Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[whoisqnx]

I like Turalyon a lot, he is easily in my top 5 characters. Still, Bolvar is my all time fav.

[BaumanKing]

Much as I like Turalyon, there's still that dream that Arator had about his father dying, though the dream involved the Legion, but that can still be handled easily enough.

Standing beneath a crimson sky, looking down at his father. The Voidstorm has reddish hues. And the "demons" he saw in his dream could very well be voidwalkers.

Turalyon and Alleria aren't the most popular characters, but they are fairly well-liked, especially among the Alliance fanbase.

Idk about Alleria. Especially after TWW. I haven't seen that many positive comments about her lately.

Her boss theme is incredible tho.

[Hearthfinder]

Predictions for today's event:

- Ion addresses current isssues
- Roadmaps (duh)
- 12.0.5 revealed as character customisation patch
- 12.0.7 revealed as the Paladin patch
- 12.1 announced to be about trolls (everybody knows it anyway) but there will be a Direct in a few months
- New mobile game
- WoD Classic with major improvements to content flow
- Classic+ teased for BlizzCon
- TLT teased for BlizzCon

[Zardas]

Turalyon gets +30 popularity just for his armour.

[whoisqnx]

Turalyon gets +30 popularity just for his armour.

His stubble is also cool, wish we had that as customization option.

[Seasz]

@Lumy might want to update this thread title

[Auxis]

1.5 hrs until the State of Azeroth. Hope its good, I'll be asleep (hopefully) and as usual wake up to a slew of infi because I live in an incompatible time zone ._.

Have fun y'all, see yas on the other side.

[milkmustache]

Predictions for today's event:

- Ion addresses current isssues
- Roadmaps (duh)
- 12.0.5 revealed as character customisation patch
- 12.0.7 revealed as the Paladin patch
- 12.1 announced to be about trolls (everybody knows it anyway) but there will be a Direct in a few months
- New mobile game
- WoD Classic with major improvements to content flow
- Classic+ teased for BlizzCon
- TLT teased for BlizzCon

I think you're massively overinflating what the event will be. My impression was that it's a simple top of the year "As we get ready to venture into Quel'thalas..." type of video. A formal release of the roadmaps, reassurance about the addon situation and spell pruning. Any of those reveals would have to be on the roadmap, and I still think they go light on it.

[The-Shan]

Do you guys think we could get new character models in the last titan/after? I think there's probably a really good reason why we haven't gotten more customization when blizzard knows its a very easy way to please people for little effort. I think the only reason they wouldn't give us a lot of customization for 2 expansions would be that they are working on new models for most races behind the scenes.

[Cheezits]

If there aren't any reveals, they need to reanalyze their marketing team from the ground up.

Hoping we get a Lordaeron reveal or tease of some kind.

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Do you guys think we could get new character models in the last titan/after? I think there's probably a really good reason why we haven't gotten more customization when blizzard knows its a very easy way to please people for little effort. I think the only reason they wouldn't give us a lot of customization for 2 expansions would be that they are working on new models for most races behind the scenes.

I don't think we'll ever get new models, but we will probably get a huge chunk of customization either this expansion or in TLT.

[Hearthfinder]

I think you're massively overinflating what the event will be. My impression was that it's a simple top of the year "As we get ready to venture into Quel'thalas..." type of video. A formal release of the roadmaps, reassurance about the addon situation and spell pruning. Any of those reveals would have to be on the roadmap, and I still think they go light on it.

You're probably right, it's just that there have been words thrown around these various game events that suggest new announcements, features and surprises. The Overwatch community is speculating they may drop the "2" and announce a bunch of new heroes and maps for example.

Various devs also seems to be teasing it a bit.

[The-Shan]

If there aren't any reveals, they need to reanalyze their marketing team from the ground up.

Hoping we get a Lordaeron reveal or tease of some kind.

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I don't think we'll ever get new models, but we will probably get a huge chunk of customization either this expansion or in TLT.

They did mention wanting to get every race up to the level of Dracthyr, and for that they'd probably need new models, since Dracthyr have levels of musculature/silhouette

[Khaza-R]

I am not expecting much but at the same time, Hearthstone is going to get its year cycle and first expansion revealed. Diablo will undoubtedly reveal the 2nd class for the new expansion and some more features.

