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

[Worldshaper]

Not that Alphamining is likely to spoil it these days, but I can't wait to hear the Arathi tell us more about their past. We night hear about Avaloren, if that's where they're from. It would be such a great thing for longterm lore speculation, to know that it's out there somewhere.

[milkmustache]

Couple of things I'm looking forward to that we haven't seen:

-Nerubian mount... probably not a thing because they are sentient, but then again it would be great. Maybe we get an alternative bug.

-Finalized Arathi models, I feel they are going to look different than humans, even if they are just Lightforged or have tattoos.

Wasn't there some sort of speculation that a dynamic ground mount could be a tunneling spider? Please oh please

Totally agree about Arathi, I feel like they're going to be some sort of intersection between what Calia is and the Kul Tiran, thin and standard human models.

[Nightshade711]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/world-o...ith-ign-338433

I did call it a while ago that they were using machine learning for fitting armor to different models.
I do wonder why they haven’t done it for Dracthyr yet.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

What do you guys think will happen to dragonriding and the glyphs we have collected - if anything at all?
They need to remain in DF for achievements(unless they become legacy) and new characters, right?
Will it simply be glyphs that unlock the perks we already have in the new zones? Will we get new abilities, or will that be too many, too cluttered?
Will nothing happen; no glyphs to collect and we have all the abilities we have now from the get go at expansion launch? That would be very unlike Blizzard.

[Sondrelk]

What do you guys think will happen to dragonriding and the glyphs we have collected - if anything at all?
They need to remain in DF for achievements(unless they become legacy) and new characters, right?
Will it simply be glyphs that unlock the perks we already have in the new zones? Will we get new abilities, or will that be too many, too cluttered?
Will nothing happen; no glyphs to collect and we have all the abilities we have now from the get go at expansion launch? That would be very unlike Blizzard.

My guess would be that once we get to the Isle of Dorn we will have a reset of dynamic riding. We will not be able to fly at all, and once we do relearn how we will have to relearn the abilities, with some changes.

Or at least I hope so. I always thought Dragonriding could do with less baseline vigor recharge, and instead more enviromental effects and vigor refills. And a soft reset seems like the best way to go about it.

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Another 33 pages gone. Maybe the admins are pruning some accounts?

[Lahis]

What do you guys think will happen to dragonriding and the glyphs we have collected - if anything at all?
They need to remain in DF for achievements(unless they become legacy) and new characters, right?
Will it simply be glyphs that unlock the perks we already have in the new zones? Will we get new abilities, or will that be too many, too cluttered?
Will nothing happen; no glyphs to collect and we have all the abilities we have now from the get go at expansion launch? That would be very unlike Blizzard.

They said in Blizzcon that Dragonriding abilities would become baseline things unlocked while levelling. Which means Dragonriding talents will be gone.

The Glyphs themselves will stay on Dragon Isles as a collection achievement, but won't be ties to any power/utility progreassion anymore.

[Viridiel]

Wasn't there some sort of speculation that a dynamic ground mount could be a tunneling spider? Please oh please

Totally agree about Arathi, I feel like they're going to be some sort of intersection between what Calia is and the Kul Tiran, thin and standard human models.

Dunno about tunnelling but a wall-climbing mount was apparently planned for the scrapped Azjol-Nerub zone. IMO a dynamic ground mount needs to be able to handle verticality (i.e., climbing walls or having dynamic jumping/gliding) and either go faster than a flying mount, be instant cast, or not have a limited resource like vigor. I'd want something that would work well in a zone like the Emerald Dream with a ton of verticality but REALLY annoying trees with hidden branches that make flying less attractive.

It'd probably be a bit on the nose to get an insect (see the beetle from Guild Wars), but it really does seem the most likely candidate. A big Nerubian beetle that climbs walls when going slow or tucks in its legs and bounces off objects vertically when it's going fast. Fingers crossed they can somehow figure out the object collision technology they would need for any of this to work.

[Valysar]

Maybe we'll have 3 dynamic flight mounts for the first 3 zones, then a dynamic ground mount for Azj Kahet (and yes, a nerubian spider)

[Enrif]

we lost another 33 pages!

[Foolicious]

Well I woke up in the early twilight twice for it but I am now done with the stupid Storms. Thankfully from this reset they are back to having two storms up concurrently.
Imo the better thing to do would be to have a storm starting every hour and lasting two hours but imo the entire elemental storm event was crap anyway.

Yeah its really bad. They are only used to kill that one rare mob that can drop lariat. (btw. buff dropchance pls)

[leothar]

My guess would be that once we get to the Isle of Dorn we will have a reset of dynamic riding. We will not be able to fly at all, and once we do relearn how we will have to relearn the abilities, with some changes.

Or at least I hope so. I always thought Dragonriding could do with less baseline vigor recharge, and instead more enviromental effects and vigor refills. And a soft reset seems like the best way to go about it.

Why would we not be able to fly at all? That sounds awful. Just let us fly, what's the harm.

[Murlocos]

The guy who made the Avaloren fake leak came out and made a short behind the scenes video on how they put parts of it together.

[Makorus]

The guy who made the Avaloren fake leak came out and made a short behind the scenes video on how they put parts of it together.

Yo, this is official confirmation that the Aggorand leak and the Avaloren leak were by the same person. Cool to have that official now.

[Sondrelk]

Why would we not be able to fly at all? That sounds awful. Just let us fly, what's the harm.

I mean in the same way you didnt get to fly in Dragonflight. A couple of quests just to focus on exploring the immediate area, then a bit in you get the ability to fly everywhere and the world opens up.
More as a sort of tutorial than anything else.

[Worldshaper]

Alpha tonight?

[doledippers]

we lost another 33 pages!

holy shit lmao

[milkmustache]

Alpha tonight?

Next week seems like a safe bet. I think they want to let SoD ride on it's own this week.

[Alanar]

we lost another 33 pages!

So who left?

I dont even know if I care.

[Nymrohd]

Alpha tonight?

This entire week is taken by SOD probably. I do expect news next week. I am kind of surprised we did not get the rest of the Hero Talents though.

[Worldshaper]

I honestly think Alpha could be one of those things they don't mind if it overlaps other stuff. It will inevitably do so on multiple occasions over the next six months anyway, as new builds arrive.

I give it 33% chance tonight, 34% next Thursday, and 33% the 18th.