Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Dracullus]

What could this possibly be used for? Maybe an internal thing that we'll never see, or maybe dare I hype a 11.1 feature?

Nowadays stuff like that are seen more often in small patches, X.X are usually just zone, season and raid.

[Xilurm]

What could this possibly be used for? Maybe an internal thing that we'll never see, or maybe dare I hype a 11.1 feature?

cough Housing cough

[Dracullus]

cough Housing cough

Midnight, I can feel it. They started mentioning housing in interviews sometime before DF as long and challenging project. Also we are going to land of transmog nation.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

So we have garrosh heirlooms available again, but still no recolors of CM sets or recolor of kor'kron wolf.

Weird that they are still sticking with that, kor'kron wolf itself still has 7899 tenders/bronze(like other datamined rewards) currency attached to it, so they at least considered it before.

[Raetary]

cough Housing cough

Soon we shall feast.

[Sondrelk]

So we have garrosh heirlooms available again, but still no recolors of CM sets or recolor of kor'kron wolf.

Weird that they are still sticking with that, kor'kron wolf itself still has 7899 tenders/bronze(like other datamined rewards) currency attached to it, so they at least considered it before.

No Kor'kron wolf is definitely a weird hill to plant the flag of exclusivity on. Even more so when there are so many other things available in Timerunning that are just as exclusive.

I suppose it might be a way to test the waters on how much the playerbase is willing to concede in that regard. I can't imagine we won't be seeing Timerunning again eventually, and eventually making the AotC mounts available might be a nice carrot in future iterations.

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Midnight, I can feel it. They started mentioning housing in interviews sometime before DF as long and challenging project. Also we are going to land of transmog nation.

One of the prerequisites for a true evergreen housing system would be the houses being placed in a location as expansion agnostic as possible. And the expansion taking place in Quel'thalas is definitely a good option to focus to make housing at least in Gilneas for Alliance if nothing else.

[Cheezits]

The first potential housing item being a Goblin item feels pretty on the nose as there is no better race to be in charge of housing.

[Dracullus]

One of the prerequisites for a true evergreen housing system would be the houses being placed in a location as expansion agnostic as possible. And the expansion taking place in Quel'thalas is definitely a good option to focus to make housing at least in Gilneas for Alliance if nothing else.

Don't you remember Metzen talking about "uniting elven tribes"? Silvermoon will be as much Horde as Dalaran is Alliance, we will probably see sectors for Blood, High, Void and maybe even Undead Elves.

[milkmustache]

The first potential housing item being a Goblin item feels pretty on the nose as there is no better race to be in charge of housing.

If this is some form of housing and directly goblin related, I wouldn't be surprised if we'd see the same kind of "Town-In-A-Box" type gag for it.

[Eldryth]

So we have garrosh heirlooms available again, but still no recolors of CM sets or recolor of kor'kron wolf.

Weird that they are still sticking with that, kor'kron wolf itself still has 7899 tenders/bronze(like other datamined rewards) currency attached to it, so they at least considered it before.

I have to wonder if the Wolf, at least, might have been left out because Blizzard completely misunderstood why the datamined Tender price for it was so poorly received. As someone who doesn't have it, just buying it would feel cheap and meaningless, but I'd love another chance to earn it from the actual content. This is the best chance there could possibly be to implement that, even if the Remix raids will probably be easier than the original scaling. I can't help but think that they saw the outcry and decided that people just wouldn't accept any way to get it again.

[huth]

cough Housing cough

That seems more like a stretch. Remember, the interesting part about that char was the dye system, not the chair itself.

This could lead to something like actual dyable armour, though.

[Nymrohd]

I think this is a natural extension of mount customization. Any collectible can become a collection in itself by allowing it to be customizable.

[Vakir]

Midnight, I can feel it. They started mentioning housing in interviews sometime before DF as long and challenging project. Also we are going to land of transmog nation.

They also said Midnight has features that would knock our socks off etc. albeit that's standard interview hype.

