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

[Merryck]

And we will blissfully indulge that fanfiction until Blizzcon day arrives.

Nothing blissful about this indulgence. Y'all are just bickering constantly. Not that there's anything else to do.

[Santandame]

I hate bilgewater aesthetic - it hurts the eyes. Bring back the Booty bay style of goblin buildings.

Yeah I much prefer the Steamwheedle aesthetic seen with Ratchet, Everlook, Gadgetztan and to a lesser extent, Booty Bay (more pirate themed) than the awful Bilgewater aesthetic.

[Wangming]

None of them are interesting.

Not true. That last one was interesting. Ultimately proven false by Warcraft Rumble of all things, but it was interesting nonetheless.

[MyWholeLifeIsThunder]

Hearthstone
New expansion is Delights of Pandaria
New keyword is Simmer. Gain bonus effect the longer you keep the card in your hand.
Two legendaries per class : A chief who impacts your deck at the beginning of the game and a spell (Masterpiece)
Monk is coming to Hearthstone. Chen Stormstout is the monk hero.
Hero Power change with a new keyword : Stance. Can deal damage, heal or transfer damage to another target.
Mechanic is chi. You can store chi like mana and use it instead of mana. You can't play cards that cost more than your mana cost with excess chi.
2v2 is coming next year for the 10 years anniversary.

Honestly the HS bit is so brilliant that it really makes me wish this is all real lmao

[Wangming]

Honestly the HS bit is so brilliant that it really makes me wish this is all real lmao

You and me both

[Myrrh]

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Huh. This would be an insane leak if real - I don't think the entirety of a single Blizzcon's announcements have come close to being leaked before, at least simultaneously. But this is the first one in a while, the rulebook might be out the window as far as how it is being organised.

But that Hearthstone write up seems... inspired? The simmer keyword doesn't sound like something pulled out of just anyone's arse. Dunno, the Hearthstone section is making me lean towards this maybe being it, despite my brain screaming that this is sus.

'Sky mastery' is a very blizzard approach to renaming dragonriding, too.

[Teriz]

Good catch.

RIP Stormfall 2023-2023.

Not surprising. I guess we’re back to Thrall, Toweliee and Khaz Algar being the biggest hints to 11.0.

[Raetary]

Tbf, the rumble day release is so miniscule, i don't really think we should immediately reject it solely because that tiny bit of inaccurate info.

[PotHockets]

Huh. This would be an insane leak if real - I don't think the entirety of a single Blizzcon's announcements have come close to being leaked before, at least simultaneously. But this is the first one in a while, the rulebook might be out the window as far as how it is being organised.

But that Hearthstone write up seems... inspired? The simmer keyword doesn't sound like something pulled out of just anyone's arse. Dunno, the Hearthstone section is making me lean towards this maybe being it, despite my brain screaming that this is sus.

'Sky mastery' is a very blizzard approach to renaming dragonriding, too.

Yeah the HS bit is what makes it really believable to me. I'm not saying I haven't seen some theorycrafters come up with similar ideas but none of them ever seem to have that Blizzard touch to them like this would. Simmer and then Chi for a Monk class is so inspired that even if this leak is completely fake I hope some HS dev sees it and uses the idea.

[ro9ue]

On a shaman support spec. What I hope for is...

The same concept as classic totem buffing, except instead of stationary totems you get "spirits" of each element that follow you around and hover. If anyone remembers Oak Sage from Diablo 2, you summoned a spirit that circled you and buffed you and your parties HP or something. That's kinda what I want from a buffing shaman spec. Depending on what elements you use, different spirits get empowered and they interact with each other. Legion enhancement had some of this.

Would like to see racial cosmetic differences as well. Maybe floating tiki masks for Trolls, floating skulls for orc, animal ghosts for Tauren, Draenei get crystals, and elemental spirits for Dwarf.

Earthwarden should be kept for a future tank spec name, but something like this they should name 'Spiritcaller'.

[Santandame]

For me it's Farahlon. I always wanted to see what Netherstorm looked like before it became Netherstorm.

I may be misremembering but weren’t we told Farahlon would look similar to the Everbloom and was where the Primals on Draenor came from? Which is why the Everbloom storyline was added to Gorgrond as well as that biome because Farahlon was cancelled as well as orc fatigue in Gorgrond?

Ah, just seen this from wowpedia.

