The War Within 11.X Patches & World Soul Saga Speculation Thread

[ImTheMizAwesome]

... Don't you mean 7th?

The 10th is a friday.

My bad, my brain just went brrr and i went back to october.

Ye 7th like Ansi mentioned.

[Reive]

do they usually let you try the new expansion at the blizzcon?

[ZyntosAran]

Just a fake information imo, they just don't want to confirm that they'll announce 11.0

Which I dont understand. Wouldnt they generate way more hype if they post "Join in to the blizzcon to catch the new Expansion Announcement for World of Warcraft"?

[Catastrophy349]

https://x.com/christiegolden/status/...jgkgWvRvHdAuNA

[ZyntosAran]

https://x.com/christiegolden/status/...jgkgWvRvHdAuNA

WOD 2 confirmed.

[Reive]

the new expansion will be World of Wacraft: Thrall

[Raetary]

https://x.com/christiegolden/status/...jgkgWvRvHdAuNA

Azeroth is home, ey?

[Kiria]

Are we going back to Draenor?

[Darkarath]

Just saw this and havent seen it posted. Updated blizzcon map.

WoW panel is gold!!

Yrel's return confirmed

[Reive]

Draenor is coming to us this time. Yrel will invade us and start a light vs void expansion

[Nebron]

do they usually let you try the new expansion at the blizzcon?

As far as I rememeber, it was the case for MoP, WoD and Battle for Azeroth. Not sure about Legion to be honest, since announcement didn't happen at Blizzcon.

It's also a good way to hype it up a little, because it's an opportunity for streamers to do a live interview with devs simultaneously.

WOW DEMO being a new expansion / new content other than 10.2 is out of question.
Even if it's not big or anything, they return with Blizzcon after a few years, bring back Metzen and build the hype up intensively. How can anyone believe that playable version is 10.2 which is literally on PTR? Nobody cares about already announced content. It's not what Blizzcon is for.

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WoW panel is gold!!

Yrel's return confirmed

Yeah, and Darkmoon is green which symbolises 10.2 Emerald Dream, then there's Rumble which is blue, suggesting Azshara return and Heartstone is purple to point at the Void component of 11.0. Yup, I can see that

[Kiria]

Draenor is coming to us this time. Yrel will invade us and start a light vs void expansion

I can totally get behind this haha

[Reive]

As far as I rememeber, it was the case for MoP, WoD and Battle for Azeroth. Not sure about Legion to be honest, since announcement didn't happen at Blizzcon.

It's also a good way to hype it up a little, because it's an opportunity for streamers to do a live interview with devs simultaneously.

WOW DEMO being a new expansion / new content other than 10.2 is out of question.
Even if it's not big or anything, they return with Blizzcon after a few years, bring back Metzen and build the hype up intensively. How can anyone believe that playable version is 10.2 which is literally on PTR? Nobody cares about already announced content. It's not what Blizzcon is for.

thanks. i'm sure the demo we'll get to play at the blizzcon is for the new expansion. they just can't show the new logo without announcing the new expansion first.

[Valysar]

Btw I hope they'll stop doing this in 11.0.
A lot of mounts don't follow the slope of the ground and that's kinda awful




(red = bad, green = good)

[Foolicious]

https://x.com/christiegolden/status/...jgkgWvRvHdAuNA

I never get used to the new twitter name. I always double check not to click on some nsfw link.

As far as I rememeber, it was the case for MoP, WoD and Battle for Azeroth. Not sure about Legion to be honest, since announcement didn't happen at Blizzcon.

If i remember correctly you could play the starting area of demonhunters at blizzcon.

[Reive]

I can totally get behind this haha

hey, if they can't give us a world revamp, they should at least give us something cool.

[Teriz]

If we're not going to get an Old Gods or Emerald Dream expansion due to those being samey and having limited design stuff, then "Elemental" expansion is another no-go because elementals are, kind of boring.. Cata did a good job with 'em and given the themes in this expansion, this is as close as you're going to get

Elementals are boring =/= Elemental zones would look the same

Just by being elemental, you're looking at zones that encompass Earth, fire, water, and/or wind. That's not a "samey" problem.

With that said, the notion appears to be that we're going underground and dealing with the elements and the elemental lords in a different way than going through different elemental planes like we did in Cataclysm. I do believe that that makes sense if the design goal is to complete the general storyline started in Cataclysm. Dragonflight backs this up somewhat given that the aspects are getting their powers back in this expansion, which was part of the Cataclysm storyline. The other major part of the Cataclysm storyline was the destruction of the world, the elements in chaos, and Worgens and Goblins getting pushed out their homes. We could see Worgens getting Gilneas back and Goblins going to a restored Kezan at the start of 11.0. If that's the case, the latter opens up Undermine as a potential launching point for an underground expansion where the end result is potentially the restoration of Azeroth.

WoD and Legion ended the storyline started in TBC. BFA and SL ended the storyline started in WotLk. Dragonflight and 11.0 could end the storyline started in Cataclysm. Dragonflight resolving the dragon side of Cataclysm. 11.0 resolving the elemental side of Cataclysm.

It makes sense. Especially given that Thrall is on the key art. Thrall was rather integral to Cataclysm's storyline. It make sense for him to be integral in its resolution.

[meloneronom]

couldnt be less excited when its a "elemental" expansion.

[Ansi]

WoW panel is gold!!

Let’s read into this. Did we get any color hints at previous BlizzCon program presentations that turned out to make sense?

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Let’s read into this. Did we get any color hints at previous BlizzCon program presentations that turned out to make sense?

I don't think so but i could be wrong.

2019 blizzcon schedule looked like this