Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Ersula]

That's part of why I'm so angry at the prospect of no 10.3, but the timeframe doesn't exactly exist for a 6 season 3 and then a proper alpha for another October/November pre-patch. With season 3 not starting until mid-November we're literally out of time.

What do you mean? Is there any reason not to think DF season 3 & 4 are about the same length as seasons 1 & 2? 10.0 was November, 10.1 was May, 10.2 is November, then 10.3 or a fated season is in May again.

[matijwow]

HotV i could see that name, but we need to see the damn proof

Uunat in Crucible of Storms is called "Harbinger of the Void." The same raid has a quote from N'Zoth:

Receive now the greatest of all gifts. My dream has become your own. The circle of stars made flesh.

Since Titans are little star circles that turn into metal, and curse of the flesh made metal beings fleshy, maybe he planned on dying as a distraction while Xal'atath goes to corrupt Azeroth.

[bruxx]

Why is no one talking about the EU gear store leak from a couple of hours ago? I refuse to have seen that in two completely seperate discords but not in here? too busy looking at 0001100101110000 shit or what?

11.0 is Harbinger of the Void. There were 2 shirts put on there for a brief moment during the store refresh. One was just the logo (similar to DF but with daggers or spikes and purple smoke on the sides rather than wings) and another was of an elf silhouette surrounded by purple.

Also a D4 shirt that was called Flames of Hatred.

If you don't have any evidence, at the very least link the discord where the discussion about said leak is happening, Mr. 1 post

[kavikor]

Well?

Any images?

I think hes just screwing with us rn.

I dont see anything else about it

why wouldnt he just come in and post it?

Instead he made a new account to post a paragraph about it

[Nightshade711]

From your logic, most races use magic, so artificer could be any race. Perhaps they would give Goblins and Gnomes their own skins with a quest or something to feel like tinkers.

My personal wish would be for racial art assets to change for the races that have defined unique technology.
And/or
Full set of customization for a mech and/or technology.

Though I could also see artificer using most if not all of the races technology together. (Kind of like how Evoker is all of the dragonflights together)

Maybe they’d be split up by spec for main themes (while still being able to use other specs tech obv)
Goblin: DPS, Gnome: Tank, Draenei/Elf: Heal (or DPS support)

[Wangming]

Theres nothing I can find on Twitter or Reddit about any leak relating to Harbinger of the Void

Same here. I'd call it a bust. 0 for effort

[Sondrelk]

Same here. I'd call it a bust. 0 for effort

Was fun for the five minutes it seemed real though.

[Leowyld]

He did. He said he was mistaken and the banner was definitely for the Darkmoon Faire. It appears to be the troll woman who shows up in Hearthstone.

Yep. And he went offline and shortly after the binary riddle person had their very first post. Just like this store leak thing. Very first post, brand new profile.

[Keyalios]

To be fair, it’s also Nightborne arcane smiths that control the various mechanical constructs in Suramar.

It’d be a good class for races like Nightborne and LF Draenei who have low population numbers.

TBF we need more than a good class, we need some models that don't look horrid for males for NB.

[Puupi]

Solve My Riddle...SMR....ASMR....Whispering Bard class confirmed.

Tingler
/10chars

[Leowyld]

Was fun for the five minutes it seemed real though.

Not when I saw it was a brand new profile posting that as its first post. We've seen enough of that over the past few days, it's become a pattern.

[Nightshade711]

I hope it is a pet based, but honestly.

I think it would have too much overlap, because Tinkers should be able to use guns.

I could see a “pet based” spec being similar to TF2 Engineer and/or symmetra where you’d be focusing on building/upgrading machines. (Turrets, teleporters, support stuff. Maybe mobile robots too idk)

[KyleEverett]

What do you mean? Is there any reason not to think DF season 3 & 4 are about the same length as seasons 1 & 2? 10.0 was November, 10.1 was May, 10.2 is November, then 10.3 or a fated season is in May again.

There's a certain minimum amount of time between a final patch and an expansion. 9.2 came out in February for a November expansion release. You aren't going to get a May 10.3 and a November expansion.

[Keyalios]

Pet based would be ideal.

One spec in a mecha, one spec with a pet.

In my ideal world we would have both a mech spec for DPS and one for tank. And it would be fully customizable. But it would be way too much work.

[Chickat]

Why would they want 11.0 out by summer? If I were blizzard, I would want the benefit of the november anniversary hyping up the expansion release sales.

The most coherent argument for this is them shifting to annual expansions, but for wow, surely any benefit from annual expansion sales would be undermined by communities reaction to that transparent cash grab. Those of us who paid full price for Dragonflight didn't know we were only buying 75% of an expansion.There's a decent chance Flames of Hatred is the name of Season 3, but the first 2 seasons didn't get merch & we already know there isn't going to be a Diablo 4 expansion presentation: There's no "What's next" panel for Diablo 4.

You got your moneys worth out of the launch content so don't give me that. Box price pays for launch content. Sub pays for patches. Its so dishonest, and too many people that that mindset.

[matijwow]

The Argunite crystals that the Draenei used to power their mechs on Argus are just the Argus version of Azerite. BfA also had a lot of Azerite + Technology.

If we go underground, it would make sense to have more of that.

[Nightshade711]

Pet based would be ideal.

One spec in a mecha, one spec with a pet.

In my ideal world we would have both a mech spec for DPS and one for tank. And it would be fully customizable. But it would be way too much work.

I could see it though, with all the work they put into the Evoker, dragonriding, boomkin, and miscellaneous customizations throughout the xpac I don’t know how hard customizable mechs would be to implement.

[kavikor]

You got your moneys worth out of the launch content so don't give me that. Box price pays for launch content. Sub pays for patches. Its so dishonest, and too many people that that mindset.

Im pretty bummed with the 3 season expansions too though.

They changed the formula on us out of nowhere and never specified, it was forgivable in Shadowlands because of Covid and work from home and stuff, but to do it again in Dragonflight felt bad. I know its their game and they can do whatever they want, but they also need to communicate major changes like shortening expansions or changing cadence. This is on the extreme side, but who is to say next expansion we get only 2 unique raids and they give us 2 seasons of fated? That's objectively less content.

Just like if we don't have the expansion out by Summer, that's objectively less content we have for the same box price/amount of time we would've previously had a whole new raid, tier, system, etc., unless 10.3 is secretly coming and they (weirdly) didnt want to confirm it??

[bitterwinter]

I don't think they intended to make Dragonflight as short as it is with 10.2 being the last major patch. A while ago there was a post on Twitter by a dev talking about due to staff turnover they're having to make crisis maps of what they can and cannot ship. Unfortunate, but the industry is turbulent at the moment to say the least.

[kavikor]

I don't think they intended to make Dragonflight as short as it is with 10.2 being the last major patch. A while ago there was a post on Twitter by a dev talking about due to staff turnover they're having to make crisis maps of what they can and cannot ship. Unfortunate, but the industry is turbulent at the moment to say the least.

I don't think so either, but at some point it kind of feels like... Why not just be transparent about it and then work on how to address it? Whether its polling the community to see what in-between content we want, or trying out some funky design thing they've wanted to experiment with, or just telling us. Cause if we have to wait til next november to see an expansion and its a year of no new raid/pve content besides fated and some quest... I'm gonna fall off the game pretty hard unless we get some crazy/fun experimental stuff or some good filler