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

[fcwar]

The question is, will Gilneas become a hub after that?

It would make sense - it would be the closest alliance city to Quelthalas come Midnight.

[Kiivar86]

Love is in the Air revamp means we'll see this probably mid-January I imagine, then.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Piecemealing Old World content in minor content patches is cringe, I'd rather not have it if its going to be used as marketing goop.

This just feels exploitative and nonsensical.

[milkmustache]

It would make sense - it would be the closest alliance city to Quelthalas come Midnight.

I'll keep saying, I think it'd be brilliant to use Lordaeron as a neutral staging ground for the offensive on Quel'thalas in 12.0. If they're really trying to "heal" between the two factions, this only makes sense.

[Cheezits]

Piecemealing Old World content is cringe, I'd rather not have it if its going to be used as marketing goop.

This just feels exploitative and nonsensical.

Literally the most popular of the 3 expansions announced, lol.

[Kiivar86]

Piecemealing Old World content is cringe, I'd rather not have it if its going to be used as marketing goop.

This just feels exploitative and nonsensical.

As opposed to updating the whole shebang and...using it as a marketing prop?

[Pyrophax]

Ok, so we are back to even more Alliance content in DF. Maybe blizz somehow forgot we have another faction of players. Heh, sometimes.

[Dracullus]

Still no timewaking, huh. Strange they wait for almost last patch for that.

I really hope for some major profession knowledge catch up from datamining.

[Cheezits]

I think this is particularly interesting:

Discover the history of the Dragon Isles and meet a unique cast of characters, hear stories of old, and witness the iconography of a time before. Participate in Solo and Group activities within Traitor’s Rest with a Weekly Public Event, plenty of opportunity to explore, and earn rewards like Battle Pets, Mounts, and a Transmog set.

Traitor's Rest is that fossil of the two-headed dragon in Azure Span.

[Well Done Steak]

Damn it man, still no blanket paladins.

Wtf was the point of tyr's guard then?????

Every time paladin race combos expansions is teased nothing happens.

We get the legion nelf, then we get tyr's guard with a kultiran and still nothing.

Well, here's to 2.7 if not 11.0 and beyond.

Ffs

[Cheezits]

Wtf was the point of tyr's guard then?????

Bait for a story arc twist where Tyr comes back but he isn't 100% our friend. As is heavily hinted by the Amirdrassil epilogue.

[Xilurm]

Amirdrassil isn't a capital YET

Ok but seriously, gameplay wise why would they put a capital so close to another one?

[Well Done Steak]

Bait for a story arc twist where Tyr comes back but he isn't 100% our friend. As is heavily hinted by the Amirdrassil epilogue.

Then why bother recruiting a kultiran paladin in the quest line if it's not gonna reflect with player characters.

[Throren]

I feel like Amirdrassil wont become a capital in the sense of having all the same functionality as Stormwind or the xpac hubs - but will be a capital in just the lore sense - lots of npcs, maybe a few vendors, a flight path etc.

Would be neat if Im wrong but we will have to wait and see for it to be built first

[Sondrelk]

It should be a Forsaken vs. Worgen fight, but Blizzard would sooner leap off a cliff than take faction content. I figure Calia, peace be upon her, will be there to help with the handover and the enemies will be either left-over Bloodfang, left-over Sylv loyalists, or misc. plague abominations from when the city was gassed.

I dunno. I could see Gilneas still have diehard Sylvanas loyalists to fight. Not to promote faction conflict, but to underscore once again how the loyalists are nothing like the good Forsaken the player hangs out with, and that the ones we kill are the last remaining ones, who will surely never show up ever again.

Honestly I can't really see what else it would be.
Ghosts maybe? Gnolls?

[Cheezits]

Then why bother recruiting a kultiran paladin in the quest line if it's not gonna reflect with player characters.

I feel that's a hint that Kul Tirans (through connections to more religious human kingdoms) may get paladins but not so much everyone does. He was the only new Paladin/race combo and technically it's not a new new race for paladins in lore.

[Jaggler]

Ok but seriously, gameplay wise why would they put a capital so close to another one?

Capitals for the races are essentially fluff, that's why they stopped doing them with Cataclysm. Nobody used the new capitals apart from OG/SW and the current expansions capital.

[Kiivar86]

I feel like Amirdrassil wont become a capital in the sense of having all the same functionality as Stormwind or the xpac hubs - but will be a capital in just the lore sense - lots of npcs, maybe a few vendors, a flight path etc.

Would be neat if Im wrong but we will have to wait and see for it to be built first

As I recall I thought much the same a while back, that at best it'd be a capital in name only.

As for new paladin races, could be part of the customization achievements? Bit of a stretch on my part I know.

[Xilurm]

I feel like Amirdrassil wont become a capital in the sense of having all the same functionality as Stormwind or the xpac hubs - but will be a capital in just the lore sense - lots of npcs, maybe a few vendors, a flight path etc.

Would be neat if Im wrong but we will have to wait and see for it to be built first

I never understood the whole "gather people in one capital" thing. It isn't so hard to add a bank/AH and a bunch of portals in a few places. It's not like the people actually interact with each other in capitals or anything.

If Amirdrassil (ideally the Nelf capital would be in Kalimdor but w/e) had all of that I'd definitely just put my HS there.

[Sondrelk]

Ok but seriously, gameplay wise why would they put a capital so close to another one?

Bilgewater Harbor is bt all accounts the Goblin player capital (just with no amenities). And that one is literally half a zone apart.