Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Cheezits]

What do we think the new items will be? AFAIK no new pirate items were datamined before.

[Ersula]

What do we think the new items will be? AFAIK no new pirate items were datamined before.

Honestly the amount of pirate transmog items already obtainable is pretty lit. The actual pirate factions could use some work. Especially those undead zandalari.

[Throren]

actual new HD eyepatches that arent from vanilla and constrained to just leather and mail classes would be nice

[Scyth]

I'd say the actual important news is that we will get a S4 PTR probably next week

That's good too, although nothing about S4 really has me excited tbh. Fates raids are not particularly interesting unless they decide to spice it up and make it raids from older expansions, which would be pretty cool.
The 10.2.7 event is what I am looking forward to!

Tbh any news is welcome at this point lol

[Enrif]

I say it here again: Before everyone dooms and glooms because the event is "limited-time": We always had limited time patch events shortly before a new expansion releases. Pre-Patch Events, anyone remember? If this time-limited event lasts until TWW launches, it is probably a better thought out pre-patch event.

[Throren]

I say it here again: Before everyone dooms and glooms because the event is "limited-time": We always had limited time patch events shortly before a new expansion releases. Pre-Patch Events, anyone remember? If this time-limited event lasts until TWW launches, it is probably a better thought out pre-patch event.

Except this isnt the pre-patch nor is this the pre-patch event, there are still two entire patches before TWW officially launches (10.2.7 and the pre-patch itself) which will no doubt have an actual pre-patch event related to the plot of TWW.

This would be akin to like.....the Forbidden Reach being a limited time thing, or the Gilneas/Amirdrassil quests being limited time only. It makes no sense and is just a waste of dev resources

[Enrif]

Except this isnt the pre-patch nor is this the pre-patch event, there are still two entire patches before TWW officially launches (10.2.7 and the pre-patch itself) which will no doubt have an actual pre-patch event related to the plot of TWW.

This would be akin to like.....the Forbidden Reach being a limited time thing, or the Gilneas/Amirdrassil quests being limited time only. It makes no sense and is just a waste of dev resources

Wait and see. Perhaps they skip the typical pre-patch event and give us something more meaty, and earlier. We'll see next week.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Fuck, good that i went to bed.

It took few more hours just to make short message? All they had to do, was just to post "march 19" on usual news hours on every social media if they wanted to go that route, it would work better.
Still, development update and only having this is kinda hilarious and hinting that it's limited time event.

But the biggest bummer is like i said before for me is the non global release for this kind of patch, like i im used to 1 day later releases for EU for all other content, but something like that should be out at the same time for everyone, no matter if the content will be timegated or not.

[Super Dickmann]

The amount of handwringing and conversation that's been going on for not even a secondary but a tertiary patch that'll likely include five mog appearances, ten mins of quests and has previously sported things like bugfixes or the first go at timewalking baffles me.

[Lahis]

Also double pointless since EU players have to wait a whole day, meaning this entire "secrecy" act was only for the NA players and the rest of the world will be spoiled by twitter anyways

Americans don't care about the rest of the world anyways, so as long as NA gets the intented experience, they Gucci.

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Other than that I'm disappointed we didn't learn anything about 10.2.7 today, was hoping we'd get more info on that.

Ye that is the strange part. If 10.2.6 is just a FOMO event that will be gone in few weeks, and the S4 stuff we already know, why not tell atleast something about 10.2.7 and beyond if they bother to schedule a dev update into their calendar?

[Lahis]

I'm just curious why it's time limited. Was that an executive order? The only way the experimental team could the resources to do this?

Taking notes from the gacha game playbook where limited time FOMO events are the constant source of MAUs (and stress to players).

[Nize]

Some people are like: "what do you mean, Blizzard hasn't hyped this up at all, it's all on you for setting the wrong expectations!".

Meanwhile, a Lead Software Engineer on Twitter: "So. God. Damn. Excited. See you there."

If this event doesn't blow people's socks off, I think it's definitely fair to place the blame on Blizzard for the way their developers are discussing the patch.

It's possible that the content might be crap, but it's using new tech they're excited about that will see better use in TWW. I just have this feeling that whatever this limited time event is more of scratching the surface for its use in TWW. I just don't believe that they'd put a lot of effort into a short event.

[Makabreska]

It's possible that the content might be crap, but it's using new tech they're excited about that will see better use in TWW. I just have this feeling that whatever this limited time event is more of scratching the surface for its use in TWW. I just don't believe that they'd put a lot of effort into a short event.

These "excited about new tech" news do not excite me, considering both Islands and Torghast used "exciting new tech".

[micwini]

They have bamboozled

[Sentynel]

If this event has tech that later can be applied to some sort of endless dungeon feature, where 1-5 players just go from level to level, increasing in power and pushing their own limits, while also getting some sweet lore, immersion, and beautiful sights along the way, then it would be amazing.

You just described Torghast.

[Auxis]

What do we think the new items will be? AFAIK no new pirate items were datamined before.

We have absolutely nothing datamines about this patch besides a possible string or 2 about Vampire Survivors.

It's likely they have everything prepared to be uploaded/available on patch day. That's literally their MO for this patch; no PTR, keep it secret, keep it safe.

[Ersula]

You just described Torghast.

Considering the event is "limited" its very likely its just going to be a reskin of Invasions, Torghast, Island Expeditions, Warfronts, or perhaps even delves. Honestly it's baffling why they're doing nothing (or very little considering superblooms) with these systems they've created.

[Valysar]

Let's hope that Development Updates that can hold on a post-it note is not the the sandard now

[Sondrelk]

Interesting that Season 4 will make the AotC mount unavailable though. I get the logic behind it, but they didn't do that for SL season 4 as far as I remember, which would make this the first AotC mount that isn't available all the way until the next expansion launches.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

If there are no coat transmogs for all races during this pirate event = they have failed.