Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Marlamin]

So we think thats fake now?

The other stage image? We don't know. As shown in other examples it's possible to get pretty damn close with AI images from DALL-E/Bing that generate pretty similar features (floor, forklifts, lights, boxes, workers etc) and with some postprocessing to e.g. add in the bins from the official set tease and fix up some other details and add blur to cover up AI messups it may very well be fake. But, at the end of the day we simply don't know. Just because it could relatively easy be faked isn't automatically the same as it being fake, the same as something being harder to fake (e.g. the 4 screens) not automatically being real either.

[ercarp]

Oh look, 22mage pretends to be the SoA guy by using leaked Spiritborn D4 class.
So, Sands of A....?

I'm all for believing that @22mage22 is every leaker all at once, but this is actually the original Spiritborn leaker posting. Check their post history.

[Moth Preacher]

Just played 20 minutes with different prompts and some were very close to the "stage leak". Still boxes are much more scuffed

[Ebonn]

It's not about being whacky, it's about the image generation software making errors. Issues with perspective can arise from photography, but not that many. Has nothing to do with building a stage and everything to do with the AI software not making distinctions between where the boxes should end and the floor should start. AI software does not know what a box is, it has a library of boxes it tries to replicate based on the prompts, but it's currently imperfect and makes errors like what you see.

What errors? Please be specific. Because most, if not all, that I have seen pointed out are not solid enough to use as proof. Any that have been pointed out so far I can easily explain, and I’m not saying it is real or Im a genius. I’m not. I’m just saying if you’re gonna make a claim of something is certain then the proof needs to be ironclad. All those boxes look real to me. Please, prove me wrong, I think it’s all ugly and don’t want to see that as the next expac lol.

[Azalar]

The other stage image? We don't know. As shown in other examples it's possible to get pretty damn close with AI images from DALL-E/Bing that generate pretty similar features (floor, forklifts, lights, boxes, workers etc) and with some postprocessing to e.g. add in the bins from the official set tease and fix up some other details and add blur to cover up AI messups it may very well be fake. But, at the end of the day we simply don't know. Just because it could relatively easy be faked isn't automatically the same as it being fake, the same as something being harder to fake (e.g. the 4 screens) not automatically being real either.

It kinda saddens me that we're never believing any image anymore. It's all now AI misinformation

[Moth Preacher]

Kinda fun to see how AI view WoW logos
https://imgur.com/a/C94VRsR

[Gwynvael]

It kinda saddens me that we're never believing any image anymore. It's all now AI misinformation

I believe we're gonna get a gigaleak any minute.

*huffs copium*

[Harbour]

I managed to decrypt this. It translates into binary which translates into "Prison of Khaz".

Tells us nothing.

So, i turned on my vibing sensor and cooked up following connection:
Khaz may mean Khaz'goroth
Khaz'goroth is a worldshaper
Prison of Khaz may mean the world-prison shaped by Khaz'goroth
Khaz'goroth gave the power to Earth Aspect
Iridikron is also Earth affilate character and Neltharion's rival
Maybe Prison of Khaz is Azeroth itself
Place to seclude the worst things in the universe
And all keepers that supposedly were created to protect Azeroth actually was meant to be the jailers.

Which factually is something we already know (Keepers keep Old Gods in their prisons), so yeah, it factually tells us nothing new. Except for maybe that we will go deeper inside the planet, since all of this is deeply connected to the earth itself.

[Hygardt]

- Avaloren is not the next expansion
- SoA acronym has already been leaked
- WoW Synthwave Beats to Chill To l Together at BlizzCon is a clue.

The sands reveal all secrets.

Secrets of Azeroth? Time travel expansion to pre-sundering Azeroth where we find out more stuff about the Titans' true intentions?

Wouldn't mind that.

[workworkzugzug]

Hi friends, i'm back with a question.

is there any art of xal'atath in the style of the alexstrasza dragonflight image? i saw someone roll up a banner and put it away that had a elf on it that i assume was xal'atath

she was holding an orb (planet?) in her hands, she was smirking and her eyes were glowing purple. or is there any art related to the darkmoon faire that share these features? if not, i may just have seen something 11.0 related

it was really, really good looking, like a fantastic piece of art, that is why this felt like the alexstrasza images that leaked early before the dragonflight announcement, same art style

[Chickat]

The other stage image? We don't know. As shown in other examples it's possible to get pretty damn close with AI images from DALL-E/Bing that generate pretty similar features (floor, forklifts, lights, boxes, workers etc) and with some postprocessing to e.g. add in the bins from the official set tease and fix up some other details and add blur to cover up AI messups it may very well be fake. But, at the end of the day we simply don't know. Just because it could relatively easy be faked isn't automatically the same as it being fake, the same as something being harder to fake (e.g. the 4 screens) not automatically being real either.

