot zone.

- A dark swamp zone akin to Velen and Crookback Bog from Witcher 3. This zone to play heavily into the more witchy side of Arthurian mythos. Lots of eldritch horror here, with some villages in the swamp that house peasants and common folk trying to survive as well as cults devoted to the dark arts. Evil creatures, ogres, witches, possibly even the drust. On the fringes of the swamp is an Old God fortress which serves as Xal's seat of power. Its surrounded by a large bramble/thorn forest with evil winged creatures prowling the skies. Evil, necromantic shadow figures are seen within the zone and inhabit catacombs beneath the swamp. An off shoot of Worgen live here that are more ferocious and monstrous than the regular Worgen and serve Xal'atath.

- An underground zone with a world tree growing inside. A vast cavernous zone teeming with spirit and life.

Major lore figures

Thrall, Magni, Jaina, Lor'themar, Tyr, Odyn, Vyranoth, Alexstrasza, Xal'atath, Iridikron.

Class Skins

New Specs, including Bard as a spec for Rogues. (Halflings playing a notable role in this)

A reiteration of Torghast but with a more diverse setting and better designed rewards and incentives attached.

New race customisation including Mok'nathal and Broken as toggles for Orcs and Draenei.

Shamans, Paladins, and Druids (sans Dracthyr) opened up for all races with unique aesthetics/forms.

[Makorus]

So i might be high on hopium, but maybe this "eventuful day" might be something to do with WoW ? Either that or am reading too much into it and they guys are just gonna have some fun lmao

https://imgur.com/XLj3xpF

Hm. Didn't see that yet. I've got a feeling they are gonna release the incredibly obvious 10.2 Release date and probably the Blizzcon stuff. Then again, their big trip was about Warcraft Rumble, so eh.

[Teriz]

you never actually addressed the heroic edition mount having a dragonriding cup named after it. That's the biggest thing. Nor, the second biggest thing, that all they need to do is flip a switch & dragonriding will be possible in every zone.

You're assuming that it's named after the mount. Also they're not going to "flip the switch" by 10.2. Getting a dragonriding mount as a pre-order reward in 10.2 is going to be a very limited experience for the majority of players compared to a standard mount.

[3vyan]

it's coming for us all.

[Wangming]

Firmly in my belief(hope) that this is the next expansion concept:

Avaloren - Five Zones

- A zone based on Camelot. Picture Toussaint from Witcher 3: Blood and Wine. Bright, colourful, a giant castle that takes up a large portion of the zone, with a section serving as the expansions main hub. Enchanted woods, mushroom forests, mystical lakes, fairy glades, hamlets & villages. Lots of life in the zone, festivals, tournaments and games taking place around. The folk that live here being some sort of human/elf hybrid who are very much formed around worshipping life and spirit, as well as the light. Knights, wizards, dragons, an offshoot of goblins that are more primitive than the playable kind, ogres in the hills raiding villages. Typical traditional fantasy zone. One of the expansions features will possibly even revolve around minigames or some sort of content involved with the tournaments and festivals.

I love this idea, but since the Titan keepers noted that Avaloren has sophisticated technology capable of repelling keeper forces. I doubt they are stuck at the level of Camelot.

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it's coming for us all.

Rise of Vulpera? Not Rise of the Vulpera?
Looks like Wrath of the Bolvar took the 'the'.

[Makorus]

Nah, the argument is that a Dragonriding mount isn’t as good a reward as a standard mount. And it simply is not on multiple levels.

I mean, come 11.0 (let's be realistic here), there won't be "Dragonriding Mounts" or "Standard Mounts".

It's a pointless argument.

Also: The Gladiator Mount is a full transformation for the DR Mount, as well as a separate "standard mount".

[Santandame]

I love this idea, but since the Titan keepers noted that Avaloren has sophisticated technology capable of repelling keeper forces. I doubt they are stuck at the level of Camelot.

I like the idea that the WoW version of Merlin, Morgen Le Fay etc serve as the realm's ''protectors'' and are the ones able to repel keeper forces.

Possibly Excalibur and the Holy Grail or whatever WoW's interpretation will be works as a super weapon(s) of some kind?

[NikolaiShade]

I love this idea, but since the Titan keepers noted that Avaloren has sophisticated technology capable of repelling keeper forces. I doubt they are stuck at the level of Camelot.

If there is a constant in WoW is how apparently technologically advanced races are still stuck in overall medieval times. An hyper-technological Camelot would be nothing too surprising honestly. and btw Avaloren and Avalon are pretty similar names