Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Makorus]

My cynical side tells me they might save it for after Dastardly Duo in case that gets shat on as well. (Then again, SGS is after Dastardly Duo releases)

[Cheezits]

My cynical side tells me they might save it for after Dastardly Duo in case that gets shat on as well. (Then again, SGS is after Dastardly Duo releases)

DD being out that week means the patch is effectively "over", so it would be well timed to do it that weekend.

[Joshuaj]

woooo-hooooo. i am so so excited for azeroth being the center of the universe and we'll rescue the poor innocent world-soul from the titan's clutches so she can go out and show everybody the importance of freedom or smth and liberate us from what little nuance the cosmic forces had (all bad, we need to fight them all, freedom or smth) woooo-hooooooooooooo. i am so very excited for this lore development. yay. whee.

It's literally called the WORLD of Warcraft. Why are you surprised?

[Nize]

I imagine the week of the 25th will be more when it'll spring up in the PTR. They might want to do a Direct or showcase prior for new seasonal content (similar to Undermined). So I can definitely see a reveal early or mid-June instead.

[Makorus]

Encrypted 11.1.5 came a month after the 11.1 PTR went live, which is interesting.

11.2.5 is also supposed to come out after the Midnight Reveal.

[Marlamin]

Encrypted 11.1.5 came a month after the 11.1 PTR went live, which is interesting.

11.2.5 is also supposed to come out after the Midnight Reveal.

Yea, the encrypted products are way ahead of us at this point. I think it might just be a general workflow change due to being ahead this far to keep a view of all the balls they have in the air. That's speculating, though.

[Black Rider]

After they set up the realm for 11.2.5 yesterday, 11.2.5 is now on the encrypted wowdev endpoint.

Is Alganon not tracking that endpoint?
https://x.com/algalon_ghost

[Marlamin]

Is Alganon not tracking that endpoint?
https://x.com/algalon_ghost

It is, it was just a bit behind because Blizzard broke their patch service a few days ago and it has been putting out garbage since.

[KyleEverett]

I'm not sure why anyone still thinks the 25th is likely when datamining on Turbulent Timeways suggests a short 11.1.7. Blizzard wants at least 7 week PTRs and doesn't like releasing a patch and ptr the same week.

So with a likely patch on June 17th, the only sensible solution is release ptr a little earlier. The Xbox Game Show just makes the most sense for a reveal, maybe a cinematic trailer if we're lucky.

[KyleEverett]

I go with August 5th because my belief is Blizzard wants Story Mode out, if not the race done before Gamescom.

[Jolly Roger]

I go with August 5th because my belief is Blizzard wants Story Mode out, if not the race done before Gamescom.

that is my thought
also the date just lines up with all the events ending

[Thomir]

Would you still play Ethereals if, like Dracthyr, they were limited in what armour appears on their body, but also had a selection of clothing options at character creation / the barbershop? Personally wouldn't bother me.

[Cheezits]

Would you still play Ethereals if, like Dracthyr, they were limited in what armour appears on their body, but also had a selection of clothing options at character creation / the barbershop? Personally wouldn't bother me.

I wouldn't mind at all. But per their new models that are super tightly-wrapped with customizable "openings" I think they are walking back Drac-style stuff and will let them wear armor. Now they are just humanoids with a weird idle pose.

[Kellorion]

Why the hell havent we had a long conversation with the Earthen about Titan stuff. This is a huge whole in TWW storytelling.

Let them know about Ulduar, Ra and Loken, Archimedes, rebuilding of Tyr and the Curse of Flesh, how much of dick Odyn is and how is now probably out to get the dragons, the Mogu, the Forge of Re-Origination the Engine of Nalak'sha and the Forge of Wills, and finally about Argus the Red Star and Illidan.

A lot to cover and we've basically been lying to them this whole time.

Speaking of, how come Tyr and the reformed Tyrs Hand havent appeared?

[Monkal]

Why the hell havent we had a long conversation with the Earthen about Titan stuff. This is a huge whole in TWW storytelling.

Let them know about Ulduar, Ra and Loken, Archimedes, rebuilding of Tyr and the Curse of Flesh, how much of dick Odyn is and how is now probably out to get the dragons, the Mogu, the Forge of Re-Origination the Engine of Nalak'sha and the Forge of Wills, and finally about Argus the Red Star and Illidan.

A lot to cover and we've basically been lying to them this whole time.

Speaking of, how come Tyr and the reformed Tyrs Hand havent appeared?

Tyr and friends will be important in TLT, so they'll be back around the middle of Midnight.

Agreed on the rest, tho Blizz writing has always been like that, I guess.

[Hitei]

Would you still play Ethereals if, like Dracthyr, they were limited in what armour appears on their body, but also had a selection of clothing options at character creation / the barbershop? Personally wouldn't bother me.

...Do people want to play Ethereals to just be in regular armor, head aside? Sorta misses the entire point of them.

[FossilFree]

Let the players decide which slots they want to hide or not in the transmog window. Dracthyr no armor was and still is a terrible mistake. Gear is the whole point of the game, hiding it all the time is immersion-breaking and anti-RPG.

[Limayria]

I'm really hoping we get a true "transmog 2.0" revamp soonish id love the ability to dye items and mix and match specific pieces like the long coat added for dark fuse rep would look incredibly cool if you could wear it on top of other chest pieces

And a second back slot so you can have a cloak and an accessory like the venthyr floating knives

As well as just a general pass over some tmog models, the way the dark fuse coat sticks super far out and is super stiff looks terrible on female blood elves imo

[Nymrohd]

I'm really hoping we get a true "transmog 2.0" revamp soonish id love the ability to dye items and mix and match specific pieces like the long coat added for dark fuse rep would look incredibly cool if you could wear it on top of other chest pieces

And a second back slot so you can have a cloak and an accessory like the venthyr floating knives

As well as just a general pass over some tmog models, the way the dark fuse coat sticks super far out and is super stiff looks terrible on female blood elves imo

You want them to remake all items? Because that's what dying would entail.
Now they could start adding items that can be dyed in the future. But honestly most games I know that use dye systems have less unique looking gear than WoW does.

[Darkarath]

Just watched the Dastardly Duos video... Is it intentional that all bosses are from the Eastern Kingdoms and Outland? Curious that they ditched all Kalimdor dungeon bosses.

Guess that Chrono Lord Epoch is from CoT, still, is a Stratholme Dungeon, hence, from the Eastern Kingdoms.