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

[Catastrophy349]

"The Storming Sea"

Yeah, okay.

So west from what, the Dragon Isles because of Tyr? Or Kalimdor as it's mentioned (although she also flew "back").

I read it as "west of Kalimdor."

[Teriz]

https://x.com/MrGMYT/status/1709361260914233391?s=20

That aligns with the “Storm Rider” achievement, the Heroic mount Algarian Stormrider, and the squally battle pet. It even lines up with Thrall on the key art.

Very strong hint imo.

[Polybius]

I mean, you could do quite a bit there.

Underwater zones, volcanic zones. Desert Islands. Rain Forests.

Add to it a debuff that mysteriously deletes flying players for getting too comfortable flying like Erinethria.

[Catastrophy349]

We're going FULL CIRCLE from pre-patch (Uldaman) and 10.2 (if final patch).

[Nhiosis]

I want more dense zones like the Azure Span. Less open wide zones like Ohn'ahran Plains. I can't really say much about the Waking Shores and Thaldrazus though. As much as I disliked the lore of Shadowlands I felt like the zones were all really amazing. Same with WoD. Two of the worst expansions lore wise, but in terms of environment design I felt like they blow everything else out of the water. Especially when compared to expansions that made sure it's zones were consistent with each other. Like MoP or BFA.

Respectfully, please god no. I couldn't stand those stuffy cramped up zones. Wide open spaces have been a highly requested feature by the community for years now and I hope they continue with them moving forward.

[Ferlion]

Add to it a debuff that mysteriously deletes flying players for getting to comfortable flying like Erinethria.

While a joke, I do think you could even find a place for Dragonriding here. It is a new system and it should stick around, but I think maybe a debuff of some sort? It would feel like such a downgrade to go back to "Can't fly till max level", but maybe make flying in the new zone not last as long, vigor recharge nerfed? Use the Glyph system to buff it, so flying is it's own sort of evergreen system?

[ro9ue]

my top 5 fantasy locations :

1. underwater
2. in the sky
3. underground
4. moon
5. forbidden west

I think you're about to get your entire wish list checked off in the next expansion.

[Catastrophy349]

Pretty sure that's the point. It's the last part of the "A Song of the Depths" book from 10.0.7. Sky, Sea, and Earth.

[Ferlion]

Pretty sure that's the point. It's the last part of the "A Song of the Depths" book from 10.0.7. Sky, Sea, and Earth.

I can just see a giant elemental that's basically this.

[ro9ue]

"The Storming Sea"

Yeah, okay.

So west from what, the Dragon Isles because of Tyr? Or Kalimdor as it's mentioned (although she also flew "back").

They did nudge Kalimdor over between the old world map and the one with Dragon Isles on it....



They're making room for something.

[huth]

They did nudge Kalimdor over between the old world map and the one with Dragon Isles on it....

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They're making room for something.

Sure, but that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense with the attached story. We can go that place just fine.

[Xilurm]

Respectfully, please god no. I couldn't stand those stuffy cramped up zones. Wide open spaces have been a highly requested feature by the community for years now and I hope they continue with them moving forward.

But every expansion has one of those, no? Unless you mean you want more than one per expansion.

Honestly they look pretty bland to me. I never understood why people liked Nagrand so much for example.

[ro9ue]

Sure, but that wouldn't make a whole lot of sense with the attached story. We can go that place just fine.

I think the suggestion is west of what... Kalimdor. In order to fit something west (and probably North) of Kalimdor, need to give some space.

[Marlamin]

They did nudge Kalimdor over between the old world map and the one with Dragon Isles on it....

Yeah, just curious if there's an interpretation from the story alone (e.g. "canon") that implies a location.

[Dismayxz]

They did nudge Kalimdor over between the old world map and the one with Dragon Isles on it....



They're making room for something.

Even with this they couldn't fit anything directly west and just putting it in the top left corner instead would be off. I think they'll do the Argus treatment, put an interactable graphic to the left of Kalimdor, and clicking on that brings up the map for western Azeroth?

[Merryck]

Who even needs racial transformations when you are getting all these new customisation options for moonkin. Just keep adding more of those and for the other forms.

[Izalla]

Respectfully, please god no. I couldn't stand those stuffy cramped up zones. Wide open spaces have been a highly requested feature by the community for years now and I hope they continue with them moving forward.

As someone who friggin loves Vol'dun and absolutely hates Thaldraszus, agreed. Although I don't have a problem with the Azure Span, as that one doesn't feel cramped to me exactly. But Thaldraszus? Ugh. I can't picture any specific place in that zone except the bronze flight area because it's all just cliffs and nowhere can breathe...

[Cheezits]

I'm hoping for at least some city revamps if we're getting BSOA (BackSide of Azeroth)

[Izalla]

They did nudge Kalimdor over between the old world map and the one with Dragon Isles on it....

[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/OZNf4pk.jpg[IMG]

They're making room for something.

I think this was pointed out as soon as the map got updated, unless I'm misremembering. I'm surprised to see some people hating on the idea of finally seeing the other side of Azeroth, since it's been a rumour at least as long as I've been playing and I started in 3.0. I assume it was a thing in vanilla too.

[Marlamin]

The Storm Rider achievements are slightly more interesting now because it implies whatever we're Storm Riding(/racing) through (which now might be "The Storming Sea") is already in the game in some way. There are currently 3 encrypted maps (<10.2 spoiler>, The Nighthold (as set up in the last Tyr campaign) and a version of Aberrus), and none of those really fit. I wonder if they'll just make it some weather effect on e.g. The Great Sea map and drop a race in there, but that doesn't seem very interesting either. Hmm!