Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Raetary]

Housing is not a socks off level feature.

It is.
And there really is no contesting that.

[huth]

Wishful thinking. The note is prefaced with "I hope the harbinger remembers how good of servants were were." Cope.

Plus, the Heart was initially broken when it was left in Aberrus, then it was fixed. Then it was briefly broken again. But it's now fixed again. It states it's supposed to be taken when its broken, which it no longer is.

If Azshara is the villain for the next saga, I'm all for it. But that seems like the most likely scenario.

That's making stuff up. The heart was used in the state found in Aberrus until 11.0. Only then it got broken. Before, it just wasn't what Neltharion was looking for, not broken.

Besides, you're still missing the Awakening part.

[SunspotAnims]

Lotta yap from folks whose opinion is merely subjective, and nothing more.

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"I don't like housing" "Housing isn't for me"

So? Many others fw it.

I'm looking forward to housing so much I already sketched out a first-draft floorplan for my house based on what we've seen from the Gamescom demos.

[Tourmaline]

Would be great, yeah.
Though I might settle for an Avaloren trilogy with EK revamp where the Arathi invades and we eventually return fire.

I would love that! Gilneas and Lordaeron are both ripe for invasion from the Arathi. We could get two revamped capitals and hopefully some separate storylines for the Horde and Alliance.

[Limayria]

Tbh I would have been hyped if we got a herioc world tier feature but they probably wanna wait and see how it's received in lemix first but I would actually love a whole phase diving type of toggle that allows you to set it based on delve tier and get the same rewards in your vault as you'd get from an equivalent delve for world events and getting your once a week reward to scale up to that level

Would help avoid burn out with delves especially if they're keeping the bountiful system where unless you play every day you can end up doing the same delves a lot based on RNG of what's bountiful which feels bad imo

[Skildar]

...do...do you expect the game team to undersell their own product?

Do you not expect them to display more grounded acknowledgement for what their product brings that is valuable? If the earthens are not a real asset, then don't showcase them as one and stay focused on what they are. Stating that they're so cool when nothing they're showing matches those words is pretty sad and devalues their product.

[SaintBigfoot]

I feel like there are cliques of players in this game that refuse to believe that people play it for any other reason than the one they play it for

[Master Guns]

Am I tripping or did they not say anything about new artifact appearances or color variations of legion artifacts? I saw mountains of mounts and transmogs , but no new artifact appearances, which seems like a weird missed opportunity lol

[huth]

I would love that! Gilneas and Lordaeron are both ripe for invasion from the Arathi. We could get two revamped capitals and hopefully some separate storylines for the Horde and Alliance.

Gilneas strikes me as a very poor choice strategically. They'd have to move around multiple hostile areas just to get there.

[Nightshade711]

Am I tripping or did they not say anything about new artifact appearances or color variations of legion artifacts? I saw mountains of mounts and transmogs , but no new artifact appearances, which seems like a weird missed opportunity lol

I think it could’ve been cool to add a fel-ified version of the Mage Tower appearances. Like they did with the Fel Bear.

Also really sucks they didn’t add in the Kirin Tor Aluneth skin as a transmog. It still shows up in the Mage Order hall, taunting us.

[Vakir]

Do you not expect them to display more grounded acknowledgement for what their product brings that is valuable?

No. No, I do not.

This is the same company that thought WoD and SL as concepts were slam dunks.

[Skildar]

No. No, I do not.

This is the same company that thought WoD and SL as concepts were slam dunks.

"Expect" was the wrong choice of word I agree, "Would rather" is a better fit. But the end result remains that their current behaviour devalues their product and transparency on what to expect by acting the way you've described. And then anytime they try to promote or hype anything, you're better ignoring it or tuning down heavily any expectations.

[Tourmaline]

Gilneas strikes me as a very poor choice strategically. They'd have to move around multiple hostile areas just to get there.

It's on the coast. They could boat in like the Forsaken did in Cata.

[huth]

It's on the coast. They could boat in like the Forsaken did in Cata.

On the coast on the opposite side of the continent from where they would be approaching. They'd have to sail around the entirety of Lordaeron first just to get there.

[Skildar]

I understand not liking Housing and not planning to spend much time with it. I do not understand not realizing it is a huge deal.

I'm remaining cautious on expectations on how this feature can play out in the competitive environment that is WoW where time spent is valuable. Which is alwyas a huge burden at every season release, and which I always associate to why we've lost improvements on pet battle and archaeology for instance.

[Makorus]

I'm remaining cautious on expectations on how this feature can play out in the competitive environment that is WoW where time spent is valuable. Which is alwyas a huge burden at every season release, and which I always associate to why we've lost improvements on pet battle and archaeology for instance.

Why are you comparing Pet Battle and Archaeology, things no one really asked for, really, to Housing, literally the most requested feature since release.

Housing is not some nebulous thing, it's a huge success in every single MMO it comes out in. People play Sims and Animal Crossing simply to do exactly what they are adding in WoW.

This forum is so out of touch with what the playerbase wants.

[Super Dickmann]

Isn’t that far more likely to happen in The Last Titan then? Xal achieves whatever she initially set out to do at the end of this expansion (hopefully being sidelined in the process). Azshara sees that as an opportunity to swoop in and take control of the World Soul, which prompts the Titans to return.

True, and to add to your marketing argument, Blizzard already have a snarky dark magic wielding elf-adjacent character with sex appeal and that's Xal. Azshara would double up on it. I don't see her taking a major spot until Xal is gone. Hell, as @Nymrohd said, Azshara backstabbing her as a callback to the dagger swaps in Ny'alotha is a possible route. What I'm getting at is that her connection to this plot and her jumping off from it, ditto with the naga is foreshadowed and coherent and I fully expect it to be further developed in Midnight indirectly.

Her being the centrepiece in a future approach, crossing over with Denathrius and some version of the Legion would be much appreciated, but whatever her role, it'll keep being seeded here.

[Nymrohd]

True, and to add to your marketing argument, Blizzard already have a snarky dark magic wielding elf-adjacent character with sex appeal and that's Xal. Azshara would double up on it. I don't see her taking a major spot until Xal is gone. Hell, as @Nymrohd said, Azshara backstabbing her as a callback to the dagger swaps in Ny'alotha is a possible route. What I'm getting at is that her connection to this plot and her jumping off from it, ditto with the naga is foreshadowed and coherent and I fully expect it to be further developed in Midnight indirectly.

Her being the centrepiece in a future approach, crossing over with Denathrius and some version of the Legion would be much appreciated, but whatever her role, it'll keep being seeded here.

I just had this idea where Azshara stabs her with the Xal'atath dagger and pumps N'zoth's essence inside her. She grotesquely transforms like its Akira into N'zoth's form and we get a proper Black Empire xpac. Which will never happen but damn would I love it.

[Super Dickmann]

I just had this idea where Azshara stabs her with the Xal'atath dagger and pumps N'zoth's essence inside her. She grotesquely transforms like its Akira into N'zoth's form and we get a proper Black Empire xpac. Which will never happen but damn would I love it.

I am increasingly convinced that even when we raid her she'll stay in elf form throughout, so Blizzard doesn't ruin her marketability by having her skin suit rupture to reveal an ancient cosmic mass of innumerable feet or what have you.

[Nymrohd]

I am increasingly convinced that even when we raid her she'll stay in elf form throughout, so Blizzard doesn't ruin her marketability by having her skin suit rupture to reveal an ancient cosmic mass of innumerable feet or what have you.

Yeah I keep trying to imagine of a horror from Berserk or Claymore made entirely out of feet when I think of Xalatoes' true form