Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[crusadernero]

Nah, listen to this:

Theres been alot of chromie, Nozdormu and time travelling in the game. Many think retail needs a revamp. Many think classic needs more. DF is coming to an end. WotLK (classic) is also coming to an end. Metzen is back.

11.0 will be a merged retail+ Wotlk classic xpac. Chromie takes the retail players back to where WotLK ended - The death of Arthas. WotLK players are there. Two timelines. This time Chromie takes our timeline back to the Classic WotLK one.

From there a new xpac will be launched that doesnt follow the old trail. No cata, no MoP.

No continuation of Classic, but a merge with retail.

Classic (vanilla) keeps on getting something something updates.

No, im not high.

[Jaggler]

You guys think we'll ever get a halfling (hobbit like race, not halfling as in a half breed like half elves or half orcs?) race?

I feel like it's a race that gets a decent amount of love in DnD and similar fantasy works.

I'd question, where they'd fit in with the various kind of dwarves and Gnomes around. I feel like Wildhammer Dwarves already occupy lots of their traditional "space" in terms of aesthetics.

[Azalar]

These look like they could be either K'aresh or an open area in Azeroth consumed by the void. Unless the color is purposedly tweaked to make it look like what it isn't.

[Sondrelk]

You guys think we'll ever get a halfling (hobbit like race, not halfling as in a half breed like half elves or half orcs?) race?

I feel like it's a race that gets a decent amount of love in DnD and similar fantasy works.

I find it difficult to imagine given we already have Gnomes, who occupy a similar niche. At least visually, if not thematically.
Similarly we have the Pandaren who occupy the same thematic niche, just not the visual one.

[matijwow]

Looking at the Black Empire, there's a lot of stone and Old God flesh. If the Titans and keepers shaped Kalimdor into a continent after defeating the Old Gods, maybe they piled all the chopped up Old God chunks and obelisks into a big trash pile on the other side and put a storm around it to keep the smell from getting to Kalimdor.

[Auxis]

Between Dwarves and Gnomes, I'm not sure WoW has room for it, to be honest.

That said, if they can make it work I am all for it. I would love some type of "Shire" out west in Avaloren. Especially coupled with a Bard class, hehe.

I feel like there is room between dwarves and humans. Halflings could fit that niche of human but smaller. But they'd need to make them not too childlike. The last thing we need is people going weird with it like how there the 'lala's are children' thing a part of the XIV community has (and tbh the dev's feed into it too, what with the lala lifter chair).

[Wangming]

You guys think we'll ever get a halfling (hobbit like race, not halfling as in a half breed like half elves or half orcs?) race?

I feel like it's a race that gets a decent amount of love in DnD and similar fantasy works.

If we ever get them I hope they are introduced first as an NPC race and gauged for popularity. I don't want a repeat of dracthyr.

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Exactly <3

Trust me, if I get some confirmation or more info - for sure there will be fun like with DF ^^

Well it seems the others decided to share the pictures anyway. Hope that won't get you into trouble, buddy.

[Azalar]

If we ever get them I hope they are introduced first as an NPC race and gauged for popularity. I don't want a repeat of dracthyr.

I dare say we got plenty of popularity gauging with Ethereals, Naga, Arakkoa, Vrykuls, Kvaldir, Ogres... xD

Going with the Dracthyr having all these in the queue was surely an uncanny move.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

I dare say we got plenty of popularity gauging with Ethereals, Naga, Arakkoa, Vrykuls, Kvaldir, Ogres... xD

Yeah i mean i get the idea of adding completely "new" race, but there are few races that people are literally asking for over a decade, on year more and it will be 2 decades..

If we get some offshot of dwarves in next expansion i will be very disappointed even tho currently dwarves are my second most played race.

[Wangming]

I dare say we got plenty of popularity gauging with Ethereals, Naga, Arakkoa, Vrykuls, Kvaldir, Ogres... xD

Going with the Dracthyr having all these in the queue was surely an uncanny move.

Right?

Some people here would sell their firstborn and/or violate the Geneva conventions for a simple, normal, nonvoid High Elf for the alliance and yet they give us vegan draconids that did not exist in lore before. It really boggles the mind.

