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

[micwini]

Considering that showing a 10.3 Patch and in the same event a 11.0 that will be the aftermath of 10.3 would not make any sense.
And even more that 10.2 comes after Blizzcon oO

Unless 10.3 is a climax and 11.0 is revamp.

[ercarp]

Considering that showing a 10.3 Patch and in the same event a 11.0 that will be the aftermath of 10.3 would not make any sense.
And even more that 10.2 comes after Blizzcon oO

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

[micwini]

I'm not trying to say it's fake because of reused assets, just pointing out that it's a bit unusual for Blizzard to carry this many "old" assets forward into a new expansion. I'm no expert on this obviously (that would be @Marlamin), but when I look at the game files on something like WoW.tools, it looks like they've always made dozens of new assets for a new expansion. Even for things like trees and plants, which they could easily "get away" with reusing.

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

[Draedarr]

Unless 10.3 is a climax and 11.0 is revamp.

The major issue that i thought only after is that we don't even know what the ending of 10.2 will be
So the 10.3 being a climax of the end of 10.2 would kill the 10.2 ending in a way

[micwini]

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

7.3 was announced at some other convention iirc

[PotHockets]

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

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

[micwini]

The major issue that i thought only after is that we don't even know what the ending of 10.2 will be
So the 10.3 being a climax of the end of 10.2 would kill the 10.2 ending in a way

10.3 might just be continiung where the mega dungeon left off.

[Wangming]

Considering that showing a 10.3 Patch and in the same event a 11.0 that will be the aftermath of 10.3 would not make any sense.
And even more that 10.2 comes after Blizzcon oO

Wasn't Legion revealed before the final patch of WoD?

[Nightshade711]

Uh, we’ve never been or even seen Undermine before, and it’s doubtful such a location would reuse assets on the level we’ve seen in these screenshots.

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

No, it’s bad because it’s clearly a rehash of existing content. It’s so bad that people here can identify the exact reused asset on a tiny screenshot and give us the name of the asset used.

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

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

[blaatschaap]

Considering that showing a 10.3 Patch and in the same event a 11.0 that will be the aftermath of 10.3 would not make any sense.
And even more that 10.2 comes after Blizzcon oO

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

[Murlocos]

The 10.3 theory is big copium to me unless you start buying back into old A/B team theories again. The idea that there's some secret huge dump of content behind the scenes that'll save everything.

If we're talking concurrent patch/expansion reveals, it happened with 3.3 and Cataclysm both being unveiled at Blizzcon 2009, but that was a long time ago.

[Well Done Steak]

So what, blizzcon is for 10.3 with a small hint of 11.0??? No way

[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