Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Ersula]

Imagine calling a race of shaman rangers dashing across stormy skies with war paint .. bland.

You invented Delves. Dwarf elves.

[Capivara]

It probably is just cash shop decor and we have pages of insanity but hey, at least it's speculation so this is the right containment for it

what should be:

- xal invade and takes power of the Sunwell
- all elfs unite against the big danger
- now we have dawnwell
- everyone hugs and promise to leave differences behind to help grow elf neighborhoods
- side quest appears
- you talk with vareesa and she says "it's time to go home"
- side quest about realocating elfs in Quel'Thalas
- you unlock themed weapons and decor bc you are finding homes and they are happy.
- end.

[Nightmare Queen]

i had something similar: Elune as a worldsoul of a moon. Would also be interesting

But that means one of Azeroth's moon will be 'hollow' in some way then

[Hearthfinder]

You invented Delves. Dwarf elves.

Not if you look into the nuance, here.

Again, I refer to Ercarp's visuals.

Imagine shamanistic elves first of all. That is unique. Elves are rarely seen in that context.

Now imagine that they're the first WoW High Elves to finally get their face paint.

Now give them that kitschy 80s vibe with a headband, bright blue and earthy colours. Like a frigging aerobics instructor. Combined with the face paint it's borderline glam metal.

Big, frizzy hair, side-braids, etc. We're talking the cover of a D&D manual here.

Now picture them in a windy sitting. More edgy than Void Elves. Darting across the sky on their winged steeds, almost giving off Flash Gordon vibes. Lots of emphasis on cool poses, leaning forward on their mounts, being playful with their friends in the air, challenging dragons over who's the fastest.

This is obviously an extreme example and you should be able to look like a regular old elf as well, but the vibe can certainly be more than just "elf dwarf", lol.

[Raetary]

You invented Delves. Dwarf elves.

At the moment, it's absolutely just cash shop decor. But the implication of an introduction of yet another OC elven culture is understandably worrying.

And to be clear, I'm not even saying this from the perspective of it being a playable race. The general idea of it feels like a not good idea, period.

Yeah, there are more than enough elves running about in pretty much every color of the rainbow.

We don't need yet another, especially if it again takes away themes from other races.

[SaintBigfoot]

But that means one of Azeroth's moon will be 'hollow' in some way then

Hollow Moon Expansion LET'S GO! *Camera turns over to FFXIV*

[Cheezits]

Unless it's just a cutesy "what if Nelves could fly??" Hearthstone-esque idea (or actually something from a future Hearthstone expansion!) I think it's most likely that the Skyborne will be evolved Harpies.

[SaintBigfoot]

Yeah, there are more than enough elves running about in pretty much every color of the rainbow.

We don't need yet another, especially if it again takes away themes from other races.

[milkmustache]

Yeah, there are more than enough elves running about in pretty much every color of the rainbow.

We don't need yet another, especially if it again takes away themes from other races.

I mean, getting 2 new playable elven races introduced within the same year span as K'aresh and Zul'Aman would cause all my capillaries to burst, but god would it be funny.

Unless it's just a cutesy "what if Nelves could fly??" Hearthstone-esque idea (or actually something from a future Hearthstone expansion!) I think it's most likely that the Skyborne will be evolved Harpies.

This was what I thought as well. Even if it is literally a Hearthstone idea that they sell on the cash shop.

[SaintBigfoot]

Behold, Skyborne!

[Limayria]

alright, i have heared another idea for what the skyborne are: They are the high elves of the arathi empire.

I was first a bit irritated by that. But then, the arathi forces have things like Sky Knights and Aeroknights, right? And a big thing about them was their fleet of flying ships? Perhaps some high elves that went with the Arathi did not completely intermingle with the other arathi and stayed somewhere aloft? adopting a different style of culture as the high elves of quel'thalas, one more shamanic and wind based. And they arrive with some form of delayed renilash fighting force?

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i guess the furies can be that. Still, the overall point is: on draenor, with a lot more spirit around, the elementals didn't assumed funny shapes like the pandaria elementals, but stayed the usual elemental look. Why the elemental in pandaria looked so different is not explored, but i don't think it relates to spirit. Could also be the Sha that changed them.

In the quest with the Arathi elf girl and her human lover she mentions a distinct elven culture in Arathi


Though tbh I've been thinking the Arathi being a turn of the 20th century America vibe with the frontier being brushing up against a wild forest/jungle from rampant life with wild elves and dragons living together, and then being wind aligned dragons and elves would be cool, and they could be dragon riders too

[allegrian]

There'll be a point were most playable races are OC races copy-pasted from the classic ones where they'll have all the lore and current plot relevance and we'll all feel we're playing a china WoW copy or something. Well, that basically was base TWW, with temu dwarves, temu human paladins and temu night elf druids.

[Elronas16]

Not every race/species we encounter needs to be playable.

Allied races have taken so much development time just to to add unnecessary bloat to the game. But maybe that's what sells expansions, what do I know. Although looking at the charts... they're all at the bottom of the lists. All besides alliance Blood Elves ofc.

They really should've stopped at Goblins/Worgen. Everything after that has been a waste of resources in my opinion, resources that could've gone to much cooler stuff in the game.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Not if you look into the nuance, here.

Again, I refer to Ercarp's visuals.

Imagine shamanistic elves first of all. That is unique. Elves are rarely seen in that context.

Now imagine that they're the first WoW High Elves to finally get their face paint.

Now give them that kitschy 80s vibe with a headband, bright blue and earthy colours. Like a frigging aerobics instructor. Combined with the face paint it's borderline glam metal.

Big, frizzy hair, side-braids, etc. We're talking the cover of a D&D manual here.

Now picture them in a windy sitting. More edgy than Void Elves. Darting across the sky on their winged steeds, almost giving off Flash Gordon vibes. Lots of emphasis on cool poses, leaning forward on their mounts, being playful with their friends in the air, challenging dragons over who's the fastest.

This is obviously an extreme example and you should be able to look like a regular old elf as well, but the vibe can certainly be more than just "elf dwarf", lol.

This really does just read as wildhammer dwarfs but with horses and of course being elfs.

[Monkal]

There'll be a point were most playable races are OC races copy-pasted from the classic ones where they'll have all the lore and current plot relevance and we'll all feel we're playing a china WoW copy or something. Well, that basically was base TWW, with temu dwarves, temu human paladins and temu night elf druids.

Oh stop being dramatic.

[Cheezits]

The recent Blue post feels like they are going to introduce some kind of way to encourage grount mount questing, which is really cool. Also nice QOL to just unlock steady flight for the forseeable future.

[Hearthfinder]

This really does just read as wildhammer dwarfs but with horses and of course being elfs.

Very dishonest take imo, but to each their own.

[Sondrelk]

The recent Blue post feels like they are going to introduce some kind of way to encourage grount mount questing, which is really cool. Also nice QOL to just unlock steady flight for the forseeable future.

My hope is for Prey to eventually become proper Heroic World Tier, with no flying, and being the mode required for certain achievements. As well as being where you can find treasures.
That way you can have the WoD-SL style explorable open world. And still have flying for those that want it.

[Hearthfinder]

Reminding you what ercarp's concept looked like:

[Monkal]

My hope is for Prey to eventually become proper Heroic World Tier, with no flying, and being the mode required for certain achievements. As well as being where you can find treasures.
That way you can have the WoD-SL style explorable open world. And still have flying for those that want it.

Second that, a thousand times yessss