Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Gwynvael]

I really, really wish the Void-y AI stage photos, Scaleface's images and Whispers of the Void were real.

[Shadochi]

being on 2222 is an honor.

I remain positive even though @Shadochi killed the hype (no offense :P)

Oh I completely agree, thats why I was contemplating over the weekend if I should share that info (had to do a dice role in the end for final decision as I often do)

[Polybius]

about that synthwave youtube video. periodically nozdormu opens a portal somewhere. can anyone identify the location? there seems to be some void tentacle on a beach at the place, but the video is kinda unclear.

Probably Florida with its proximity to the Bermuda Triangle.

In all honesty, I'm not sure.

[Zankai27]

Wait, what did Shadochi reveal?

[KayRule]

https://www.wowhead.com/item=205462/...nerubian-capsa

Yeah, I felt like all of the items you find in Kalec's WQ where you dive in the pools are hints for a future expansion.

[Teriz]

Would you be okay with Avaloren if it's 12.0 and we get another expansion of build up before we go there?

Sure, if they also tell us more about it and actually show people what an Avaloren actually is.

[PotHockets]

I still standby that trailer being an easy top three pick for its use of colour, and how it tells a simple story that leads us very naturally into the next expansion.

The biggest problem with the Shadowlands cinematic is that it promises a story that SL doesn't live up to. Like Shadowlands should have been Sylvanas actually trying to break some endless cosmic cycle of torture that only she could see this whole time from when she died after jumping from Icecrown. It should have been her swan song and then kill her off at the end and let the character finish strong but instead we got what we got and it's just rough as hell.

[Pheraz]

Wait, what did Shadochi reveal?

He said he was a microsoft man with blizz friends whos friends friends friends said the "epic"-four-zones-plus-white-druid-travel-form-plus-captain-planet-dw0rf-leak is real

[Shadochi]

Wait, what did Shadochi reveal?

Some 3rd hand info that even I believe might not be accurate https://www.mmo-champion.com/threads...1#post54280403

[Colonel Sandor]

Was contemplating on saying this since its 3rd hand info (so take it as you will).
Over the weekend I got 3rd hand confirmation (colleague of an ex-colleague type of thing) that the Features Overview screens are real.
As I said take this with a 50kg bag of salt since its literally a "friend of a friend" situation.(Even I am not taking it 100% for serious)
Tbh if true then I am a bit disappointed at least from the small subarea we can see of each zone. The wasteland one looks cool, but others are very basic.

So what you're saying is we should take this 100% seriously.

[ercarp]

Oh I completely agree, thats why I was contemplating over the weekend if I should share that info (had to do a dice role in the end for final decision as I often do)

One thing that makes me doubt the zone screenshots a little is that the user who posted them on Reddit has less total karma on their account (1377) than the post they made has upvotes (2516), indicating they were heavily in the negative (i.e. farmed a lot of downvotes) prior to posting the leak. A person who enjoys farming downvotes probably enjoys trolling people with fake leaks as well...

It also tells us that they deliberately cleaned out their post history (since they have no other posts despite their account having been created in 2021) to make themselves appear more credible.

I also have confirmation from one of the /r/wow mods that they had tried to post the image about 2 hours earlier and had to repost it after it was removed by the automod for having an all-caps title. This doesn't tell us much, except it confirms them as the original source (as opposed to the post on MMO-Champion) and that they were quite eager to share their leak and get people's reactions on it.

[Shadochi]

He said he was a microsoft man with blizz friends whos friends friends friends said the "epic"-four-zones-plus-white-druid-travel-form-plus-captain-planet-dw0rf-leak is real

ex-MS that still has contacts in such companies

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So what you're saying is we should take this 100% seriously.

exactly that

[micwini]

ex-MS that still has contacts in such companies

If it is a proper person, it could also them purposfully stating that it's real to hide the actual real thing.

[Chickat]

Im really sad that convention setup pic is fake. It looks real when viewed on a phone. I eas hyped for a min.

[Sondrelk]

ex-MS that still has contacts in such companies

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exactly that

We were told no pirates, though. And you are very clearly a pirate. So maybe they knew about this leak ahead of time, and deliberately gave you false Intel.

[McCallahan]

ex-MS that still has contacts in such companies

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exactly that

Can you post what features overview screen you're referencing?

[Shadochi]

If it is a proper person, it could also them purposfully stating that it's real to hide the actual real thing.

Yup one of my many theories (and what I hope for tbh).

[micwini]

Yup one of my many theories (and what I hope for tbh).

Same! Where is your sig? Join us.

[Shadochi]

Can you post what features overview screen you're referencing?

The zone screenshots that are usually part of the feature overview trailer https://imgur.com/a/UYBclr0

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Same! Where is your sig? Join us.

Think it got removed back during 9.0 hype season due to being too big, will change it now since I see I havent updated it in years

[Ferlion]

I mean, and I don't expect this to revealed, it's just a sort of "here's the thing".

Not everyone at MS is going to know what the Expansion is suddenly. So it's more than possible that someone is just putting things on. Like, there are likely departments within Blizzard proper that isn't fully aware of what the next expansion is, much less someone from MS.

So definitely 100% take it seriously