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

[Woggmer]

The Backgrounds are very obviously AI generated and look nothing like wows engine you dont really need to go further than that. Its stupidly low effort(didnt even get the text colors correct) and it probably took all of 10 mins to make.

Also Blizzard is never going to call an expansion "oathbreaking".

I've seen a lot of AI generated images and I can tell you, these aren't done with AI. An AI can make small mistakes like trees warping..

To me, as of now, this is the most legitimate leak.

[Zankai27]

Yeah a bit cause they used legit images to train the model...but the point is not about the artstyle you can just tell that its not in-engine.

Really don't get that vibe from them, but we'll see, won't we

[Chickat]

I can't see Avaloren without thinking about Loreal / avalon

Like the hair color brand?

[Moth Preacher]

Background feels like it really isn't in-game warcraft tbh

[kavikor]

I've seen a lot of AI generated images and I can tell you, these aren't done with AI. An AI can make small mistakes like trees warping..

To me, as of now, this is the most legitimate leak.

An AI trained on WoW zone screenshots could reproduce this. The fact that there are no creatures or mobs interacting with the environment don't feel right to me imo

[Cheezits]

Background feels like it really isn't in-game warcraft tbh

It kind of does, it feels like titan stuff with shit covering it. That screenshot in particular looks like the forest from the original leak.

[AmericanCynic]

tel'abim and lost isles here we come

[PotHockets]

Background feels like it really isn't in-game warcraft tbh

It feels like one of those hyper realistic UE5 versions of a warcraft zone thats been passed through a filter to try and soften the images

[Sebashtian]

Just saying, leak images are focusing on system & feature videos. But since Shadowlands & Dragonflight showed intro cinematics first. It seems the new way to go, and so I'll be sceptic of them. Anyway, we are so close... And I am ready to see what is true.

[Catastrophy349]

We’ve got our expansion!

[justwatching]

Background feels like it really isn't in-game warcraft tbh

Yea its not ingame, the dwarf is clearly just photoshopped infront of it. Blizzard would never use that caption and its the 3rd different text color.

[Calfredd]

We’ve got our expansion!

The 4 screenshots, the 3 screenshots, or the binary?

[Vakir]

I hate saying "AI" to everything because it isn't always AI, but it definitely looks like an outright flat piece of art behind him.

The 4 screenshots, the 3 screenshots, or the binary?

I mean this with zero shade, bullying, or insult - but I am 30% sure that Catastrophy is a chatbot designed to say exciting things at variable intervals.

"We've got our expansion!" feels like a non-sequitur.

[Chickat]

One interesting thing to note is, at least in game, they had the Primal Incarnates follow the elemental traits from Chronicle 1.

If we consider Vyranoth water, her indecisiveness could lead to her betraying us in the end.

[Bossmonkey]

"Oathbreaking" is the worst name so far.

[Calfredd]

Oathbreaker would be closer to a Blizzard expac name and even then I don't think they'd use that either.

[Pinksocking]

I was soooo close.

i want corgeans NOW

[Chickat]

I've seen a lot of AI generated images and I can tell you, these aren't done with AI. An AI can make small mistakes like trees warping..

To me, as of now, this is the most legitimate leak.

Which one? the newest 3?

[Mrpms]

I was soooo close.

It's all downhill after this image. This is what peak wow looks like.

[matijwow]

I've thought of this too. Avaloren is patch 10.3.
A new expansion won't get announced. It will get announced sometime in the spring.

Look:

Legion release August 2016
BFA announce November 2017
GAP 15 months

BFA Release August 2018
Shadowlands announce November 2019
GAP 15 months

Shadowlands Release November 2020
Dragonflight announced April 2022
GAP 17 months

Dragonflight release November 2022
New Expansion announce November 2023
GAP less than 12 months

It doesn't seem that unlikely given DF had a much shorter announcement to release than usual.