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

[kavikor]

A still shot of stormheim, valsharah, highmountain, and azsuna of some random nature w/ no architecture or context wouldve come across the same way the 4 leaked image zones do right now to almost all of us unless you were particularly excited for elf lore

[allifeur]

The only thing we can definitely pin on the next expansion, right now, is Khaz Algar. And by proxy of the related book and the name Khaz Algar, some sort of Dwarf/Earthen presence. Anything else is speculation. I think Avaloren. But we'll see. One thing I've seen happen in past leak seasons, one mistake I often see, is people inventing "rules" that Blizzard follows. "Blizzard would never use an expansion name that is...", "Blizzard would never use a logo that has...", "Blizzard would never do an expansion that is this or that". Unless Blizzard outright states such "rules" as fact, it is just speculation. Patterns can and do change. And even if Blizzard once said they have no plans to do something, plans change. Keep an open mind, almost anything is possible unless we are told specifically otherwise.

Also, each times we had actual leaks, people rushed to be the ones to prove those were fakes. We had so many people thinking they were experts on the subject.
I think the Avaloren screenshots would have taken 1 month to be created from someone competent, there is just too many elements that would require efforts that I wouldn't expect outside of a team of devoluted people. If those are fakes, the only explanation is that this person really wants to get hired.

There is also the datamined "Sky-captain" gear that looks related to next Blizzcon, but wasn't discussed much.
Anything is still possible anyway, so let just get the imagination rolling.



(alright maybe not anything)

[Catastrophy349]

A still shot of stormheim, valsharah, highmountain, and azsuna of some random nature w/ no architecture or context wouldve come across the same way the 4 leaked image zones do right now to almost all of us unless you were particularly excited for elf lore

Exactly. I've made this exact comment for the last few days.

[Chickat]

This is kinda what we expected though with their new single-stage free-view setup. Disappointing, but alas.

I hope they get a lot of backlash and go back to multiple stages next year.

[Azalar]

A still shot of stormheim, valsharah, highmountain, and azsuna of some random nature w/ no architecture or context wouldve come across the same way the 4 leaked image zones do right now to almost all of us unless you were particularly excited for elf lore

Except none of those zones are based on reused assets lmao

[Catastrophy349]

Question is: Do we waste the next 6 days speculating over whether or not the "leaked images" are real/fake (and what we hope/don't hope to see)? Or do we continue to speculate by ignoring it completely and thinking of other possibilities?

[kavikor]

Except none of those zones are based on reused assets lmao

i feel some people might have seen a big giant totem in the background of Highmountain shots and gone, "they are copy pasting literaly vanilla assets!" because the silhouette matched

[Chickat]

It may sound like a long time but about 1 hour 45 minutes is going to be spent on Metzen's freestyle rap and they'll sort of try to work in some WoW info around it

Its going to be an hour opening ceremony followed by 45 mins of survival game and then 30 mins to the 45 min wow panel.

[Nymrohd]

And lets not forget Khaz Algar and Avaloren could very well be in two different places

It would make more sense for them NOT to be. The Titan Keepers and their Watchers did not have access to Avaloren so how could they be observing the earthen of Khaz Algar if it was located there?

[Makorus]

Except none of those zones are based on reused assets lmao

??? Highmountain and Stormheim ????????????

[Arcinatoss]

A still shot of stormheim, valsharah, highmountain, and azsuna of some random nature w/ no architecture or context wouldve come across the same way the 4 leaked image zones do right now to almost all of us unless you were particularly excited for elf lore

i feel like this is disingenuous, take the legion feature overview for example, the first 2 zones we're shown both have completely new architecture and biomes.
Shadowlands was the same, we immediately see completely new assets.

I feel like the stills we've been shown feel like they could just as easily be from a place we've been to just cleverly edited to seem new.

[Picle]

Question is: Do we waste the next 6 days speculating over whether or not the "leaked images" are real/fake (and what we hope/don't hope to see)? Or do we continue to speculate by ignoring it completely and thinking of other possibilities?

other possibilities ... has tinker been talked about yet ?

(;

[Catastrophy349]

other possibilities ... has tinker been talked about yet ?

(;

Please don't summon "him".

[Wangming]

Question is: Do we waste the next 6 days speculating over whether or not the "leaked images" are real/fake (and what we hope/don't hope to see)? Or do we continue to speculate by ignoring it completely and thinking of other possibilities?

Insert the iconic gif from Road to Eldorado

[Chickat]

Maybe nothing to read into, but MrGM e.g. has a 3 hour demo timeslot for streaming. 3 hours worth of showing new content? hmm

Probably will be showing both wow classic and retail.

[Leowyld]

It would make more sense for them NOT to be. The Titan Keepers and their Watchers did not have access to Avaloren so how could they be observing the earthen of Khaz Algar if it was located there?

We don't know the exact timeline. Maybe the Keepers and Khaz Algar began on good terms, but then the residents of Khaz Algar started worshiping some other power, i.e. became heretics, and conflict between the two groups began. With the Keepers ending up pushed out of the area.

[allifeur]

It would make more sense for them NOT to be. The Titan Keepers and their Watchers did not have access to Avaloren so how could they be observing the earthen of Khaz Algar if it was located there?

The text he had were more about them not being able to settle on that land, rather than not being able to get any information from it.

[Wangming]

Please don't summon "him".

Bugger that. I would take tinker over the 4 bland pictures.
Hell, I would take the sword of Sargeras being replaced by an equally high middle finger aimed at me personally cause at least that would be more invented and visually distinct.

[Picle]

Please don't summon "him".

sorry.

how about Undermine?



ok i'm done now

[Catastrophy349]

Insert the iconic gif from Road to Eldorado

It's honestly exhausting talking about the 4 images (real or fake).