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

[Demonly]

Could do something like this:



Start out at new land that goes all the way down, then use Zaralek tech to link up every surface zone underneath. (Don't laugh at my placement, just to show the idea lol)

I really like this concept. I'm just imagining holes from Northrend, Pandaria, and EK/Kal all leading to a new area under azeroth, and would make it where there was no more loading screens between these 4 major continents. (Officially making travel between them feel really nice.)

[keelr]

Oh yeah I remember that now and you're right we basically had the entire set up for WoD beforehand but it just seemed so batshit that it made 0 sense.

I mean when i heard "Battle for Azeroth" i had to check the date whether this is some kind of shit april fool's joke. Sounded terrible then. Not anymore that much tho

[Lorca]

Did any leak mention so far the addition of more classes for the Dracthyrs? Because Blizzard said (I think through Ion on an interview, but I may remember it wrong) that they will in the future, and I think the new expansion could be a very good opportunity to add for them basic classes like mage, warrior, hunter and maybe even shaman...

[Nymrohd]

Did any leak mention so far the addition of more classes for the Dracthyrs? Because Blizzard said (I think through Ion on an interview, but I may remember it wrong) that they will in the future, and I think the new expansion could be a very good opportunity to add for them basic classes like mage, warrior, hunter and maybe even shaman...

The leaks so far seem fairly focused on location instead of systems and gameplay.

[KurtMash]

I really like this concept. I'm just imagining holes from Northrend, Pandaria, and EK/Kal all leading to a new area under azeroth, and would make it where there was no more loading screens between these 4 major continents. (Officially making travel between them feel really nice.)

My problem with this idea is that the underground zones (or the tunnels between them) would need to be ridiculously long to allow for a believable travel between the continents. I'm all for connecting all continents into one map, but doing it through sailing would make much more sense. Then again, it's almost certain that Blizz did not develop "dynamic loading" technology exclusively with Zaralek in mind, so who knows.

[milkmustache]

Or the scrapped Mongrel Horde idea. Imagine if they actually did that.

"You're telling me Garrosh escapes prison and forms a new Horde made up of... gnolls and... quilboars? And that's a serious threat somehow?"

anyone being led by garrosh is a threat. he knows how to hype a crowd

[Pinksocking]

I really like this concept. I'm just imagining holes from Northrend, Pandaria, and EK/Kal all leading to a new area under azeroth, and would make it where there was no more loading screens between these 4 major continents. (Officially making travel between them feel really nice.)

i like this idea too but i fukin hate being underground

[Yus atath]

Just posted this on reddit, but might as well post it here since we're in peak leak season. I post this every ~2 years when the time comes but it's time for an update:

Friendly reminder that, to date, every single accurate leak that starts with some overly fantastical narrative is wrong. Accurate leaks are always just random / vague shit and not some fan fiction.

For fun let's look at what they have been in the past:

- Cacatlysm races leaked because of data mined hallow's end masks (lul)
- Press / Blizzcon materials have leaked MOP / WOD / DF before release but none really told anything about key story points
- Shadowlands cinematic (Bolvar) was leaked via Blizzard shop screenshot, name was leaked months before but no one really got it right on content
- Legion had a poster (correctly) leaking very vague shit on MMO champ / 4chan. He was posting for weeks up until the announcement with cryptic puzzles around demon hunters etc
- Dragonflight had drac'thyr / cinematic screenshots leaked before hand along with talent trees (all from press kits)


Not a single time throughout all of this (over 20 years of me following this, btw) was someone starting an accurate leak with some weird "JOURNEY INTO THE FROZEN TUNDRA WITH OLD ALLIES AGAINST NEW ENEMIES" type of commentary. It's always a leak of some random feature or screen shot.

You don't have to act like you’re some “leak expert”… please, lol. And u don’t have to follow leaks for 20 years to know what is fake and whats real. We’re not dumb, we KNOW.

[jallfo]

Didn't the entire story blurb for WoD leak but no one believed them because it was so out of left field? But yes, definitely more of the exception than the rule. The real leaks tend to be light on the details.

EDIT: Found it.

