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

[Raetary]

Compare new dragons models with olds one etc. Its way too much crusty to be wow current artstyle.

*ahem*

Spoiler: 

As smooth and deeply cartoony as a lot of models are this expansion, there is still quite a few that follow a more sharp and detailed art style.

[Yus atath]

Everyone can come to their own conclusion, but the hands on both frozen dwarf and the other ogre looking something dwarf theres something weird about the hands, one looks better than the other, that one thing is sus to me.

It’s WILD how there’s no talk about this. There’s something clearly off with the hand/weapon combination

[ercarp]

Everyone can come to their own conclusion, but the hands on both frozen dwarf and the other ogre looking something dwarf theres something weird about the hands, one looks better than the other, that one thing is sus to me.

It's also such a weird design choice. Like, who decided that they should have drills for index fingers? How can they do anything? There's no way these people can pull on the reins of a gryphon with those things constantly getting in the way.

[MCMLXXXII]

It’s WILD how there’s no talk about this. There’s something clearly off with the hand/weapon combination

As someone said earlier, could be some kind of Wolverine/Baraka kind of weapon. Or some form of cryomancing. Or it could be fake ofcourse.

[Baraden]

in not an expert in these kind of things, but how hard would it be for someone to make a fake like that?

Not as much hard as it would be time consuming; so the obvious question who would put days of work into a fake leak

Of course, most people in this thread have spent that long just talking about leaks, so it's not that far-fetched to think someone would put real effort into a fake rather than just text dumps; this is the only leak that's been taken seriously for that reason

[ImTheMizAwesome]

It's sus, but so low detail that you can't fully analyze how the fingers and blades come together. Also it looks like he's wearing WOTLK boots.

Yeah, im not really very knowledgeable with all the graphic, ai and such but i know one thing that usually the biggest problem is with hands and of all the things both new race on the site and frozen dwarf here have something weird with their hands going on, could be perspective.

I still put 60/40 on it being real that's why my personal hype kinda evaporated and i hope they won't add some new type of ogres, but yeah this one thing looks sus.

[Floot]

It’s WILD how there’s no talk about this. There’s something clearly off with the hand/weapon combination

I don't know, that detail just makes it seem more plausible to me. They got some sort of runic weapon thing as direct part of their body / hands.
If fakes had to edit such a picture it would look a lot different, the textures just flow into each other too perfectly. Not only would they have had to make custom skins, but also a custom model and then rig it and make it work in the viewer.

I still lean 85% towards this leak being the real deal.

[micwini]

The bottom two already are showing more unique architecture and assets.

Remember also the top right: That new/updated harpy model was added in Legion.

[Harbour]

Something like this?

Looks nice tbh. Not Blizzard level but very nice.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Looks nice tbh. Not Blizzard level but very nice.

Weirdly enough, I typed "world of warcraft logo" in google and filtered to only one week and this came out as one of the graphics.

haven't seen it before, but it's probably something from previous blizzcon seasons.

[Krakerz]

One thing I just noticed: The shadows in ALL FOUR of the images go in the same direction, towards the bottom left, like someone just copied the model layers in photoshop, made them black, lowered the opacity, and stretched them towards the bottom left.


Also the shadow of the dwarf is way more transparent than it actually is in wow, PLUS his shadow actually goes behind his right hand spike thing (our left side) which makes no sense.

[Sondrelk]

Everyone can come to their own conclusion, but the hands on both frozen dwarf and the other ogre looking something dwarf theres something weird about the hands, one looks better than the other, that one thing is sus to me.

That that both spikes seem to show the same "side" despite very clearly giving the impression of a flatter spike is what gets to me.
They look less like they are part of his hands, and more so that the spikes is some kind of overlay put on haphazardly, which very much is a common flaw of AI gen.

On his right arm the spike seems to be attached to the top of his hand, whereas on his left it seems more like it's attached to his index finger. Which seems less like s deliberate choice, and more like an AI has tried to attach the same effect on both hands at an angle.

[Makabreska]

What website?

