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

[ercarp]

Agreed 10 fold. Just don't like accusatory nature -- I had it too often while looking for clues on the Voidstorm thread (check my post history).

Didn't mean to come across as accusatory, I apologize if it seemed that way. I go into each and every one of these leaks with a more than healthy amount of suspicion and I always consider the "meta" aspects of how they were shared as well, not just the contents of the leak itself.

Also, welcome to the forums @Sebashtian.

[Demonly]

Didn't mean to come across as accusatory, I apologize if it seemed that way. I go into each and every one of these leaks with a more than healthy amount of suspicion and I always consider the "meta" aspects of how they were shared as well, not just the contents of the leak itself.

Also, welcome to the forums @Sebashtian.

Appreciate you clearing that up.

I want a shaman tank so bad. Bring on the sturdy mail transmogs!

ME TOO. I've been playing Enhancement Shaman on WoTLK Classic and I've been dying to want to tank with it.

[D4NNYB0Y]

Any leak mentioning a 4th Shaman spec as a major expansion feature without mentioning 4th specs for any other classes is fake. This sort of feature targets way too few players (<10% of the playerbase) to be a major selling point for their 10th expansion. It will be multiple new specs, likely all Support, if not a new class.

The acronym SoA has been mentioned in multiple leaks now, as has a tank Shaman spec. This new leak is also from 10/9. It's fake.

[Magistrate]

The Emerald Dream fish have really weird sounds.

This sounds like certain old god mobs used to sound. I want to say in vashj'ir? Just maybe higher pitch and quality.

[Cheezits]

Any leak mentioning a 4th Shaman spec as a major expansion feature without mentioning 4th specs for any other classes is fake. This sort of feature targets way too few players (<10% of the playerbase) to be a major selling point for their 10th expansion. It will be multiple new specs, likely all Support, if not a new class.

The acronym SoA has been mentioned in multiple leaks now, as has a tank Shaman spec. This new leak is also from 10/9. It's fake.

Yeah, I would expect more races/ARs over specs/a new class as well. The closest hint to a new class or spec is the music magic stuff in 10.1.5 hinting at Bard, while we've had several hints (ingame and in files) of races or subraces.

[Fahrad Wagner]

I hope that SoA leak ends up being the one, it sounds awesome :3

[Merryck]

I think they're sticking with one word expansion titles

[ercarp]

I think they're sticking with one word expansion titles

I think so too, easier to market that way. But I don't think a three-word expansion title is completely out of the question.

[Sondrelk]

I think they're sticking with one word expansion titles

I think that's up for debate. One word expansion titles are not inherently any better or worse than ones with several words. And if the developers decide it would bring more attention if they went back to several word expansion titles then I don't think they would have any issue doing that.

[Totembrah]

I think they're sticking with one word expansion titles

I miss the expansions with "___ of ____" titles.

[Fahrad Wagner]

I think that's up for debate. One word expansion titles are not inherently any better or worse than ones with several words. And if the developers decide it would bring more attention if they went back to several word expansion titles then I don't think they would have any issue doing that.

This exactly, it could be a one word expansion name... or not!

[Merryck]

I miss the expansions with "___ of ____" titles.

I don't. I hate acronyms like wotlk and bfa

[Cheezits]

I think the title will only be more than one word if there's a word that communicates fanservice. Azeroth would fit the bill "hence Secrets/Shadows of Azeroth" but I also think Lordaeron, Kalimdor, Titans etc would work.

I really really doubt Avaloren will be used or anything else that is inherently new. Even Shadowlands was a very old term.

[Totembrah]

I don't. I hate acronyms like wotlk and bfa

Based.

Long as the expansion is good, idgaf what it's called.

[Cheezits]

I also think the idea of World of Warcraft: Harbinger has been slept on as a possibility.

[Totembrah]

World of Warcraft: Beyond the Storming Sea has a lot of charm.

[Azalar]

I also think the idea of World of Warcraft: Harbinger has been slept on as a possibility.

But Harbinger sounds terrible for a name

I like Eclipse and Beyond the Storm. Heck, if Metzen is around it'd be weird for it not to be something something of the Storm or storm related lol

[D4NNYB0Y]

World of Warcraft: Beyond the Storming Sea has a lot of charm.

Journeying to Avaloren seems like DF 2.0 to me with very similar themes. I'm not sure why they would do that as the immediate follow-up to a chill expansion like DF.

Historically, when they allude to something it's the expansion after the next expansion. This is assuming Avaloren is another "lost continent" style of expansion vs something more unusual like the entrance to hollow Azeroth or something.

[Totembrah]

Journeying to Avaloren seems like DF 2.0 to me with very similar themes. I'm not sure why they would do that as the immediate follow-up to a chill expansion like DF.

Historically, when they allude to something it's the expansion after the next expansion. This is assuming Avaloren is another "lost continent" style of expansion vs something more unusual like the entrance to hollow Azeroth or something.

Very true. They always seem to be world building in anticipation for a later expansion.

[Sondrelk]

Journeying to Avaloren seems like DF 2.0 to me with very similar themes. I'm not sure why they would do that as the immediate follow-up to a chill expansion like DF.

Historically, when they allude to something it's the expansion after the next expansion. This is assuming Avaloren is another "lost continent" style of expansion vs something more unusual like the entrance to hollow Azeroth or something.

Avaloren as it currently exists does seem suspiciously like the same expansion as DF, just with Dwarves. In the way that it could have been 10.3.

We will see once we get it though. At the very least one hopes it's visually distinct from Dragonflight by having less mountains, though that would probably clash with the Dwarf aesthetic. Or being underground, which would also feel very reminiscent of Zaralek Caverns.
The only way I could see them make it sufficiently different (besides having different biomes) is making it an archipelago of some kind.

I guess we can only wait and see.