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

[FlemmMinis]

The hand looks almost crab like... crab people confirmed

[Hitei]

For whatever reason, everyone keeps discounting the importance of the need for the name/themes surrounding storms. The Storm Rider series of achievements is just too important on top of the mount.

I mean, it was already discussed a lot early on. There's not much to glean from it though. It could be a gryphon used by stormhammer-throwing earthen, it could be a lightning proto-drake, it could be a storm dragon, it could be a mount that earthen use to fly through storms that surround their location, it could be a glowing gryphon native to moonstorms. Who knows.

[Polybius]

I think it's supposed to just be a hand with a big icicle on it. Atleast, that's what I see.

Coincidentally, the Dwarf ogre has the same wrist "weapon," placing it in quotes because it's a common anomaly of AI-generated images. The void dreadlord possesses one too.

[ercarp]

Can't imagine blizzard using a font that god ugly for the subtitle (those "O"s). Also this still does the old style logo. It's weird people haven't picked up on the change.

I was trying to be "clever" by using a different font. Seems to have backfired, lol.

They still use the old silhouette for the most part. Dragonflight is the exception, not the rule, although it does make me wonder if they'll go even crazier with the logo for 11.0 or if they'll dial it back a bit.

is it you again

Source = Ercarp.

Yeah... I was hoping it would fool at least one person, but alas. Back to the drawing board.

[Mahcake]

I really don't see any problems with the hands. They are basically fist weapons, just attached to their hands. It makes sense if they are some kind of stone, rock, mountain people.

I know you want this debunked so much but this isn't the way really.

[micwini]

I think I found something like that.

Is this wht I think it is?

[dadori]

Whether the screenshots are real or not, you are thinking and analyzing them too much i think.

finding glitches, errors doesnt mean they are not real.

If those screenshots are from a preview video aka they are real, you are never meant to pause and analyze them like you doing now.

[Polybius]

I really don't see any problems with the hands. They are basically fist weapons, just attached to their hands. It makes sense if they are some kind of stone, rock, mountain people.

I know you want this debunked so much but this isn't the way really.

Still a 4/10. Two different species wouldn't have the same wristblades. There's so much more wrong with it than just the hands. It's good to train the eye for AI, esp. with uncanny valley features like this.

It's not like the originals are low res either.

[Wangming]

Is this wht I think it is?

Nah it is totally legit. Trust me. Would this face lie to you?

[Vakir]

I mean, it was already discussed a lot early on. There's not much to glean from it though. It could be a gryphon used by stormhammer-throwing earthen, it could be a lightning proto-drake, it could be a storm dragon, it could be a mount that earthen use to fly through storms that surround their location, it could be a glowing gryphon native to moonstorms. Who knows.

I don't mean the mount, I mean the name of the achievement family implied to be for racing. Bronze, Silver, Gold.

The implied race label indicates some kind of teaser of the naming or theme.

Like if you attached that same idea to a hypothetical...let's say Mists of Pandaria if it was to come out and hadn't existed already. "Mists Rider: Bronze," etc.

The Stormrider mount itself has been discussed to death, yes.

Basically any name or theme "leaked" not heavily involving storms seems like an odd one out.

[Sondrelk]

Maybe it works for raids, but for sure not for open world. Especially in systems like covenants, I spend practically all Shadowlands doing different stuff in all covenants on one character, but to get all transmog I would have to repeat a lot of that stuff 3 times.

I think the reason I standby the idea is that the stuff that is especially difficult or annoying to make work could be fixed other ways. Covenant stuff could be buyable behind account wide achievements, rather than specific player locked ones, like what is the case with the Kyrian doubt tinged armor.

Open world stuff usually just requires an alt of the correct level to send it to, and cosmetic items should all be account tradeable at the minimum.

[FlemmMinis]

Nah it is totally legit. Trust me. Would this face lie to you?

Yes absolutely

[Jaggler]

The hand looks almost crab like... crab people confirmed

In the end, everything evolves into a crab.

I already see it:
12.0

World of Warcraft: Carcinization of Azeroth

Is this wht I think it is?

Eye don't think so.

[Sondrelk]

I really don't see any problems with the hands. They are basically fist weapons, just attached to their hands. It makes sense if they are some kind of stone, rock, mountain people.

I know you want this debunked so much but this isn't the way really.

The issue i have with them is that fist weapons are usually very specifically not attached the the hand.
Even if the spike is part of them I feel it would be attached a different way. Either higher up on the arm, or just replace their hands completely.

[Shadochi]

We are close to the final stretch to blizzcon (the final stretch being tomorrow for EU people since announcement is in the evening for us). Its gonna get even crazier tomorrow with us overanalyzing every pixel of every image, and every letter of every text leak

[Shadowferal]

Making hybrids called Sabortani.

My imagination is seeing something very nasty.

[Jaggler]

My imagination is seeing something very nasty.

What are plant furries called?

Twiggies? Leafies? Rooties?

[Polybius]

The issue i have with them is that fist weapons are usually very specifically not attached the the hand.
Even if the spike is part of them I feel it would be attached a different way. Either higher up on the arm, or just replace their hands completely.

It also seems like a prompt that went wrong. Frosty hands, ala Nightborne hand glow, with blades and no specification of them being separate from the hand.

[Rathwell]

We are close to the final stretch to blizzcon (the final stretch being tomorrow for EU people since announcement is in the evening for us). Its gonna get even crazier tomorrow with us overanalyzing every pixel of every image, and every letter of every text leak

I'm still hoping for a substantial leak with screenshots in the final hours. We didn't get the Dracthyr images until within hours of the opening ceremony if I recall!

[Ilujee]

Ok, I lowered my inner expectations to 2.5 pages in this thread by the opening ceremony