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

[Jastall]

Honestly, if you had someone good at making fake models and Photoshop, I think you could make this with some screenshots of existing zones.

It's not like you have to make it animated, and the dwarf and Direhorn look like they are pasted on top of the image anyways.

On the other hand, I'm not sure why a leaker would take the time to show something this, I dunno, pedestrian. A dwarf, a harpy, a rock dino, and zones that don't look unique in any particular way. The place isn't supposed to be Outland or Shadowlands level of weird but at least fake some landmark or whatever.

Occam's razor to me says they're a bit more likely to be real than not due to the effort involved in making it vs the effort involved in leaking it.

The webpage leaks however don't help its case. Again if you can get the webpage why not just reveal the name of the xpack and not just the places that are Avaloren and Khaz Algar, the two names we happen to actually know?

[Sondrelk]

Meanwhile Zandalari get a pass despite the fact that they still borrow assets from Night Elves, Vulpera borrow from the Goblins, and Kul'tirans being the only original models.

I'm still convinced that these images are legit. Because DF is much shorter, they had only enough time to reuse assets and cobble them together into something else.

Remember when the Jailer had a placeholder model that looked like a giant Forsaken when they announced Shadowlands?

Models, sure. I am talking about architecture and what not.
Imagine a Zuldazar leak that only focused on the trees. Or a Kul Tiran leak where all you saw were the fact that there gnomes there.
It would be a very odd choice when you could instead show off the ziggurats of Zuldazar, or Boralus.

[Dismayxz]

https://twitter.com/ObviouslyZelryn/...41607053226173

Bruh what even is this. Pretty sure the WMO from Hinterlands has the statue tied in with the building going into the mountainside, all we see is the statue portion of it and the beak on the new one is more rounded. Where as the literal comparison here shows how the old beak just fucking takes a cliff-level nosedive. And all we know so far is that these Dwarves have very similar shit to what the Khaz Modan Dwarves do. Like.. yeah, it's an uprez. That's not weighting it to either side when you consider the only, limited context of these Dwarves that we know about.

[Demonly]

They have demo area for Warcraft at Blizzcon. I think it would be stupid to play demo of a patch, when the previous patch isnt even out yet. Also why would the demo be 10.2 when there is hundreds of videos of yt on that, also its on the ptr for weeks.

10.3. Not 10.2

[Mrpms]

You know what I expect to see in the next expac? An updated giraffe model. Those weird unique models from Zaralek look like giraffe bodies with short necks. Giraffes are still one of the models we haven't seen an update for yet. Giraffe like mob in Dragonflight but no actual giraffe? Giraffes in 11.0. That is my official prediction for 11.0 and that's all I'm committing to.

Release the Geese.

Now that we have ducks, we need the evil version of them as the big bad of the expansion.

[ercarp]

Come on, this is the most obvious AI art that's been posted here. img ur.com/a/fklCDwe

This is not at all like the Dracthyr leak. The ship is not built right. Why would the rope rigging extend down into the ocean? It makes zero sense.

Yeah, that one is super obviously AI generated. Not worth even considering.

[Nightshade711]

This is why blizzard won’t do another world revamp for an expansion. It’d be “too many reused assets!!!!!”

[Demonly]

This is why blizzard won’t do another world revamp for an expansion. It’d be “too many reused assets!!!!!”

I would be fine with a world revamp using reused assets though? It still provides a fresh and revitalized feeling to the world we love, reusing them in existing places makes sense. Reusing them for an entirely brand new continent does not unless it's a patch.

#Patch10.3Gang

[Woggmer]

Suddenly half of the Elwynn natives curled up in the corner having PTSD flashbacks to tents made out of the faces of loved ones

That is some delicious bit of irony considering that before the Orcs showed up, the human kingdom of Stormwind went on a full war against the Gnolls in Elwynn and Redridge.

[Raetary]

This is why blizzard won’t do another world revamp for an expansion. It’d be “too many reused assets!!!!!”

I don't think so.

As people generally expect a lot of assets to be reused for a revamp, and revisiting Azeroth is the entire selling point of it.

[Rathwell]

The "hopium" for 10.3 Is the tweets by the man himself.

"The most news this year"

Then streamers/youtubers constantly talking about how WoW will have more stuff than normal shown at blizzcon this year.

[IMG]https://i.imgur.com/zmagijK.png[IMG]

Perhaps that just means they've very little to say about the other products, so being able to talk about the next WoW patch, AND the future of Classic, AND an expansion just automatically puts WoW in the lead.

[ercarp]

This is why blizzard won’t do another world revamp for an expansion. It’d be “too many reused assets!!!!!”

That brings up an interesting point, because personally I wouldn't mind if they reused assets to spruce up the old zones. But for some reason it feels "wrong" for them to reuse assets in an entirely new zone.

[Hitei]

“Without a single new asset”
There are plenty of new assets

Mmm. There's modifications of existing assets.

[Sondrelk]

On the other hand, I'm not sure why a leaker would take the time to show something this, I dunno, pedestrian. A dwarf, a harpy, a rock dino, and zones that don't look unique in any particular way. The place isn't supposed to be Outland or Shadowlands level of weird but at least fake some landmark or whatever.

Occam's razor to me says they're a bit more likely to be real than not due to the effort involved in making it vs the effort involved in leaking it.

The webpage leaks however don't help its case. Again if you can get the webpage why not just reveal the name of the xpack and not just the places that are Avaloren and Khaz Algar, the two names we happen to actually know?

Honestly, I would be more inclined to believe it might have been real if it didn't have the link to the previous webpage. That one was just all around suspect. Why would someone leak a Snapchat? Wouldn't that just immediately ring alarm bells when it's obvious who leaked it?

[Nyel]

Has someone finally and believably debunked the terrible Avaloren leak in the last 30 pages?

[Nightshade711]

That brings up an interesting point, because personally I wouldn't mind if they reused assets to spruce up the old zones. But for some reason it feels "wrong" for them to reuse assets in an entirely new zone.

I also don’t think some of the “reused assets” aren’t actually reused assets, not in the direct 1-1 way they’re meaning.

Unless people mean rigs too, but then good luck finding many new rigs in an expansion.

[Magistrate]

That brings up an interesting point, because personally I wouldn't mind if they reused assets to spruce up the old zones. But for some reason it feels "wrong" for them to reuse assets in an entirely new zone.

Honestly it always feels immersion breaking when high elf ruins from one area build in largely the same time period and homogenous culture look completely different somewhere else under the same constraints.

[Rathwell]

Has someone finally and believably debunked the terrible Avaloren leak in the last 30 pages?

No, but some people feel they have compelling evidence against it.

[Nightshade711]

Has someone finally and believably debunked the terrible Avaloren leak in the last 30 pages?

Not really. It’s just a bunch of Dracthyr 2.0 stretching.

[Marlamin]

Why would someone leak a Snapchat? Wouldn't that just immediately ring alarm bells when it's obvious who leaked it?

Yeah, surely nobody would leak a snapchat.