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

[Nebron]

My idea was that the locals found a way to contain the Void in half the continent using Titan tech after expelling the titans so the first xpac would be exploring Avaloren and meeting the local cultures and helping resolve local issues as well as how the rest of the world would interact with them and the second xpac would be void focused, fully using the NPC roster the first one established with us having a chance to explore the past of those cultures as found in the ruins of their land. Odyn, Xal'atath and Azshara would be driving the story.

Sounds cool
They could also start with small island to the West, imply the existence of major landmass and keep working on that for some time, to eventually launch a maaaaasive continent as an alternative for a revamp. I think there are countless possibilities there, I simply hope they avoid overcrowding the map with infinite number of islands that don't have that much in common and to which you hardly return once the story is finished. Making the zones replayable over the years allows them to explore much more interesting plotlines and story that evolves over the years.

To be honest, I'm not even a fan of these new characters that are being pushed to another expansion (like Iridikron apparently), because it feels like a cheap way to justify that the story is being built to span for more than just one expansion. For me, there's literally nothing cool about introducing a character, that has no clear goal, and you drag him to another expansion to serve as driving factor for new storylines, as it just creates an illusion of rich and well-thought storytelling, rather than an actual one

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Usually when the Hollow World concept is done in fantasy it has massive vibrant areas with extinct animals and things like that near the Inner Sun of the world.

Yeah, so "Azeroth Worldsoul" could fit as a source of energy akin to the idea of Inner Sun I guess?

[ImTheMizAwesome]

https://newsroom.activisionblizzard....next-adventure

Interesting how in this video devoted to merge with Microsoft they only show Warlord of Draenor footage and then Gromm mostly as well. May mean nothing but its interesting how they chose not WotlK (most popular overall), or Legion (acknowledged last years) or DF (current expansion), but WoD to use footage from.

Is this one from Hearthstone? havent' seen it before.

[Worldshaper]

https://newsroom.activisionblizzard....next-adventure

Interesting how in this video devoted to merge with Microsoft they only show Warlord of Draenor footage and then Gromm mostly as well. May mean nothing but its interesting how they chose not WotlK (most popular overall), or Legion (acknowledged last years) or DF (current expansion), but WoD to use footage from.

Also Metzen voiceover.

It's considered good by Bethesda fans.. you know, the same people who:

Bash EA/Ubisoft/Blizzard for fixing broken games
Praise Bethesda for releasing broken games because the fans will fix it

And then keep praising Bethesda for keeping the game broken until fans fix it.

Sorry, I hope you don't mind I will not take these people seriously.

I mean look at the reviews, they speak for themselves. But this thread really isn't about arguing over Bethesda's games. The point I was making is just that with Microsoft comes a lot of money.

[Lady Atia]

Is this one from Hearthstone? havent' seen it before.

Maybe from Arclight Rumble?

[AngerFork]

Yes, but that is what I am pointing out.

Putting the gametime in Heroic makes no sense from Blizzard's point of view, because then you just pay $5 for a whole bunch of stuff and have significantly less incentive to get the epic. That'd just be going from everyone giving you a flat $20 for a cool mount/pet/transmog and then maybe $5 for some extra stuff to everyone giving you $5 for the mount/pe/transmog and probably not any more money.

Ah, gotcha. I misunderstood and thought you were saying it made no sense for the epic edition.

[Auxis]

New "leak" from a new thread:

[Kiria]

New "leak" from a new thread:

AI for sure they seem to use a similar background throughout all the pics that have been posted.

[Harbour]

Kek, as someone who made a lot of AI art, this picture is 100% AI generated. You can see in textures, it has typical overly crispy highly contrast textures.

I think its safe to call every leak with even a bit of AI generated presence fake one. Like seriously, this technology didnt properly exist before DF, and now, when it exists, every second leak has that AI generated look.

Blizzard are lazy but they wont use fucking AI for their main promotion. Hiring normal artist would cost them less than reputational losses.

[Jodmos]

For anyone interested, Taliesin has a new video out about all the leaks so far. Not for the faint hearted as it's 1 hour 20 minutes. Probably just the same speculation as has been here for each 'leak'.

[pacotaco]

https://newsroom.activisionblizzard....next-adventure

Interesting how in this video devoted to merge with Microsoft they only show Warlord of Draenor footage and then Gromm mostly as well. May mean nothing but its interesting how they chose not WotlK (most popular overall), or Legion (acknowledged last years) or DF (current expansion), but WoD to use footage from.

Wait, where's that Draenei render from? First time I've seen it, I think.

[Kiria]

For anyone interested, Taliesin has a new video out about all the leaks so far. Not for the faint hearted as it's 1 hour 20 minutes. Probably just the same speculation as has been here for each 'leak'.

I listened to it earlier, it wasnt bad i do like some of Tali's views as hes a huge lore nerd and is generally quite good with his predictions.

[Raetary]

Wait, where's that Draenei render from? First time I've seen it, I think.

From BfA.

[Well Done Steak]

Wait, where's that Draenei render from? First time I've seen it, I think.

I'm pretty sure that's the draenie next to anduin and the final shot from the BFA cinematic

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Maybe from Arclight Rumble?

I just watched arclight cinematics at least those that i found and it didn't have a scene like that.

I guess it has to be from some HS expansion.

[Jodmos]

I listened to it earlier, it wasnt bad i do like some of Tali's views as hes a huge lore nerd and is generally quite good with his predictions.

I do think he does the lore and speculation well because he goes through stuff I'd no idea existed.

[Murlocos]

Interesting they featured Starcraft several times in that trailer. I don't want to read too much into it but maybe there's a sliver of hope we could get something new in the Starcraft universe down the road....?

I'm not really one for reading a lot into advertising snippets as secret teasers, but it is odd how front and center Starcraft has been in the Blizzard IP reels since they announced the buyout. It's only one tier above HotS in terms of focus right now (SC2 still gets balance patches, I believe HotS is purely just keeping the servers running?)

I know Phil Spencer mentioned wanting to bring it back, but he mentions how cool it would be to bring back every single IP they own. I think he forgot they've been licensing the Mechwarrior IP to Piranha Games for over a decade now and was wistfully musing about bringing it back the other week.

[Harbour]

I just watched arclight cinematics at least those that i found and it didn't have a scene like that.

I guess it has to be from some HS expansion.

First time seeing it as well. My bet are HS, HotS or Warcraft Rumble. The style of murlocs, Grommas and animation gives off those vibes. Maybe HotS revival with Grommash new hero?

[Jodmos]

From BfA.

Never saw this before. Kind of funny that there's no gnome in it.

[Kiria]

Never saw this before. Kind of funny that there's no gnome in it.

Oh the gnome got punted off

To be honest Gnomes ruin anything so im glad they're under represented.

[Jodmos]

I just watched arclight cinematics at least those that i found and it didn't have a scene like that.

I guess it has to be from some HS expansion.

Didn't look like HS style although I've not paid attention to any of that stuff for years.