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

[Myrrh]

Wouldn't be the first time. Didn't we have this happen with Legion?

Antorus was not available until after Blizzcon, so the whole Sargeras-stabbing-the-planet thing was unknown. All we had was a datamined Silithus crater and a teeny tiny encrypted box in the middle, iirc.

[Draedarr]

not beyond the realm of possibility, vision of n'zoth came out two and a half months after shadowlands announcement.

Yes, had forgotten about it

[Nyel]

Unless 10.3 is a climax and 11.0 is revamp.

What would this climax be though. Tyr?

[Rathwell]

10.3 is dead, the game model is going to Tom Chilton and Bobby Koticks Annual Expansion format!

I had forgotten about all the talk of "annual expansions" from back in the day! Used to be excited by the prospect. Now a days it just makes me imagine how little content one expansion would entail to be able to push them out yearly and how they'd still probably be full price

[Leowyld]

I have a possible theory for the harpies. If Eonar's world tree was planted in Avaloren. It was a branch of G'hanir. G'hanir is associated with Aviana, the mother of harpies. Maybe where any part of G'hanir is planted, harpies are possibly drawn.

[Dismayxz]

If they find a way to actually do annual expansions with no drought inbetween then that would be amazing

Well, even in that context what people are bringing up here, would be inevitable for that concept to work. Aka heavy reusing of assets. Art is probably one of the things that eats up the most time for new Content, because of how stylized WoW is and the chosen style in that vein. If they wanted to ever go yearly, you WOULD be seeing 'Evergreen' Art Assets that they can just pluck out and plug in anywhere with a slightly different coat of paint. And people would haunt Blizzard's nightmares in the span of a month over it.

[ercarp]

How far along are you with identifying all props on the image with a filename?

I think that would be a lot of work.

The harpy talisman is obviously already in the game and it's from Legion (7hp_harpy_talisman01.m2) but I think that's not all that surprising since, you know... it's harpies. How many different talismans could they have?

[Lazarel]

Found it on 4chan, looks kinda ugly

[Wangming]

What would this climax be though. Tyr?

I guess Iridikron tries to do a thing and we stop him from doing the thing.

[Rathwell]

Found it on 4chan, looks kinda ugly
[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/Vc3kK4M.png[IMG]

Looks like someone just discovered photoshop but hasn't quite figured out how to make the font effects look realistic

[ercarp]

Antorus was not available until after Blizzcon, so the whole Sargeras-stabbing-the-planet thing was unknown. All we had was a datamined Silithus crater and a teeny tiny encrypted box in the middle, iirc.

Was it BfA -> SL then? I remember this exact scenario happening with one of the expansions, but not sure which one. Maybe I'm just thinking of something else.

[Ferlion]

I have a possible theory for the harpies. If Eonar's world tree was planted in Avaloren. It was a branch of G'hanir. G'hanir is associated with Aviana, the mother of harpies. Maybe where any part of G'hanir is planted, harpies are possibly drawn.

G'hanir itself is in the Emerald Dream with some possible overlap into the Shadowlands.

That was one of the weird bits about Elune and the Epnar story. The Mother Tree is fairly established

[doledippers]

Found it on 4chan, looks kinda ugly

lmao ew

/10char

[Dragon ANX]

Found it on 4chan, looks kinda ugly

I feel like this is not good enough, but i do think that this could be a patch logo.

[Wangming]

I think that would be a lot of work.

The harpy talisman is obviously already in the game and it's from Legion (7hp_harpy_talisman01.m2) but I think that's not all that surprising since, you know... it's harpies. How many different talismans could they have?

That depends? Are these harpies native to Avaloren? Cause they may not have been exposed to other harpy cultures since....forever I guess. This is like asking how many writing systems could humans have.

[Makabreska]

Found it on 4chan, looks kinda ugly

Looks SUPER ugly, and doesn't even follow standard Azeroth globe motif.

[Draedarr]

Found it on 4chan, looks kinda ugly

The back of the World of Warcraft area is different like the DragonFlight was in comparison for the other expansions

[Nightshade711]

I think that would be a lot of work.

The harpy talisman is obviously already in the game and it's from Legion (7hp_harpy_talisman01.m2) but I think that's not all that surprising since, you know... it's harpies. How many different talismans could they have?

Tbh the tree is one of the few things that just seems wrong.
It looks incredibly low res compared to the rest, but who knows idk.

[Teriz]

We’ve been to it’s island several times. It would be silly to think it’d look any different than “Kezan but underground”

Pretty much every source has stated that Undermine and Kezan are two different places.

How dare blizzard use a similar statue for the dwarves that have started behaving like our dwarves! Grr

Except its the same statue, just with smoother textures which isn't hard to replicate given modern tools. The other statue with the axe looks like another existing WoW statue stitched together and placed in the background.

Four still screenshots, likely one of each zone isn’t enough to say it’s a “rehash of existing content”, because you can do that with every expansion.

I guarantee we can find reused assets in every expansion reveal.
But you know, doomers gonna doom

Yeah, because the zones literally look like DF content. As I said, when I saw Shadolwands, BFA, Legion, etc. content for the first time it was rather easy to tell we were looking at a new expansion and location. This looks like stuff we've done and seen before.

[blaatschaap]

I really, really, really doubt the title will be storms of avaloren. They've never used something not already established firmly in lore as (part of) the title for an expansion (well, cataclysm I guess, but even then the shattering book came out before the expansion launched). It would really surprise me a lot.