Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[KyleEverett]

But yeah, in my theory 10.3 also exists. There's are also all my reasons why I think there will be a 10.3

• With the exception of WoD, all WoW's final major patch have come out after the expansion is at least 12 months old. 10.2 is coming out before Dragonflight's 1 year anniversary.
• 10.2 is not the climax to Dragonflight's story. "They can add that in 10.2.5" they add epilogue content after the raid. The actual climax of the expansion is always the raid & the story of 10.2 has nothing to do with Alexstrasza or Tyr, the actual narrative throughlines of this expansion.
• Dragonflight's raids have been smaller (number of encounters) than Shadowlands raids.
• And internal development was a lot more hectic during Shadowlands than it is now.

Your entire premise is they somehow deliver an entire content patch with a full raid in May or so and then do a full alpha and beta cycle before the end of the year and that is something they have NEVER done. The closest we've gotten is 9.3 to 10.0 and there's no way this tier is over in February.

[Nightshade711]

They should have saved the Dawn of the infinite patch for until after 10.2.
Then they could have used that storyline to justify the fated season & the affixes.

[Kneckt95]

this guy


I rate this leak 5 bananas/ Blue eyed bolvar

The amount of hopium I have for this being true....

[Well Done Steak]

IF it is underground either it has to be a hallow earth situation, or only partially underground.

Otherwise, no way we're getting 5 flavors of deepholm with a side of zaralek

[Vakir]

The amount of hopium I have for this being true....

The guy literally said it was fake and he did it to make us stop with the riddles.

Anyway, if they really needed to extend things out til 11.0 but needed a glut of content that wasn't necessarily a raid in that timeframe, you would what could be a candidate?

Evergreen world revamp content.

Just saiyan.

[bruxx]

The guy literally said it was fake and he did it to make us stop with the riddles.

Anyway, if they really needed to extend things out til 11.0 but needed a glut of content that wasn't necessarily a raid in that timeframe, you would what could be a candidate?

Evergreen world revamp content.

Just saiyan.

If we want to go filler content, why not do a fated raid from a previous expansion? Like timewalking but balanced a bit more tightly

[Dismayxz]

Thank fuck I got you all to shut up about that binary shit. Now the thread is actually readable again. Mission accomplished.

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[Izalla]

dude's name? I totally missed this somehow o.o

It's funny that he posted literally right after you.

[Walrusking]

We are so desperate for leaks two days before the reveal we are wasting time with some dickheads fake riddles. At least Algarstorms admitted he made it up days ago.

[Bliznit2882]

Really interesting we haven't seen anything from media leak yet. Guess blizzard have kept a tight ship so far.

[kavikor]

If you recall, BfA was an August expansion, and it had 4 full raids, not Shadowland's 3 raids. BfA actually lasted about 28 months. If that was going to be the case for DF you'd be looking at a March 2025 expansion and we all know that ain't happening.

So when faced with the fact they want an expansion released next year and they know players loathe and I mean LOATHE year long droughts, I really don't see them making season 3 and fated last 6 months each.

If season 3 and fated in DF last as long as they did in Shadowlands we're looking at a July pre-patch.

Legion was also an August release

[Baraden]

Holy shit, bard leak actually real?

[Stonecloak]

Holy shit, bard leak actually real?

OMG that crit!

[Leowyld]

Thank fuck I got you all to shut up about that binary shit. Now the thread is actually readable again. Mission accomplished.

If it bothered you so much, you shouldn't have started with it. (Doesn't kind of remind anyone of the "fight" Algarstorms and mage had... and the one last night between workwork and the other brand new account who worked at BlizzCon to support his posts... yeah...)

[KyleEverett]

Legion was also an August release

Indeed but most people assume Legion was a one off for content launching with two full raids ready to go after WoD was abandoned. If we looked at Legion pacing we'd be in 10.3 already not just hitting 10.2.

[kavikor]

But yeah, in my theory 10.3 also exists. Here are all my reasons why I think there will be a 10.3

• With the exception of WoD, all WoW's final major patch have come out after the expansion is at least 12 months old. 10.2 is coming out before Dragonflight's 1 year anniversary.
• 10.2 is not the climax to Dragonflight's story. "They can add that in 10.2.5" they add epilogue content after the raid. The actual climax of the expansion is always the raid & the story of 10.2 has nothing to do with Alexstrasza or Tyr, the actual narrative throughlines of this expansion.
• Dragonflight's raids have been smaller (number of encounters) than Shadowlands raids.
• And internal development was a lot more hectic during Shadowlands than it is now.

I just dont think we are gonna see 10.3 at all.

I think we may even see Christ Metzen go up on stage and say, "We're trying something new, our expansion cycle will be 12/16/18 months between releases" because they haven't been able to keep up the old 4 raids in an expansion for 4 years now.

[bruxx]

Holy shit, bard leak actually real?

If we are getting old april fools made real, I demand the wisps!

[Nuami]

Stopped lurking, is this the part where I create a bunch of leak bullet points and leave a riddle in binary? I could also generate some AI images if that would help. Just learning the initiation ritual here.

[Ersula]

Your entire premise is they somehow deliver an entire content patch with a full raid in May or so and then do a full alpha and beta cycle before the end of the year and that is something they have NEVER done. The closest we've gotten is 9.3 to 10.0 and there's no way this tier is over in February.

Considering how short 10.2's ptr cycle was, they could absolutely do this. Although I don't think they would need to. Have you noticed that WoW now has 2 completely separate public testing servers since Shadowlands season 4? And the internal Alpha is always happening while they're working on the final major patch of an expansion; it just isn't the public phase yet.

10.2.5 is already on the ptr vendor, so its about a week away.
10.2.5 release & 10.2.7 on the ptr late January/early February
10.2.7 release & 10.3 on the ptr late March/early April, just like the patch cadence of 2023
If they skip 10.3.5 the beta can start as soon as 10.3 is out. That gives them 5 months of 11.0 beta for a November release

Are we forgetting the Dragonflight Beta was less than 2 months long? (September 1st beta beings, October 25th 10.0 released)

think we may even see Christ Metzen go up on stage and say, "We're trying something new, our expansion cycle will be 12/16/18 months between releases" because they haven't been able to keep up the old 4 raids in an expansion for 4 years now.

It's only been 3 years since BFA

[milkmustache]

Really interesting we haven't seen anything from media leak yet. Guess blizzard have kept a tight ship so far.

Don't speak so soon; those leaks were always most likely to spill within the days closest to Blizzcon; so tomorrow, Thursday, or day of.

But you're right, everything (aside from the screenshot claim) has just been text writeups.