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

[Harbour]

I cant take this leak seriously. Even by little piece of this set you can already tell its low polygonal uncohesive mess, something design wise reminding Zandalar green gear. No way official Blizzard would slap something as unexcitingly looking as this.
And predicting 'But you didnt see the whole set!' - no, it already looks bad. Look at the boots and gloves - the texture is abysmally low quality. I saw WotLK pieces looking better.
If its official - well, they have already done fucked up with promotion. This piece of armor doesnt make me want to pre-order it at all.

[Chickat]

Idk I think a lot of players find enjoyment in ap grinds, so an optional one that provides no meaningful player power but account wide QoL bonuses could be fun.

Also I changed my avatar. May change it back at some point.

[Santandame]

I cant take this leak seriously. Even by little piece of this set you can already tell its low polygonal uncohesive mess, something design wise reminding Zandalar green gear. No way official Blizzard would slap something as unexcitingly looking as this.
And predicting 'But you didnt see the whole set!' - no, it already looks bad. Look at the boots and gloves - the texture is abysmally low quality. I saw WotLK pieces looking better.
If its official - well, they have already done fucked up with promotion. This piece of armor doesnt make me want to pre-order it at all.

You’d not want to pre-order an expansion even if it had a ton of features you wanted, plus an incredibly hyped trailer, all because of one transmog set you probably wouldn’t use?

[Nymrohd]

That's also what Garrosh said kinda. Thrall killed one and married the other.

The thing is, that's who Thrall is. His past is what got him here. He is of Azeroth, not of Draenor and that's the truth for all the orcs born in the encampments. Stop clinging to a past that is gone and a world that is collapsing and be who you are and embrace your actual past instead of the one tradition would have granted you. This was his character arc and it was dropped with actual negative payoff since he lost everything that made him special.

[Woggmer]

I disagree about the BGs and the HvA conflict.

If anything, getting rid of the factions conflict unties their hands and lets them do whatever they want with the presumable new battlegrounds.

You want CTF with 3 teams? There you go. You want map domination with 4 teams consisting of 5 people each? Be my guest.

There are so much more possibilities now that they don't have to build the new battlegrounds around two teams only.

And just imagine the wonders this will do to random bg queue times.

Which is an even bigger mess from a design point because they have to make sure the maps have equal footing and starting points so that no team feels like they're put in a disadvantage like how some BGs give one side or the other an advantage.

Maybe it can work in Arenas, but not BGs.. and even then they'd have to design Arenas to allow 4 way team free-for-all of players to fight all at once.

And the thing PvP players want more than anything is balance or at least a fun experience, which they never get because NOBODY can balance PvP regardless if they claim they have a solution because there's always someone who's going to find a way to break the system.

And they can have BGs even if the HvA conflict is simmered down, TBC and Wrath were proof that you can include BGs even if the faction conflict isn't prominent... Honestly it isn't because of the conflict or the story, I think Ion Hazzikostas just doesn't care for PvP all that much to make any big changes to it.

[Wangming]

The thing is, that's who Thrall is. His past is what got him here. He is of Azeroth, not of Draenor and that's the truth for all the orcs born in the encampments. Stop clinging to a past that is gone and a world that is collapsing and be who you are and embrace your actual past instead of the one tradition would have granted you. This was his character arc and it was dropped with actual negative payoff since he lost everything that made him special.

Do we even have anyone left who is written well? Genn? Anyone else?

[Santandame]

The thing is, that's who Thrall is. His past is what got him here. He is of Azeroth, not of Draenor and that's the truth for all the orcs born in the encampments. Stop clinging to a past that is gone and a world that is collapsing and be who you are and embrace your actual past instead of the one tradition would have granted you. This was his character arc and it was dropped with actual negative payoff since he lost everything that made him special.

Because of this, I always saw Thrall as the character who would be the eventual bridge between the Horde and the Alliance; not Anduin.

[Teriz]

I knew Stormbreaker was fake because of that Carrack nonsense, and because it clearly wasn’t an underground expansion.

[Santandame]

Do we even have anyone left who is written well? Genn? Anyone else?

Denathrius, Fyrakk, Azshara are the only characters I can think of that stand out as decent at the moment.

Iridikron has potential.

Velen was decently written during Legion, but we’ve seen very little of him since.

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I knew Stormbreaker was fake because of that Carrack nonsense, and because it clearly wasn’t an underground expansion.

