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

[matijwow]

I'd say that seems more accurate, they were probably just like the Bronzebeards until they were forced out and decided to live in Aeries Peak and the Twilight Highlands.

"Flying is just digging through the air, lad."

[Pheraz]

IMO what looks most fake is the ground. I've never seen a ground like this. Kind of like milky dusk mud without any ground floor or flower. Like voldun without being sand

[Yzmor]

This leak looks cheap and boring, this is 100% real. In general we get dragonflight 2.0

Same thought here. If this--another island expac taking place in a handful of aesthetically boring and unimaginative zones--is the big announcement they're so effing excited about, there's really nothing left in this game for me. And it seems very Blizz, prolly real.

[Selorian]

It's well-made, but I'm not convinced its real. To be clear, I don't think AI is involved. I think it's a weak argument to assert AI is related to everything fake when people have had the means to make convincing fakes manually for years. It looks far more like a kitbash of existing assets put together in a world editor alongside some Photoshop compositing. There just aren't enough unique assets on display to make me think that the things that are unique couldn't be model edits or Photoshops.

Agreed. It looks really good but I'm just not convinced it's real. The biomes seem a little too different from each other to feel like they can naturally flow into each other

[Ambulatory Cube]

11.0 needs playable Ogres, that is all.

It's gonna be so damn funny if we finally get ogres but it's these ripped Handsome Shreks instead of the fat dumpy ones



Then again, maybe we'll get some body thickness options like Dracthyr have?

[Nize]

I took another look to at the Aerie Peak bird statue and compared again to the "leak". They don't really match. Some of the things I've noticed are:

-Wings are further back in the "leak" statue than the Peak one
-Head is held higher while Peak one is somewhat looking down.
-Chest is lower in the "leak" than the peak.
-Neckline creates a V in the "leak" while it's straighter in the peak.
-Slightly longer beak in the "leak". Even trying all angles around the peak doesn't reach that length. Image CAN be stretched though, so I wouldn't put stock into this point.
-Different feather texturing especially around the arm(wing?)pit area.

I don't think it's the same statue. it doesn't mean it's not fake, but the statue came from somewhere else.

Also, has the animal model in the 4th pic been found yet?

[Worldshaper]

IMO what looks most fake is the ground. I've never seen a ground like this. Kind of like milky dusk mud without any ground floor or flower. Like voldun without being sand

Right, and the sky. It lacks that flair you have in the Dragon Isles. If this expansion is in part based on storms, why does every zone look like it has a sky box from Gorgrond, and why does the weather look sort of hazy everywhere rather than stormy.

[Merryck]

It's gonna be so damn funny if we finally get ogres but it's these ripped Handsome Shreks instead of the fat dumpy ones



Then again, maybe we'll get some body thickness options like Dracthyr have?

So it is fake then. The leak that ogre-dwarf was from was confirmed fake, and yet it's in the background of this leak. Same guy made this one?

[Dnusha]

If you're gonna leak stills from a new trailer, why would you pick the most generic looking areas of each zone?

I'm like 100% sure these are screens from a gameplay features video where camera flyes forward and locations are changing from one to another. Remember these ones?

[Ambulatory Cube]

So it is fake then. The leak that ogre-dwarf was from was confirmed fake, and yet it's in the background of this leak. Same guy made this one?

I don't think it was "confirmed" fake, everyone just assumed it to be because the hand on the storm dwarf "looked like AI". I think it was probably just squished weird or at a poor angle.

[Ferlion]

So it is fake then. The leak that ogre-dwarf was from was confirmed fake, and yet it's in the background of this leak. Same guy made this one?

I mean, I don't think that specific leak was confirmed fake, but we can likely assume fake because nobody is stupid enough to post about working on a website to get mobile ready, include a picture of their laptop, and include a picture of their cellphone.

[Darkarath]

Someone just made a thread about potential 11.0 zones

Please do not be real.

Please do not be real.

Please do not be real.

[Worldshaper]

I'm like 100% sure these are screens from a gameplay features video where camera flyes forward and locations are changing from one to another. Remember these ones?

I know, that's what I mean. The person who "leaked" these stills obviously could've chosen any particular frames he wanted from the video. Yet he chose these generic ones. Like showing the dullest parts of Zul'Drak and Dragonblight in a leak for WotLK.

If you want to convince people you'd show the parts of the video that showcase more new and unique content.

[Melorandor]

Please do not be real.

Please do not be real.

Please do not be real.

Its real lol

[Vakir]

I'm like 100% sure these are screens from a gameplay features video where camera flyes forward and locations are changing from one to another. Remember these ones?

...that doesn't really mean anything since people can try to replicate those sorts of things because they also remember those same trailers.

It would be like saying "I'm 100% sure these screens are real because it says they're from Avaloren and it's really likely we're going to Avaloren" when everyone and their mom has speculated Avaloren.

If you want to convince people you'd show the parts of the video that showcase more new and unique content.

Like how the leaked Dracthyr stuff showed the very best of that race/class, right?

Two examples above of terrible pro and con takes.

[Worldshaper]

Like how the leaked Dracthyr stuff showed the very best of that race/class, right?

Two examples above of terrible pro and con takes.

We're discussing zones, not races. There's no new playable race featured in these images, just zones.

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Its real lol

10% chance of this being real, tbh.

[Selorian]

Eh, it's true that can be arbitrary, but it's more about whether those divisions inform biome diversity or story division.

The actual point though was in reference to a world revamp (which would benefit from the inverse, as was discussed pages back, with mega-zones) as compared to the gradual shrinking of zone numbers, while overall landmass has varied. That's something on a scale I just really doubt happening. I don't get a lot of ambition vibes from how they look at the game now and how heavily everything is managed and corporatized, somewhat understandably when we look back on what we learned about the older Blizzard.

I don't get how people can look at Dragonflight and say "yeah, Blizzard is just phoning it in." This was an expansion where they totally revamped the talent system, made a significant update to how outdoor movement works for the first time in 15 years, completely revamped professions, made a significant overhaul to reputations, introduced a class with completely new mechanics, and for the first time ever introduced a spec mid expansion--and a spec that is so unique people often mistake it for being an entirely new role at that. They totally changed how M+ seasons work, which involves updating old dungeons and reworking entire boss fights/trash for some of the really old ones. They've totally changed how patch cycles work. They've completely revamped and unified gearing upgrades. There's been so much more iteration and communication in this expansion compared to the last 20 years.

Like, regardless of whether these things landed in general or for you in specific, you can't say they're not trying new things.

[keelr]

Someone just made a thread about potential 11.0 zones

If you watch any of the previous expansions' reveal trailer, it's always the most iconic places of the new expansion when the "New Continent" text comes up. This looks extremely basic for it to be even slightly real.

Also i think the last picture is straight from Tanaan Jungle.

[PotHockets]

So much denial just because it doesn't fit whatever head canon people made up.

[huth]

The image is an order of magnitude above any fake leak we've seen before. When have we ever seen a faked image that *actually* looks like an in-game screenshot?
It's 100% real.

When it was actually made in engine and is in fact a screenshot, but not from the new expansion. Hardly impossible.

Still, even then this is the stuff that's actually fun, not the AI generated garbage "leaks".