Midnight 12.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[Ersula]

About elves, how our fellow orc wardens doing?

I would like them to talk about Warden lore more. What are the actual principals of their order? What about those Sun Wardens? There were blood elves in the Wardens during TBC? So it wouldn't be so unusual to have other elves be Wardens, surely?

[Shadowferal]

Again, it doesn't matter whether the writing is shit or not. What's done is done, there are no loose ends.

And again, that's your opinion. Call it whatever you want, it is just that, an opinion.
Just because you prefer the convenient narrative that fits your opinion doesn't make it anything else.

[Grazrug]

And again, that's your opinion. Call it whatever you want, it is just that, an opinion.
Just because you prefer the convenient narrative that fits your opinion doesn't make it anything else.

The majority of the people accept that the faction war is over you should do the same.

[Shadowferal]

The Night Elf Storyline in Shadowlands will always be hilarious...

And when did we not complain about the writing? An expansion no one wants to remember.

[Helothar]

Guys, to those who don't believe these fake leak arts from the past couple of days/weeks are AI generated, I'd like to share my AI results for the following prompt:
"World of Warcraft's newest Void (cosmic power) themed expansion digital artwork"
https://imgur.com/a/ftMAOtf

Edit: the first one pretty much resembles that one pic everyone was discussing trying to guess if it was a void portal or a void-corrupted sword of Sargeras

[Shadowferal]

The majority of the people accept that the faction war is over you should do the same.

How's that advice thread in Lore working out for you?

[Well Done Steak]

So I had this scenario in my head for the 11.0 cinematic.

Imagine Yrel commanding her forces in combat. You see the typical faceless troops fighting in the back ground. Orcs vs Draenie.

Then we switch perspective to xalatath or Iri doing their void shit.

Then back to Yrel, but now her army is disappearing one by one in golden sand puffs and she's all like 0_o. Untill she also goes poof.

Then back to xal maybe arriving in karesh with some ethereals attacking.

Then back to Yrel who's now im azeroth confused wondering where they are only to be met by Velen who was able to foresee the event.

Then the camera pans out and you see a giant lightbound army and the Light Mother (AU Xera) behind Yrel wrath cinematic style.

Boom

Title shot

World of Warcraft: Well done steak was right
tm"

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Guys, to those who don't believe these fake leak arts from the past couple of days/weeks are AI generated, I'd like to share my AI results for the following prompt:
"World of Warcraft's newest Void (cosmic power) themed expansion digital artwork"
https://imgur.com/a/ftMAOtf

Edit: the first one pretty much resembles that one pic everyone was discussing trying to guess if it was a void portal or a void-corrupted sword of Sargeras

If AI can create that imagine what blizz can. And people are worried about karesh being boring.

[Grazrug]

How's that advice thread in Lore working out for you?

I don't want faction war anymore. Just a leadership that is not a bunch of bland people who share the values of Anduin with every sentence they talk.

[Well Done Steak]

And again, that's your opinion. Call it whatever you want, it is just that, an opinion.
Just because you prefer the convenient narrative that fits your opinion doesn't make it anything else.

It's not an opinion.... There are no loose ends...

Tyrande is over it, You have a new home, sylv is taken care of. Forsaken troops are protecting your tree..

The only loose end is your denial.

[Grazrug]

So I had this scenario in my head for the 11.0 cinematic.

Imagine Yrel commanding her forces in combat. You see the typical faceless troops fighting in the back ground. Orcs vs Draenie.

Then we switch perspective to xalatath or Iri doing their void shit.

Then back to Yrel, but now her army is disappearing one by one in golden sand puffs and she's all like 0_o. Untill she also goes poof.

Then back to xal maybe arriving in karesh with some ethereals attacking.

Then back to Yrel who's now im azeroth confused wondering where they are only to be met by Velen who was able to foresee the event.

Then the camera pans out and you see a giant lightbound army and the Light Mother (AU Xera) behind Yrel wrath cinematic style.

Boom

Title shot

World of Warcraft: Well done steak was right
tm"

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If AI can create that imagine what blizz can. And people are worried about karesh being boring.

I can assure you Blizzard will not make Yrel and her army the good guys.

[Well Done Steak]

I can assure you Blizzard will not make Yrel and her army the good guys.

Not saying they will.

I think the alliance will think she's good, untill she fucks shit up and bounces on the vindecarr with locus walker and alleria as their captives.

While AU paladin garrosh fucks with the horde.

[Makabreska]

And again, that's your opinion. Call it whatever you want, it is just that, an opinion.
Just because you prefer the convenient narrative that fits your opinion doesn't make it anything else.

I hope you do realise that this fully applies to you as well?

[Shadowferal]

I hope you do realise that this fully applies to you as well?

Whenever I've referred to "my narrative" I've always used "rewrite" or "revision" or similar. Because that's what it is.

[Well Done Steak]

Whenever I've referred to "my narrative" I've always used "rewrite" or "revision" or similar. Because that's what it is.

Except there's nothing left to rewrite since the story is over... Which is not an opinion.

[flan1337]

Do people actually want Yrell back? Wouldn't it be better to kinda forget WoD ever happened?

[Shadowferal]

Except there's nothing left to rewrite since the story is over... Which is not an opinion.

If you say so.

I mean... what if?

What if they've decided, fuck it. We ran out of lore. Like Ion said, we dug ourselves into a corner (paraphrasing).

What if the new expansion is this:

- We lose. The Void wins. Our timeline is effed. Finally, we met an enemy that was just too far ahead of us. The Old Gods really did do their homework, and there's nothing we can do. Except...

- Chromie or somebody does a thing. We see one of those time-rewind effects, moving back through history at a rapid pace.

- *THUNK* The effect stops. A cinematic plays. We hear the first few musical notes of an enhanced Elwynn Forest soundtrack. We open our eyes. We've been given a second chance to stop the Void.

- The expansion is literally Classic+, but in the modern engine. Perhaps a few features are altered, but in general it's still the same game.

Lore is reset. Ton of characters and locations return. We set out on a new journey, and it's all in glorious HD.

With Metzen's return this might be prophetic.

[Well Done Steak]

Do people actually want Yrell back? Wouldn't it be better to kinda forget WoD ever happened?

How can you forget WoD happened when we have AU maghar as a playable race?

[Makabreska]

Do people actually want Yrell back? Wouldn't it be better to kinda forget WoD ever happened?

Why forget? It wont make the expansion go away, it's story and characters are integral to WoW universe. And Yrell shows nicely how good intentions and zeal can easily turn into evil fanaticism under bad influence. Y'all should really stop treating certain moments of the game like they deeply scarred you. It's childish and you wont achieve anything.

[Teriz]

I really feel people are overstating Thrall to fit their narrative. It could very well just be a way to announce Metzen back to the fold and nothing more and if he is prominent in the next expansion, it could literally be anything. He's the Horde poster boy and can be plugged into anywhere. Hell, he was at the start of Shadowlands even though it didn't do much else with him.

Both could be true at the same time. His presence can be because Metzen is coming back, and it can be because he plays a major role in the next expansion. Both are probably true since we're talking about this expansion falling on the 20th anniversary of WoW.

[flan1337]

How can you forget WoD happened when we have AU maghar as a playable race?

Good point, but do any AU maghar appear in the story at all after WoD? I feel like that is one allied race we don't even see much at all. They exist only to give a reason why we could have uncorrupted orcs.