Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Delves are part of the game world and you just step inside to do the delve with zoning technology. They have nothing to do with Dalaran.

[Ersula]

Delves are part of the game world and you just step inside to do the delve with zoning technology. They have nothing to do with Dalaran.

Last time I checked Dalaran was part of the game world.

We do know.

Delves are outdoor dungeons you organically walk into, but more floor-based.

I don't think it's impractical for a delve to involve a magic portal, and if not they're really limiting the potential of delve content. We do know that even though they're "outdoor content" they're also instanced for groups.

"zoning technology" are just instances with a hidden load screen.

[Makorus]

Last time I checked Dalaran was part of the game world.
I don't think it's impractical for a delve to involve a magic portal, and if not they're really limiting the potential of delve content. We do know that even though they're "outdoor content" they're also instanced for groups.

I mean, it doesn't matter, we literally know all the Delves.

[Mekkle]

God i adore this dwarven architecture, gonna fly around it all day.

[Treegdar]

Hot take: The stuff that I assume is Isle of Dorn in those looks bland AF. Mostly gray rock with a little bit of green in the grass and trees. And the new hub city feels like Valdrakken in that its big towering gray structures again. The other zones look dope tho.

Granted it also looks the most unfinished of the zones from the leak.

[Ersula]

I mean, it doesn't matter, we literally know all the Delves.

They also said that wasn't the full list of delves. Only a preview selection.

Also, if they start using the word Mycomancer when Fungalmancer is already an established term for mushroom magic I will spit.

[Cheezits]

Hot take: The stuff that I assume is Isle of Dorn in those looks bland AF. Mostly gray rock with a little bit of green in the grass and trees. And the new hub city feels like Valdrakken in that its big towering gray structures again. The other zones look dope tho.

Yeah, I did notice the similarity to Valdrakken. Intentional because titans, but still.

I do like the big holes you can jump into.

[zeir]

Delves are going to be super lame, like torghast without powers. For solo content only hard boss fights like mage tower works. Clearing trash corridors solo is boring as heck. The only way it could work is in a class-less plunderstorm style action-combat mode where all the abilities are skillshots.

[Ersula]

Delves are going to be super lame, like torghast without powers. For solo content only hard boss fights like mage tower works. Clearing trash corridors solo is boring as heck. The only way it could work is in a class-less plunderstorm style action-combat mode where all the abilities are skillshots.

Don't forget its also an escort mission....oh dear god

For reals, I'd have to see them in action to decide. It being both a minigame with multiple difficulty levels & having it scale for 1 to 5 people means the difficulty curve is going to be wild to balance.

[Treegdar]

Yeah, I did notice the similarity to Valdrakken. Intentional because titans, but still.

I do like the big holes you can jump into.

Yeah wish they'd gotten creative and had Isle of Dorn be rich in some new kind of rock or something that would give them an excuse to make the earthen/dwarf architecture out of something other than normal looking stone. Imagine if all the Isle of Dorn buildings were like an amber color or a deep blue or something. Could tie it in with professions similar to saronite in wrath.

[Kiivar86]

Clearly a placeholder for something but one of the pictures shows several male Tauren (in their underwear) A-posing in a forest with a few of the Xuen statues with them. Wonder what that will result in eventually.

[allegrian]

no news still?

[Enrif]

They also said that wasn't the full list of delves. Only a preview selection.

Also, if they start using the word Mycomancer when Fungalmancer is already an established term for mushroom magic I will spit.

They said there will be 13 delves. this image has 12. The last one was supposed to be something secret or spoilery to mention yet.

[Kiivar86]

no news still?

Its only just 8:30 in California. People just getting to work there.

[Treegdar]

no news still?

Think the rumor was embargo ends at 10am pacific to line up with the intended release of the anniversary collector's edition. Just a guess tho.

[Ersula]

They said there will be 13 delves. this image has 12. The last one was supposed to be something secret or spoilery to mention yet.

Say, for example, whatever is happening in Dalaran in this leaked image?

[Treegdar]

Say, for example, whatever is happening in Dalaran in this leaked image?

Certianly possible but would be a little weird to have it take place in Dal when they're supposed to be seamless mini-dungeons you just walk into from the overworld. Thats certainly limiting design wise, but would be odd to deviate from that model in 11.0 with only 1 delve.

[Makabreska]

Not really interested in Dalaran 3.0. Never liked the looks of this place.

[milkmustache]

Say, for example, whatever is happening in Dalaran in this leaked image?

I think the general issue with it is that all of the Delves are meant to be accessed the same way dungeons were pre-LFG. This would imply Dalaran is once again floating above our expansion zone. It's possible, but I think it'll be saved for Midnight or TLT. It also feels too impactful to be a delve. It makes sense as a dungeon, but maybe not a delve just yet.

But then again, it's entirely possible that Dalaran is focused in TWW floating above Khaz Algar and we have a delve set in the city.

Or Dalaran is destroyed by Nerbuians and we have a delve in it's ruins before Midnight introduces new rebuilt mega-Dalaran...

[Cheezits]

Maybe it will be a prepatch delve to get people into how they work? No idea how you would walk in. Maybe just the only one of them that uses a portal?