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

[Pinksocking]

Honestly? I’m more excited for Midnight and The Last Titan. At this point I’d prefer we just got Xal’atath and the Nerubians as 10.3 content along with Iridikron and Xal escaping into Midnight. Just skip The War Within entirely. It feels like filler moreso than any other expansion so far.

I’m shocked at the people saying it feels like Warcraft? The zones are just as asspulled as the Dragon Isles were and Avaloren would have been. The Earthen just feel lame and the entire Arathi thing is just ????????

Midnight sounds a lot more Warcraft in comparison. A Void invasion of Quel’Thalas which will likely feature Azshara and Ethereals.

For those of you that are hyped, I’m happy for you - but I am most certainly unhyped.

The zones look beautiful so there is that.

It appears war within is to hold us over until the world revamp in 12.0 and northrend revamp in 13.0

[Zazajin]

We don't know, but I think Anduin looks great, even in his PTSD state. The poor sap clearly has PTSD due to his experiences as the Jailer's puppet, so him looking "older" makes sense. Stress of that caliber can do that to people.

From a design perspective they've really nailed it and it's believable he'd age that badly in a short period of time; he looks so different and it's clearly war's took a toll on him, so he could be only in his 20s still (I've seen photos of people going into war looking young, smooth skinned and healthy and coming out of war looking broken and having aged 20 years)

[Wangming]

So was any leak right?

Well, most of them were half right.

We actually got Nerubians, we got underground stuff, we have void stuff and we have Khaz Algar.

[Val the Moofia Boss]

Giant dwarves killed all my fucking interest in this expansion, just like shitcthyr killed my interest in dragonflight, i know its silly, but its like shit on by shoes, i have to clean it, i can't play an expansion where i will not enjoy the new things.

I guess wow just will never be like it was, no more one race for each faction, you just get the same race - dwarf - again for both and call a day, "but they are human size now" fuck off. I can't wrap my head that these fuckers had ogres and vrykuls(or a titan construct vrykul) sitting there and chose "yep giant dwarves".

Not to mention that another wamen is going to be the expansion queen, The knife is the new sylvanus, she was cringe as a priest weapon and will be again. And fucking thrall yay, i can't wait for his crippling depression history again.

Yeah, it's disappointing that we aren't getting pairs of new races anymore. It's either neutrals or model reskins.

[PotHockets]

I don't know, they said Midnight would be about reuniting all the elf "tribes" and what would be more poetic justice than sticking it to the person who ultimately caused the schism in the Elf Empire that caused the creation of high elves and all subsequent deviations. At least that's my logic. Seems like the biggest "Elven" threat.

Yeah true that's a good point. I bet she at least has an entire tier. I feel like if Midnight is the big final confrontation with the Void then it's gonna have to be a Void Lord as a final boss. Unless they wanna go the full balls to the wall route and have Azshara actually step up that hard and take control of the Void Lords or something.

[shade3891]

I wonder what they will do with the demon hunter talents

[Arbs]

They did mention 4 zones and they usually have 5, EK and Northrend Revamps. Could Kalimdor be 11.0 maybe?

[Worldshaper]

So by the way, I guess they're still keeping a lid on all those unused old world HD assets, like the Night Elf and Blood Elf ships?

[Baraden]

I guess it's nowhere near ready to show

Yeah for a brand new IP; I'd much rather them not rush it one iota

[Val the Moofia Boss]

It reminds me of something else...

I don't see what Blizzard is trying to go for pushing these Anduin-Arthas comparisons.

[Nightshade711]

Mentioned that earlier. Foreshadowing? It's got to be an intentional decision to put that pose in.

Queue:
“Anduin is Arthas’ son”

Probably calling back to him being dominated by the jailer somehow idk

[Wangming]

It appears war within is to hold us over until the world revamp in 12.0 and northrend revamp in 13.0

Well they didn't really say world revamp for 12.0 though. Quel'Thalas revamp maybe.

I'm feeling Old World revamp for 14.0
Minus Quel'Thalas of course.

[Cheezits]

Azshara as the final boss of Midnight would make sense, but what is Alleria's purpose then?

[Local Ardenweald Faerie]

They did mention 4 zones and they usually have 5, EK and Northrend Revamps. Could Kalimdor be 11.0 maybe?

11.0 is the Quel'Thalas revamp.

[Xilurm]

Uhhhhhhhhhhhh That was like a big chunk of the presentation.

No "new" race. We're getting allied yes but they're still just the dwarf models.

[Baraden]

Grow up you fool.

Well done for proving my point

[Cheezits]

No "new" race. We're getting allied yes but they're still just the dwarf models.

I think they are bigger too, but yes. But that's why they are ARs and not called a new race.

[ChairmanKaga]

Mentioned that earlier. Foreshadowing? It's got to be an intentional decision to put that pose in.

Part of Anduin's story will be like "what if Arthas was redeemed". I'd expect a lot of parallels.

[Syegfryed]

oh my god, i just saw that this world soul bullshit is basically time travel AGAIN, its wod all over again.

I can only think they have no idea on what to do that they are turning to fucking time travel, world revamp? no, lets go back in time, and to see more elves? fuck off.

[Futhark]

They were very closed-off about the Arathi, and even said themselves they are still keeping some mystery about them. Maybe another Vrykul spin-off?

I'm really hoping for an Arathi Allied Race with an ancient Paladin holy-fire spin. I'd reroll Paladin in an instant.