Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Raetary]

The anniversary is a canonical event in game:, the Bronze Celebration. It is not "out of story".

Sure, but the event being canonical does not translate to the quests and content being canonical...
They are just gameplay contrivances to get you to replay whatever piece of content its tied to, or just a nudge to get us to revisit an old zone in-game.
None of it is meant to be taken seriously.

A few nuggets of worldbuilding updates, like the Boulderfist or Nola, does not change that.

[Santandame]

The anniversary is a canonical event in game:, the Bronze Celebration. It is not "out of story". In fact, scattered around it are a number of minor updates to story, like that the Mantid settled back down post BFA's azerite/N'zoth influence, a follow-up on the political status of the Boulderfirst ogres because Lantressor had shown up as part of the orc heritage quest's feast, and that Scrollsage Nola had died.

Just because it is tied to a real world thing (much like Winter Veil, the Lunar Festival, etc.) doesn't mean it's not canon.

My main takeaway from this is that Scrollsage Nola has died. Pour one out for a real one, folks.

[Dracullus]

So, it looks like we may get an actual (full) ingame shop with premium currency with midnight, not surprising since they already updated the looks last patch.

As long as it's only cosmetic, and maybe less "fomo fomo only for one week/month" like d4, it's a win?

Classic Blizzard tactic - put something in build and watch reaction instead of starting normal communication. These coins could be traders tenders for housing, could be something horrendous like Diablo 4 store.

Personally I just learned to ignore this shit. When I see extra super shiny mount #1834 available limited time for $, I just shrug. Wow is drowning in cosmetics and it's impossible to not miss something.

[extasy]

I don't think they do? They just have to show the real money price next to the premium currency in order to "protect" kids or something idk.

Imagine you leave your credit card to your kids so they can buy gotcha stuff in the first place hahaha.

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Also, maybe they are gonna add some of that currency to the trading post? Turn the trading post into an actual seasonal battlepass?

Mhmhmhm.

Im giving blizzard too much credit, but i feel like this is just going to be neighbourhood activity vendor currency for housing like we have tenders for trading post. Exact same thing happened with tenders and they never sold them on shop, just attached to some set/xpack bundles.

[Lady Atia]

Im giving blizzard too much credit, but i feel like this is just going to be neighbourhood activity vendor currency for housing like we have tenders for trading post. Exact same thing happened with tenders and they never sold them on shop, just attached to some set/xpack bundles.

Idk, I would find it worse to be timegated on housing decor in the same way you never can get all the trading shop stuff.

Or even more so, imagine all the decor costs that instead of gold once beta starts, with 0 ways to get it outside of the weekly/monthly timegating and a few bundles on the store lmao.

Na, I take a bigger store with premium currency and battlepass over that, thanks.

[Gurahk]

The shop stuff I've seen so far from datamining looks to not be tied aesthetically to anything we've seen in game, I hope they keep it that way

[Xilurm]

https://x.com/Portergauge/status/1984881986536948036

Oh wow, a small RPG vibe with the way a mechanic works. Sounds cool!

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Aaaand it's never going to make it to live because the OCD ridden, minmaxing "gamers", hate anything that isn't a disgusting chore.

[Lady Atia]

https://x.com/Portergauge/status/1984881986536948036

Oh wow, a small RPG vibe with the way a mechanic works. Sounds cool!

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Aaaand it's never going to make it to live because the OCD ridden, minmaxing "gamers", hate anything that isn't a disgusting chore.

No, that sounds dumb. How do you even want to max all of them with a system like this?

Someone played too much tbc ...

[Xilurm]

No, that sounds dumb. How do you even want to max all of them with a system like this?

Someone played too much tbc ...

How about... we don't max all of them? Just an idea.

[KyleEverett]

No, that sounds dumb. How do you even want to max all of them with a system like this?

Someone played too much tbc ...

It looks like you usually net more rep than you lose, and this isn't the only way to get rep with those 4 factions.

[Lady Atia]

How about... we don't max all of them? Just an idea.

Which would be garbage lol.

