Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Holdodlig]

The item database seems to indicate that one of the reward from Timerunning is a recolor of the Trading Post's class set. There is currently no sign of recolor for the challenge set but it doesn't seem to be in game yet.

Also, we're likely going to have a lot of NPC only cosmetic, such as shadopan armor, or dark shaman color variation.

There are also 6 or so recolor of the The War Within's collector gear.

[Ersula]

Draenor is currently cut off from the main universe Azeroth and is dying in Light pollution. It is no place for heritage questline. It is gonna be on Outland or Azeroth.

Since the Dark Ranger Customization questline is treated like the first part of the Forsaken Heritage armor questline, the Manari questline will likely be the first part of the Draenei heritage armor quest. It'll take place on Argus.

On a side note, I'm hoping the second saga of expansions has nothing to do with Azeroth. I know the developers like to center the story that way but the game clearly has a robust interplanetary story.

[Fiercelord]

Telogrus Rift is being updated.

Most of the stuff are still placeholders. Names missing. Same NPCs being put, missing text, portals are not working. Dalaran banner is there, new assets (I might be wrong) like barrels, chairs, carpets, etc. High Elf NPCs are missing (they were using DK blue eyes, so they're getting fixed I suppose). Looking forward to the new PTR builds!

[Jolly Roger]

Draenor is currently cut off from the main universe Azeroth and is dying in Light pollution. It is no place for heritage questline. It is gonna be on Outland or Azeroth.

Or Argus in legion

[Scyth]

I cant explain how hyped I am for this patch. Never played in MoP and regretted it. Can’t wait!

Wonder if you get the heritage armour if you level through this lol

[Lahis]

So the beach cosmetics are unisex.

[Cheezits]

I wonder if the Helves being gone is a hint at something else..?

[Izalla]

Would have preferred the female style of the draenei armour than just putting the male one on the females too but I'm still beyond happy that they did use the set from that art instead of some kind of heavy plate paladin looking set or priest robes. Or just anything covered in giant crystals.

[Fiercelord]

I wonder if the Helves being gone is a hint at something else..?

I don't think so. On live version, they use the DK eyes so I am quite sure they are probably fixing the NPCs to have the normal blue eyes. There are too many same-model NPCs that are probably placeholders and so many cubes.

[Miststraws]

Where are all the wild speculations? 10.2.7 seems to imply much much bigger things... the title of the patch alone "Dark Heart" implies Xal is going back in time to get the heart of Y'shaarj either before its drained or through its avatar once Garrosh sucks all that juice..
The fact that it's Eternus sending us back.. even the infinites are trying to prevent what's about to unfold.. cmonnn I suck at speculating, feed me juicy theories lol

[allegrian]

Where are all the wild speculations? 10.2.7 seems to imply much much bigger things... the title of the patch alone "Dark Heart" implies Xal is going back in time to get the heart of Y'shaarj either before its drained or through its avatar once Garrosh sucks all that juice..
The fact that it's Eternus sending us back.. even the infinites are trying to prevent what's about to unfold.. cmonnn I suck at speculating, feed me juicy theories lol

And Xalatath is in sod where she'll probably get the C'thun juice. Her original dagger has already some connection to nzoth after the bfa ending, and she has yogg'saron's juice from the Galakron corpse at the end of the megadungeon.

[Schwert]

I wonder if the Helves being gone is a hint at something else..?

That they all got corrupted hopefully.

[Ersula]

That they all got corrupted hopefully.

They can't really be non-void high elves in the Rift: Only void elves can survive in the....void. It would be like a regular person going to space without a spacesuit.

[Cheezits]

Interestingly, the Worgen and Undead guards in PTR Legion Dalaran have been replaced by Silver Covenant Helves and Sunreaver Belves respectively. This seems to be an intentional change as they are Level 70s.

There's also a Kirin Tor portal in Telogrus.

They are definitely doing a "ok we'll use old lore and factions again" vibe for TWW.

[Nibelheimy]

Late to the party here but stopping in to say that this remix thing is a really good idea.

Been saying for years we need a way to get new players into old content, seasonal stuff like this is a great way to do that.

The only improvement I'd make so far (from a glance) Is making old potential allied races rewards for fully completing it. We've had so many over the years that would be perfect but were never added and it feels like we'll never have a good time for them to come around in the future. This would be perfect to add show players how Jinyu and Hozen joined the factions. Imagine a WoTLK remix which rewards Horde Tuanka, Alliance frostborne dwarves and Neutral Tuskar. A man can dream.

[Nightshade711]

I am a little disappointed though, it seems like we’re probably not going to be getting those primalist eye customization options that were datamined for every race a while back.

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Also I’m willing to bet Xal’atath is going to be doing time void shenanigans in the Timerunning/remix stuff just like she is in SoD.

Willing to bet she’ll be taking some essence from the Heart of Y'shaarj to finish her collection.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

They can't really be non-void high elves in the Rift: Only void elves can survive in the....void. It would be like a regular person going to space without a spacesuit.

We had both blood and high elfs in the rift since void elfs became playable.

[Polybius]

And Xalatath is in sod where she'll probably get the C'thun juice. Her original dagger has already some connection to nzoth after the bfa ending, and she has yogg'saron's juice from the Galakron corpse at the end of the megadungeon.

Man it's making me love the denizens of the void more and more every day. The fact they can cross reality and break the third wall like they've done in the Dungeon Journal UI....

[Viridiel]

Where are all the wild speculations? 10.2.7 seems to imply much much bigger things... the title of the patch alone "Dark Heart" implies Xal is going back in time to get the heart of Y'shaarj either before its drained or through its avatar once Garrosh sucks all that juice..
The fact that it's Eternus sending us back.. even the infinites are trying to prevent what's about to unfold.. cmonnn I suck at speculating, feed me juicy theories lol

We did a lot of speculating when it appeared on the roadmap. So far everything is pretty much in-line with what we were expecting so we haven't needed to throw out our old speculation and start again yet

I think the options are either that she'll drain Garrosh after we defeat him but before Y'shaarj's power fades away as it did in our timeline, or it'll be something to do with Xal'atoh since they're both Old-God-forged weapons with the same naming convention, or she'll run off to grab some artifact from some hidden vault that we had no idea about. Anything like draining the heart before Garrosh would involve changing the story too dramatically.

[Khaza-R]

Where are all the wild speculations? 10.2.7 seems to imply much much bigger things... the title of the patch alone "Dark Heart" implies Xal is going back in time to get the heart of Y'shaarj either before its drained or through its avatar once Garrosh sucks all that juice..
The fact that it's Eternus sending us back.. even the infinites are trying to prevent what's about to unfold.. cmonnn I suck at speculating, feed me juicy theories lol

Garrosh escapes once again and returns to the present day. Later to help us kill Lightforged AU Garrosh.