Its funny that we are a few days away and have no really solid leaks. This is the first time we have made it it this far i think.

[Murlocos]

WoD was huge and hype though. They just fell flat on execution.

The advertising was huge and hype. The actual game itself was abandoned before it even launched; I can't think of any other expac that just kept shrinking over and over compared to the announcement as alpha and beta went on. Now we wistfully reminisce how if WoD only had every single promised feature, as well as M+ and three extra major patches, it could have been good. You know, unlike every other expansion with those same caveats.

[Cheezits]

Hi friends, i'm back with a question.

is there any art of xal'atath in the style of the alexstrasza dragonflight image? i saw someone roll up a banner and put it away that had a elf on it that i assume was xal'atath

she was holding an orb (planet?) in her hands, she was smirking and her eyes were glowing purple. or is there any art related to the darkmoon faire that share these features? if not, i may just have seen something 11.0 related

it was really, really good looking, like a fantastic piece of art, that is why this felt like the alexstrasza images that leaked early before the dragonflight announcement, same art style

Can't think of anything like that, would be really nice if Xal is the poster character for 11.0.

[Marlamin]

It kinda saddens me that we're never believing any image anymore. It's all now AI misinformation

That is likely the standard going forward. With the rise of AI as well as better modding tools for WoW (only the latter which I greatly appreciate) it's going to get increasingly harder to debunk/verify things until they're officially announced.

I'm also expecting far more emotions than usual because, ironically, people seem to be sticking to "100% real" or "100% fake" far more even with all this uncertainty.

Leak seasons definitely won't be the same as previous years, that's for sure.

Its funny that we are a few days away and have no really solid leaks. This is the first time we have made it it this far i think.

Fun, isn't it? We'll see whether or not any slipped through the cracks and/or ended up being real in less than a week, provided none show up.

[KyleEverett]

Hi friends, i'm back with a question.

is there any art of xal'atath in the style of the alexstrasza dragonflight image? i saw someone roll up a banner and put it away that had a elf on it that i assume was xal'atath

she was holding an orb (planet?) in her hands, she was smirking and her eyes were glowing purple. or is there any art related to the darkmoon faire that share these features? if not, i may just have seen something 11.0 related

it was really, really good looking, like a fantastic piece of art, that is why this felt like the alexstrasza images that leaked early before the dragonflight announcement, same art style

I wanna believe so hard haha.

[Puupi]

Sons of Azeroth

The newly datamined demonbike models are the clue.

[McCallahan]

Since some still believe that image could even possibly be real, here's the giveaway that it's fake.

img ur.com/a/GvPRNUX

Bottom left: tape on a top where there's no flaps meeting. Not how boxes work.

Left side above: weirdly shaped box and pallet that merges into the floor. Not how physics works.

Left middle: weirdly shape gray and wood pallets merging into eachother. Unless they went through the teleporter from The Fly...

Middle: weird shapeless blob, idk this one is not definitive proof like the others but rather one of many weird artifacts.

Right: forklift is not carrying anything, it just has a weird shape attached to its front.

Bottom right: The grey pallet appears to be above the bottom wood one, but is not on top of anything. The perspective is completely off and the most obvious artifact of it being AI.

It's just, really, really obviously fake. Bookmark this post if you don't believe me. We'll see this friday.

[Ferlion]

Hi friends, i'm back with a question.

is there any art of xal'atath in the style of the alexstrasza dragonflight image? i saw someone roll up a banner and put it away that had a elf on it that i assume was xal'atath

she was holding an orb (planet?) in her hands, she was smirking and her eyes were glowing purple. or is there any art related to the darkmoon faire that share these features? if not, i may just have seen something 11.0 related

it was really, really good looking, like a fantastic piece of art, that is why this felt like the alexstrasza images that leaked early before the dragonflight announcement, same art style

that's the first thing that comes up when you google Xalanth fan art, by the way

https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comment...nart_xalatath/

[Murlocos]

Reject Shores of Avaloren, embrace Shores of Azeroth: world revamp for all Azeroth continents, but only on the coastlines

[workworkzugzug]

Can't think of anything like that, would be really nice if Xal is the poster character for 11.0.

if anyone finds something similar to it, or some other wow images that sounds vaguely similar in pose and such atleast, please tag me here so i can confirm. this felt new though