Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Nymrohd]

On a serious note, I think Arator's questline will give us a lot of hints to where we may be heading. The Plaguelands area feels possible.

It sounded that would be the equal of a zone's main story and I don't think it is great to have that in zones from vanilla UNLESS they do a visual revamp. But if they did that, why not announce it? So it will be vanilla

[milkmustache]

It sounded that would be the equal of a zone's main story and I don't think it is great to have that in zones from vanilla UNLESS they do a visual revamp. But if they did that, why not announce it? So it will be vanilla

Oh yeah, I definitely agree there, but I'm taking it a bit more as seeding! If we fail at the Sunwell, the forces of the Light will need to stage an army somewhere, and Stratholme sort of makes sense. Before it's settled, they'd need to fully secure the lands from whatever remaining hostile trolls, wandering undead, and now the steam-gaining Red Dawn. It's an aside patch, while not being an aside patch. Maybe a Scarlet Enclave 2.0.

[Hearthfinder]

RIP Northeron leaks. What's dead can never die.

I am still 12.5% convinced that we're getting a world revamp one of these days, maybe after The Last Titan. That's when we'll get Northeron, for sure!

[Vakir]

lol no active glad or 2k+ player is logging in wishing they would scour the brackets and turn PvP into Plunderstorm

I didn't say that. I'm saying that someone being good at PvP doesn't mean they automatically enjoy it, or that being bad at it doesn't automatically assume they don't.

The poster liking Plunderstorm is a separate thought.

[Joshuaj]

Finally! Raincoat drip!

[xskarma]

I will be levelling a Wildhammer Shaman gryphon rider in time for Midnight. If Blizzard in all their folly won't bring Northeron to us, I will bring Northeron to them.

When they first introduced Wildhammer tattoos/colours and Exile's Reach, I leveled this beautiful bastard through the whole new experience. I had already been toying with the idea to delete and re-do his journey with new Exile's Reach/leveling update through DF andf TWW. But now I'm REALLY inspired to do just that.

[allegrian]

Why does your fantasy take you to “let’s replace this entire game mode carrying its own ultradedicated playerbase because *I* am bad at it” instead of just wishing for Plunderstorm to be evergreen?

I'm not bad at it, I hot elite some times. I just don't like it much.

[Ersula]

A lot of people complaining about the generic Paladins in the cinematic. Did people miss when Ion explained the army at appears is literally the player characters? Who wants to bet the prepatch rewards is a generic paladin armor?

[Daniri]

A lot of people complaining about the generic Paladins in the cinematic. Did people miss when Ion explained the army at appears is literally the player characters? Who wants to bet the prepatch rewards is a generic paladin armor?

Yes, I missed that. Link?

[Cheezits]

A lot of people complaining about the generic Paladins in the cinematic. Did people miss when Ion explained the army at appears is literally the player characters? Who wants to bet the prepatch rewards is a generic paladin armor?

If they wanted to make it obvious that it was the players, they should've included other races and classes. As it stands out now it was a budget reason they only used two models over and over.

If they had brought over a dwarf hunter with a bear? It would be VERY obvious what it's supposed to mean.

[JDBlou]

If they wanted to make it obvious that it was the players, they should've included other races and classes. As it stands out now it was a budget reason they only used two models over and over.

If they had brought over a dwarf hunter with a bear? It would be VERY obvious what it's supposed to mean.

Can you imagine how well it would've gone over if they brought back all character stand ins from the TBC and Vanilla cinematics? Or even just some of the nameless horde and alliance mobs from BFA's?

[Vakir]

If they had brought over a dwarf hunter with a bear? It would be VERY obvious what it's supposed to mean.

Ok but unironically it would fuck if they brought back the Vanilla, TBC, and Mists duo characters from past trailers for The Last Titan.

Closest thing they can do on the setup and payoff level of Endwalker's cinematic.

[Cheezits]

Can you imagine how well it would've gone over if they brought back all character stand ins from the TBC and Vanilla cinematics? Or even just some of the nameless horde and alliance mobs from BFA's?

Yup. That is clearly what they should've and probably would've done if they weren't so restricted.

[Vakir]

Even just a token Turalyon appearance would have worked.

Blizzard missed the boat on having canon depictions of the 12 Legion order commanders.

[Hearthfinder]

When they first introduced Wildhammer tattoos/colours and Exile's Reach, I leveled this beautiful bastard through the whole new experience. I had already been toying with the idea to delete and re-do his journey with new Exile's Reach/leveling update through DF andf TWW. But now I'm REALLY inspired to do just that.

What a glorious, bearded unit of a dwarf. I will probably end up doing the same.

[Lady Atia]

When they first introduced Wildhammer tattoos/colours and Exile's Reach, I leveled this beautiful bastard through the whole new experience. I had already been toying with the idea to delete and re-do his journey with new Exile's Reach/leveling update through DF andf TWW. But now I'm REALLY inspired to do just that.

What? Oh, I thought we were posting our Wildhammer alts. Sorry.

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Even just a token Turalyon appearance would have worked.

Blizzard missed the boat on having canon depictions of the 12 Legion order commanders.

Na. The canon commanders are we. Don't change that.

[Hearthfinder]

To be honest, the botox lips on Liadrin perplex me the most. It's like on the one hand they were going for this "natural/real beauty" look with her (which is perfectly fine with me).

But then for some bizarre reason decided to give her lips botox, which sends the opposite message.

[xskarma]

What? Oh, I thought we were posting our Wildhammer alts. Sorry.

Still kinda sad that Dark Iron got their own race and the other Dwarves basically have to share with limited cosmetic options. Same is true for Trolls. There's so many tribes of them with unique features and it all gets under represented in the playable characters. Love that they are at least expanding the Amani options partially to the existing Trolls. Long overdue.

[Gurahk]

Did we watch the same trailer? Because it's on par with Legion, and better than BfA (which, fair enough, had a cool cinematic for a shitty expansion). Oh, Shadowlands was also on par with both Midnight and Legion, forgot about that one haha.

There was no catharsis similar to that of Legion or BfA, the big moment was the.. faceless human looking army of the light that we all thought were arathi for second? It fell completely flat.

[Limayria]

Even just a token Turalyon appearance would have worked.

Blizzard missed the boat on having canon depictions of the 12 Legion order commanders.

Making an animated anthology series focusing on the people who eventaully become the canonical order hall leaders as they adventure through vanilla -> WoD culminating in a big "avengers" style finale of all the legion stuff

If done we'll it'd be able to have mainstream appeal like Arcane found while also funneling people into a game that has way more waiting for people who are interested in story telling and stuff and serving as a good way to get new people into the franchise while also catching them up on a lot of relevant plot/lore points and establishing a lot of new characters for the franchise at large