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

[allifeur]

While I agree, one thing to point out is the sky looks like absolute paint

Yeah I can agree on that point. All leaked image so far had very boring skyboxes notably bellow the quality of skybox they've had since MoP. Looks like placeholder art, which is something we've seen in previous alphas in non-finished areas, but has no particular reason to be late on the pipeline.

[Dragon ANX]

It's like impossible to make some of you folks happy.

It's the internet, you will never be able to please everyone, thats just imposible.

[Northelim]

It's like impossible to make some of you folks happy.

The amount of negativity and constant whining on this forum never ceases to amaze. Sometimes I wonder if they just enjoy shitting on the game just for the lols regardless of what happens or what someone posts. It's quite annoying and just plain childis at this point.

[Teriz]

You're not wrong

I'd say the same about Xal'atath

They really can't hinge an expansion on those two

There is a running theory that since we went in the past and faced N'Zoth during the timeline event, N'Zoth foresaw his own death at our hands and began putting machinations in place to avoid it. So it is quite possible that N'Zoth will be back in the near future.

[Fahrad Wagner]

Can someone explain me what makes people consider this one screenshot to be made by an AI?



While this architecture is quite weird, it looks like it has realistic proportions, with rock textures fitting the style of modern expansions, ingame water, and trees and biomes that fit the two zones from the four screenshot leak.

This one looks quite interesting. Where is it from?

[letgoit]

Have you ever been on any construction site ever? do you think anyone walking by can just walk on in and look around while we construct the set or?

As someone who is on construction sites on a regular basis, yes, you absolutely can just walk into a construction site and look around lmao. I do it all the time.

[Niwes]

The amount of negativity and constant whining on this forum never ceases to amaze. Sometimes I wonder if they just enjoy shitting on the game just for the lols regardless of what happens or what someone posts. It's quite annoying and just plain childis at this point.

so, maybe do it like i do and many others do, these days. just don’t come here any longer that often.

wow became a game more and more attracting a „specific“ kind of ppl. and wow’s game design more and more supports that. the most real wow crowd ppls long ago left the ship and what’s leftover is a childish kindergarten of ppls, not worth coming here for. so, the best you can do, is to just adapt yourself, no longer coming to MMOC with the high hopes of cool informations or interesting discussions. that times are long over imo.

because this maybe can read like somewhat sarcastic or missread as offensive: i mean the above seriously. it’s imo just a waste of time coming to MMOC these days. the great golden glory wow times are long over. all you find here is the retail and classic 2023 crowd. the „normal“ wow ppls, worth taking a word with, are gone since a good while. there is nothing worth your time to find here imo, so it’s best to just stay away instead of wasting your time reading all that BS (including mine here). or just come here every few weeks to just grab a quick „upgrade“, like i do.

[Sondrelk]

There is a running theory that since we went in the past and faced N'Zoth during the timeline event, N'Zoth foresaw his own death at our hands and began putting machinations in place to avoid it. So it is quite possible that N'Zoth will be back in the near future.

I think it's inevitable he will return. BfAs ending was hardly beloved, and it's not a complete asspull to make him return when there are so many avenues you could take on why precisely he survived. Some of which was even pointed out before the raid.

[Northelim]

so, maybe do it like i do and many others do, these days. just don’t come here any longer that often. wow became a game more and more attracting a „specific“ kind of ppl. and wow’s game design more and more supports that. the most real wow crowd ppls long ago left the ship and what’s leftover is a childish kindergarten of ppls, not worth coming here for. so, the best you can do, is to just adapt yourself, no longer coming to MMMOC with the high hopes of cool informations or interesting discussions. that times are long over imo.

because this maybe can read like somewhat sarcastic or missread as offensive: i mean the above seriously. it’s imo just a waste of time coming to MMOC these days. the great golden glory wow times are long over. all you find here is the retail and classic 2023 crowd. the „normal“ wow ppls, worth taking a word with, are gine since a good while.

Oh look. Another over exaggerated blown out out of proportion negative response. WoW is best it has ever been personally for me and I've played since 2004.

[Lady Atia]

Why the hell do they put all of their storytelling into lore books and not in game so everybody can at least experience it? It‘s such a horrible take to have all these characters that make not much sense in game just to see they got a personality, but only when you’re consuming 100 different mediums for lore.

Because the books are the only way to actually get PoV scenes and internal monologue with these characters? It's a different, and better medium to tell stories.

[allifeur]

This one looks quite interesting. Where is it from?

From reddit user u/spicy_sean_spicer, whose account has been unused for 3 years. His account shows interest in both California politics as well as WoW, which makes it believable for him to be working at Blizzard studios. He also hasn't shown much artistic quality in his messages, so it would be extremely surprising if he managed to create this scenery through fan-made modding tools.

[Pheraz]

so, maybe do it like i do and many others do, these days. just don’t come here any longer that often. wow became a game more and more attracting a „specific“ kind of ppl. and wow’s game design more and more supports that. the most real wow crowd ppls long ago left the ship and what’s leftover is a childish kindergarten of ppls, not worth coming here for. so, the best you can do, is to just adapt yourself, no longer coming to MMMOC with the high hopes of cool informations or interesting discussions. that times are long over imo.

because this maybe can read like somewhat sarcastic or missread as offensive: i mean the above seriously. it’s imo just a waste of time coming to MMOC these days. the great golden glory wow times are long over. all you find here is the retail and classic 2023 crowd. the „normal“ wow ppls, worth taking a word with, are gine since a good while.