“Before they were replaced by the infested, the scrapped plant creatures known as fara were planned to be native to Farahlon.[4]”

[Syphin33]

Holy hell.....this seems legit

I dunno why but this looks very legit

[Worldshaper]

Not surprising. I guess we’re back to Thrall, Toweliee and Khaz Algar being the biggest hints to 11.0.

Towellie isn't an official hint. He could be right, he could be wrong.

The most solid hints right now, are these (though it remains to be seen if they're all about 11.0):

• Thrall on the BlizzCon art.
• In-game books, quotes, and events, such as 'A Song of the Depths', the ones about Avaloren, Khaz Algar, the green dragon who flew west beyond the storm, Eonar's World Tree, Iridikron taking Galakrond's essence, prior whispers from Xal'atath, and so on.
• The Heroic Edition Algarian Stormrider mount and its associated items.
• Datamined assets we have yet to see in their proper context, such as the shadowy gryphon, the Storm Rider's Arsenal, the echo dome, Alliance and Horde models.
• (At least in my opinion) My theory about how the expansions connect as trilogies of sorts, suggesting the Void is up next, along with Thrall, possible world updates, elements, etc.

Anything else, including Towelliee's teases, is false until proven otherwise.

[huth]

Tbf, the rumble day release is so miniscule, i don't really think we should immediately reject it solely because that tiny bit of inaccurate info.

Technically, it doesn't even contradict it. It just makes the line meaningless. Of course ticketholders can play it; everybody can.

[Jastall]

Are these campaigns being worked on simultaneously, and how long are they? They'd have to be doing these campaigns well ahead of their release to meet that schedule.

Yeah the WC3 stuff is where the "leak" lost me. I definitely don't believe Blizzard is not only making Reforged free to play, not only redoing its entire art style (which is a very significant endeavor), but is also on top of that planning on pumping out a Blizzard-quality RTS campaign every couple months, when SC2 was their biggest RTS release and had one bonus 9 mission campaign over its lifespan, after the 3 already-planned big parts of its trilogy.

The rest was reasonably plausible, but that one's just big wishful thinking IMO. Even if I'd dearly love to be wrong!

[Kiria]

Technically, it doesn't even contradict it. It just makes the line meaningless. Of course ticketholders can play it; everybody can.

You're right, we all already know the release information for Rumble so maybe that poster thought it was irrelevant to give info we alrdy know on that game, I still feel this is the best leak yet if not rare knowing so much about multiple products.

[Myrrh]

Towellie isn't an official hint. He could be right, he could be wrong.

The most solid hints right now, are these (though it remains to be seen if they're all about 11.0):

• Thrall on the BlizzCon art.
• In-game books, quotes, and events, such as 'A Song of the Depths', the ones about Avaloren, Khaz Algar, the green dragon who flew west beyond the storm, Eonar's World Tree, Iridikron taking Galakrond's essence, prior whispers from Xal'atath, and so on.
• The Heroic Edition Algarian Stormrider mount and its associated items.
• Datamined assets we have yet to see in their proper context, such as the shadowy gryphon, the Storm Rider's Arsenal, the echo dome, Alliance and Horde models.
• (At least in my opinion) My theory about how the expansions connect as trilogies of sorts, suggesting the Void is up next, along with Thrall, possible world updates, elements, etc.

Anything else, including Towelliee's teases, is false until proven otherwise.

Eco dome is imo very likely to be an outland race visual; the models were added in the same build as the racing achievements, for which the Netherstorm ones are very specifically named after the ecodomes.

[KayRule]

Yeah the WC3 stuff is where the "leak" lost me. I definitely don't believe Blizzard is not only making Reforged free to play, not only redoing its entire art style (which is a very significant endeavor), but is also on top of that planning on pumping out a Blizzard-quality RTS campaign every couple months, when SC2 was their biggest RTS release and had one bonus 9 mission campaign over its lifespan, after the 3 already-planned big parts of its trilogy.

The rest was reasonably plausible, but that one's just big wishful thinking IMO. Even if I'd dearly love to be wrong!

They said there's going to be a mount for Portal Pass owners which makes no sense.

They also sincerely say Blizzard will release a character in OW whose name sounds like "MAGA"

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Holy hell.....this seems legit

I dunno why but this looks very legit

"Long = Legit"

[Cheezits]

They also sincerely say Blizzard will release a character in OW whose name sounds like "MAGA"

I don't know how to tell you this... he's real, and he's been real for a few years.

https://overwatch.fandom.com/wiki/Mauga

[Ferlion]

Here's an idea.

What if the next expansion is a world revamp... But of Outland.