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

[pacotaco]

Zovaal was destined to lose because the first ones foresaw his treachery

Like I'm not even talking shit this is the plot of SL we are the chosen ones and that's why we can travel to the maw

Not our ties to Azeroth
Not the fact we killed a death titan
Nope just mysterious ways

Isn't it because we have the Hearth of Azeroth? I though that was connection.

[Nymrohd]

Seamless map teleports on the open sea could be doable provided it's a bit foggy/stormy so terrain in the distance doesn't show up (or as you mentioned with a secondary illusion in e.g. the skybox).

It's just that if they could manage that, we could have seamless transitions from continent to continent by just using the existing assets (Island Expeditions) and geography. Which I doubt is a priority but it would make for some crazy flying.

I also do hope we could have sea battle that way; imagine taking a boat from booty bay, following the ship much further into the sea and then transitioning into an open ocean area where you get attacked by the Bloodsail.

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Isn't it because we have the Hearth of Azeroth? I though that was connection.

That was my understanding as well.

[pacotaco]

As a software engineer I love how you try to give this thread a little dev flavour xD

So, could it still be for a prepatch event? Like burning of teldrassil? "Crossing of the storm" or something?

That was my though too.

[Makorus]

Dunno if it's been discussed yet, but this Tweet is very interesting.

https://twitter.com/TripdWyr/status/1710768187468640731

He worked on the Warlock Customization options, the Dark Ranger customization and Dragonriding Customization. Generally, customization.

Dunno if he is referring to the next PTR build or 10.2.5.

[Holdodlig]

Okay, your comment did bring up a good point, which is Mythic Raid Mounts. I think they are fine with being a low drop chance IF they were a 100% during the relevant expansion.

But yeah, realistically, even if killing the rare gives you a currency, and you need to kill it 100 times, it's still not great, but it's better than it being completely random

Does the person who gets it after the first kill feel accomplished? No, of course not, they are just happy they don't have to kill the rare again?

Does the person who gets it after killing the Rare 500 times feel accomplished? No, they are just glad it's over.

I wasn't necessarely speaking about killing the same monster for the currency. I pointed out anima as a global currency which is cool way but maybe there's more to do elsewhere. In DF, we have a shitload of grey useless items who seems to be here for the sole purpose of filling your inventory while giving up very meaningless informations about the lore. Maybe we can have those items in different rarity type instead like we had with the same expansion and they could serve as currency.

One of the most well done thing in early DF was the way you had to farm mount. There was almost no "Kill this rare 1000 times". Most of them was their own specific little quest and that's the direction they should take in the future in my opinion.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Dunno if it's been discussed yet, but this Tweet is very interesting.

https://twitter.com/TripdWyr/status/1710768187468640731

He worked on the Warlock Customization options, the Dark Ranger customization and Dragonriding Customization. Generally, customization.

Dunno if he is referring to the next PTR build or 10.2.5.

Sounds more like 10.2.5 but i don't know what it can mean, boomkin are getting new stuff in 10.2 so maybe DK pets? Draenei got eredar customization

Red orcs? Dragonmaw customization? 10.2.5 would be also after blizzcon so maybe there will be some 2 new allied races with preorder. who knows.

[Valysar]

Sounds more like 10.2.5 but i don't know what it can mean, boomkin are getting new stuff in 10.2 so maybe DK pets? Draenei got eredar customization

Red orcs? Dragonmaw customization? 10.2.5 would be also after blizzcon so maybe there will be some 2 new allied races with preorder. who knows.

New DH wings please

[Raetary]

Alternative Shadowform visuals please.

[Wangming]

Alternative Shadowform visuals please.

Ahh Shadowform. An ability literally begging to be revamped.

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New DH wings please

For real though. Imagine Black birdlike wings like a fallen angel.

[NikolaiShade]

Alternative Shadowform visuals please.

Lightform for the edgier edge-lords, so edgy they look plain

[Dancaris]

Sounds more like 10.2.5 but i don't know what it can mean, boomkin are getting new stuff in 10.2 so maybe DK pets? Draenei got eredar customization

Red orcs? Dragonmaw customization? 10.2.5 would be also after blizzcon so maybe there will be some 2 new allied races with preorder. who knows.

Isn't roadmap tells us about new BE customisations?

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Isn't roadmap tells us about new BE customisations?

they get new hair colors or something.

Another thing is that BE already had enough of new stuff from Blizzard, other races exist too.

[Wangming]

Isn't roadmap tells us about new BE customisations?

You think that is all? Dude is acting like we are getting a christmas present or something.

[Makorus]

Isn't roadmap tells us about new BE customisations?

That was 10.1.7.

And it was some hair colours.

There is no roadmap for 10.2.5/10.2.7 yet.

[Wangming]

That was 10.1.7.

And it was some hair colours.

There is no roadmap for 10.2.5/10.2.7 yet.

Is there any chance 10.2.7 will already be the prepatch? That would certainly explain the absence.

[Makorus]

Ahh Shadowform. An ability literally begging to be revamped.

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For real though. Imagine Black birdlike wings like a fallen angel.

Shadowform has no purpose to be in the game still outside of being a cosmetic RP ability.
It's incredibly annoying when you randomly get booted out of Shadowform for the dumbest thing and you just do like 10% less damage. I get that it's easy to notice you are not in it anymore, but I don't always my eyes glued to my character.

There is no negative to having it on either, so you might as well just make the damage baseline. At least with Boomkin form, you have certain spells you can't cast in Moonkin form and there is advantages and disadvantages.

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Is there any chance 10.2.7 will already be the prepatch? That would certainly explain the absence.

Assuming 7th is the release date for 10.2, 10.2.5 would probably be late January, and 10.2.7 would roughly be late March/early April.

Might be a bit too early for Prepatch but hard to say.

[Wangming]

Shadowform has no purpose to be in the game still outside of being a cosmetic ability.
It's incredibly annoying when you randomly get booted out of Shadowform for the dumbest thing and you just do like 10% less damage.

There is no negative to having it on either, so you might as well just make the damage baseline. At least with Boomkin form, you have certain spells you can't cast in Moonkin form and there is advantages and disadvantages.

Exactly. It is a one button toggle that you leave on and that is it. It is bullshit. If it were like voidform where you need to build up resources for it and need to work on it to keep it up and/or have abilities unavailable in Shadowform like with Moonkin, it could be fun. But this way it is basically a passive trait that takes up a slot on your hotbar.

[Makabreska]

Shadowform has no purpose to be in the game still outside of being a cosmetic ability.
It's incredibly annoying when you randomly get booted out of Shadowform for the dumbest thing and you just do like 10% less damage.

There is no negative to having it on either, so you might as well just make the damage baseline. At least with Boomkin form, you have certain spells you can't cast in Moonkin form and there is advantages and disadvantages.

Quite sure that Shadowform is at the bottom of Shadow players concern list. This spec received two reworks in DF so far, and it keeps getting worse (state of 10.2 PTR is just kekw). Every other spec rework has been great, but for some reason Blizz is unable to land it with Shadow.

[Wangming]

Might be a bit too early for Prepatch but hard to say.

Depends on how ahead they are in development for 11.0
And when the last raid tier is going to be.

[Hitei]

Exactly. It is a one button toggle that you leave on and that is it. It is bullshit. If it were like voidform where you need to build up resources for it and need to work on it to keep it up and/or have abilities unavailable in Shadowform like with Moonkin, it could be fun. But this way it is basically a passive trait that takes up a slot on your hotbar.

I'd rather you not advocate for the removal one one of the handful of flavorful personal buffs left in the game. It's bad enough they gutted the warlock, hunter, DK and paladin ones.