Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Treegdar]

The elf hate on forums always makes me laugh cause in just about any fantasy setting for games the most played races are always just human and elf.

[Alanar]

The only good half elves are those being halved by a sword.

Yes, come on half elves are just stupid, I am not taking that serious really.

[Chickat]

The elf hate on forums always makes me laugh cause in just about any fantasy setting for games the most played races are always just human and elf.

The clamoring for all things elves by certain players can be annoying, but I don't mind elf stuff. I kinda hope we are done with elves for 5+ years after Midnight though.

[milkmustache]

I really like some of these class designs, but the death knight tier piece is just weird. The models themselves are great, but the coloring just doesn't work for me. A lot of death knight sets lately have been very bold color choices that I think just do not match with death knight class fantasy at all. Weird to compare to something like the new Monk and Evoker sets which nail the fantasy.

[Alanar]

Feels like one of those things that needs to be shown in-game to make sense. There is probably going to be some talk about there being elf blood in their lineage from back when they first left the Eastern Kingdoms.

God, idk man this will never be good imo. Simply dont like the idea of half elves. I already hate it haha.

[Gurahk]

The elf hate on forums always makes me laugh cause in just about any fantasy setting for games the most played races are always just human and elf.

Hate? If anything people talk about elves too much, have you seen all those threads with thousands of pages?

[Mekkle]

Hate? If anything people talk about elves too much, have you seen all those threads with thousands of pages?

because elf fans are psychotic

[Khaza-R]

The elf hate on forums always makes me laugh cause in just about any fantasy setting for games the most played races are always just human and elf.

I think the issue is that the additions are pretty boring.

Void Elves are functionally just Blood Elves with a few extras

Now we have Night Elves cosplaying as trolls, humans with elf ears. and whatever the hell Dracthyr visage forms are supposed to be.

Its just not very creative. If they want to add these options to existing races, be my guest. But I would rather have something more unique added.

[Alanar]

To be honest, why isn't Blizzard able to create new skeletons and animations? I'd love to play as a new race and finally have some change after years playing as blood elf, but all the new races use the same skeletons and they just don't feel really "new". It's such a shame.

If they become an allied race, I can see myself creating druid with this. They seem very dryad-like. At least the female one.

Yea.., To me just by quickly looking I see a night elf male and worgen male. Squeeze your eyes abit and there is no difference. I am always looking at the animations, idle stance etc. Those can be super defining racial wise, sadly they dont do more with this.

I mean for example, It would have been better if they would have given void elves slightly different idle animation. Just how nightborne look different like that, but just those idle animation alone, make them more their own and not instantly feel like a reskin. Forsaken idle animation for example is super defining. Nightborne truly fsel different jjst how they stand alone, it works.

[Makorus]

I think the issue is that the additions are pretty boring.

Void Elves are functionally just Blood Elves with a few extras

Now we have Night Elves cosplaying as trolls, humans with elf ears. and whatever the hell Dracthyr visage forms are supposed to be.

Its just not very creative. If they want to add these options to existing races, be my guest. But I would rather have something more unique added.

Meanwhile the most requested allied races in this forum is Moknathal which is orcs but bigger and thin humans.

[Kiivar86]

Don't know if this was mentioned in the onslaught of info but saw on reddit that apparently Dracthyr will be able to be other classes at some point and in-combat visage when they're other classes.

Looks like Humans and Kul Tirans are both getting elf ears, while Void Elves and Blood Elves are getting Human ears. Pretty cool!

Oh? That's neat.

[Mekkle]

I just heard that evokers can use visage form in combat? is it true?

[Ersula]

Its just not very creative. If they want to add these options to existing races, be my guest. But I would rather have something more unique added.

Nobody going to talk about the light-infused undead race?

The Farronir are linked up to the barbershop with customization options...

So were Venthyr & Fawns, like I said.

I really like some of these class designs, but the death knight tier piece is just weird.

I think we're getting to a point where the sets are getting a bit too monochromatic for the sake of easy recolors. Most stuff is just one color & a neutral. Give the sets a second color in its color scheme please blizzard.

[Kiivar86]

Apparently the earthen cannot eat food. Their racial INgest Minerals lets them eat a gem to change the benefit of Well Fed.

Bizarre but kinda neat too.

[Foolicious]

I don't think Khadgar is dead, though... probably a prisoner. Doesn't he still have some sort of Medivh story going on, IIRC?

Medivh's story is weird. He was assumed dead, but showed up in karazhan only for him to say something cryptic like "i have to go now. I'm needed somewhere else" never to be seen again. I don't know if they simply dropped his storyline or what happened.

Khadgar dying isn't so far fetched though. Remember when he had that talk with jaina in shadowlands after chilling in oribos for the whole expansion?

[Cheezits]

Looks like Humans and Kul Tirans are both getting elf ears, while Void Elves and Blood Elves are getting Human ears. Pretty cool!

Edit:

Also, looks like the Hallowfall crystal MIGHT be called Beledar.

Yeah, the ear thing makes me think it'll just be an unlock or simply part of 11.0. Which works fine.

[Khaza-R]

Meanwhile the most requested allied races in this forum is Moknathal which is orcs but bigger and thin humans.

I think they can do better than that as well, but its more unique than anything I mentioned above.

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Apparently the earthen cannot eat food. Their racial INgest Minerals lets them eat a gem to change the benefit of Well Fed.

Bizarre but kinda neat too.

I love small RP details like that.

[Mahcake]

Yea.., To me just by quickly looking I see a night elf male and worgen male. Squeeze your eyes abit and there is no difference. I am always looking at the animations, idle stance etc. Those can be super defining racial wise, sadly they dont do more with this.

I mean for example, It would have been better if they would have given void elves slightly different idle animation. Just how nightborne look different like that, but just those idle animation alone, make them more their own and not instantly feel like a reskin. Forsaken idle animation for example is super defining. Nightborne truly fsel different jjst how they stand alone, it works.

Yes. New idle animations should be the minimum. And it's not like it is something super complicated Blizz couldn't do or spend big amount of resources on. I have some animation experience, so I can tell. They are just lazy.

[Nightshade711]

Looks like Humans and Kul Tirans are both getting elf ears, while Void Elves and Blood Elves are getting Human ears. Pretty cool!

Edit:

Also, looks like the Hallowfall crystal MIGHT be called Beledar.

I wouldn't hold my breath for the ears though...
We had the primalist eye customization datamined (even with barbershop customization settings) but they were never added.
(Unless they're snuck into 10.2.7 somehow but I doubt that)

[FelPlague]

I think the issue is that the additions are pretty boring.

Void Elves are functionally just Blood Elves with a few extras

Now we have Night Elves cosplaying as trolls, humans with elf ears. and whatever the hell Dracthyr visage forms are supposed to be.

Its just not very creative. If they want to add these options to existing races, be my guest. But I would rather have something more unique added.

"now we have humans with elf ears"
I know this may be a surprise, but half elves have been a thing in wow lore forever.