Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Lightforged]

They're probably Alliance. If it was Arathi, it'd have more weight on it.

I kind of wonder if they are not the Knights of the Silver Hand (the Paladin Class Order from Legion). Regardless of whether they are generic paladins, Silver Hand or Arathi, the lack of banners is interesting. It seems they are keeping this fact more vague.

[flan1337]

This is the weirdest thing about the cinematic. They make a biiiig deal about the it being turned into a portal in the trailer and then...some dudes come out, who are not even shown in full focus?



Like they did with WoD and SL huh.

I thought it was going to be the army of the light which would make sense but I guess not

[Combatbutler]

They're probably Alliance. If it was Arathi, it'd have more weight on it.

Might be the argent crusade.

[Ashahalasin]

I mean, is every female character's role just to be eye-candy? You do know women in real life aren't always in bikinis and lingerie, right? And if female characters are going to be portrayed accurately they need to not be sex objects, right? Do you know any women in real life?

Women don't have to be eye candy. They also don't have to look like Dave from the local servo.

[Wyrt]

Is that Yrel in the features trailer by the way? Or some random draeni who looks similar?

Where? The reinforcements look to be male humans.

[Cheezits]

Amani women now use the female-orc rig!

[Raetary]

Is that Yrel in the features trailer by the way? Or some random draeni who looks similar?

It's a player character.

[milkmustache]

I dislike this era of tiktok-sized videos but there's some neat zone b-roll here: https://youtu.be/WiBvDdtMXQ4

And hello Fungarians! I knew they were coming back hence the fungarian Kakapo on the hype train. That was the only thing I knew about the expansion.

The new Amani look incredible. WHY ARE WE GETTING HARANIR.

[Bwgmon]

They're probably Alliance. If it was Arathi, it'd have more weight on it.

My thought would be the Tyr's Guard since their shields have that sort of angular Titanic look, which would indicate new Paladin options maybe, but who knows? Maybe they let VE DH slip and have more combos to announce in the deep dive.

[Futhark]

All you need to do is be somewhat involved in the community to see a general consensus of races people actually want. Ethereal, Amani Trolls, Ogres, etc. And that's just races, they are misaligned on a lot of other stuff too.

They've been sitting on a KT reskin for Ogres for seven years!

[Cheezits]

The new Amani look incredible. WHY ARE WE GETTING HARANIR.

Delaying their unlock for whatever reason.

[Jastall]

It is weird if this is the Arathi mostly because they are not in any screenshot or anything. It does look like the Guardian of Ancient Kings spell just cast on a massive scale?

Perhaps? I agree that this being the Arathi would be weird, there would be more story fanfare around them. I personally expect a Naaru or something, not just dudes in armor.

Anyway, personally I'm always less interested in an expansion's features than in its vibes and gameplay. Features mostly serve as marketing bullet points. Housing obviously ate up the lion's share of the budget here, and Blizzard better hope it's quite popular. But personally the proof is always in the pudding.

Kinda weird to see them go back to separate raids for a single tier this time around, and three of them no less which hasn't been done since, what, Cataclysm? Not a criticism, but weird.

Haranir AR is the real miss tho. I truly have no idea why they went with a race that has little lore/popularity and appears for half a zone in TWW rather than a fan-favorite like Ethereals.

[Eeram]

We got Ethereals in the Voidstorm Area.
Either They are helping us or They joined Xal
But Maybe theres still hope to get Ethereals in Tlt?

[damonskye]

For those who are disappointed after the features reveal...

Remember, the feature reveal for War Within only had the names and quick glimpses of the four zones, plus three new gameplay features (hero talents, warbands and delves) along with the general "new dungeons & raids" stuff.

It was only after Holly Longdale started to EXPLAIN what these meant, did we actually find out how integral and deep they were. Delves were just "bite sized" adventures as she said, which was so much less than the full experience. For the hero talents, I think she just mentioned how we could play as a farseer shaman or one other one, and we all know how detailed those became. And warbands... it wasn't until she explained we could share banks and transmogs and reputation where the crowd went wild.

In other words... give them time. I know this is different and we're all impatient for more detail, and in a perfect world we'd already have follow-up videos with details about all these updates and more. But that's not what they're doing this time. There are two in-depth panels later in the week that will serve that purpose.

[Marlamin]

The new Amani look incredible. WHY ARE WE GETTING HARANIR.

Saga, saga, saga.

[Phunkle]

I didn't mean the crowd. It's just Hollys stiffnes compared to Metzen simply being Metzen. I get it, not everyone is a crowd pleaser. But still, the differences are quite jarring.

[Ashahalasin]

I dislike this era of tiktok-sized videos but there's some neat zone b-roll here: https://youtu.be/WiBvDdtMXQ4

And hello Fungarians! I knew they were coming back hence the fungarian Kakapo on the hype train. That was the only thing I knew about the expansion.

If the gameplay feature explored zones like this, i think it would have been so much better.
This makes the zones look great. So keen for Harandar and new Quel'Thalas.

[milkmustache]

Saga, saga, saga.

Sorry, I just finished bashing my head into my keyboard and I'm leveling out a bit.

I know. It's just.. whelming.

I'm most surprised about no class I think. It feels outstandingly empty, like it's missing one feature. Prey doesn't do it for me.

[Kiivar86]

We got Ethereals in the Voidstorm Area.
Either They are helping us or They joined Xal
But Maybe theres still hope to get Ethereals in Tlt?

She takes Saldahaar (or however his name is spelled) and some of ethereals really keep to their oaths so I'm sure some followed.

[VoidSeeker199X]

One day they will understand what THIS



brings in more money than THIS

You're not allowed to say that you like sexy characters in current year +5.