Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Ersula]

Remember that the devs said the Season 4 stuff would come AFTER the update, and we are getting Season 4 details on Tuesday. So... Season 4 is probably not the focus of In Development, and those usually appear after a new patch has dropped.

If the season 4 information is only minable in 10.2.6 they'll still want a post to outline it for the people who don't follow wowhead religiously.

[Throren]

side note: wow the hearthstone event is 'horrendous'

literally hundreds of people all in one spot with like no sharding - lag so bad that abilities wont go off for a whole 60 seconds after pressing the key, the mobs that spawned are killed within 2 miliseconds of spawning and due to the crazy lag, its impossible to tag them, let alone even see whats going on.

[Nymrohd]

side note: wow the hearthstone event is 'horrendous'

literally hundreds of people all in one spot with like no sharding - lag so bad that abilities wont go off for a whole 60 seconds after pressing the key, the mobs that spawned are killed within 2 miliseconds of spawning and due to the crazy lag, its impossible to tag them, let alone even see whats going on.

It is even worse in RP servers where capitals just don't shard (for RP reasons)

[Throren]

Eeyup, thats me, I'm on WrA and the Org portal that just spawned was a nightmare, it makes the awful Diablo goblin event seem like the most amazing thing ever by comparison

[Cheezits]

Eeyup, thats me, I'm on WrA and the Org portal that just spawned was a nightmare, it makes the awful Diablo goblin event seem like the most amazing thing ever by comparison

The "event" just confirmed that 10.2.5 development was probably two guys tops doing everything. Absolute skeleton crew.

We will see about 10.2.6 and 10.2.7 but 10.2.5 really was pretty crap and hastily slapped together for the roadmap.

[Hyrja]

Lots of 10.2.6 movement on the CDN the past few hours.. interesting

[Makabreska]

Lots of 10.2.6 movement on the CDN the past few hours.. interesting

What's CDN?

[doledippers]

What's CDN?

content delivery network, its how they test and push patches

u can see updates to patches on it with https://twitter.com/algalon_ghost

[milkmustache]

The "event" just confirmed that 10.2.5 development was probably two guys tops doing everything. Absolute skeleton crew.

We will see about 10.2.6 and 10.2.7 but 10.2.5 really was pretty crap and hastily slapped together for the roadmap.

Yea, this event is held together with ducktape.

[Sondrelk]

Yea, this event is held together with ducktape.

I mean, it is almost exactly a copy of the Diablo event. It even reuses the same map icons.

[milkmustache]

How was a raid tier sacrificed with SL?

Was Shadowlands not intended to have a patch for Thros?

[Nymrohd]

Was Shadowlands not intended to have a patch for Thros?

While it would make sense, I don't think we have any evidence and it's not like Blizz is telling

[micwini]

We be feasting this week!

[Dracullus]

These events are Hunter Games for wow community. They remind us how horrible things were on launches before sharding was invented.

[Nymrohd]

These events are Hunter Games for wow community. They remind us how horrible things were on launches before sharding was invented.

A big part is how awfully the community behaves.

[Makabreska]

How was a raid tier sacrificed with SL?

Don't tell me you believed that Blizz didn't combine two raids in Sepulcher and that they just happened to release out of the blue a raid with two finals bosses and with release separated by a week.

[Makorus]

Don't tell me you believed that Blizz didn't combine two raids in Sepulcher and that they just happened to release out of the blue a raid with two finals bosses and with release separated by a week.

How would there being "two final bosses" as well as there being two parts of the raid split by a week indicate that it is two raids combined into one?

[Makabreska]

How would there being "two final bosses" as well as there being two parts of the raid split by a week indicate that it is two raids combined into one?

Dunno, by ditching a tier early in development but saving some if it's bosses? Anduin was one of the main characters, so it would be highly probable for him to be a final tier boss. But then COVID and harassment scandal broke out. Sure, it may all be not true, but for them to suddenly release a tier less and announce for no reason a two-parter raid in a most lambasted expansion ever is kinda sus.

[Woggmer]

How was a raid tier sacrificed with SL?

There could've been a planned raid for Thros but was cut, not to mention there's also the same tactic they did with WoD where they cut it short to focus more into Legion.

[Varodoc]

The Gorak-Tul set-up at the end of Waycrest Manor in BfA clearly went nowhere. There was no particular reason to include the Drust in Ardenweald. They could have been generic Mawsworn and literally nothing would have changed.

I definitely smell cut content here.