This leak look real just because it says the new race have different hair colors, that is exactly the twitter/tumbler stuff the devs with side head shaved would add to the game like they did with dracthry

Forever salty, eh?

[Syegfryed]

Forever salty, eh?

until they make a decent, non-furry, draconic race, yep

[vintage79]

(Psych)
2. The rule of commitment and consistency: people strive to ensure that their actions are consistent with their values. The rule of commitment and consistency says that each of us has a deeply rooted need for consistency.

tl;dr: I play for a long time so i'm (high chances) gona play still (regardless of what's coming)

Assumptions:
**************************
you've been playing since classic
you've been playing for 10 years
you've been playing for 5-10 years
you've join last exp pack or so
**************************

Let's say:
We gona get another cool cinematic (falling stone boi/emotions, etc)
No new classess
No new races (maybe generic stone dwarfs) which have as much in common with dwarves as dracthyrs have in common with dragons.
New contient (mix of some cool themed zones: abit of northrend and abit of smth, etc)

So I have a question for u guys:
Will you continue playing? (and payin)

[ImTheMizAwesome]

That that both spikes seem to show the same "side" despite very clearly giving the impression of a flatter spike is what gets to me.
They look less like they are part of his hands, and more so that the spikes is some kind of overlay put on haphazardly, which very much is a common flaw of AI gen.

On his right arm the spike seems to be attached to the top of his hand, whereas on his left it seems more like it's attached to his index finger. Which seems less like s deliberate choice, and more like an AI has tried to attach the same effect on both hands at an angle.

yeah it's like in this picture i posted before, one hand/arms looks much different from the other in a weird way at least from that perspective.
One is so weirdly thin and not muscular at all, even the shoulder is positioned differently than the other.

Of course can't count out the possibility that new race might have two asymmetrical looking hands, but still looks weirld.

[Makorus]

(Psych)
2. The rule of commitment and consistency: people strive to ensure that their actions are consistent with their values. The rule of commitment and consistency says that each of us has a deeply rooted need for consistency.

tl;dr: i play for a long time so i'm (high chances) gona play still (regardless of what's coming)

Assumptions:
**************************
you've been playing since classic
you've been playing for 10 years
you've been playing for 5-10 years
you've join last exp pack or so
**************************


Let's say:
We gona get another cool cinematic (falling stone boi/emotions, etc)
No new classess
No new races (maybe generic stone dwarfs) which have as much in common with dwarves as dracthyrs have in common with dragons.
New contient (mix of some cool themed zones: abit of northrend and abit of smth, etc)

So I have a question for u guys:
Will you continue playing? (and payin)

Yeah because I play to raid/M+ and that has consistently been good.

There being 2/3/4/5 raid tiers doesn't really matter too much in the long run because at the end of the day, I'll get the same amount of raids, I just have to pay a box price every year rather than every 1.5 years.

[Holdodlig]

I've never heard of that.

Looking at the few Kyrian NPCs, barely any of them use any spells with a musical reference, and most of the Covenant abilities are hardly musical.

Divine Toll, maybe.

Most of the spell wasn't the best way to say that, but some of their NPC signature spells are.

Diminuendo, Crescendo, anything with echo or resonance. Even a lot of their weapons are sound related as we ring bells. One of the zone """"feature"""" were the instruments that gave you buff in Bastion (they sucked tho).

[ercarp]

That that both spikes seem to show the same "side" despite very clearly giving the impression of a flatter spike is what gets to me.
They look less like they are part of his hands, and more so that the spikes is some kind of overlay put on haphazardly, which very much is a common flaw of AI gen.

Now that I look at them more closely... I don't think they're even AI generated, I think the spikes were just painted on the model with Photoshop. This is like in the realm of something even I could do (which is to say it's not that difficult).

[arandomuser]

some zone based off an island expedition from bfa
frostfire ridge
spires of arak
val sharah copy paste

honestly i totally believe because that sounds like some of the bland stuff content creators were pushing
as much as everyone hated shadowlands i think it was way more interesting thematically just poorly executed, but because of the poor execution instead of trying anything they will just go easy route.