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

[Dragon ANX]

They have a hard engine limit of 64x64 (right now). Any expansion of existing continents will have to fit in there, Dragon Isles is pretty centered so plenty place for theoretical expansion in the red grid below (although that would be a first).


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Could the current/improved Airlock System connect regions so that they could bypass this limit?

[matijwow]

There has actually been an island far to the west of Kalimdor that we've known about since Vanilla. It's a forbidden place, and the few who have managed to reach it have met an unusual fate. Deep below the island is a place where the borders of reality break down and beings who only ever watch the world outside bring trespassers to their doom.

[Edlarel]

Could the current/improved Airlock System connect regions so that they could bypass this limit?

Has to be. There's no way they'd make it for Zaralek and just throw it away after. Right? Even the illusion of being in the same sphere is a good one.

[Chickat]

Tinker has the opportunity to be an extremely unique class in WoW; imagine how much customisation a permanent mech could have

When out of combat, it could also function as the only mount option for the class etc

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Could also have a ranged caster spec using laser beams and missiles etc

There could easily be 4 specs. Maybe even 5 or 6 for tinkers tbh.

Melee suit DPS
Ranged Gunner DPS
Healing nano injector DPS
Support Nanno/DPS hybrid
Rocket and explosive DPS
DOT Nano virus and plague injections DPS
Beefy Tank mech
Flamethrower spec.

Prob more. Obviosuly they would likely combine those to make 3 solid specs.


I could see healing/support hybrid. Nano injection darts for healing, buffing allies, debuffing enemies.
Beefy Tank Mech with flame thrower and grenades.
RDPS with machine gun, grenades, artillery strikes.

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Yes, and a temporary mech suit (cool down) for the DPS spec, with the mech suit for the tank spec being permanent. I could even imagine a situation where tanking in the mech suit "breaks down" to a claw pack and the Tinker has to repair the mech in order to transform the claw pack back to the mech suit.

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Uh they just created the most race restricted class in the history of the game with Evokers in the current expansion.

And the valid lore reason is that small races create mech suits because they lack physicality to fight one on one with bigger races like Orcs and Draenei. This is why pretty much every major Goblin and Gnome lore character is fighting inside a mech.

You are right. Evokers are lore restricted by magic/biology

Anyone can get in a mech. Tinkers should be as common as hunters or warriors. I could see them limiting it to small races at first, but I think eventually it should come to all. Also it shouldnt be a hero class. Starts at level 1.

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Like others have said, it is indeed one piece. Ships can do it all over there.

Maybe I should pick that show back up. I stopped watching a few years ago around episode 50ish? I think they left the giant island and just met the reindeer or something.

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Not if you add Vulpera to the mix and give each small race their own unique art assets with mechs, claw packs, and mechanical summons.

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Gazlowe actually has such an ability in island expeditions in BFA. It's a passive that increases movement speed of the mech when out of combat.

You should just be happy they come. Idk why you are so stubborn on the idea that they be restricted. Are you telling me that if they came to ever race you would be mad?

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To be fair, Mage's "dragonbreath" conjures a dragon head that breathes fire. The mage doesn't literally breathe fire out of their mouth. There is a difference.

I think how they will do it, is lore wise you are still a Dracthyr and have to be one while in combat. But your visage can be any race. Less options than the Dracthyr typical visage but still. Probably just some horns and scale options for every races skin.


So you still pick a Draenei Evoker, but you start out in the Dracthry starting area as a Dracthyr.

[Shizari]

I realize I hadn't dusted off my account yet for my yearly drop into these threads xD

So here I am. By every diety in IRL and in fiction, I hope we get some sort of evergreen world revamp on some level for 11.0, but I'm slowly, SLOWLY, being won over by the Algarian stuff.

[Chickat]

Yeah but if your argument were true Blizzard would have created a class that every race could play, not a restricted class that requires a completely new race to utilize.

Also I don't know if you've been checking recent numbers, but DH numbers have collapsed since Legion.

Your right, and Tinkers will too if restricted to a few races.

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Who made the mistake of engaging with Teriz about his ASD special interest? Stop talking about tinkers. They're never going to happen and Blizzard isn’t going to release two consecutive expansions with new classes.

Tinkers will happen some day. Imo next if the perfect time. You are correct that they wont be restricted to just 2 races.

[bruxx]

So you still pick a Draenei Evoker, but you start out in the Dracthry starting area as a Dracthyr.

