Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[ImTheMizAwesome]

I want Thunderlord and Frostwolf sets on my Hunter UwU.

Same man, i've been sending feedback about those for years and still they didn't change it to cosmetic.

Thunderlord has some really cool armor pieces, but as leather it's available for rogues and monks, dh. LOL

[Xilurm]

Sure, but I still think it's a weird limitation for a system all about creativity and using 20 years of assets.

Armor in WoW always blurred the lines between what armor looks like what anyways. Maldraxxus leather has metal pieces, cloth can have giant forged steel pauldrons. Plate armor can have flowing robes. Etc.

In the same way that the removal of weapon transmog limitations meant you could finally use stuff like fist weapons more often. I want the removal of armor limitations on Transmog to mean you see far more creativity in what pieces you use.

Take the druid set from Aberrus. The HC one has a clear Nightmare theme, and wouldn't that be perfect for all kinds of Nelf classes? Even those that wouldn't normally be able to equip leather? Imagine a Nightmare themed warrior using that set. Or a priest.

I don't know, I'll have to see it to decide. But one thing that's very important to me is immersion breaking things like seeing a Priest walk in fully plated Paladin gear. I am aware you can already wear clown items, but I don't take those seriously to begin with. I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle when I talk about immersion for this game though.

The hero talents seem like a tiny taste of what "class skins" could be. Though I don't think they're going all the way with it. Like Druid has some Elune thingy, does priest have that as well?

[AOL Instant Messenger]

One thing I can definitely say in TWW's defense is that they really stepped up the design game after the real embarrassment that was Dragonflight.



Despite my dreadful distaste bordering on downright despisement of the horribly hideous humanoid nerubians, Xal'atath looks excellent. Real heavy metal, 80s fantasy king of stuff that looks like actual Warcraft to me. The only complaint I have is how smooth and pretty she looks in the cinematic model compared to the concept art; I think she'd look far better being more disheveled and creepy, with the pinkish pallor (though that's distorted due to the heavy blue light), gaunt fingers, and darker eyebags shown in the concept art.

[Xilurm]

Can we all agree that Heritage sets should remain race specific at least? Please?

[Pyrophax]

What it will be after titan will born? If ever?
Will Azeroth world be like pieces of old world?

[Xilurm]

One thing I can definitely say in TWW's defense is that they really stepped up the design game after the real embarrassment that was Dragonflight.

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Despite my dreadful distaste bordering on downright despisement of the horribly hideous humanoid nerubians, Xal'atath looks excellent. Real heavy metal stuff.

I hope she lasts a long time.

[Jekyll]

I don't know how to feel about The Warthin expansion. Is it going to be fun like Mop and Dfl or fail like WoD or Cata.

[Joszef Kiprich]

One thing I can definitely say in TWW's defense is that they really stepped up the design game after the real embarrassment that was Dragonflight.



Despite my dreadful distaste bordering on downright despisement of the horribly hideous humanoid nerubians, Xal'atath looks excellent. Real heavy metal, 80s fantasy king of stuff that looks like actual Warcraft to me. The only complaint I have is how smooth and pretty she looks in the cinematic model compared to the concept art; I think she's look far better being more disheveled and creepy, with the darker undershadow her eyes have here.

From the front you see rings, from the back they're loops?

[rainhard]

It is kind of odd that it's piercing through the cave top like a giant sword would.

That was probably the original idea but i assume they changed it during development to make more sense with the light humans and how they live there.

[Shadowferal]

So...how's that hype train? /s
Seems skepticism was more on point.

[huth]

From the front you see rings, from the back they're loops?
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Concept art. Might just be a quick way to test different options. The cloak is also way thinner on the left.

[Jaggler]

From the front you see rings, from the back they're loops?

It's not fully polished concept art, they were probably still experimenting a bit when that was made

[AOL Instant Messenger]

From the front you see rings, from the back they're loops?

Probably just testing different minor variations without wanting to make a full sheet for them. Prefer the loops myself.

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I hope she lasts a long time.

Not sure how long her snarky personality is going to last before it gets overshadowed by the perpetual wank rants about how cool the Void is, but she's definitely a breath of fresh air for the time being.

[huth]

So...how's that hype train? /s
Seems skepticism was more on point.

I dunno, i'm hooked. But the negative nancies are being a bit too annoying.

And i don't mean the dislike in itself, but the way they seem to expect everybody else to share in it.

[Sondrelk]

I don't know, I'll have to see it to decide. But one thing that's very important to me is immersion breaking things like seeing a Priest walk in fully plated Paladin gear. I am aware you can already wear clown items, but I don't take those seriously to begin with. I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle when I talk about immersion for this game though.

The hero talents seem like a tiny taste of what "class skins" could be. Though I don't think they're going all the way with it. Like Druid has some Elune thingy, does priest have that as well?

I find the important thing to remember here is that while you could in this case Transmog a mage into full Paladin gear and fool people, I really don't think this would be as something you see often. Not just because we already have toys that let you look like a different character that you can use on no cooldown, but also because players generally like looking like their class.

I imagine the population of the playerbase that wants to Transmog the Tusks of Mannoroth on their hunters is much higher than the ones whose favorite all time set is a cloth set they intend to use on all their characters.

[huth]

Probably just testing different minor variations without wanting to make a full sheet for them. Prefer the loops myself.

If you look closer, you'll notice that it's an entire different cape, not just the rings/loops-

[FelPlague]

From the front you see rings, from the back they're loops?

Welcome to concept art. It's never exact and just testing out looks.

[Joszef Kiprich]

Tbh I'm more looking forward towards Midnight and The Last Titan. It's cool they're making a trilogy but I can't shake the feeling off that if they only had presented tWW it would've been kinda meh. Would look like a bit of filler IMO.

[AOL Instant Messenger]

If you look closer, you'll notice that it's an entire different cape, not just the rings/loops-

I can see the differences, though they're a bit obfuscated by the flat space texture. Prefer the wider one viewed from the back.

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Tbh I'm more looking forward towards Midnight and The Last Titan. It's cool they're making a trilogy but I can't shake the feeling off that if they only had presented tWW it would've been kinda meh. Would look like a bit of filler IMO.

That's my feelings on the matter, as well. TWW definitely feels like another filler expansion, though so have the last few. Still, it's a decent filler expansion as far as I can tell, and I feel better going into it than I did with, say, Shadowlands.

[Joszef Kiprich]

Welcome to concept art. It's never exact and just testing out looks.

Fair enough, both versions look cool though.