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

[Nightshade711]

Except Tinker isn't limited to only his arbitrary race choices.

Sorry, only races known for engineering can be Tinkers.
Except the ones that aren't short.
Vulpera can though because reasons.

[Harbour]

i.imgur(dot)com/fvQJNDW(dot)png

this is vaguely what I saw. This was a big banner, it was probably abit more zoomed in than I could put together in paint in 2 minutes.

she definitely looked evil, evil smirk, evil eyes. if you can find any similar art of xal'atath or a pale elf of any kind, please tag me so i can confirm or not. this may have been for the darkmoon faire area aswell, i am not sure. ill update if i find out more

Art composition looks believable enough.

[Teriz]

But that says tinkers for all so he'd hate that.

I certainly would. However if that’s the direction Blizz wants to take the class that’s just the way it is.

[Marlamin]

Sorry for the confusion but, what's with the datamining part? I may have missed something.

The AI dungeon bit, it's something Blizz has been experimenting with in Dragonflight that's flown relatively under the radar outside of diffs on MMO-C and a tweet by MrGM (and people here/in datamining discords ofc).

[Azalar]

There's been datamining stuff related to island expedition AI tech that people attribute to maybe a solo dungeon mode with AI group members.

Hmmmmm I remember Blizz bringing up the AI behavior topic back in BfA when they announced heroic island expeditions. Maybe they're improving that AI to make it actually usable for some bodyguard feature or something something soloplay?

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I certainly would. However if that’s the direction Blizz wants to take the class that’s just the way it is.

We'll still honor your adamantine resolve.

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The AI dungeon bit, it's something Blizz has been experimenting with in Dragonflight that's flown relatively under the radar outside of diffs on MMO-C and a tweet by MrGM (and people here/in datamining discords ofc).

Oh I see, thanks!

[ercarp]

this is vaguely what I saw. This was a big banner, it was probably abit more zoomed in than I could put together in paint in 2 minutes.

she definitely looked evil, evil smirk, evil eyes. if you can find any similar art of xal'atath or a pale elf of any kind, please tag me so i can confirm or not. this may have been for the darkmoon faire area aswell, i am not sure. ill update if i find out more

Well, your earlier post made you sound kind of legit so I'll take this with a smaller grain of salt than I usually would.

[Rathwell]

I'd argue a party is in order instead as next leak season we won't have to hear anything about Tinkers again.

Next leak season: Tinker class restrictions finally imposed. After the failure of Tinker being available to all races in the Undermine expansion, Tinker class will now be finally be restricted to races that would lore-wise use Goblin or Gnomish technology.

[Harbour]

i.imgur(dot)com/fvQJNDW(dot)png

this is vaguely what I saw. This was a big banner, it was probably abit more zoomed in than I could put together in paint in 2 minutes.

she definitely looked evil, evil smirk, evil eyes. if you can find any similar art of xal'atath or a pale elf of any kind, please tag me so i can confirm or not. this may have been for the darkmoon faire area aswell, i am not sure. ill update if i find out more

Describe her hair color and eye color and skin color please, if you can remember.

[Gwynvael]

If on friday I see purple, I'm a happy man.

simple as

[Magistrate]

We may look like we're a bunch of hardcore wow drama nerds, but what happens here transpires to content creators, which in turn reaches many other players that are not camping this thread 24/7 like we do xD

I think you may be slightly over-valuing the importance of certain elements here on financial outcomes.

If it was CIA-level counterintel (for some reason), there would be no need for it. The overwhelming presence of AI generated BS which has plentifully saturated every discourse community on this topic makes trust in any potential real leak next to impossible. They don't need to send people on a wild goose chase to make people not trust other leaks--we do it to ourselves.

Even if something real /did/ leak, it would not negatively impact the number of people who would purchase it.

Trade secrets (like unique game features) could be something Blizzard would want to shield from competition so they couldn't develop something similar before launch and thus compete with anyone attracted to such feature, but we're literally less than 2 weeks out and they'll announce it all anyway.

There just isn't an incentive that I am seeing, unless I'm missing something here.

[bruxx]

Next leak season: Tinker class restrictions finally imposed. After the failure of Tinker being available to all races in the Undermine expansion, Tinker class will now be finally be restricted to races that would lore-wise use Goblin or Gnomish technology.

Characters of the wrong races will simply be switched to warriors with maxed out engineering

[Myrrh]

i.imgur(dot)com/fvQJNDW(dot)png

this is vaguely what I saw. This was a big banner, it was probably abit more zoomed in than I could put together in paint in 2 minutes.

she definitely looked evil, evil smirk, evil eyes. if you can find any similar art of xal'atath or a pale elf of any kind, please tag me so i can confirm or not. this may have been for the darkmoon faire area aswell, i am not sure. ill update if i find out more

I will say, you come across less mechanical than other ostensible 'leakers', so either you're legit or you're shaking up the format a bit. Props either way.

Also, while very probably Xal, worth not discounting Queen Tentacles herself if 'elf' is the main descriptor we're working with.

[Azalar]

I think you may be slightly over-valuing the importance of certain elements here on financial outcomes.

If it was CIA-level counterintel (for some reason), there would be no need for it. The overwhelming presence of AI generated BS which has plentifully saturated every discourse community on this topic makes trust in any potential real leak next to impossible. They don't need to send people on a wild goose chase to make people not trust other leaks--we do it to ourselves.

Even if something real /did/ leak, it would not negatively impact the number of people who would purchase it.

There just isn't an incentive that I am seeing, unless I'm missing something here.

I'm just being silly. It's just all for the show and the drama, and the guys love that. It's free content for streams and youtube videos.

[Rathwell]

i.imgur(dot)com/fvQJNDW(dot)png

this is vaguely what I saw. This was a big banner, it was probably abit more zoomed in than I could put together in paint in 2 minutes.

she definitely looked evil, evil smirk, evil eyes. if you can find any similar art of xal'atath or a pale elf of any kind, please tag me so i can confirm or not. this may have been for the darkmoon faire area aswell, i am not sure. ill update if i find out more

There's an Ai art thread around here somewhere. Perhaps you can have it paint what you say, if you're able to describe it in more detail?

[Azalar]

If on friday I see purple, I'm a happy man.

simple as

We're simple men. We see purple, we're happy.

[Catastrophy349]

Yeah, keep the conversation going. This speculation is great!

[Magistrate]

I'm just being silly. It's just all for the show and the drama, and the guys love that. It's free content for streams and youtube videos.

Fair point

[Fiercelord]

The stage leak looks so cool. I hope it's true

[Harbour]

i.imgur(dot)com/fvQJNDW(dot)png

this is vaguely what I saw. This was a big banner, it was probably abit more zoomed in than I could put together in paint in 2 minutes.

she definitely looked evil, evil smirk, evil eyes. if you can find any similar art of xal'atath or a pale elf of any kind, please tag me so i can confirm or not. this may have been for the darkmoon faire area aswell, i am not sure. ill update if i find out more

Cooked up some art
Does it look like that?

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

The other stage image? We don't know. As shown in other examples it's possible to get pretty damn close with AI images from DALL-E/Bing that generate pretty similar features (floor, forklifts, lights, boxes, workers etc) and with some postprocessing to e.g. add in the bins from the official set tease and fix up some other details and add blur to cover up AI messups it may very well be fake. But, at the end of the day we simply don't know. Just because it could relatively easy be faked isn't automatically the same as it being fake, the same as something being harder to fake (e.g. the 4 screens) not automatically being real either.

What is "the other stage image"? So many fake stage images, but is there one that is maybe legit?