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

[Varodoc]

Metzen mains a Male Human Paladin and loves Turalyon, the quintessential Male Human Paladin.

There's pretty much no chance that Turalyon does something evil, villainous, scummy, or dishonorable. Like, actual 0% chance.

It's far more likely that Turalyon will die in battle against the Void, sacrificing himself for someone.

[Cheezits]

Oh yeah I forgot that Orwenya (Harronir leader) is a Vassal of Life with green eyes. So I think she may be a secret villain in cahoots with Xal and may be the instigator for the Rootlands patch.

[Tiradon]

Why wouldn't they?
Their Farstriders and Rangers are very much still attuned to their forests.

And Thas'alah was the mother tree of the Eversong Woods, its restoration would be in their personal interest.

I'm all in for more focus on the Rangers.. come Midnight.. and evolution on in-gam gameplay for the 'Dark Rangers'

[Ksgrip]

Metzen mains a Male Human Paladin and loves Turalyon, the quintessential Male Human Paladin.

There's pretty much no chance that Turalyon does something evil, villainous, scummy, or dishonorable. Like, actual 0% chance.

It's far more likely that Turalyon will die in battle against the Void, sacrificing himself for someone.

Wasn’t also his prophetic death heroic as well? Yeah makes sense.

Honestly I don’t see any of the heroes of stormwind with statues living past the saga. Khagdar seems to be going down. If Turalyon dies I can see Alleria going crazy and who is left of those? Again.

A symbolic way of closing that door for new blood

[BaumanKing]

Metzen mains a Male Human Paladin and loves Turalyon

I wouldn't go that far. Don't forget, it was under Metzen that Turalyon was completely humiliated by Illidan in that famous cutscene.

[Kathranis]

I expect something like this:

This is pretty much what I'm hoping for. Paraphrasing from some old post-Blizzcon posts I made:


Isle of Quel'danas: Serves as an introductory zone in the style of Tanaan Jungle, the Broken Shore, the Waking Shore, etc. An initial race to reach the Sunwell before Xal'atath fails, with her forces reactivating and corrupting Ban'dinoriel to cloak the kingdom in a shield of void energy, driving the factions all the way back to the borders of Quel'thalas. Players later return in to it as an endgame zone in a patch.

Eastwald: The Plaguelands restored and returned to their original glory, where a reconstructed Stratholme acts as a staging ground for the Horde and Alliance forces and the Army of Light assembles at Light's Hope Chapel preparing to breach Ban'dinoriel.

Eversong Forest: The region comprising the Ghostlands, Eversong Woods, and the expansion capital city, Silvermoon.

Zul'Aman: The long forgotten domain of the Amani Empire. The arrival of the Zandalari sees the gates to the Maisara Hills opened to the outside world for the first time since the Troll Wars. This might also be a good zone to revisit the Arathi and set up a darker side of their zealotry.

Darkspine Reef: A recently assembled staging ground for Azshara's forces off the western coast.

Ruins of Azj'aqir: An underground remnant of the Black Empire sealed away by the Amani Empire after the Aqir and Troll Wars 16000 years ago.

Splinters of K'aresh: The remnants of the ethereal homeworld and Dimensius's foothold in reality.

[Makabreska]

I wouldn't go that far. Don't forget, it was under Metzen that Turalyon was completely humiliated by Illidan in that famous cutscene.

Completely humiliated? Bias off pls.

[Alanar]

Does it, though?

And then, yeah, K'aresh as patch content.

I think this seems more likely then stay on quel'thalas the full expansion. So yes I think so.

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Given Anduin's cycle of imprisonment, it would be a missed opportunity to not put him in one of those Titan prisons in TFT

Anduin getting captured is starting to become a meme at this point tho.

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Metzen mains a Male Human Paladin and loves Turalyon, the quintessential Male Human Paladin.

There's pretty much no chance that Turalyon does something evil, villainous, scummy, or dishonorable. Like, actual 0% chance.

It's far more likely that Turalyon will die in battle against the Void, sacrificing himself for someone.

You truly believe that cus of metzen likes paladins?

[Cheezits]

It will be honestly interesting how the naga play into Midnight, if at all.

[Xilurm]

While Metzen might love Paladins, don't forget his favourite character is Malfurion. And look how he has been treated since WC3.

[Makabreska]

While Metzen might love Paladins, don't forget his favourite character is Malfurion. And look how he has been treated since WC3.

Pretty sure his fave was always Thrall.

[BaumanKing]

While Metzen might love Paladins, don't forget his favourite character is Malfurion. And look how he has been treated since WC3.

Exactly. Or even Thrall. After Сata the poor guy just can't catch a break.

[Xilurm]

Pretty sure his fave was Thrall.

Well in 2009 he said his fave was Malfurion and he loves to write him.

https://www.blizzplanet.com/blog/com...ideo_interview

Metzen: I would just say too, I mean Malfurion’s always been, personally, my favorite Warcraft hero. He’s my favorite to write, so I’ve waited a long time to get this guy back into the mix, and have him play a significant role in the shaping of Azeroth. He’s a mega player, and he’s been off the scene.

[guro-tchai]

Anduin getting captured is starting to become a meme at this point tho.

who whom?
will he break this dom goth elf gf like he did the last one, or will she manage to get him to the dark side?
something tells me it's the former...

[Val the Moofia Boss]

One thing missing from Quel'thalas is verticality. Vertical development of zones is extremely important for Dragon Riding to work. Sure you can use your vigor to climb up and then sustain but it is far more satisfying to be able to go off from a high altitude (and you'd need to wait for vigor constantly when trying to herb/mine if the land is very flat).

A solution to this could be some form of flying landmass.
Also I think the Amani area can be expanded significantly. Making Zul'Aman a steep hill could give us more vertical areas.

Redesign the cityscape zone of Quel'thelas (and what other cities are retconned in) to have very tall buildings, almost like skyscrapers. Redesign Eversong woods to be tall like the Emerald Dream woods.

[Ksgrip]

While Metzen might love Paladins, don't forget his favourite character is Malfurion. And look how he has been treated since WC3.

That doesn’t mean he would be willing to destroy what we know of an stablished character for some villain batting. Honestly light whorshipping fanatical empire in a new land is the biggest red herring I have seen in a while. We are not going to do twice the light is bad expansion so we will probably blame some catastrophe on the arathians when a portal to their realm is permanently stablished

[Raetary]

Redesign the cityscape zone of Quel'thelas (and what other cities are retconned in) to have very tall buildings, almost like skyscrapers. Redesign Eversong woods to be tall like the Emerald Dream woods.

They don't need to redesign the city for that.

Silvermoon already consists of tall buildings and spires.
Most of belven architecture is very narrow andvertical, and also floats more often than not.

[Darkarath]

Anduin captured again after just one expansion?

It seems that he is begging to be corrupted and killed by the mighty heroes of Azeroth...

[Khaza-R]

Anduin captured again after just one expansion?

It seems that he is begging to be corrupted and killed by the mighty heroes of Azeroth...

Unlikely. Plus he totally has to survive to go fetch Sylvanas from the Maw in Midnight

[CrossNgen]

I think people are way too worked up on the current in-game scale of Quel'Thalas, it's going to be much bigger come Midnight since it's all going to be separated from the rest of the Eastern Kingdoms, while also still looking the same size when viewed on the map.