Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Pinksocking]

Seals of Avaloren

Rewards-
• Algarian Stormrider Mount
• Gorian cart puller Pet
• Dwarven Diving Bell Toy
• Webweaver’s Hearthstone- Cocooning effect for Hearthing

Features-
• Level 80, No New Class or Race
• Aquatic Mount Overhaul- Equivalent to Dragon riding but the focus is diving and swimming. Most aquatic mounts are able to shift to new “flying” style. Strider’s also receive their innate water walking ability back, but cannot benefit from mount equipment.
• Other mounts will also come with unique abilities, like rams and goats being able to scale mountains.
• Mount Equipment system expanded with new features including grappling/climbing
• Pet battle revamp- Pets get personality types that boost stats and "secret abilities". You can spec your pet stats now. Rare color variants can be found in the wild
• Voice and animation customization- in the creation screen choose your character’s voice and animation style. From a set list, can be changed at any time.
• Allied Race customizations expanded across the board to be on par with core races
• DPS broken into two categories- Support and Traditional DPS
o Classes aren’t getting an overhaul, more so how they are classified.

Zones
• Avaloren- Celtic-inspired island with a large focus on the fairies and untamed aspects of the dream. New Capital is here and will take some inspiration from Arthurian Legend. Watchers of Avaloren Faction-Essentially the Knights of the Round Table
• Khaz Algar- Earthen Kingdom built into a Mariana Trench-inspired zone. Despite being underwater the zone has plenty of caves and pressurized eco-domes (earthen used to withstand pressure to mine) for players to explore. Khaz Algar Dwarves have a mixture of DND Duergar and Aquatic features.
• Sea of Souls- Rocky and watery graveyard surrounding Avaloren’s coasts. Think Bermuda Triangle. Consisting of failed expeditions and wayward ships unlucky enough to find their way here. Shipwrecks aplenty, semi-aquatic zone. Expect to see a plethora of Azeroth’s history from Zandalari Naval fleets to lost Theramore Merchants. Ghost Wolves Faction- Lost Spirits of Orcs separated from their exodus to Kalimdor
No Pirates, but Ghost Pirates. World Boss here is a Ghost ship. Dragonflying fight mechanics to damage ship.
• Noth’Lob Webways- The Underside of Avaloren. A fully functioning Qiraji/Nerubian-esque city, except not in ruins. Spans the entirety of Avaloren. These are Nzoth’s creations sent to tap the latent power of Avaloren’s connection to the Dream. While the upper echelon are more arachnid-like, most creatures are based on Sea Spiders and Crustaceans. The secret behind their civilization’s longevity is the reason Odyn banned knowledge of the Black Empire.

The first raid will follow Tyr’s resurrection storyline (Spoilers for the rest of DF). Elisande experimented with Tyr’s memory disc to unlock the secrets of the titans. She discovered titan discs not only store memories/data, but can be used as a communication network. She purposely sent the disc through space and time to observe other titan worlds and civilizations.

When Tyr is resurrected, he notes that he has memories of worlds and times unfamiliar to him. He remembers a never-ending hunger that sought his memories wherever he went and brought ruin to any civilization that found the disc. Feeling responsible, he seeks to rectify this time anomaly and learn more about the presence that haunts him. (Eventual twist is that we are such presence)

With the aid of the Bronze Flight adventurers are sent to the first raid, the Sacking of Goria. Long before the Empire and South of Draenor lies the land of Goria, home to the Gorian Republic. At a time of political and military crisis, an Ogre Magi used the Disc of Tyr to declare himself dictator. Disguised as invading “barbarians”, adventurers look to restore order by sending the disc back to Elisande. Our actions are potentially the Reason the ogre’s became an Empire.

Bonus Pre-order mount is the Fulgorian Asspuller.