So WoW needs something juicy to keep pace with those two.

[Joshuaj]

That's likely because you don't listen to it often, and got an aha moment.

It's like hearing The Beatles for the first time as a kid. The music is of high quality so you'll enjoy it even if it doesn't end up being your taste.

But as a soundtrack in World of Wacraft, clearly these new Midnight tunes are better than jazz.

Hey...hey...

Lay off the jazz.

[Kiivar86]

Standing beneath a crimson sky, looking down at his father. The Voidstorm has reddish hues. And the "demons" he saw in his dream could very well be voidwalkers.

Yup. He does call it Legion when talking about his dream but that they're fighting in the distance, so that could easily be mistaken. Or demons make an appearance again, wouldn't entirely surprise me.

[Joshuaj]

Predictions for today's event:

- Ion addresses current isssues
- Roadmaps (duh)
- 12.0.5 revealed as character customisation patch
- 12.0.7 revealed as the Paladin patch
- 12.1 announced to be about trolls (everybody knows it anyway) but there will be a Direct in a few months
- New mobile game
- WoD Classic with major improvements to content flow
- Classic+ teased for BlizzCon
- TLT teased for BlizzCon

They're NOT going to tease 12.1 or TLT this early.

As for Classic? Maybe we'll see something new, I actually don't doubt that, but for Retail, I at best expect a Roadmap, a cinematic, and MAYBE something unknown (but that's heavily doubtful).

[milkmustache]

If there aren't any reveals, they need to reanalyze their marketing team from the ground up.

Hoping we get a Lordaeron reveal or tease of some kind.

Completely agree about the marketing situation. I know a lot of it isn't inherently Blizzard's fault as much as it is Microsoft's, but if this falls flat, there's cause for major concern. I don't think it will, as long as we tamper our expectations.

Good call re; Lordaeron. No better way to hype everyone up than finally getting Lordaeron proper.

You're probably right, it's just that there have been words thrown around these various game events that suggest new announcements, features and surprises. The Overwatch community is speculating they may drop the "2" and announce a bunch of new heroes and maps for example.

Various devs also seems to be teasing it a bit.

I hope we get a lot more! I'm just wary to overexcite. I'm just not sure how much they really could announce here with Blizzcon coming down the line too.

They're NOT going to tease 12.1 or TLT this early.

As for Classic? Maybe we'll see something new, I actually don't doubt that, but for Retail, I at best expect a Roadmap, a cinematic, and MAYBE something unknown (but that's heavily doubtful).

Another good call about the cinematic, we'll for sure get one.

Also adding in, I have my qualms with the new Eversong and Zul'Aman music, but I cannot believe that anyone disliked the Undermine music. That zone was so much fun.

[Joshuaj]

Standing beneath a crimson sky, looking down at his father. The Voidstorm has reddish hues. And the "demons" he saw in his dream could very well be voidwalkers.



Idk about Alleria. Especially after TWW. I haven't seen that many positive comments about her lately.

Her boss theme is incredible tho.

He probably mistook his dream as the Burning Legion, when in actuality, it's most likely talking about the Void.

After all, the Light has been pushing this same "Light Vs Shadow" narrative to a lot of folks, especially Velen.

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If there aren't any reveals, they need to reanalyze their marketing team from the ground up.

Hoping we get a Lordaeron reveal or tease of some kind.

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I don't think we'll ever get new models, but we will probably get a huge chunk of customization either this expansion or in TLT.

Legit, I don't think they're touching Lordaeron for a bit. The Plaguelands? Sure. The rest of Lordaeron? Doubtful.

They seem VERY cautious about the Northrend and Quel'thalas revamps, almost like they're first attempts at something larger.

[Hearthfinder]

BlizzCon will likely be dominated by the StarCraft FPS and TLT, which is why I think they might want to announce a bunch of the other stuff now.

[milkmustache]

Legit, I don't think they're touching Lordaeron for a bit. The Plaguelands? Sure. The rest of Lordaeron? Doubtful.

They seem VERY cautious about the Northrend and Quel'thalas revamps, almost like they're first attempts at something larger.

I'd agree about the hesitation to approach revamps, but reminder that there is a datamined achievement string for delves that says "Die in Undercity or Lordaeron".