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

[Hitei]

Oh fuck, you're right. 45 mins is not alot for a "deep" dive when you have to share it between 2 games, especially with classic and it's umpteenth game variants.

Nothing to really talk about with Classic. They explained the Discovery systems in depth yesterday and classic is just classic with minor changes.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

An incursion from the void could be as fillery as the legion expansion.

And probably will have as wide-reaching content as Legion. I doubt the incursion would be only constrained to Quel'thalas.

[Cheezits]

Except we're not going anywhere near Silithus. TWW is in a completely new area much further south.

They said the Earthen have some kind of highway to the Heart of Azeroth.

[Slowpoke is a Gamer]

Nothing to really talk about with Classic. They explained the Discovery systems in depth yesterday and classic is just classic with minor changes.

They told us how it works and that's all we'll get. They said as much at the keynote. They want this to be a surprise not something we can pre-plan for.

[Worldshaper]

That's it. I'm going into this Deep Dive with super low expectations, to avoid disappointment. Maybe we'll get to see Ion's handsome face and hear of a few more Hero Talents, but not much more. Oh well. Good thing I play all Blizzard games on and off.

What I will say is that they really need to bring the smaller panels back for future BlizzCons. Having just a single thing or two for your favourite game makes BlizzCon feel really, really small.

I loved having personalities like Michelle Morrow host guests in a sofa in-between panels, and being able to swap channels between different cool things whenever I felt like it.
The voice acting panel, seeing a WoW zone get made, or even something as trivial as a community-voted mount. Bring all of that back, that's what made BlizzCon feel magical for two days.

[Jaggler]

It's a shame I used to be such a big fan of Asmons, but not he straight up knows nothing about the game and is so out of things to complain about that he just makes shit up, anything to paint the current game as bad as that is what drives engagement, I see this on his sub all the time, people talking about how trash ruins raids, complicated systems *cant name any in DF* and "too much feelings" are why modern WoW sucks

Not even trying anymore.

I mean, he just parrots what his audience wants to hear: retail bad, classic good. He doesn't have to inform himself about anything.

That's it. I'm going into this Deep Dive with super low expectations, to avoid disappointment. Maybe we'll get to see Ion's handsome face and hear of a few more Hero Talents, but not much more. Oh well. Good thing I play all Blizzard games on and off.

What I will say is that they really need to bring the smaller panels back for future BlizzCons. Having just a single thing or two for your favourite game makes BlizzCon feel really, really small.

I loved having personalities like Michelle Morrow host guests in a sofa in-between panels, and being able to swap channels between different cool things whenever I felt like it.
The voice acting panel, seeing a WoW zone get made, or even something as trivial as a community-voted mount. Bring all of that back, that's what made BlizzCon feel magical for two days.

Yeah, I also miss all the small panels, back then there were story, art, sound, system panels etc. It may be due to it being the first Blizzcon for four years, and probably being the first blizzcon for much of the team, considering how many things changed. Maybe it'll be back in future years.

[Chickat]

Outrage merchant was one of the best descriptors anyone could've ever given him.

Hes intelligent too. Hes proven it. Hes either really depressed and hates wow but wont admit it, or hes grifting. Or both.

[Reive]

It's a shame I used to be such a big fan of Asmons, but not he straight up knows nothing about the game and is so out of things to complain about that he just makes shit up, anything to paint the current game as bad as that is what drives engagement, I see this on his sub all the time, people talking about how trash ruins raids, complicated systems *cant name any in DF* and "too much feelings" are why modern WoW sucks

Not even trying anymore.

baldo straight up hates retail wow now. even my doomposting ass can see that

[Nymrohd]

We will have a Fated season so War Within will release November 2024.

I'm fairly comfortable saying we will likely see this. Maybe Fated Season would be 6 rotations, maybe prelaunch will be 2 weeks instead of 3 so give or take 2-3 weeks but expect WW to launch in September 2024
07-11-23 10.2
16-01-24 10.2.5
12-03-24 10.2.7
07-05-24 10.2.9 Fated Season, 5 rotations
20-08-24 11.0 Pre-Patch
10-09-24 11.0 Launch

I was thinking we'd only get 5 month beta starting in early April but the fact that they are selling beta access means they will need space for all the extra beta waves so it might start a bit earlier.

[Raetary]

I hope they have more hero talents to share.

I wanna know what priests are getting, and i'm prayin to all divinites that one of them is an Elune option.

[Chickat]

I mean, he just parrots what his audience wants to hear: retail bad, classic good. He doesn't have to inform himself about anything.



