Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Marlamin]

Release date of March 2nd is as expected. Right on schedule.

[Joshuaj]

It's just a cooler way of Xal getting to the Worldsoul than using the roots of an Danuserslop OC world tree and ambiguous boring old god juice. The final battle is at the worldsoul and not the Sunwell despite the latter being much cooler.

Can we quit it with the Danuser stuff? We don't know what the OG idea was for TWW outside of the fact it had no "Titans return" plot or "Light Vs Shadow" plot. For all we know, we simply rebuilt the coreway and went to the Worldcore naturally, all while Xal'atath used the Undersea or some shit. We don't know!

It's not like it mattered anyways, cause a lot of Danuser's supposed ideas were still utilized in the Worldsoul Saga. Notice how he left as soon as it was announced, almost like he helped Metzen get everything set up ahead of time.

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Release date of March 2nd is as expected. Right on schedule.

Basically what I presumed! Perfect!

[Arcinatoss]

Sweet. Random question, is the fact that the "not play late" date falls on a friday a bigger catch than anything else in the pre-order bonus for anyone else? Being able to game through the weekend is such a nice feeling.

[Joshuaj]

It falls on a Thursday for me.

[Lady Atia]

Release date of March 2nd is as expected. Right on schedule.

Yeah, so pre-patch on 1/21/26?

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Sweet. Random question, is the fact that the "not play late" date falls on a friday a bigger catch than anything else in the pre-order bonus for anyone else? Being able to game through the weekend is such a nice feeling.

iirc they did the same with tww ^^ so yee, we can play the whole weekend

[Cheezits]

Have they said if you can unlock the Haranir during early access? Because AFAIK the only requirement is to finish the leveling campaign in Harandar.

[Joshuaj]

So, gonna assume we'll get 12.1 announced in July, with it releasing in September, yeah?

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Makes me wonder when we're getting a roadmap for next year.

[micwini]

That was random and out of no where. Also the date order is wrong.
Even after all the feedback (and acknowledgement) that their reveal was, softly put, subobtimal, they just drop a random 27 second trailer out of nowhere to reveal the date.
I feel like their office on the inside must look like those spongebobs inside the brain office that is on fire.

[Lady Atia]

Have they said if you can unlock the Haranir during early access? Because AFAIK the only requirement is to finish the leveling campaign in Harandar.

Does it really matter? People who want a haranir main will race change anyways, it's not like back in tbc were you had to level your new bloodelf from the start.

[Nymrohd]

Imo they should have kept the release window more open. Are they this confident or do they just not have an option?

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That was random and out of no where. Also the date order is wrong.
Even after all the feedback (and acknowledgement) that their reveal was, softly put, subobtimal, they just drop a random 27 second trailer out of nowhere to reveal the date.
I feel like their office on the inside must look like those spongebobs inside the brain office that is on fire.

And the trailer is just a few parts of the cinematic, focused on Bob since they know Liadrin's look was not well received.

[Hugnomo]

That was random and out of no where. Also the date order is wrong.
Even after all the feedback (and acknowledgement) that their reveal was, softly put, subobtimal, they just drop a random 27 second trailer out of nowhere to reveal the date.
I feel like their office on the inside must look like those spongebobs inside the brain office that is on fire.

Not everyone is european. They're an american company. The date order is set in the american way, it's not wrong.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

So, gonna assume we'll get 12.1 announced in July, with it releasing in September, yeah?

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Makes me wonder when we're getting a roadmap for next year.

Usually is dropped before they go on Holiday, so we should be in that territory by next week or the next two after.

[micwini]

Not everyone is european. They're an american company. The date order is set in the american way, it's not wrong.

American use the wrong order yes, thanks for clarifying. Not everyone is american. The rest of the world uses dd-mm-yyyy (order of length instead of order of???)

[Bozzoltank]

Or Ula'tek will be the side story with the raid like Zaralek/Aberrus was and whatever else (EPL?) will be the main story with the megadungeon (Stratholme or First Flame?)

I'd love another mega-dungeon, but it needs to be a step up visually from Dawn of the Infinites. I loved the bosses, but it was visually lackluster (apart from ancient Dragonblight).

[Mackud]

Imo they should have kept the release window more open. Are they this confident or do they just not have an option?

Welcome to Capitalism. Where the people at the very top who haven't a clue how development works and the shareholders with voting rights tell the Developers what to do with the strictest of deadlines leading to broken things on release - No Man's Sky I'm looking at you.

[Darkarath]

Pretty weak way to announce the released date.

Anyway, at least that is out of the way. Now give me the roadmap.

[Nymrohd]

American use the wrong order yes, thanks for clarifying. Not everyone is american. The rest of the world uses dd-mm-yyyy (order of length instead of order of???)

I mean a good part of the world uses YMD
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ats_by_country

[Vakir]

Does it really matter? People who want a haranir main will race change anyways, it's not like back in tbc were you had to level your new bloodelf from the start.

...what about people who want to mess with alts and don't want to pay for a race change? Or others?

Plenty of different versions of players exist. It's a valid question.

Edit: Oh, right, and Allied Heritage Armor requiring a fresh start. Even Timerunning doesn't work for that.

[Lady Atia]

...what about people who want to mess with alts and don't want to pay for a race change? Or others?

Plenty of different versions of players exist. It's a valid question.

Edit: Oh, right, and Allied Heritage Armor requiring a fresh start. Even Timerunning doesn't work for that.

Yeah but in that case, does it matter if you unlock them a few days later?

[Hugnomo]

American use the wrong order yes, thanks for clarifying. Not everyone is american. The rest of the world uses dd-mm-yyyy (order of length instead of order of???)

It's a convention that they have agreed upon. It's immaterial to you or me to debate the merits of it.
It's pretty entitled and pedantic to complain about a company using their own national standards and conventions in their communication. But to each their own.