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Yeah i mean i get the idea of adding completely "new" race, but there are few races that people are literally asking for over a decade, on year more and it will be 2 decades..

If we get some offshot of dwarves in next expansion i will be very disappointed even tho currently dwarves are my second most played race.

Players: Can we have Wildhammer dwarves as their own race like Dark Irons?

Blizzard: How about earthen who act like dwarves?

Players: How about wildhammer dwarves instead?

Blizzard: Oh, or taller dwarves made of stones?

Players: We want wildhammer dwarves

Blizzard: Or storm dwarves

Players: W-I-L-D-H-A-M-M-E_R

Blizzard: Dwarves afflicted by the worgen curse?

[Hitei]

Players: Can we have Wildhammer dwarves as their own race like Dark Irons?

Blizzard: How about earthen who act like dwarves?

Players: How about wildhammer dwarves instead?

Blizzard: Oh, or taller dwarves made of stones?

Players: We want wildhammer dwarves

Blizzard: Or storm dwarves

Players: W-I-L-D-H-A-M-M-E_R

Blizzard: Dwarves afflicted by the worgen curse?

Yeah, I'm pretty glad Blizzard isn't retarded enough to waste a second allied race slot on identical fucking dwarves but with tattoos.

[Azalar]

Players: Can we have Wildhammer dwarves as their own race like Dark Irons?

Blizzard: How about earthen who act like dwarves?

Players: How about wildhammer dwarves instead?

Blizzard: Oh, or taller dwarves made of stones?

Players: We want wildhammer dwarves

Blizzard: Or storm dwarves

Players: W-I-L-D-H-A-M-M-E_R

Blizzard: Dwarves afflicted by the worgen curse?

I lol'd

That's why Dracthyr are meme material. They're not even chunky and bulky enough for my edgy mind to visually recognize them as dragons and that's a big turnoff for me lol

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Players: Can we have Wildhammer dwarves as their own race like Dark Irons?

Blizzard: How about earthen who act like dwarves?

Players: How about wildhammer dwarves instead?

Blizzard: Oh, or taller dwarves made of stones?

Players: We want wildhammer dwarves

Blizzard: Or storm dwarves

Players: W-I-L-D-H-A-M-M-E_R

Blizzard: Dwarves afflicted by the worgen curse?

Yeah, it is like that with blizzard.

I feel like if they can fuckin retcon main universe stuff or other very important lore stuff in wow on a whim, then they can certainly fit specific races that players are asking about for decade to a expansion that might not be even 1:1 thematically fitting for them.

[Melorandor]

Tf are playable Ogres, and Naga yet?

[Santandame]

It definitely seemed super fake from the get go and not even in a fun way which is why I mostly ignored it. Just the elemental dwarf thing stood out cause it was at least something new. Not sure if it got actually debunked somehow but it was giving off trying to imitate scaleface vibe to me.

They were painfully trying to emulate Scaleface right down to the exact sane posting style and use of emojis.

[Kalontas]

Just went over Scaleface's pics to emphasize that they look very Outlandish and spacey. Even undergroundy to some extent.

You mean they look like the blurry old DALL-E 2?

[Wangming]

Tf are playable Ogres, and Naga yet?

Hopefully dracthyr are a precursor. I mean if they can create a humanoid race that can't show gear normally, negates a mount type due to their physiology and has access to only one class exclusive to them there is no reason why I can't have my testosterone-stuffed sea snake naga myrmidon

[Azalar]

More like the very first Dalle mini models lol

The quality is purposedly bad.

there is no reason why I can't have my testosterone-stuffed sea snake naga myrmidon

Now I want my testosterone stuffed space mummies lmfao

[Kalontas]

Or more likely, it's as fake as everything else here.

Sure, this guy has posted something real before. Which only gives more credibility when he comes out with VERY OBVIOUS FAKES, riding the coattails of his previous success. Come on, you're just seeing what you want to see.

[Azalar]

Come on, you're just seeing what you want to see.

Just like everyone else here, to be frank. Everybody wants the leaks to point at something they like and that's fair.

For one, I'm not taking any leak seriously for my sanity and all speculation is as good as any.