[Thomir]

Don't you remember Metzen talking about "uniting elven tribes"? Silvermoon will be as much Horde as Dalaran is Alliance, we will probably see sectors for Blood, High, Void and maybe even Undead Elves.

Silvermoon is getting destroyed by the Void brah.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

I have to wonder if the Wolf, at least, might have been left out because Blizzard completely misunderstood why the datamined Tender price for it was so poorly received. As someone who doesn't have it, just buying it would feel cheap and meaningless, but I'd love another chance to earn it from the actual content. This is the best chance there could possibly be to implement that, even if the Remix raids will probably be easier than the original scaling. I can't help but think that they saw the outcry and decided that people just wouldn't accept any way to get it again.

I think so too that they misunderstood the situation, when people thought it will be buyable in the trading post.

Adding kor'kron wolf for bones of mannoroth and bronze currency just like tusks of mannoroth should be the way to do it and i don't know why they didn't even did it for at least a recolor.
It would take even longer time and more SoO to complete than it was in the past to get that in time.

[Scyth]

Silvermoon is getting destroyed by the Void brah.

I'll honestly take that if it means they end up revamping it at some point. It really needs to be updated, soon..

What is more likely to happen is they just add a section for Void Elves, Nightborne and Night Elves and call it a day.

[Hitei]

That seems more like a stretch. Remember, the interesting part about that char was the dye system, not the chair itself.

This could lead to something like actual dyable armour, though.

I sort of doubt dyable armor is going to happen anytime soon, especially with how much they've liked doing recolors for various difficulties/activities the past few expansions, and especially especially since they like doing different color variations on the trading post.

Honestly, If anything, I think the way this is most likely to show up is in the form of more dynamically spawned in objects. It basically allows for what happens with NPCs currently (e.g. "Primalist Mob" spawns and sometimes it's a male vulpera and sometimes it's a night elf and sometimes its a tauren), but with objects. Because now you have a chair on which color could hypothetically be randomized or selected by some secondary variable.

So for example, you could go into a dungeon, or delve or whatever, and the instance, like Waycrest varies layout, picks a palette, and that tells all the objects to 'dye' to some color and changes the entire look of the instance.



Or stuff like when you use a chair toy, or an event spawns some chest, it can put out a chair/chest that picks from a bunch of random colors, and now they don't have to keep each of those variations as anything more than a small square on the single texture file.

[Samin]

I sort of doubt dyable armor is going to happen anytime soon, especially with how much they've liked doing recolors for various difficulties/activities the past few expansions, and especially especially since they like doing different color variations on the trading post.

Honestly, If anything, I think the way this is most likely to show up is in the form of more dynamically spawned in objects. It basically allows for what happens with NPCs currently (e.g. "Primalist Mob" spawns and sometimes it's a male vulpera and sometimes it's a night elf and sometimes its a tauren), but with objects. Because now you have a chair on which color could hypothetically be randomized or selected by some secondary variable.

So for example, you could go into a dungeon, or delve or whatever, and the instance, like Waycrest varies layout, picks a palette, and that tells all the objects to 'dye' to some color and changes the entire look of the instance.

Or stuff like when you use a chair toy, or an event spawns some chest, it can put out a chair/chest that picks from a bunch of random colors, and now they don't have to keep each of those variations as anything more than a small square on the single texture file.

It's probably just the character customization options all over again. It's just something the devs use to make their work easier and more streamlined.

[Hitei]

It's probably just the character customization options all over again. It's just something the devs use to make their work easier and more streamlined.

That's sort of the short version of my point. I was just offering use cases for its application. Situations in which an object that is color swappable could be seen.

[Lahis]

I'll honestly take that if it means they end up revamping it at some point. It really needs to be updated, soon..

What is more likely to happen is they just add a section for Void Elves, Nightborne and Night Elves and call it a day.

Silvermoon will be revamped. It is currently just a smoke and mirrors set piece where the illusion breaks the moment you lift off from street level.



Midnight will be set in Quel'Thalas, and features flying. Complete revamp of Silvermoon for the expansion is not a luxury, it is bare necessity.