Man that's a throw back, I remember that one although it was clearly VERY early in the WOD cycle that the person got news as most of that is innacurate. Thanks for sharing - fun walk down memory lane.

[Demonly]

My problem with this idea is that the underground zones (or the tunnels between them) would need to be ridiculously long to allow for a believable travel between the continents. I'm all for connecting all continents into one map, but doing it through sailing would make much more sense. Then again, it's almost certain that Blizz did not develop "dynamic loading" technology exclusively with Zaralek in mind, so who knows.

I agree this seems like a problem, What if they stair stacked the zones though? I'm imaging like going down some, hitting the first Zone, then there's another hole going further that leads to another zone, and so on forth. idk. just thinking. Probably is a bad thought.

[jallfo]

You don't have to act like you’re some “leak expert”… please, lol. And u don’t have to follow leaks for 20 years to know what is fake and whats real. We’re not dumb, we KNOW.

No need to turn this aggressive and imply name calling. All positive vibes here. I didn't intend to try and be "better" than others... was just trying to explain how this has mostly gone in the past in the spirit of providing perspective from some of the newer people.

[Izalla]

You don't have to act like you’re some “leak expert”… please, lol. And u don’t have to follow leaks for 20 years to know what is fake and whats real. We’re not dumb, we KNOW.

Regarding this part, eehhhhh. Take a look at any legit leak post from prior years and uhhhh... there's a lot of "this is so stupid an obviously fake lol" posts =/

[Bayless]

You don't have to act like you’re some “leak expert”… please, lol. And u don’t have to follow leaks for 20 years to know what is fake and whats real. We’re not dumb, we KNOW.

Bro is just trying to be helpful, relax lol.

[Pinksocking]

fellas

ladies

lets get back on topic

https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/1716575229663723564

NZOTH IS IN THE BUILDING

[Futhark]

Could do something like this:



Start out at new land that goes all the way down, then use Zaralek tech to link up every surface zone underneath. (Don't laugh at my placement, just to show the idea lol)

Man, do I love this. Make it a Hollow Earth with the World Soul as the center/sun. A true Cosmic Egg.

[Marlamin]

Then again, it's almost certain that Blizz did not develop "dynamic loading" technology exclusively with Zaralek in mind, so who knows.

My gut feeling agrees with that, I've messed around with it a little and it's very clear that albeit it still requires some kind of "airlock" (which is what they call the tech) to hide transitions, it could most definitely be applied elsewhere.

It's not tied to Zaralek at all on the client and instead comes from the server telling the client to go into low-view distance mode and to preload a piece of map (probably when the server sees you halfway the tunnel) and then sometime after doing a seamless teleport to that map.

Counter point is that the the current implementation feels like an early one/experiment as there's still several issues with the system that haven't been fixed since its release. Whether or not that points to it being a one-off or to them not wanting to backport fixes from the 11.0 branch for whatever reason remains to be seen, but I feel like we'll see the tech in some form again soon.

[Lorca]

The leaks so far seem fairly focused on location instead of systems and gameplay.

I was just thinking that a mention about this (as it would be a win-win situation, as you get a "new" race for the older classes as a new feature) could be a good indication of a real leak, but idk... just a feeling!

[ro9ue]

I agree this seems like a problem, What if they stair stacked the zones though? I'm imaging like going down some, hitting the first Zone, then there's another hole going further that leads to another zone, and so on forth. idk. just thinking. Probably is a bad thought.

I think thats a good way to do it. You would lose the connection to the surface level stuff since that would need a more spread out/horizontal layout. But the idea of having to get deeper and deeper could be really interesting. Especially if its like... whats at the core? Is it a world soul? is it corrupted? etc and each layer unravels more of the mystery.

[Valysar]

fellas

ladies

lets get back on topic

https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/1716575229663723564

NZOTH IS IN THE BUILDING

1 MoP mount, 3 BfA, 3 DF

Humm... 13/3, confirmed, beta out March 13.

[Wangming]

fellas

ladies

lets get back on topic

https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/1716575229663723564

NZOTH IS IN THE BUILDING

So is a Cloud Serpent. Pandaria revamp?