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

[Shadowferal]

I much prefer the lack of a centralized narrative in MMOs.

*shrugs*
Considering the quality of the writing I'm sure Blizz would love hearing this. All the quicker to forget about narrative loose ends and lore altogether.

[Nathanyel]

Datamining? What's that?

We learned it from you, Dad!

I love the idea of Bronze shenanigans in his expansion altering the classic timeline, creating new content expansions for classic instead of continuing on through past expansions. That’s exactly the kind of game changing announcement I could see happening at Blizzcon.

"You did this questline, now go play another game to see its results!" - and people complain about transmedia...

[Fahrad Wagner]

I much prefer the lack of a centralized narrative in MMOs. It makes them feel like actual worlds with different things going on within them rather than a manifested design space that only exists to service the narrative. I would love to see more expansions that focus on exploring the world rather than hinging all their bets on a single story.

Couldn't agree more... it would make the world feel more alive. It's probably harder to "brand" and monetise, which is why they stick to the theme park expansion narrative I guess? I don't think they'd do a good job at maintaining smaller narratives though, seeing how many loose ends they already have with the current state of affairs.

We learned it from you, Dad!

*tearing up at wholesome messages*

[huth]

Datamining? What's that?

That was back in ye olde dayes when we send the child slaves pre-qualified contract workers into the datamines to produce juicy tidbits for us to complain and yell about.

[Houle]

Datamining? What's that?

Heard its about mining cryptocurrency n shit, dunno.

On a related note: did anything ever come from that datamined Dragonblight Map that had Galakronds bones removed? Considering the latest confirmation that Galakrond will return in some form...Cause I dont remember if that was used for anything so far.

[Nymrohd]

I still have no idea in what format Galakrond will come back. I just don't see how Blizzard would make a massive raid boss work as an encounter and I don't want a repeat of Madness.

[Makabreska]

I still have no idea in what format Galakrond will come back. I just don't see how Blizzard would make a massive raid boss work as an encounter and I don't want a repeat of Madness.

They did it with N'zoth Carapace. We were fighting a small part of it while his body was towering in the distance. Alternatively, they could go ham with the idea and make us go inside of him for an encounter or two.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Galakrond's Inside Story? Sure.

I don't know, it will be really funny if the Galakrond return is just in the Megadungeon and all the hype about this expansion is just spammed into the Megadungeon leaving everyone hyper confused. (Murozond plotline completed .)

That's obviously the worst case scenario and hell there's still a chance the Megadungeon is Fyrakk/Vyranoth related.

[Marlamin]

On a related note: did anything ever come from that datamined Dragonblight Map that had Galakronds bones removed? Considering the latest confirmation that Galakrond will return in some form...Cause I dont remember if that was used for anything so far.

Not that I know of, but wouldn't be surprised if it ended up being tangentially related, either them exploring what they could do with Galakrond or as an early blockout for whatever we'll be seeing in the time-wimey content.

[Raetary]

I still have no idea in what format Galakrond will come back. I just don't see how Blizzard would make a massive raid boss work as an encounter and I don't want a repeat of Madness.

He swallows us and we fight undead in his guts.

[Alanar]

Really dont get the excitement on Galakrond, like at all.

A big mindless dragon, but mostly just big..

[Makabreska]

Really dont get the excitement on Galakrond, like at all.

A big mindless dragon, but mostly just big..

This is literally it. A gigantic, all devouring force of nature. It has potential for an epic fight, unless Blizz will go safer route and wont make much use of his size.

[huth]

I still have no idea in what format Galakrond will come back. I just don't see how Blizzard would make a massive raid boss work as an encounter and I don't want a repeat of Madness.

Well, he's an ancient dragon, so probably 4:3.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Do Galakrond in the same style as a GW2 meta event where you battle an Elder Dragon.

Madness and Spine of Deathwing were cool.

[Nymrohd]

Madness and Spine of Deathwing were cool.

Damn, that may be the king of hot takes.

[Makorus]

Do Galakrond in the same style as a GW2 meta event where you battle an Elder Dragon.

Madness and Spine of Deathwing were cool.

The only good GW2 Dragon Meta is Dragons Stand, and even that is just "Attack a head that's biting a platform".

All the other ones range from insanely terrible (Dragonfall) to "what a waste" (Primordius/Jormag) to "alright, but you might as well not be fighting a dragon" (Dragon's End).

There's a reason you "properly" fight all the Dragons in story instances.

[ChairmanKaga]

Some discussion of 11.0 earlier reminded me I would love an expansion on Azeroth with the main adversaries being like the "Mongrel Horde" they batted around before WoD. All of the various groups the Horde and Alliance have been crushing for years band together into a large mishmash opposing force. Gnolls, Nagas, Kobolds, Centaurs + Scarlet Crusade, Pirates, remains of Twilight's Hammer etc.

[Khaza-R]

Really dont get the excitement on Galakrond, like at all.

A big mindless dragon, but mostly just big..

Personally I fully welcome a simple villain who is just a monster bent on causing destruction over the past 2 expansions of would-be 4D chess playing schemers.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Damn, that may be the king of hot takes.

In WoW, sure, but if I recall at the time Dragonsoul was already kinda meh at the time(Low resources supposedly or something around that time). Deathwing should of fought us in "mortal" form then do the Dragon thing later. Madness is better then Spine but it is...weird.

[Nymrohd]

Personally I fully welcome a simple villain who is just a monster bent on causing destruction over the past 2 expansions of would-be 4D chess playing schemers.

Problem is that unless that monster is capable of at least leveling a couple of zones, it is just not a convincing villain against our heroes who'd be able to kill them as a quest mob maybe a dungeon boss otherwise.