Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Demonly]

SoA could be Shores of Avaloren.

I looked at that one in your list too, but didn't see any world revamp listed in it.

EDIT:

Plus they were banned which means they have an alt account.

[Woke it Up]

Storms over Azeroth
Stromguard overhauled Again
Soups over Azeroth
Sethrakk only Allowed
Stormwind obliterated Ahaha
Silvermoon oughtta Abate
Shaman obligatory Antagonist
Spaaaaaaace overture Azeroth

[Marlamin]

Spaaaaaaace overture Azeroth

Screw it, I'm in.

[Azalar]

Hmm, interesting! But why is he affiliated with Death?

The exact details elude me and I'd love to show, but there are certain signs around the Shadowlands that can to some extent relate the Zovaal as some Eternal One of rebirth or life of sorts.

What I know is this theory is based on Tauren legends of Elune and An'she.

Sorry for not being able to provide further info

[s0elc78]

They're doing a system on a chip then.

[Woke it Up]

Screw it, I'm in.

A second khadgar appears from another timeline and he's voiced by Tim Curry.
I see it as a cross between Muppets treasure island and red alert 3. We sail to a secret Soviet base and chase down the Vindicaar. Waycrest manor gets a crossover with the Clue board game.

[Marlamin]

A second khadgar appears from another timeline and he's voiced by Tim Curry.
I see it as a cross between Muppets treasure island and red alert 3. We sail to a secret Soviet base and chase down the Vindicaar. Waycrest manor gets a crossover with the Clue board game.

Eeeeexcellent.



Honestly, I'd be up for more space stuff if it was done right.

[Sondrelk]

SoA could be Shores of Avaloren.

I do like this one, despite it's many weird choices.

Tidesage Shaman seems like it's effectively impossible. Like making all rogues gain access to Warden. Or Hunters being given Priest(ess) of Elune.

Can't imagine they would abandon Dragonriding, but then again, it might just be treated like the new regular flying, and therefore available at a later patch.

Waverider League PvP sounds impossible in the WoW engine. I would imagine that even in PvE format it would play horribly given WoW and it's intermittent relationship with hitbox collision mechanics.

No idea how Soulbound account wide transfer would work. Even more so if you have to use Inscription items to do it. If Soulbound items were supposed to be more freely transferrable the items would just be more freely transferrable. This just sounds akin to having Mounts be account wide, but require a special barding for each individual mount you make account wide.


Still though, I want to believe. Mostly by assuming the bad choices evident in the leak be due to miscommunication, as is so often the case with such leaks (Vol'jin urn adventure in BfA for instance)

[Nymrohd]

I wanted a space travel expansion after Legion with us stranded in Argus and having to take a spaceship to Azeroth. Though I wanted to have a story about Anduin as Star Trek Shatner and having him explore his young adult self with many different alien races Also we'd go to Karesh and Nihilath on the way to Azeroth but that's secondary.

[GhostFish]

From that old "Eclipse" "leak":

Second Zone: Tiral'Dozar
A snowy area, and home to a tribe of snowwhite and ashgray skinned creatures that resemble a mix between Elf and Troll. The Allaridor are a splintered people, fighting for survival in the harsh climate while clinging to a deep religious believe to their moon loa. New Dungeon: Trial of the Second Moon, Freezepeak.

An unknown moon loa matches with Q'onzu.
Q'onzu identifies as the loa of change.
Khonsu is the Egyptian god of the moon, and the name translates as "traveler".

Could be coincidence, but one heck of one.

[PotHockets]

Eeeeexcellent.



Honestly, I'd be up for more space stuff if it was done right.

I want a space expansion but one where each zone is a planet in a solar system and you have to spacedragonride to go between them. Imagine a patch zone set right before the event horizon or a black hole that has bits and pieces of multiple worlds and cultures on it.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

To me, space expansion right now sounds as unteresting as full underground expansion.

I think i have enough space for a least one more expansion.

[Wangming]

I do like this one, despite it's many weird choices.

I'm a fan of the zone descriptions and the inclusion of bard.

[Teriz]

They’ve done it plenty of times before. Nazjatar & Azjol’Nerub are two primary examples. Nazjatar having significantly more lore importance than some random goblin city.

Nazjatar was kind of doomed after how Vashj'ir was received. Azjol'Nerub was a planned zone but was split into two instances instead.

Undermine offers a neutral hub, a unique continental thematic, and it can be utilized as a questing area. It's along the same lines of Pandaria, Dragon Isles, Broken Isles, etc. Also unlike Azjol'Nerub, it isn't strongly tied to a continent that is completed content like Northrend.

[Wangming]

Just give me an ocean-based expansion with shallow tropical waters, coral reefs, deep underwater trenches, sunny beaches and stuff.

That is what SoA promises to be. If that is the real one.

[ercarp]

I mean. You had an open goal there with Storms of Avaloren, but let's go with Shores.

Storms of Avaloren would be a nice name for an expansion, but I'll be surprised if they actually use Avaloren in the title. They haven't spent much time setting it up.

[Cheezits]

From that old "Eclipse" "leak":

An unknown moon loa matches with Q'onzu.
Q'onzu identifies as the loa of change.
Khonsu is the Egyptian god of the moon, and the name translates as "traveler".

Could be coincidence, but one heck of one.

I think it's a happy coincidence, as the leak would've mentioned Q'onzu as they are not an unknown loa. More like the leaker didn't realize there was already a Khonsu reference in 10.2.

[xputurnameherex]

That hidden mount B or whatever it's called is likely that owlbear mount

[Nightshade711]

Undermine offers a neutral hub, a unique continental thematic, and it can be utilized as a questing area. It's along the same lines of Pandaria, Dragon Isles, Broken Isles, etc. Also unlike Azjol'Nerub, it isn't strongly tied to a continent that is completed content like Northrend.

Not really a unique thematic. We’ve been underground & we’ve been in goblin areas before. Sounds like a massive snoozefest.
Plus yeah, still not enough for an entire continent & I doubt any significant portion of the playerbase would enjoy an entire continent underground. Given how Zaralek & Deepholm both were received.

Nazjatar was kind of doomed after how Vashj'ir was received.

Well that’s why they took away the water for the patch. Could’ve been easily done or Nazjatar coulda been lifted out of the water for whatever reason.

Kinda hard to make such a limited underground & likely destroyed goblin area interesting enough for a whole continent.

[Cheezits]

Also: still no Nightmare Drake, huh?