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

[PotHockets]

It trumps the amateur eye

There's being skeptical which is good and then being in denial because it doesn't fit what you want it to be.

[Izalla]

Storms of Avaloren, probably.

I saw someone say the zones match those zone descriptions exactly but the first screenshot looks like a forest, not rocky peaks. The other ones can be made to match if the stormy zone ends up also being snowy, but there's no actual snow showing in the screenshot so from what we've seen, the zones don't actually match the pictures. Entirely possible if it's all real that other areas of the zones match the descriptions given in that post but the pictures we've seen don't. And they are incredibly safe guesses to make, because Dragonflight and BFA also both had snowy mountains, deserts, and rocky peaks, and jungle/forest areas. The supposed plateau from the website leak description also doesn't seem very elevated, and instead seems to be between elevated buttes. I dunno, it just doesn't feel cohesive to me. Maybe one of the three is real rather than all three being real.

[Nebron]

If it's screenshots of the trailer, why not pick the exciting ones showing off new architecture and iconic locations?

Imagine if someone leaked the DF zones, but all we saw were the Blizzard bear on a bit of snow, a tuskarr in front of a normal tree, and Merithra in one of the areas of Ohn'ahran plains that looked suspiciously like Val'sharah.
Why wouldnt said person take a picture of the Bronze temple, Valdrakken, an aerial shot of the Waking Shores, or the giant eagle statue looming over Maruukai.

It's just a weird choice all around when the pictures seem to be high enough quality to could be taken from a legitimate source, and not hastily taken a picture off while trying not to be caught.

Oh yeah, I absolutely agree with you. I've been ready to believe this is a legit leak - the leak - for some time today, but the more I read, especially the @Hitei analysis, @Fahrad Wagner passion for revamp and especially @Teriz disappointment, I can't help myself but acknowledge it just can't be real

But imagine all people from Blizzard reading this thread and traversing through the despair, denial and utter dissapointment in a situation the leak was legit. Damn, that would be a bitter pill to swallow

[Cheezits]

Changing old specs = fake

[meroes]

It's 100% fake. There's no way they go from Elf -> Dwarf theme. The day WoW has a dwarf theme will be more embarrassing than Dracthyr, and fake. Dwarf is not a Warcraft theme, sorry. Orc, Troll, Undead, Human, Ogre, Elvish, Dragons (sigh), all are. But, but Magni and the Bronzebeards!! Exactly, people really don't like the times dwarves have taken charge of the reins, even briefly. I'm sorry there's just no way. To go from Arthas, Illidan, Thrall, and even Sylv, and Dragons, to overarching dwarf prototagnism? No way. Dwarves are dated and too close to being the straight, white cismen of video games to be a good choice. Dwarves centerfocus =fake expac

[PotHockets]

Changing old specs = fake

Yep. They've said it multiple times on multiple different occasions and given multiple examples of what wouldn't be changed. That's an automatic red flag.

[ercarp]

Oh interesting, I thought that was 4.5

Well, I may lower the score for this one as well after I've let it simmer for a while. Right now I feel like it just has to be the real deal, but some of the people in this thread have brought up fairly decent points about why it might not be.

Although... a lot of the "debunking" here reminds me of us desperately trying to debunk Dracthyr because no one wanted to believe we'd up with those starved lizards as the new race.

[Izalla]

i posted about this but it got smooshed in a post avalanche

tldr; it's likely working text to not bottleneck web devs. same could be said for the background image. deets

That makes sense and better be the truth if this is real haha

[Teriz]

Because if those pics are real, it almost certainly means no Undermine.

I don’t mind an expansion without Undermine. I do mind an expansion looking like a rehash of our current expansion like this leak is suggesting.

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i posted about this but it got smooshed in a post avalanche

tldr; it's likely working text to not bottleneck web devs. same could be said for the background image. deets

So are we to believe that Blizzard has no concept art from 11.0, and have to use concept art from Dragonflight as a placeholder for the 11.0 website?

C’mon people…

[KurtMash]

It's 100% fake. There's no way they go from Elf -> Dwarf theme. The day WoW has a dwarf theme will be more embarrassing than Dracthyr, and fake. Dwarf is not a Warcraft theme, sorry. Orc, Troll, Undead, Human, Ogre, Elvish, Dragons (sigh), all are. But, but Magni and the Bronzebeards!! Exactly, people really don't like the times dwarves have taken charge of the reins, even briefly. I'm sorry there's just no way. To go from Arthas, Illidan, Thrall, and even Sylv, and Dragons, to overarching dwarf prototagnism? No way. Dwarves are dated and too close to being the straight, white cismen of video games to be a good choice. Dwarves centerfocus =fake expac

What an opinion.