I hope Draenei Evokers get to have bot hsets of horns

[Chickat]

Who made the mistake of engaging with Teriz about his ASD special interest? Stop talking about tinkers. They're never going to happen and Blizzard isn’t going to release two consecutive expansions with new classes.

We need to increase post count before Blizzcon.

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But Vulpera are more popular than Draenei, and Goblins are more popular than Dwarves.

I think Goblins are only popular because of their OP racials.

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True. There are some races that I think could be hard to make racial technology, but if they wanted they absolutely could do it.

Even came across some fan-art of what a “Draenei Tinker” w/ unique racial tech would look like.


Mechanically wouldn’t operate that different from a Gnomish tinker. Just a cosmetic change.

Yes and it would still be explosions, just maybe color pallet swapped. Purple explosions instead of orange.

[matijwow]

What are the chances that the 10.2 book about the Storming Sea is a joke about GM island, made to distract from the real expansion?

[Chickat]

Honestly I see Evokers eventually getting all classes but I think it makes more sense to just open all races for Dracthyr visage forms than to let a mechagnome or a forsaken be an evoker.
But there would have to be some restriction to customization; like you get to choose what your visage race is but you cannot change it (you can still customize and gender change) in the dressing room without paying for a race change or something similar.

The big thing they need to work on is letting Dracthyr wear armor. they should be able to where everything but boots and maybe gloves. If Worgen can, they can. I honestly think they will in 11.0. They prob ran out of time to do it for 10.0.

[bruxx]

GM island becoming a legit part of the lore where some fate masters observed from would be the most meta thing ever.

[Mecheon]

What are the chances that the 10.2 book about the Storming Sea is a joke about GM island, made to distract from the real expansion?

They been doing a few 'seed possible future expansion' things in books. Probably not for this expansin but just, throw some seeds out there for future expansions

Mind uh, the person who did the whole pirates/Tel Abim one is the same writer who got fired for the goblin joke thing

[matijwow]

They been doing a few 'seed possible future expansion' things in books. Probably not for this expansin but just, throw some seeds out there for future expansions

Mind uh, the person who did the whole pirates/Tel Abim one is the same writer who got fired for the goblin joke thing

What Tel Abim thing?

[Chickat]

How should Dragonflight end? By end, I literally mean "end (as in, the LAST patch and story quest in the expansion)."

Tyr wakes up. Tree in Azeroth. Tyr and Odyn talk and disagree. Tyr takes out side and says he will stand by the mortals side in the coming conflict.

[Xilurm]

Don't remember anymore who it was , but someone posted this the other day

Oh well never mind then. Suppose they can fit like 3 max.

[Chickat]

You’ve shown a history of not knowing what people want. Like saying people wouldn’t want to play a “mutated slave race” which is what the Dracthyr are.


Who said they’d be shrunk?
The “mech” could either work as a transformation (like G.M.O.D) or could just be an upgraded claw pack for the larger races.
Problem solved.


Steampunk doesn’t have holograms.
I doubt you’d find any steampunk city that looks anything like Mechagon.

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He does that a lot.

Also they could fit into the mech more like an Ironman suit. Barely making them bigger. Tinkers would sit in theirs. Its not hard. You have to have zero creativity or malicious intent to not understand this. Just another time where Teriz cant be wrong. A conversation is supposed to have some give and take.

[matijwow]

GM island becoming a legit part of the lore where some fate masters observed from would be the most meta thing ever.

It could also provide an in-game lore reason why the GMs disappeared from the game.

[Chickat]

I hope Draenei Evokers get to have bot hsets of horns

That would look metal AF.

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The reveal trailer for 11.0! This is always my favourite bit



The shitpost count must go higher, brother, no matter the means

I should resurrect the I am my Shitposts meme i made during 7.3 for the BFA hype thread. Afraid ill get hit with the infractionstick though.

[Trazzle]

I love all the positivity around Tinkers, I too hope for its inclusion and it’s release sooner rather than later.

But let’s not bicker about hypotheticals, blizzard will do what they’ll do regardless of our opinions as to just how x/y thing will be embodied.

Whether it be claw pack, mech, abilities, specs, races, etc. there’s really no right or wrong, there’s only what Blizzard ends up developing.

A legit flame thrower, or cc ability to ‘grab’ a target with a mechanical claw and move them freely for X duration would be epic.

I’d personally be ecstatic trundling around the a claw pack.

[bruxx]

It could also provide an in-game lore reason why the GMs disappeared from the game.

Oh God. A deal with an evil overlord that kept requiring more productivity and random acts of malice between them. With all of the irl Blizzard lore that we got in shadow lands, it could go super dark