Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Graden]

Silvermoon not being fully neutral and having Horde areas is absolutely fine . .. after the expansion ends. It will be very weird during imo.

"Half the player base, you are only really going to be guests to the capital for half this expansion. Sorry. Btw Dalaran crashed and was always fully neutral."

Exactly my thoughts.

[FossilFree]

Also, not particularly larger. The two existing zones will become one new bigger zone, Zul'aman added to the side.

Such a better way to handle it imo. Harandar caught me off guard though!

[Monkal]

Does the new DH spec use guns? Please say yes.

[Vakir]

It's the weakest point of the cinematic, which is otherwise better than the last two, as the cavalry are literal faceless, nameless goons.

The people calling the last two better are absolutely fucking insane.

Stony Tony could've been interesting, but he ultimately is just mainly a quest giver for a dungeon for most of the time you'll play through the game.

Anduin looks incredible, obviously, but the overall muted experience, quality of writing and Thrall house-zuzgzug status aside, should have been the setup to the whole deal a la Gul'dan coming upon Illidan's imprisonment. Not the intro cinematic.

[Nymrohd]

Also @Aucald, can we have a moratorium on High elf discussion on this thread? We got the feature list, it is not on, if people want to discuss that, there is a megathread.

Nvm, he is not on

[Khaza-R]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O27b_Y71aII

Surely this short points to KT paladins, are am I just lost in the cope?

They're wearing Arathi armor. Could just be intended to be an NPC.

[The-Shan]

Lowered, but still in hand.

Prey sort of sounds like the Shadows of Mordor Nemesis-lite system. Maybe. Don't want to oversell it, I have no more room for disappointment.

I think the idea that it has varying difficulties makes me optimistic, I don't want it to be a push-over. If I can get randomly jumped (with some warning) but a really powerful mini-boss, that'd be tight as hell

[Chickat]

QT and Zulaman are great. Harandar is an insane letdown pick.

I would be a lot more hype without the void and harronir zone. I wanted an entire Quel'thalas continent if the ek wasn't being rebuilt.

[Jolly Roger]

what leak was right

[The-Shan]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O27b_Y71aII

Surely this short points to KT paladins, are am I just lost in the cope?

I think you're right, its shown in the context of other player characters being around them, and what looks to be a player outfit. I believe it!

[Nymrohd]

Such a better way to handle it imo. Harandar caught me off guard though!

Yes. The void zone I expected. I thought the capital plus quel'danas would be the third zone but instead they just add dungeons, delves and raids aplenty there which makes sense. I hope Harandar is easy to travel to and I wonder how it ties to the story cause it just seems completely off?

[Schwert]

yeah bro bat elves look absolutely amazing

Better than just a reskinned Blood Elf with absolutely nothing interesting about them other than "I can walk into Stormwind without being mobbed by guards."

[Syegfryed]

Amani were always villains lol

And Demon hunters were only hunting demons with fel magic lol

What a silly argument

[bonifacy]

Do we know anything about that who are the guys in the summoned army from the cinematic? They look like custom paladins for me.

[The-Shan]

I assumed the Sunwell/Light had summoned the Arathi (or that the Arathi had opened a portal to the Sunwell), but it looks like an unknown group so far?

I think you're right, I think she was praying for someone to come help face down the void, and the light answered by sending the Arathi. (Probably ones from their homeland, rather than Hallowfall)

[Lorca]

And why add Void Elves for DH but not Nightborne? Feels unbalanced.

[Super Dickmann]

The people calling the last two better are absolutely fucking insane.

Stony Tony could've been interesting, but he ultimately is just mainly a quest giver for a dungeon for most of the time you'll play through the game.

Anduin looks incredible, obviously, but the overall muted experience, quality of writing and Thrall house-zuzgzug status aside, should have been the setup to the whole deal a la Gul'dan coming upon Illidan's imprisonment. Not the intro cinematic.

Exactly, the last cinematic was literally people hanging around talking and moping, or if you use the second cinematic, a clipshow with Xal narrating. This one had action and actually demonstrated its core conflict. It's not as good as Shadowlands or Cataclysm, which are themselves the least of the pre-DF cinematics, but it was a great deal better.

Also Liadrin being both butch and boring is entirely in keeping with her character and people should expect nothing else.

[Merryck]

Man I don't even care about K'aresh anymore. Without playable Ethereals, my desire to progress the renown is zero.

[Dnusha]

That whole cinematic was ultra anticlimactic. No establishing shot of Silvermoon under attack; just two elves fighting voidwalkers, then Xal'atath arrives and starts talking like she usually does (we've seen that before many times).

The whole Liadrin praying near the Sunwell reminds me of Diablo cinematics, and not in a good way. They didn't explain who arrived or how they did it. Do they have a leader? No, it just cuts back to Xal'atath, who actually started to harm people, and then she disappears because some unknown army arrives. The silent stone guy crawling up the tower evoked more emotion in me than that trailer. It feels off.

[FossilFree]

Yes. The void zone I expected. I thought the capital plus quel'danas would be the third zone but instead they just add dungeons, delves and raids aplenty there which makes sense. I hope Harandar is easy to travel to and I wonder how it ties to the story cause it just seems completely off?

I feel like Harandar would have been in TWW if it wasn't part of a saga. Like they are trying to tie all the threads together across the 3 expansions.