Well I’m glad to see you’re embracing satire at this point.

[Nymrohd]

Because of this, I always saw Thrall as the character who would be the eventual bridge between the Horde and the Alliance; not Anduin.

It felt like that back in WC3. Thrall was pretty much build to create world peace.

[UndedoKoleda]

Which is an even bigger mess from a design point because they have to make sure the maps have equal footing and starting points so that no team feels like they're put in a disadvantage like how some BGs give one side or the other an advantage.

Maybe it can work in Arenas, but not BGs.. and even then they'd have to design Arenas to allow 4 way team free-for-all of players to fight all at once.

And the thing PvP players want more than anything is balance or at least a fun experience, which they never get because NOBODY can balance PvP regardless if they claim they have a solution because there's always someone who's going to find a way to break the system.

And they can have BGs even if the HvA conflict is simmered down, TBC and Wrath were proof that you can include BGs even if the faction conflict isn't prominent... Honestly it isn't because of the conflict or the story, I think Ion Hazzikostas just doesn't care for PvP all that much to make any big changes to it.

If they want to make "random" maps, then perhaps yes. But I can't see how is it a mess to design a battleground similar to Temple of Kotmogu or Eye of the Storm, but with 3 or 4 starting points, instead of 2.

[Nymrohd]

Which is an even bigger mess from a design point because they have to make sure the maps have equal footing and starting points so that no team feels like they're put in a disadvantage like how some BGs give one side or the other an advantage.

Maybe it can work in Arenas, but not BGs.. and even then they'd have to design Arenas to allow 4 way team free-for-all of players to fight all at once.

And the thing PvP players want more than anything is balance or at least a fun experience, which they never get because NOBODY can balance PvP regardless if they claim they have a solution because there's always someone who's going to find a way to break the system.

And they can have BGs even if the HvA conflict is simmered down, TBC and Wrath were proof that you can include BGs even if the faction conflict isn't prominent... Honestly it isn't because of the conflict or the story, I think Ion Hazzikostas just doesn't care for PvP all that much to make any big changes to it.

Even if we get no revamp or anything, they absolutely need to do an Alterac Valley visual update. It should have happened years ago, they pretty much have every asset they need for it.

[Santandame]

All of the playable races are in dire need of character development.

Just off the top of my head for Alliance.

- Humans: Have a wide cast of characters but outside of Genn, very little have any nuance.
- Night Elves: The NE heritage storyline wasn’t the best indication of what could come.
- Dwarves - I think it’s time to age up Dagran in game and explore his character. There’s a lot of diverse Dwarf characters that could and should get development such as Moira, Falstad, Muradin, Kurdran. I don’t know why we’re stuck with Dwarf characters like Toddy instead. Also some more focus on Dark Irons that isn’t just Thaelin.
- Draenei: Probably the best position out of all the Alliance races, development wise. Velen is a decent character, and we got plenty development of Draenei characters in WoD and Legion. We’ll hopefully get some more with a spotlight on how Draenei society struggles to adapt with Manari, LF and Broken.
- Gnomes: Has there been any news on Mekkatorque after BfA? They serve their role well as the comic relief Alliance race, I don’t really think anymore is particularly needed.
- Worgen: I imagine we’ll see more with the hopeful Gilneas reclamation event. However outside of Genn who is probably the best written character on the Alliance side, they don’t get much representation. Hopefully the Bloodfang pack are reintroduced at some point.

That’s not even getting into both the Orcs and Trolls over on Horde side who are in desperate need of some new blood in terms of characters.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Horde needs more rexxar in main storyline, i want some badass CGI cinematic with rexxar in it and misha.

Still holding my high hopium lvls for Rexxar questline finally bringing ogres or mok'nathal to the horde as playable race or allied race next expansion or 10.2.7 as preorder to lvl while waiting for new release.

[Lady Atia]

Which is an even bigger mess from a design point because they have to make sure the maps have equal footing and starting points so that no team feels like they're put in a disadvantage like how some BGs give one side or the other an advantage.

Maybe it can work in Arenas, but not BGs.. and even then they'd have to design Arenas to allow 4 way team free-for-all of players to fight all at once.

And the thing PvP players want more than anything is balance or at least a fun experience, which they never get because NOBODY can balance PvP regardless if they claim they have a solution because there's always someone who's going to find a way to break the system.

