Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Hearthfinder]

Taking a look at the pre-purchase goodies...

Transmog

• Lightstrider Raiment
• Voidstrider Raiment

Mounts

• Lightwing Dragonhawk
• Voidwing Dragonhawk
• Voidlight Surger

Clear Light vs. Void theme. But words like "strider" and "raiment" also suggests being light and agile.
The Dragonhawks are likely meant to be visually paired with the transmog set, while the Voidlight Surger might be some type of elemental being that pulses in light and shadow similar to Beledar?

It's interesting you can even pick Void as a player, given it's the antagonistic force of Midnight. Typically, you only get cosmetics from the protagonists. Could that suggest that the Void's role will turn out to be more complex than we know? Or is it simply a way to play into the whole duality of the Light vs. Void theme, and perhaps an attempt to offer players with edgy classes like Warlock and Priest something less glowy?

Either way, the theme for this bundle kind of does make you think about agile, lithe, flying scouts that traverse the Voidstorm above Quel'Thalas. Could support a floating island theory, I suppose.

That said, the TWW bundle has storm gryphons and they ended up being relevant for about 5 minutes.

[Santandame]

Something happens to Hyrule in the game that sends chunks of it flying into the sky where they orbit as sky islands.

Not just this, but the entire area space of the grounded part of the map is replicated below ground with a different map, enemies and play style.

[huth]

Maybe. They've done such zones before. I don't think there was anything novel about how they approached it with Karesh that hasn't been seen in other zones or expansions.

I would like a sky zone though. Ideally one that seemlessly integrates with other ground zones somehow.

K'aresh has no regular terrain. All of the "islands" are free floating and can be flown under.

[Magistrate]

K'aresh has no regular terrain. All of the "islands" are free floating and can be flown under.

Sorry, please see the edits to my post. I clarified.

[Khaza-R]

Do we have a google doc of all the leaks this year ooor?

I could be wrong but I don't think anyone has bothered since its harder to catalog without them guessing the expansion name and 95% of them just say the same boring things.

The only ones that stand out at all are the Outland one and one with void poltergeists or whatever that was

[huth]

Sorry, please see the edits to my post. I clarified.

They've never done it on this scale with an entire zone, which would be necessary for a real sky islands area. And back when they did Dalaran for WotLK there were some serious perfomance issues, which is why Crystalsong is so empty and Dalaran floated over the sea in Legion.

I was frankly a bit disappointed that there isn't anything to discover on the underside.

[Houle]

I'll stand by the fact that this is the most out there leak ever.

Why DID they choose half-half Bolvar for a print?



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At least the Avaloren leak had soul and tried.

The CGI leak is so obviously fake.

Yah this was so weird. Why the fck would they use a pic mid-transformation for merch. They couldve either used a pic right before that, when he was all orange, or right after, when he was all blue. Both wouldve looked so much better.

Somewhat funny in hindsight tho, how it spawned all sorts of "Lich King comeback" and "Ner'zhul comeback" theories - both of which turned out to be actually true, just in an absolutely shit way.

[Ersula]

Taking a look at the pre-purchase goodies...

Transmog

• Lightstrider Raiment
• Voidstrider Raiment

voidstrider = void elf farstriders
Thr sunwell is obviously already light blessed so the blood elves are the lighstriders. Is this your first rodeo?

My prediction that players will get to pick attuning to light or void is getting better

[KyleEverett]

You cannot forget that WoW loves fighting fire with fire. That's why I fully believe we'll get the Void Hunter spec.

[Mace]

our initial plans are set in motion in the home of the blood elves, but what if we lost their crown jewel?
remember aq? what is above the city that is under? where can we go when one home is lost?
what are we to do about skyriding from eastern kingdoms to the north?
i wish azeroth had a weatherman or two... or three
we don't dig for treasure within, perhaps try looking another direction
an even more glorious campaign... but dont you think classes are a bit... classic?
i don't see race... but i do i eat fresh
sorry flat earthers

there's going to be a large emphasis on housing being an evergreen feature, not an expansion feature

Wait is this the leak in prophesy riddle format?

[Ersula]

In the earliest versions of diablo 4 we saw there was an abandoned mechanic where you could attune to heaven or hell, and uniques would have an either/or bonus depending on which you were currently attuned to. I forsee that being the gimmick of Midnight + coloring your spell effects either yellow or purple

[Alomain]

Good riddle! Eat fresh? What, are we adding a huge subway system? I can see it hinting that the entire world becomes a full and single instance, allowing players to fly between continents. I can also see them adding a weather system, maybe with more than just voidstorms, that float between zones. These two mechanics would compliment each other. The city that is under... but referencing AQ? Maybe we return to the sword. Makes sense if we are asking every non-Void friend for help in midnight.

And the race thing? Either Legion-style racial halls & campaigns, or just referring to the eroding of racial ability barriers that they have already begun.

[deviantcultist]

It's interesting you can even pick Void as a player, given it's the antagonistic force of Midnight. Typically, you only get cosmetics from the protagonists. Could that suggest that the Void's role will turn out to be more complex than we know? Or is it simply a way to play into the whole duality of the Light vs. Void theme, and perhaps an attempt to offer players with edgy classes like Warlock and Priest something less glowy?

You should be able to pick Void as a player and Warlock doesn't use it, only Priest does in a hero spec, unlike like where almost 2 classes represent it. By should I mean a new class or spec to give proper playable options for it.

[doledippers]

need some good leaks soon we only got 1 day left

[Auburst]

Void Bard that plays edgy songs.

3 specs: Hybrid Theory - Meteora - Adema

I'll take void/arcane lancer.

our initial plans are set in motion in the home of the blood elves, but what if we lost their crown jewel?
remember aq? what is above the city that is under? where can we go when one home is lost?
what are we to do about skyriding from eastern kingdoms to the north?
i wish azeroth had a weatherman or two... or three
we don't dig for treasure within, perhaps try looking another direction
an even more glorious campaign... but dont you think classes are a bit... classic?
i don't see race... but i do i eat fresh
sorry flat earthers

there's going to be a large emphasis on housing being an evergreen feature, not an expansion feature

Where does Azshara fit in?

[Hearthfinder]

voidstrider = void elf farstriders
Thr sunwell is obviously already light blessed so the blood elves are the lighstriders. Is this your first rodeo?

My prediction that players will get to pick attuning to light or void is getting better

Hey, did you change your profile pic? Something seems new.

[Enrif]

Poster from Gamescom, but it’s that same art from the announcement

https: //x. com/Lythiara/status/1957420807845535828

seems the key art is just the void walkers coming out of the storm. not xal.

[Cheezits]

Eat fresh = Subway = somehow the Deeprun Tram returned.

[Enrif]

voidstrider = void elf farstriders
Thr sunwell is obviously already light blessed so the blood elves are the lighstriders. Is this your first rodeo?

My prediction that players will get to pick attuning to light or void is getting better

likely just hawkstriders in void and light armor

[deviantcultist]

seems the key art is just the void walkers coming out of the storm. not xal.

Once again feels like Xal is the Gul'dan of Midnight.