Bla. This is the hype thread for the next xpac. Kinda bold to assume any character of anyone in here except yourself though.

On topic of the last "leak", I don't know if we can trust this Reddit poster honestly. If yes I really wonder how those types of Reddit posters (history shows a lot of memes and trolling) comes to this type of information/images

[meroes]

Oh look. Another over exaggerated blown out out of proportion negative response. WoW is best it has ever been personally for me and I've played since 2004.

I mean exactly? WoW forums weren’t like this 15+ years ago. So much polarity and negativity within the community. The game has soured for a lot of people. You say it’s the best ever, that means it is changing. You seeing all the negativity is the overall negative reaction to the changes.

[Niwes]

Oh look. Another over exaggerated blown out out of proportion negative response. WoW is best it has ever been personally for me and I've played since 2004.

maybe you missunderstood me. i also play wow since may 2005 without interruption in sub. i like DF and my class’s design overall. i just say „coming to MMOC with your hopes is not worth it“. imo a player type like you will no longer find here, what you are searching for. that’s all. at least i stopped for myself coming here on a daily base. but i don’t stopped wow playing.

since it sounded like you are in the same boat, my advice was just: if you come to MMOC and find a whiny childish 2023 crowd, simply do no longer come here often. at least for me it works.

that’s all. maybe you missunderstood me, because i am (obviously) not a native english speaker.

[milkmustache]

I'm sure we've already talked about it, but I think it certainly has room for more conversation.

Let's take the stance that Blizzard is hinting at something through their synthwave playlist animations;

We have Jaina studying in Stormwind, which is just a play on the typical lofi beats video.

In the second we have Thrall riding a wolf through Durotar changing from night to day. This is also a typical lofi beats video spin.

In the third, we have Nozdormu and Chromie somewhere in the Temporal Conflux within a portal room.

The last two are particularly interesting. They share the same art style, but even more interestingly we see Nozdormu conjure an image of the nighttime Orgrimmar in the main portal, the same exact art from the nighttime portion of the Thrall animation. Using purple tones as night is not uncommon, but it has possibility of being a choice with the connotations purple carries in WoW, especially currently. Thrall also happens to be our Blizzcon key art representative for WoW, something I've been adament on being related to Metzen's return.

This is all probably generic marketing, generic imagery, etc., but... is there something here?

[Holdodlig]

From reddit user u/spicy_sean_spicer, whose account has been unused for 3 years. His account shows interest in both California politics as well as WoW, which makes it believable for him to be working at Blizzard studios. He also hasn't shown much artistic quality in his messages, so it would be extremely surprising if he managed to create this scenery through fan-made modding tools.

He also apparently posted fake leaks during 2018's BlizzCon from what I've seen here.

[RahEndymion]

I mean exactly? WoW forums weren’t like this 15+ years ago. So much polarity and negativity within the community. The game has soured for a lot of people. You say it’s the best ever, that means it is changing. You seeing all the negativity is the overall negative reaction to the changes.

If we're honest; it's society at large that is polarised like this in the English speaking world, perhaps outside of it too. We've approached a point at which everyone expects to individually be catered too in the precise and exact fashion they had imagined they would without compromise. This seems to be true in politics, media, general customer services etc.

No matter what happens there are going to be people complaining this time next week. Hopefully they are the minority though.

[allifeur]

I'm sure we've already talked about it, but I think it certainly has room for more conversation.

Let's take the stance that Blizzard is hinting at something through their synthwave playlist animations;

We have Jaina studying in Stormwind, which is just a play on the typical lofi beats video.

In the second we have Thrall riding a wolf through Durotar changing from night to day. This is also a typical lofi beats video spin.

In the third, we have Nozdormu and Chromie somewhere in the Temporal Conflux within a portal room.

The last two are particularly interesting. They share the same art style, but even more interestingly we see Nozdormu conjure an image of the nighttime Orgrimmar in the main portal, the same exact art from the nighttime portion of the Thrall animation. Using purple tones as night is not uncommon, but it has possibility of being a choice with the connotations purple carries in WoW, especially currently. Thrall also happens to be our Blizzcon key art representative for WoW, something I've been adament on being related to Metzen's return.

This is all probably generic marketing, generic imagery, etc., but... is there something here?

Looks like this is mainly nostalgia appeal, which implies they will make something that will appeal to the old school fanbase.
I can only picture two possibilities : Either they will announce a world revamp, or they will announce some WoW Classic novelty.

[Niwes]

Bla. This is the hype thread for the next xpac. Kinda bold to assume any character of anyone in here except yourself though.

On topic of the last "leak", I don't know if we can trust this Reddit poster honestly. If yes I really wonder how those types of Reddit posters (history shows a lot of memes and trolling) comes to this type of information/images

yeah, i agree to that. that’s why i am just in this thread. overall it’s actually the only thread worth coming to MMOC. and most what i said above is, for me, true for nearly all other threads. but this one is really the exception. but i get what you mean and i agree. this thread is the most wrong place to say what i said. you are right.

and i for sure as hell do not wanna be the cool guy. tbh i give a fk. so, back to topic, let the hypetrain roll.

[allifeur]

He also apparently posted fake leaks during 2018's BlizzCon from what I've seen here.

I looked at it, it wasn't really a fake leak. It was just a circlejerk message to complain about Blizzard's being greedy, only caring about turning the game into phone games, etc.