[Picle]

Great point on the temporary copy. The thing that is a red flag to me is the placement of "Khaz Algar" and "The Everward" on the side margins. Would you agree that typically those would be further in, if there at all? They seem far too close to the edge of the screens for modern web design.

missed this! i sry.

oki so, yes. imo the margins are kinda weird. howeverrr

i was just playing around with different screen sizes on the Dragonflight website, and there are sections with equally weird spacing .__.



so i'm a lil up in the air about that part now. i'll check out other expac sites – i've been away from Azeroth a while (:

but i definitely stand by what i said about the text! (and potentially any non-essential images)

[Hitei]

Yeah something like that.

This is especially weird:



It's weird that this is identical, but then the entire body is totally different conceptually. Like the adult is a naturally formed individual instead of a sculpted construct, with a completely different sort of stone and structure. The horns flip around to be curving the opposite way, the mouth goes from being rocks to having an actual tongue and biology.

Suspect.

[Izalla]

I just don't think we can judge much based on 4 quick screen shots is all. We have no real context on them other than that they look like WoW. DF zones have so much biome variance that getting one single shot of a subzone isn't really telling as to what the larger zone will look like. We know they wanna keep Dragon/Dynamic riding going forward so the zone size will have to be large enough to accommodate that. I mean honestly I could even see the first and third screen shots being in the same zone where it starts out as a prairie and as you go further in turns into a dust bowl/desert kinda thing.

I want an Arabian desert. Slap some brokers in there and give me a Middle East inspired zone instead please.

[ercarp]

I saw someone say the zones match those zone descriptions exactly but the first screenshot looks like a forest, not rocky peaks. The other ones can be made to match if the stormy zone ends up also being snowy, but there's no actual snow showing in the screenshot so from what we've seen, the zones don't actually match the pictures. Entirely possible if it's all real that other areas of the zones match the descriptions given in that post but the pictures we've seen don't. And they are incredibly safe guesses to make, because Dragonflight and BFA also both had snowy mountains, deserts, and rocky peaks, and jungle/forest areas. The supposed plateau from the website leak description also doesn't seem very elevated, and instead seems to be between elevated buttes. I dunno, it just doesn't feel cohesive to me. Maybe one of the three is real rather than all three being real.

Yeah, it's not perfect. The more interesting detail about that leak, to me, is that they went out of their way to specify that the stone dwarves have real hair as opposed to hair made out of stone—which we can see is indeed the case based on the screenshot.

Seems like an odd detail to share.

[Wangming]

Origins reminds me too much of Assassin's Creed: Origins and Dragon Age: Origins.

Both are great games, no?

[Izalla]

Oh yeah, I absolutely agree with you. I've been ready to believe this is a legit leak - the leak - for some time today, but the more I read, especially the @Hitei analysis, @Fahrad Wagner passion for revamp and especially @Teriz disappointment, I can't help myself but acknowledge it just can't be real

But imagine all people from Blizzard reading this thread and traversing through the despair, denial and utter dissapointment in a situation the leak was legit. Damn, that would be a bitter pill to swallow

To be fair, Blizz is probably used to people insulting legit leaks these days. The community has been dismissing legit leaks as stupid and something Blizz would never do since at least Wrath and probably also TBC.

[PotHockets]

I want an Arabian desert. Slap some brokers in there and give me a Middle East inspired zone instead please.

I would legitimately love to see that too. You could do so much with it and also be a cool way to bring the Djinn back into the picture but I also think a cool Old West Cowboy vibe zone would be awesome too.

[locketto]

Yep. They've said it multiple times on multiple different occasions and given multiple examples of what wouldn't be changed. That's an automatic red flag.

they also said alliance and horde will never be in the same team in a raid... guess what

[Hitei]

To be fair, Blizz is probably used to people insulting legit leaks these days. The community has been dismissing legit leaks as stupid and something Blizz would never do since at least Wrath and probably also TBC.

In our defense, High Elves on the Horde and retconning Eredar to be Draenei and also friendly remains still pretty dumb to this day. Not that I haven't enjoyed Draenei storylines since then.

[Picle]

So are we to believe that Blizzard has no concept art from 11.0, and have to use concept art from Dragonflight as a placeholder for the 11.0 website?

C’mon people…

iono, smtms u just gotta work fast, u know?

truth is, depending on their web dev flow, "mobile ready" could come at many different stages of rolling out a new website. and we have virtually no frame of reference for when that picture was taken, so ...