Lmao he pulled out ass

[micwini]

Oh, yeah, as we know, true leaks are always detailed summary of expansion xD.

should have added /s to my post. Check the last line PepeLaugh
Also WoD leak was pretty detailed

[Joszef Kiprich]

Ocho is 8. Rotate the 8 90 degrees. That's infinity ♾️

[Jaggler]

Button's frame look orcish. Like raw metall with scratches of weapon. Its associated with orcs and humans.
But there is also something that reminds me of sand.
I dont like sand.

It gets everywhere, really

Ocho is 8. Rotate the 8 90 degrees. That's infinity ♾️

Hold up. He is cooking.
I mean, i Shadowlands can be onion, an Infinite expansion could be Ocho lol

[Baedril]

Ocho almost definitely a code name. But it does give us a color scheme. And it's not purple, phew.

The colour scheme of the buttons actually reminds me of the Dragonflight buttons. A bunch of them have these similar white, marble backgrounds. Which I guess means that it tells us almost nothing

[Gwynvael]

Good afternoon, nerds! Anything new in the last 12 hours?

[Gloriandus]

ESPN 8 is called "The Ocho" in the movie Dodgeball, famous for the meme “It’s a bold move Cotton, let’s see if it pays off."

Bold move the playerbase might not like confirmed

[Jaggler]

Good afternoon, nerds! Anything new in the last 12 hours?

We be OCHO'ing

[micwini]

So OCHO must be a hint then.
The fact that the SL expansion <placeholder> was "Onion" and it produced many tears from players means we're on the right track.

[Bruxin]

Onion as a codename for shadowlands I can think of oribos as a reasoning.

But for ocho... Only the infinity symbol comes. Another idea? Something associated with the number 8 in-game that I couldn't think?

[Sabejno]

Good afternoon, nerds! Anything new in the last 12 hours?

Yes, check ercarp's list.

[Harbour]

Infinite Dragonflight then.

[FlemmMinis]

So OCHO must be a hint then.
The fact that the SL expansion <placeholder> was "Onion" and it produced many tears from players means we're on the right track.

Don't forget the many layered story

[blaatschaap]

can we retrospectively determine what dragonflights "onion"/"ocho" was, what about bfa?

[Beerplz]

There are a few more "assets" in the same .css file on the website but idk it feels a bit weird
I'm also not that "tech" savy in the webdesign field so it might be nothing

asset 1 - https://assets.worldofwarcraft.blizz...bcddfda577.png (this feels like its probably something about the mobile view/desktop view of the website ?)
asset 2 - https://assets.worldofwarcraft.blizz...257eaa1cbb.png
asset 3 - https://assets.worldofwarcraft.blizz...0affb159a0.png
asset 4 - https://assets.worldofwarcraft.blizz...18edd1bc58.png (this one is pretty weird, could totally be not related)

tbh if someone has the spare time , you could go around and search for those assets on https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/

[Bruxin]

Good afternoon, nerds! Anything new in the last 12 hours?

Ocho is the codename for the new expansion.
Onion was the codename for shadowlands.
Good luck figuring out something from this.

[KurtMash]

Is it just me, or the Ocho buttons have almost... glittery surface? With little shiny dots? Makes me think of a moon surface. What if we actually get a Moon expansion with Moon Dwarfs and everything?

[Joszef Kiprich]

Infinite timelines? We have to kill He Who Remains? Will it be Nozdormu?

[Kiria]

Infinite Dragonflight then.

Time shenanigans expansion? This I could get behind tbh.

[micwini]

There are a few more "assets" in the same .css file on the website but idk it feels a bit weird
I'm also not that "tech" savy in the webdesign field so it might be nothing

asset 1 - https://assets.worldofwarcraft.blizz...bcddfda577.png (this feels like its probably something about the mobile view/desktop view of the website ?)
asset 2 - https://assets.worldofwarcraft.blizz...257eaa1cbb.png
asset 3 - https://assets.worldofwarcraft.blizz...0affb159a0.png
asset 4 - https://assets.worldofwarcraft.blizz...18edd1bc58.png (this one is pretty weird, could totally be not related)

tbh if someone has the spare time , you could go around and search for those assets on https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com/en-us/

Something with wood.....