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

[Darkarath]

Hey I just finished War of the Scaleborn. It is ok. Too many battles IMO. Would have been better to spend more time developing the characters. But I guess that the author is limited by Blizzard in a lot of ways. I think that she did a good job.

Anyway I just wanted to share some things that I find interesting:

- IMO the Incarnates in their element are more powerful than the Aspects in their prime.

- IMO Iridikron knew about the Old Gods and probably interacted with them in some way.

- Harrowsden (Iridikron's lair) should be somewhere in Northrend, or maybe to the north of Northrend. I think that we will visit it at some point, and it even has the potential to be another Torghast if they ever put it in the game.

- The book talks about several new zones that could be in Northrend. Maybe these zones were just renamed by mortals or maybe there is something to the north of Northrend or maybe they were destroyed 10.000 years ago.

- Neltharion has a strong presence in the book. He was a cool guy before he went nuts. He did not value mortal lives at all, though.

- It is explained why Dracthyr were so feared by Neltharion and why he put them in stasis.

- Tyr (sadly) has no presence at all in the novel. He is killed at the beginning.

- Vyranoth alliance with us in game makes even less sense after reading the book.

- The Primalists origins are kind of explained, although how they are still active 20.000 years after the war in such numbers is not explained at all.

There is much more, but nothing really major besides the zone that I have talked about. If someone has any doubts I will try to answer them, although I believe that by now anyone interested in the book already knows everything that there is to know.

[Myrrh]

Thursday is going to be a brutal day isn't it? We've run out of steam on this thread.

fam this thread has been running on fumes for months at this point. I can't wait to behold whatever beautiful shitfuckery emerges from this communal insanity by week's end.

[klaussf]

was this posted here before?

[Nyel]

was this posted here before?

Yeah, pretty much rated as nonsense.

[allifeur]

was this posted here before?

Stratholme for the Horde? That just comes out of nowhere.

[Myrrh]

Hey I just finished War of the Scaleborn.

This twitter account has a great writeup on it too, for anyone highly impatient like me: https://twitter.com/Queen_Ishura/sta...18430795993394

Harrowsdeep is such a baller name and I agree, we really need to go there in some way, shape or form.

Also, may have been mentioned in the previous chaos but the new trading post set has flavour text pointing to Dimensius, specifically the Harbinger's staff. Not sure I'm a fan as Dimensius is one of the more poorly handled retcons IMO, but interesting nonetheless.

[ercarp]

Okay I haven't seen anyone make bingo cards yet but here is mine:

I'll wait until November 3rd because I'm expecting some last minute leaks to drop.

[Hitei]

Stratholme for the Horde? That just comes out of nowhere.

It's not really out of nowhere, because Strat is a big city just sitting there, but it doesn't make much sense when Silvermoon is right there with an entire section waiting to be rebuilt into general Horde aesthetics.

Also, why would spell cosmetics be a talent tree? You get forced to pick specific looks to reach other looks you want, or don't have enough points to get two looks you want in unfortunately far locations?

[Izalla]

I'll wait until November 3rd because I'm expecting some last minute leaks to drop.

Well that's just cheating if you're waiting for real leaks! =P

[Nightshade711]

Speaking of Dimensius popping up in the new transmog text…

Xal'atath whispers: I long for the day our masters can truly pass into this realm. You have only seen fragments, shadows; the faintest of echoes. Ask the Ethereals what one of these manifestations are capable of.

Aggramar
Xal'atath whispers: This one would make an excellent champion for our cause, perhaps he can yet be turned?

Seat of the Pantheon
Xal'atath whispers: Long have we sought entry into this realm! To think we have a mortal to thank for giving us our foothold. Your service will be remembered!

[Gurahk]

was this posted here before?

No talent points from 70-80 is extremely unlikely, considering they've confirmed us getting new talent points as expansions go on until they reset us back again.
The part about OW2 is laughable, so is the part about HotS.

[Dismayxz]

Its fun to participate and doubt anyway, unless you're being a dick or get a superiority complex about your opinion there's no reason why being wrong is the worst thing ever. If I say, "I don't buy that." and someone puts me in a 'doubters collage' or something im not going to be horrifically embarassed

Agreed. It ain't a war.

[Chickat]

The 2nd pic is actually the same exact zone from a leak yesterday, but from a different vantage point.

If it was a diff vantage point, maybe it was real?

[ercarp]

Well that's just cheating if you're waiting for real leaks! =P

Maybe a little, but that didn't work out too well for me last time when I put "Dracthyr are fake" in my bingo card.

[allifeur]

It's not really out of nowhere, because Strat is a big city just sitting there, but it doesn't make much sense when Silvermoon is right there with an entire section waiting to be rebuilt into general Horde aesthetics.

It's not only Silvermoon : They made an entire questline about the forsaken re-taking undercity. It would be so absurd to go somewhere else.
People would be so pissed of to have Stratholme as a capital city for the Horde but not Suramar. lmao

[Myrrh]

Did the guy arguing with himself over working on site at Blizzcon ever make a return? Under either persona...

[Chickat]

Jokes on you, this thread has enough steam to power up all the Tinkers in 11.0 and some more

*artificers*

[Moth Preacher]

*artificers*

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[Gloriandus]

For the new "screenshots":

Correct use of Friz Quadrata, but the line spacing is way too tight.

Going by past couple expansions, Blizzard doesn't use stroke around the lettering, nor emboss (which they sort of look to have), and their kerning is a bit looser than the screenshots show. Plus, it seems that the person who made these color-matched the stroke/emboss to the color of the background, which, again, would be new for Blizzard.

Of course they can always change things up, but they often stick to certain design elements.

[Colonel Sandor]

Lmao I love when "leaks" go for the super shaky and blurry angle.
The mental image of someone taking a picture like this is too funny.