Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Teriz]

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

Check Hearthstone. Could be one of their legendary cards.

[Harbour]

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

Like that? Its fan art. There is no official one.
https://i.redd.it/yw2mr3ddqsc31.jpg

[workworkzugzug]

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

oh no it was way more up close, you only saw her upper body, she was looking 'at you' so to say

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i will make a very vague, bad microsoft paint drawing in abit to show off what i mean in terms of pose

[Shadochi]

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.

Dont think so, wasn't BfA confirmed only the morning (EU time) of Blizzcon with the trademarked. The text post was either same day or day before

[Ferlion]

oh no it was way more up close, you only saw her upper body, she was looking 'at you' so to say

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i will make a very vague, bad microsoft paint drawing in abit to show off what i mean in terms of pose

We'll see. Could be fun. Knaifu is a fan favorite.

[Shadochi]

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.

To be honest this lead up is my favorite part, everything is real and fake at the same time

[kavikor]

I keep checking 4chan (gods have mercy on my soul) and this just dropped. Take it with a gigaton of salt, it's 4chan...

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No Avaloren. The expansion is actually a world revamp, but only of the Eastern Kingdoms, not Kalimdor.

Six zones, five made up of merged EK zones, and Khaz Algar, which the "leaker" compares to Suramar.

Khaz Algar is located deep beneath EK via a giant fissure.

New race: Algarians, basically playable elementals that use the dwarf skeleton. Storm, Earth and Fire Algarians are playable, but no water ones (but a Vashj'ir revamp is patch content so maybe they'll show up there).

Lots and lots of new character customization options

New demon hunter spec: Torment. A mid-range DPS that uses a scythe (but not as an equipable weapon, leaker compares it to outlaw rogue's pistol). Leaker doesn't think its a support spec.

Shaman for every race, including dracthyr. No idea about druids.

No player housing.

The new big gameplay system is a redesign of glyphs that work like a talent tree "but in depth changes for spells."

No faction specific content in EK, everything's neutral now with a big focus on race specific content, like racial talent trees.

Both the glyph and race talent trees are "not power related."
Khaz Algar is "very very deep and far" beneath the EK. You access it via "super speed dragonriding."
Algarians don't look like dwarves, they're very different to the point it's hard to tell they use the same skeleton

As far as the leaker knows, Iridikron, Azshara, Xal'atath, and Denathrius (someone asked if any of them would show up) are NOT in the expansion.

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Just putting it out here.

Im fairly certain this is 22mage22 word for word with better grammar

[Woggmer]

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

Let me guess, the new class will be Lifeguards and we're on beach patrol against the Naga? With a shaman played by David Hasselhoff?

[Harbour]

With AI Blizzard themselves may do a lot of fake leaks to screw around with thirsty players, and do them very easily and basically for free.

[KyleEverett]

oh no it was way more up close, you only saw her upper body, she was looking 'at you' so to say

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i will make a very vague, bad microsoft paint drawing in abit to show off what i mean in terms of pose

Just don't break any NDAs with pay fines.

[ercarp]

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

That's what I've been saying for years. It's about time they gave us some new sand textures!

[Moth Preacher]

I wonder what kind of leak it should be to convince majority of people. Not dracthyr, that's for certain

[kavikor]

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

So what do you think about that if its the D4 leaker?

[McCallahan]

Here's another really obvious example of why it's ai:

img ur.com/a/4zvGSyJ

There's tape across the box but not over where the flap meets. The left flap appears to be much smaller than the right, which makes no sense.

When you understand why these errors occur, it becomes very obvious. The AI program does not know what a box is, or what tape is, or what flaps are. All it's doing is pulling from it's massive library of trained images to try and recreate why it's database has listed as "cardboard box." That's why you get errors where there's tape where there shouldn't be. No one is putting that much tape on one part of the flap and not where both flaps meet.

[Monkal]

I'd rather see the cosmic forces presented in this way tbh. Each cosmic force can have its own good guys and bad guys, rather than the force itself being all or nothing.

I agree, and i also think it'd be interesting if these Force-aligned characters remained as fixtures on the setting instead of just being the focus of an expansion.

Imagine if the Sporemound takes over Swamp of Sorrows, let's say, and stays there, occasionally becoming part of the strory but otherwise being a background element (I'm thinking of smth like Bolvar after WoTLK and before SL). I think it'd also be a good compromise to those players who would rather never have to deal with Cosmic Stuff: keep spots of that theme around Azeroth, but don't go all the way in in dealing with the Forces themselves.

[Marlamin]

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

Great, more global warming propaganda!

(This is sarcasm)

[Magistrate]

With AI Blizzard themselves may do a lot of fake leaks to screw around with thirsty players, and do them very easily and basically for free.

What would be their financial incentive to pay someone to do this?

[Harbour]

Snorts of Avaloren.

[kavikor]

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

I believe in the screenshots!

I just call what looks like AI what it is, but those screenshots just are too put together you know

[McCallahan]

I have no thoughts on whether any of these text leaks are real or not, I literally made this account to post about the obvious AI because so many people were buying obviously fake AI art.