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

[Darkarath]

So TWW in summer, even if in Blizzcon they said fall. That is very good, expecting an august release, september at the latest.

Wonder why 10.2.6 just has a pirate flag. Guess that we will know in a few weeks when it hits PTR.

Overall it seems pretty meh, although I guess that we will have some surprises when the patches hit PTR.

[Cheezits]

Plunder Isle patch??

[Dracullus]

And here is the roadmap
https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com...the-road-ahead

OK the alpha is MUCH earlier than I expected
And yes to Troll and Draenei heritage armor. Just pandas left?

They said Alpha is Spring and we had first vendor 11.0 build already. Overall sounds predictable, after they confirmed 3 patches between 10.2 and 11.0, keeping tight schedule and release in Fall, add 2+2 and late September/early October is most obvious time to release.

And looks like S4 launch is independent from patch (although there is no info what 2.6 will contain beside S4 stuff), so most likely we can expect something every 2 month - 2.5 in January, 2.6 in March (+Alpha), S4 May, 2.7 July, 11.0 September (pre-patch).

Plunder Isle patch??

Nice idea, it make sense. Would be perfect S3 catch up similar to Forbidden Reach.

[Sondrelk]

What i'm the world is 10.2.6 if they won't even say?

Timerunning sounds like Mists but the whole continent.

That would be great. A few dailies up each day maybe. More cosmetic rewards hopefully.

Had this idea way back that you would pick one zone from the relevant expansion and make more or less everything in it max level while phased, ending with an achievement giving special rewards of some kind. Maybe some recolours of known class sets from the expansion or something.

[Cheezits]

Timerunning sounds like a huge deal that they are understating, but them hiding 10.2.6 feels like they are super confident. I think Plunder Isle with no dungeon or raid is a safe bet.

Also, lol no class race combos

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Legitimately just tired and knowing full well that they will never outline their business plan for this Saga.

Rugpulling 11.1/11.2 is probably going to be the scenario. Such a ridiculous prospect of speed for the sake of box sales for higher ups.

We really need better support for the Narrative and Lore but it seems like that is still far off and Overwatch will implement their solution first.

[Worldshaper]

They said Alpha is Spring and we had first vendor 11.0 build already. Overall sounds predictable, after they confirmed 3 patches between 10.2 and 11.0, keeping tight schedule and release in Fall, add 2+2 and late September/early October is most obvious time to release.

And looks like S4 launch is independent from patch (although there is no info what 2.6 will contain beside S4 stuff), so most likely we can expect something every 2 month - 2.5 in January, 2.6 in March (+Alpha), S4 May, 2.7 July, 11.0 September (pre-patch).



Nice idea, it make sense. Would be perfect S3 catch up similar to Forbidden Reach.

Actually, the expansion sits right between summer and autumn on the roadmap. Autumn begins September 21st, technically.

I'm gonna say the launch window is August - September.

[loras]

Meh, main cities should be off-limits IMO. Maybe there could be certain events where the factions tolerate each other's presence; classify them as peace summits or whatever. Aside from that, hordies out of Alliance cities and allies out of Horde cities. Maybe not via hostile guards decapitating them but very much via getting apprehended and literally kicked out with a boot up the ass.

A bit like Dalaran's silver sanctum and sunthingy thing?

[Sondrelk]

Timerunning sounds like a huge deal that they are understating, but them hiding 10.2.6 feels like they are super confident. I think Plunder Isle with no dungeon or raid is a safe bet.

Also, lol no class race combos

That could be fun. Maybe an updated Pirates Day taking place there.

[Cheezits]

Also I think Pandamonium will take the place of Panda heritage, so we can expect some HD items/armor sets at least.

Or at least one cosmetic set.

[Xilurm]

10.2.6 pirate patch confirmed?

[Merryck]

My immediate reaction to 10.2.6 was that they're adding a hardcore mode to retail.

[Dracullus]

Dunno about hardcore, imo for retail version it doesn't really work, you have too many options in game to faceroll it. They would have limit you in some way to specific zones and probably buff content there too.

[Cheezits]

My immediate reaction to 10.2.6 was that they're adding a hardcore mode to retail.

It would be funny if that was the reveal but I think the aesthetic is a little on the nose for pirateshit.

[Black Rider]

10.2.6 pirate patch confirmed?

Would be nice!
P.S. Would there be Season of Discovery TBC? WOTLK & etc

[KOREAN DAVE]

Legitimately just tired and knowing full well that they will never outline their business plan for this Saga.

Rugpulling 11.1/11.2 is probably going to be the scenario. Such a ridiculous prospect of speed for the sake of box sales for higher ups.

We really need better support for the Narrative and Lore but it seems like that is still far off and Overwatch will implement their solution first.

LMFAO you are delusional.

[Kiivar86]

If that were for hardcore, I imagine they'd just outright say it. That looks way more like a tattered pirate flag.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Plunder Isle, does sound like a cool little extra thing.

[Dracullus]

If that were for hardcore, I imagine they'd just outright say it. That looks way more like a tattered pirate flag.

For sure they left it to give people something to speculate about. We will learn pretty soon anyway.

[Cheezits]

https://www.wowhead.com/ptr/item=210...erunning-staff

Wow, this has been in the ptr files since 10.2.5. Go figure.