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

[Sondrelk]

Honestly, the big question to me now is the existence of 10.3. Because Blizzard would have to be pretty confident in Avaloren being a slam dunk to make players accept slower expansions being the likely outcome going forward. Even more so when they talked about how proud they were to have an 8 week patch cadence.

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You have to wonder what the green magic is representing. Life? Decay? Necromancy? Spirit?

I would guess Storm Infused somehow.

[Nymrohd]

Yeah. I pointed out a while back that a big chunk of the assets that were in the recent few sets of asset updates are all things that Isle of Conquest makes use of. Catapults, demos, siege engines, normal stormwind ships and northrend icebreakers.

Yup. I want a revamp for the old world but BGs need it. It's ridiculous that Blizzard is using as current content places that look so antiquated. At the very least AV, EotS and IoC should have had a graphic update a couple of expacs ago.

[ro9ue]

Is Storm Rider the expansion name? Whats with the Bronze, Silver, Gold? Sounds like the sales tiers (base, heroic, epic editions).

maggz = magma/fire, squally = air/storm, fyrn = earth/plant, frostwing = water/ice (elements) so earth may be featured but all 4 elements likely included throughout

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Honestly, the big question to me now is the existence of 10.3. Because Blizzard would have to be pretty confident in Avaloren being a slam dunk to make players accept slower expansions being the likely outcome going forward. Even more so when they talked about how proud they were to have an 8 week patch cadence.

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I would guess Storm Infused somehow.

Oh sweet summer child.

They do not care if they want to put the audience on another Containment Island/Underground for 2 years/1 year. What really stops them from making horrendous business announcement in front of their fans?

The only thing that they may be confident in is the Classic announcement or a "Hey there's Revamp in another expansion that we can say to you on stage."

[Cheezits]

Honestly, the big question to me now is the existence of 10.3. Because Blizzard would have to be pretty confident in Avaloren being a slam dunk to make players accept slower expansions being the likely outcome going forward. Even more so when they talked about how proud they were to have an 8 week patch

Or the reason Metzen is coming is because he is going to say "expansions are smaller and faster now lol" in the nicest way possible, and they are trying to ensure people are let down in the most effective manner.

"This is the future of WoW now, deal with it"

[Sondrelk]

Is Storm Rider the expansion name? Whats with the Bronze, Silver, Gold? Sounds like the sales tiers (base, heroic, epic editions).

maggz = magma/fire, squally = air/storm, fyrn = earth/plant, frostwing = water/ice (elements)

My guess is that Storm Rider is some kind of Dragonriding race available if you have the new Gryphon.
Shadowlands had the mount give a quest for the transmog, so maybe the Gryphon gives a quest for a race somewhere for a reward.

[Hitei]

Could just be that they want to do a lot of side stories in the old world and feel restrained by the old graphics. So a lot of quests like the heritage ones, just placed in updated old zones.
It really is just an idea.

I guess. It feels like wasted effort though. They could have the quest team throwing dozens of little story quests around rather than bottlenecking themselves with updating assets. It's not like being restrained by older graphics stopped them from doing Secrets of Azeroth.

[Cheezits]

maggz = magma/fire, squally = air/storm, fyrn = earth/plant, frostwing = water/ice (elements) so earth may be featured but all 4 elements likely included throughout

I think you cracked it, but the gryphon might be the air/storm element.

[pacotaco]

I get what you're saying, but disagree.

The sentence before that once goes: "Even now, the Harbinger gathers the children of the first flesh to reclaim what was lost. They must remember their vows and serve those to whom they owe fealty."

So it seems to me that the "children of the first flesh" are also the ones toiling in the deep places, and I cannot think of anything in Zarelek which fits that description?

Hello? Djaradin? Those are the Children of the First Flesh. It's heavily hinted since the first time we heard about that name: the paintings on the caves, the stories from the blind Djaradin, etc.

[Xilurm]

I'm gonna laugh when the reason why the silhouette seen in Dawn of the Infinite has night elf ears is that it's not Xal'atath or Azshara, and the "Harbinger" has just been Elune's avatar this entire time.

And I'm gonna cry.

[Hitei]

Is Storm Rider the expansion name? Whats with the Bronze, Silver, Gold? Sounds like the sales tiers (base, heroic, epic editions).

maggz = magma/fire, squally = air/storm, fyrn = earth/plant, frostwing = water/ice (elements) so earth may be featured but all 4 elements likely included throughout

It's probably just a race achievement.
https://www.wowhead.com/achievement=...ur-sprint-gold

Maybe there's some initial promotional event that includes a dragonriding race? Or there's a race component as part of the gryphon mount? Like how the anima worm had a quest for transmog set.

[Dracullus]

Honestly, the big question to me now is the existence of 10.3. Because Blizzard would have to be pretty confident in Avaloren being a slam dunk to make players accept slower expansions being the likely outcome going forward. Even more so when they talked about how proud they were to have an 8 week patch cadence.

If you think about it, if we assume they show 2024 roadmap, it's pretty impossible it won't be filled with patches until end of expac, even if they would be small. They won't show roadmap with big hole in the middle.

There is also possibility that expac is scheduled for August/September, with full Season 3 (5/6 month) and 12 week Season 4, which would cut any talks about content drought.

[Nymrohd]

I guess. It feels like wasted effort though. They could have the quest team throwing dozens of little story quests around rather than bottlenecking themselves with updating assets. It's not like being restrained by older graphics stopped them from doing Secrets of Azeroth.

Or the Blue Dragonflight questline

Ofc it might be that they WANTED to have it ready for these things, it just wasn't ready to launch.
We have speculated that they might be trying to automate the update. Maybe they had proof of concept for it when they started those questlines but it messed up on the large scale and they delayed it, gods knows that happens with projects.

I did have the idea that they could use a visually updated old world as part of timewalking if they expand timewalking to include zones and/or move to an evergreen version of timewalking.

[Nightshade711]

Here's my updated interpretation of 'A Song of the Depths', with my annotations in red:

I wonder if Xal’atath/Iridikron will use the dark heart to revive K’tanth (or whoever the 5th old god was)
And that’ll trigger Azshara to return.


But watch it be a plot twist where Azshara returns to help us kill the 5th old god & we get a Naga race or AR.

[Cheezits]

The elemental themed pet names are definitely sussy.

[Reive]

The elements answer to me!!!

[Ersula]

Algarian must be some sort of culture within the new expansion.

Is Lil Maggz, a chibi Magtheridon?

[ro9ue]

Algarian must be some sort of culture within the new expansion.

Is Lil Maggz, a chibi Magtheridon?

I'm thinking it's:

maggz = magma/fire, squally = air/storm, fyrn = earth/plant, frostwing = water/ice all 4 elements

[Nymrohd]

If you think about it, if we assume they show 2024 roadmap, it's pretty impossible it won't be filled with patches until end of expac, even if they would be small. They won't show roadmap with big hole in the middle.

There is also possibility that expac is scheduled for August/September, with full Season 3 (5/6 month) and 12 week Season 4, which would cut any talks about content drought.

Release in August and then during the Anniversary Blizzcon announce the Revamp which would come with removing level progression and replacing it with some form of horizontal progression.

[Cheezits]

Algarian must be some sort of culture within the new expansion.

Is Lil Maggz, a chibi Magtheridon?

Algarian is the mutated dwarves of Khaz Algar.