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

[justwatching]

This is true. To be fair, housing is several orders of magnitude more demanding to implement vs. a new race or two.

Sure. But the demand for it is also several times larger than some random new race. Its probably the most requested feature going all the way back to the vanilla beta.

[PotHockets]

This is true. To be fair, housing is several orders of magnitude more demanding to implement vs. a new race or two.

We now know that they had intended housing to be in from the very beginning and that's what the gated Stormwind portal was for. They just apparently could not get it to work in the WoW engine no matter how hard they tried so it was shelved.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Ah thanks! I just saw the names and nothing explaining what they were. I'd have to see their models properly to really have an opinion, though.

from the leak.
To each their own, but i hate idea of some asspull ogre/dwarf/mok'nathal merge when they have ogres and mok'nathal just right there for years.

[ercarp]

If its a hoax then I am not a part of it (I would not risk putting my name down like that)

I think most people would just be impressed tbh. I know I would be.

[blaatschaap]

Dracthyr are diet rc cola when I wanted a Coca Cola.

rc was the codename for dragonflight on the website. so that's what it stood for!

[ChairmanKaga]

We now know that they had intended housing to be in from the very beginning and that's what the gated Stormwind portal was for. They just apparently could not get it to work in the WoW engine no matter how hard they tried so it was shelved.

Classic+, Classic but with housing now.

[lostsoup]

Blizzard also never implements races people want, at best some variation on them like Void Elves instead of High Elves, Kul'tirans instead of Vrykul and Dracthyr instead of Drakonids/other existing dragonkin. Races like Ethereal, Ogres, Naga, Sethrak etc. are likely never going to happen.

So two unheard of OC races being playable seems par for the course.

[Paula Deen]

Where is this coming from? Like other leaks or have I completely missed some lore someplace?

The website leak had like an entire story preliminary write up on it. Here it is. Just read the text. Very interesting stuff if real or fake.

SNIP It was posted just a few posts up.

[Vakir]

Sure. But the demand for it is also several times larger than some random new race. Its probably the most requested feature going all the way back to the vanilla beta.

Garrisons were more or less a testbed for that. Appropriately, they completely failed to understand the desire in the first place and trapped overly gameified systems in them.

We now know that they had intended housing to be in from the very beginning and that's what the gated Stormwind portal was for. They just apparently could not get it to work in the WoW engine no matter how hard they tried so it was shelved.

Interesting and checks out. Vanilla was crazy ambitious.

[kavikor]

if voyage to avaloren is real im preordering just cause I wanna be a vrykul, taunka, or ogre thing. sounds cool

[ercarp]

From the SS I feel like that COULD actually be the Rexxard model (KT based) which would be small enough to be a race, at least vs that harpy. But also its like 6 pixels of an ogre so I can't truly tell lmfao

I thought the pose looked more like the djaradin model, but I'm not sure.

[Teriz]

Algari are basically Earthen, which people have asked for, and Agg'ora are supposed to be Ogres as far as we can tell.

Uh people haven’t asked for Earthen over Vrykul. Which is my point; If you’re going to make Vrykul playable anyway, why would you make them an allied race and not a race you get with purchase? I’m sure alliance players would prefer Vrykul over Algari.

Also if we’re all visiting Khaz Algar, how would the Algari be an alliance race? That would mean the entire city is hostile towards the horde.

[Catastrophy349]

Avaloren! Choo choo!

[The Stormbringer]

Don't forget the 4 zones screenshot has a dwarf with these messed up, blatantly AI hands. I'm pretty sure it's fake.

See, I'm pretty sure the section you have highlighted as '1' isn't a finger, but it's part of the hand/wrist-mounted blade or drilll-like weapon they've got. Assuming it's not fake, of course.

[milkmustache]

Save us Ironwasher, please oh please

[justwatching]

We now know that they had intended housing to be in from the very beginning and that's what the gated Stormwind portal was for. They just apparently could not get it to work in the WoW engine no matter how hard they tried so it was shelved.

And in the mean time private servers got it done so well that it couldve passed as a believable leak. But its a debate for a different thread.

[Wangming]

Blizzard also never implements races people want, at best some variation on them like Void Elves instead of High Elves, Kul'tirans instead of Vrykul and Dracthyr instead of Drakonids/other existing dragonkin. Races like Ethereal, Ogres, Naga, Sethrak etc. are likely never going to happen.

So two unheard of OC races being playable seems par for the course.

Well I'm sure nobody asked for Gilneans to be afflicted by the worgen curse, but that was such a great choice.

[bruxx]

Blizzard also never implements races people want, at best some variation on them like Void Elves instead of High Elves, Kul'tirans instead of Vrykul and Dracthyr instead of Drakonids/other existing dragonkin. Races like Ethereal, Ogres, Naga, Sethrak etc. are likely never going to happen.

So two unheard of OC races being playable seems par for the course.

Waaaaaaay back then, Metzen publicly stated wanting Goblin, Ogres and Naga to one day be playable.

We now have him back, and Goblins are already in. Here's some meaningless hopium for playable Naga.
(pls don't @ me about how impossible it is because of jumping or mounting animation, that's a boring, overdone discussion and I already know the arguments)

[NoTimeToDie5426]

I would consider a magical flying lizard with the abilities of Red, Green, Bronze, Blue, and Black dragons to be a WoW dragon. Your mileage may vary.

Dracthyr are very obviously not what people wanted from a playable "dragon" -_- you are just being difficult.

[PotHockets]

Garrisons were more or less a testbed for that. Appropriately, they completely failed to understand the desire in the first place and trapped overly gameified systems in them.

No it wasn't the testbed for it. The test for it happened during initial WoW development but they couldn't get it to work. Garrisons were them finding a way to make it work in the WoW engine most likely.