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It looks like you usually net more rep than you lose, and this isn't the only way to get rep with those 4 factions.

Lets hope that. Such a baaaaaaaaaaaad idea kekW.

[Hitei]

If you were to rotate through all four and but do Varden an extra time each rotation ,you'd end up with positive stats at the end of each cycle. (+75 Magisters, +150 Blood Knights, +75 Farstrider and +100 Shades)

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How do you even want to max all of them with a system like this?

For the record, I'm still not sure why, as an Alliance player who is disliked by these people, I'm supposed to want to make them all happy just so they can tell me to get the fuck out of their kingdom at the end of the expansion.

[Lady Atia]

If you were to rotate through all four and but do Varden an extra time each rotation ,you'd end up with positive stats at the end of each cycle. (+75 Magisters, +150 Blood Knights, +75 Farstrider and +100 Shades)

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For the record, I'm still not sure why, as an Alliance player who is disliked by these people, I'm supposed to want to make them all happy just so they can tell me to fuck off out of their kingdom at the end of the expansion.

Idk, this sounds exactly like a system that needs a weakaura. In an supposed era were we don't need shitty addons to play the game. Terrible, terrible idea, really hope they just change it to only give + rep.

[LarryWithTheWeatherReport]

https://www.wowhead.com/quest=39830/...-and-brimstone
https://www.wowhead.com/quest=55498/...mering-crystal
https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=40988/photo-op
https://www.wowhead.com/quest=84924/a-birds-tail

Yes more connections with AU along with the Garrosh thing and more chance for Yrel to return.

Really like how Midnight is having some AU content even if it’s small to get people used to it again for when they start using AU for more content in the future.

Makes sense that Archimondes corpse is still there. His powers were extreme and he’s still the strongest final boss behind Argus and N’zoth so his corpse should still hold great powers.

[Sondrelk]

I am going to make an educated guess and say that there will be an ability you get from the various factions at some point that just removes the rep loss. Seems the easiest solution.

[Lady Atia]

Yes more connections with AU along with the Garrosh thing and more chance for Yrel to return.

Really like how Midnight is having some AU content even if it’s small to get people used to it again for when they start using AU for more content in the future.

Makes sense that Archimondes corpse is still there. His powers were extreme and he’s still the strongest final boss behind Argus and N’zoth so his corpse should still hold great powers.

Yeah, cutting off WoD's timeline was prolly another of Afrasiabis "fuck you" against strong female characters, so it's good if we just forget about that part.

And I mean, Mannoroth's remains got used by Gul'dan in the HFC raid and classic Hyjal had Archis' remains in the world tree, so it wouldn't be the first time we saw something similiar?

[Hitei]

Idk, this sounds exactly like a system that needs a weakaura. In an supposed era were we don't need shitty addons to play the game. Terrible, terrible idea, really hope they just change it to only give + rep.

I mean, you absolutely do not need a weak aura at all, you could just focus on two at a time, get all the rewards then do the other two and get all the rewards. I think it is fine for "I want to have all of them maxed out at the same time" to involve some basic math.

[Limayria]

I mean, you absolutely do not need a weak aura at all, you could just focus on two at a time, get all the rewards then do the other two and get all the rewards. I think it is fine for "I want to have all of them maxed out at the same time" to involve some basic math.

it could also be as simple as once you hit exalted you dont lose rep anymore with that faction or something

[Xilurm]

Or it could be that the dev team were happy making an RPG and forgot that their players hate the game they have been playing for the last 20 years.

[Lady Atia]

Or it could be that the dev team were happy making an RPG and forgot that their players hate the game they have been playing for the last 20 years.

Ok, and what has hating the game to do with not wanting NEGATIVE "rewards"?

If I could I would even remove minus rating from rated pvp because negative "rewards" are just bullshit from 2005 and have no place in a modern game. No reason to add a rep grind stuck in the tbc era to Midnight. And no reason to see my earned exalted rep going down because of "flavour" lol.

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it could also be as simple as once you hit exalted you dont lose rep anymore with that faction or something

That would be ok, although still a bullshit take on timegating in that case.