And they can have BGs even if the HvA conflict is simmered down, TBC and Wrath were proof that you can include BGs even if the faction conflict isn't prominent... Honestly it isn't because of the conflict or the story, I think Ion Hazzikostas just doesn't care for PvP all that much to make any big changes to it.

Sure, that's why we get solo q rbg's within the next 2-3 seasons, and that's why pvp is still the only part of the game that has true seasonal fomo on an unmatched scale - because "Ion doesn't care for PvP".

[Teriz]

Well I’m glad to see you’re embracing satire at this point.

I’m embracing the idea that maybe the next expansion is us going beneath the existing areas and finding new underground zones. Just like Zaralek is under Dragon Isles, Undermine is under Kezan, and Azjol Nerub is under Northrend. What if new zones like Khaz Algar is under the Eastern Kingdoms? What if we use dragon ride through tunnels to get to those locations?

I dunno, I simply don’t buy the notion that we’re going to another lost continent controlled by Titan constructs and dragons.

[Jaggler]

Denathrius, Fyrakk, Azshara are the only characters I can think of that stand out as decent at the moment.

Iridikron has potential.

Velen was decently written during Legion, but we’ve seen very little of him since.

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Well I’m glad to see you’re embracing satire at this point.

I personally like Vyranoth.

A character guided by her principles more than by her allegiance. If they keep that going she could be an interesting uneasy ally.

I’m embracing the idea that maybe the next expansion is us going beneath the existing areas and finding new underground zones. Just like Zaralek is under Dragon Isles, Undermine is under Kezan, and Azjol Nerub is under Northrend. What if new zones like Khaz Algar is under the Eastern Kingdoms? What if we use dragon ride through tunnels to get to those locations?

I dunno, I simply don’t buy the notion that we’re going to another lost continent controlled by Titan constructs and dragons.

Don't like that idea tbh, having zones split up like that rarely is a good idea or works out well (see Cata/SL)

[Lady Atia]

Even if we get no revamp or anything, they absolutely need to do an Alterac Valley visual update. It should have happened years ago, they pretty much have every asset they need for it.

Not only a visual update, they should do what they did with than one pandaren bg - completely revamp it, including achievements. Half of them aren't even doable anymore because AV changed so much since WotLK.

[Wangming]

All of the playable races are in dire need of character development.

Just off the top of my head for Alliance.

- Humans: Have a wide cast of characters but outside of Genn, very little have any nuance.
- Night Elves: The NE heritage storyline wasn’t the best indication of what could come.
- Dwarves - I think it’s time to age up Dagran in game and explore his character. There’s a lot of diverse Dwarf characters that could and should get development such as Moira, Falstad, Muradin, Kurdran. I don’t know why we’re stuck with Dwarf characters like Toddy instead. Also some more focus on Dark Irons that isn’t just Thaelin.
- Draenei: Probably the best position out of all the Alliance races, development wise. Velen is a decent character, and we got plenty development of Draenei characters in WoD and Legion. We’ll hopefully get some more with a spotlight on how Draenei society struggles to adapt with Manari, LF and Broken.
- Gnomes: Has there been any news on Mekkatorque after BfA? They serve their role well as the comic relief Alliance race, I don’t really think anymore is particularly needed.
- Worgen: I imagine we’ll see more with the hopeful Gilneas reclamation event. However outside of Genn who is probably the best written character on the Alliance side, they don’t get much representation. Hopefully the Bloodfang pack are reintroduced at some point.

That’s not even getting into both the Orcs and Trolls over on Horde side who are in desperate need of some new blood in terms of characters.

Maybe unpopular opinion, but Pandaren.
I mean their culture was developed around being super chill with everything to surpass the Sha. But what now? The Sha threat is over. They also don't seem to have any form of government apart from the ghost of the emperor that still kinda hangs out with them.

[Woke it Up]

I cant take this leak seriously. Even by little piece of this set you can already tell its low polygonal uncohesive mess, something design wise reminding Zandalar green gear. No way official Blizzard would slap something as unexcitingly looking as this.
And predicting 'But you didnt see the whole set!' - no, it already looks bad. Look at the boots and gloves - the texture is abysmally low quality. I saw WotLK pieces looking better.
If its official - well, they have already done fucked up with promotion. This piece of armor doesnt make me want to pre-order it at all.

Hey so uh what if it's WoW classic transmog. It's not 100% out of the realms that classic and retail get some shared content or promotion.

The globe missing could be a void portal thing