Yeah, I also miss all the small panels, back then there were story, art, sound, system panels etc. It may be due to it being the first Blizzcon for four years, and probably being the first blizzcon for much of the team, considering how many things changed. Maybe it'll be back in future years.

That and he parrots that the game is bloated and unfixable. He thinks they need to wipe everything clean and remove all player achievements mounts pets cosmetics etc. How out of touch can you be?

[Worldshaper]

I hope they have more hero talents to share.

I wanna know what priests are getting, and i'm prayin to all divinites that one of them is an Elune option.

Some kind of battle-ready Cleric would make me instaroll a Priest as an alt.

[Nymrohd]

Except we're not going anywhere near Silithus. TWW is in a completely new area much further south.

A megadungeon in Silithus would not be unlikely.

[Eldryth]

https://wccftech.com/world-of-warcra...idnight-zones/

New interview, nothing too exciting.
They did hint at working on AI-based groups.
Brann in delves is a test for a larger feature.

Good clarification on that comment about faster content too- he was apparently just talking about the consistent smaller patches we've already been getting in Dragonflight, so there won't be big gaps in the story. I guess that must have been meant for the potential returning players more than those of us who have already been seeing it in practice.

Knowing that, I'd expect these expansions to have a similar length to Dragonflight.

[Chickat]

baldo straight up hates retail wow now. even my doomposting ass can see that

Its fine if he doesn't enjoy it anymore, but they have literally added so many QoL things over the years he bitched about and he just doesnt care.

[Worldshaper]

Yeah, I also miss all the small panels, back then there were story, art, sound, system panels etc. It may be due to it being the first Blizzcon for four years, and probably being the first blizzcon for much of the team, considering how many things changed. Maybe it'll be back in future years.

I hope you're right! It is worth keeping in mind many of them are all novices at this stuff. The way Metzen carried that thing was just comical. Wishing them all the best, though. We all win if BlizzCon keeps evolving for the better.

[KurtMash]

A little conspiracy theory - the Algarian Stormrider was named that, and added early to the files, in order to make us believe that the next expac is Avaloren. "Storm" in Stormrider, especially in the context of Avaloren, made us all think only of the other side of Azeroth. And so far, there doesn't seem to be a really good reason why the Stormrider is storm related. If anything, it seems to be more generally Elements related, with other cutomizations (like fire) too.

[THEORACLE64]

It's a shame I used to be such a big fan of Asmons, but not he straight up knows nothing about the game and is so out of things to complain about that he just makes shit up, anything to paint the current game as bad as that is what drives engagement, I see this on his sub all the time, people talking about how trash ruins raids, complicated systems *cant name any in DF* and "too much feelings" are why modern WoW sucks

Not even trying anymore.

He’s always been stupidly arrogant. Even when he’s wrong he’ll try and explain himself out of it so he can make himself think he’s right. Idk why people watch him apart from the 4channers and simps.

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A little conspiracy theory - the Algarian Stormrider was named that, and added early to the files, in order to make us believe that the next expac is Avaloren. "Storm" in Stormrider, especially in the context of Avaloren, made us all think only of the other side of Azeroth. And so far, there doesn't seem to be a really good reason why the Stormrider is storm related. If anything, it seems to be more generally Elements related, with other cutomizations (like fire) too.

Or it was just an oversight.

Algerian made people think of Khaz’Alagar straight away, which is exactly what we’re getting.

[Worldshaper]

Good clarification on that comment about faster content too- he was apparently just talking about the consistent smaller patches we've already been getting in Dragonflight, so there won't be big gaps in the story. I guess that must have been meant for the potential returning players more than those of us who have already been seeing it in practice.

Knowing that, I'd expect these expansions to have a similar length to Dragonflight.

I mean Metzen himself said they'd be delivering these differently from how they usually do it.

I bet he means in several ways, perhaps including a more cohesive plan for other media like comics and books, but also faster expansions.

[milkmustache]

A megadungeon in Silithus would not be unlikely.

Oooh, this could be cool. Or even a 11.1 raid.

I'll be honest, I may be on Teriz's Undermine train for this one. Undermine would be a really interesting questing hub/megadungeon since we're already underground.

I thought the Royal Nerubian Caspa grey item was a big nothing burger in terms of expansion hints, but look at what we have now; if that was the case, the Undermine Clam Chowder from the Tuskarr feast can't be shrugged off so easily. If we're underground, we may as well visit, or have some reason for story inclusion.