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

[Raetary]

https://www.bluetracker.gg/wow/topic...y-the-calling/

New short story!

[Sondrelk]

https://www.bluetracker.gg/wow/topic...y-the-calling/

New short story!

Christie Golden is so good at writing emotions. Shame she got canned.

[Raetary]

Not much new stuff, but its well written.
I think Golden portrayed his ptsd quite well and succeeded in pulling the right heartstrings.

RIP Rodrick.

Though, in terms of contents, it makes me question what the actual fuck Jaina does on that Island when a town within her own borders gets repeatedly raided so quickly.

[Joshuaj]

"My friends . . . the ones I almost killed. They believe my hands are clean. But they don’t feel clean. "

God he's such a whiner, he didn't even kill anyone and he's crying like he's been committing genocide for thousands of years

Bro was literally the Devils puppet and was being used to aid in nearly dominating the cosmos itself. That can fuck with anyone's sanity, especially after the whole Blood War incident a lil bit prior.

[Ersula]

They keep reiterating that unique assets are the reason that all the classes with unique assets aren't available to every race yet.

Yet it feels like once they added Druid Form customization, those classes don't actually need unique racial assets. What's the point in unique Moonkin form if nobody uses them anymore?

I think it's good that there are unique racial paladin orders & that they want to give all the races unique charges, forms & totems, but not if it means waiting *decades* for those class combinations. It's not that many assets when you consider how many mounts & props they design every expansion. Either commit to making the racial assets or just do a unitarian order with generic assets with customization. It's been long enough.

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Bro was literally the Devils puppet and was being used to aid in nearly dominating the cosmos itself. That can fuck with anyone's sanity, especially after the whole Blood War incident a lil bit prior.

For like a week. Varian was a enslaved for years. They're probably going to show us him doing darker stuff in some sort of flashback but based on what we were shown this angst has not been earned.

[Throren]

Ya wasn't expecting that story to hit me in the feels as hard as it did, but it legit almost made me tear up.

Really well written.

[Nymrohd]

I have to say, I do wish the player got to hear the Radiant Song with 10.2.7. We are one of the closest people to the planet and it would have been so engaging.

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For like a week. Varian was a enslaved for years. They're probably going to show us him doing darker stuff in some sort of flashback but based on what we were shown this angst has not been earned.

He probably killed a solid number of fey.

[Raetary]

For like a week. Varian was a enslaved for years. ´

Anduin isn't Varian.

[Dracullus]

I have to say, I do wish the player got to hear the Radiant Song with 10.2.7. We are one of the closest people to the planet and it would have been so engaging.

I'm 99% sure this is how pre-launch event will start. Obviously when we will hear it, it will lead us to Silithus just like Anduin and Thrall.

[Ersula]

If they were going to do this, they would have just done it for the Emerald Dream patch where they spent a bunch of time fancying up the druid models.

If I were in blizzard's position, I can see breaking Druids-for-all into two phases in this way, with 10.2 being the first phase.

They dedicate a minor patch to Paladins-for-all, where they add charger customization, updates models for the Silver Hand Horse & Ram mounts, Blood Knight charger. And each faction will have 3 paladin orders that service all the playable races (not including earthen) - A new Forgotten Shadow order for Undead. Sunwalkers induct vulpera, trolls & orcs. Then a new order is created for Elune. For example Worgen can choose the Elune Order or the Silver hand for RP reasons.

Shaman for all focuses on the Earthen Ring welcoming the former primalists. New totems wouldn't be that hard but I do also hope they give us good totem customization: Kyrian & Venthyr totems exist & are cool.

Then they do Druids-for-all, creating gnome, undead, dwarf, high elf, earthen, draenei, orc & vulpera druid forms. I don't think anyone would mind if Blood Elf, Nightborne & Void Elf default druid forms are just pallet swaps of each other, etc.

[Nymrohd]

I'm 99% sure this is how pre-launch event will start. Obviously when we will hear it, it will lead us to Silithus just like Anduin and Thrall.

It just sucks that Modera heard it before me!

[Raetary]

I have to say, I do wish the player got to hear the Radiant Song with 10.2.7. We are one of the closest people to the planet and it would have been so engaging.

It would've been cool if the Song was a random occurrence in the world like Deathwing was/is in cata.

Randomly hearing the Song while out and about, throughout the expansion.

[Joshuaj]

Yet it feels like once they added Druid Form customization, those classes don't actually need unique racial assets. What's the point in unique Moonkin form if nobody uses them anymore?

I think it's good that there are unique racial paladin orders & that they want to give all the races unique charges, forms & totems, but not if it means waiting *decades* for those class combinations. It's not that many assets when you consider how many mounts & props they design every expansion. Either commit to making the racial assets or just do a unitarian order with generic assets with customization. It's been long enough.

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For like a week. Varian was a enslaved for years. They're probably going to show us him doing darker stuff in some sort of flashback but based on what we were shown this angst has not been earned.

Shadowlands happened in the span of 2 years our time (which in the Shadowlands could feel like nothing or an eternity, depending on how the Realms deal with it). Anduin was definitely dominated for more than a week lol.

[Nymrohd]

It would've been cool if the Song was a random occurrence in the world like Deathwing was/is in cata.

Randomly hearing the Song while out and about, throughout the expansion.

Heck just have it pop when you are idling only.

[Cheezits]

I run we will definitely see updated Thalassian charger for Belf Paladins that gets reused for High Elves and Velves, an updated Horse charger that gets used for Human, Kul Tiran, Worgen and and Forsaken paladins, and then maybe new unique chargers for Nelves, Nightborne, Pandas, the gnomes and Darkspear.

I can see everyone getting a paladin of some kind for Midnight as it is the perfect timing and they can flesh out all the individual orders. Its not pigeonholed to a single patch lie the druids in the dream or upcoming rootlands, its the whole expansion.

Shamans is up in the air as it looks like they DON'T want everyone to be a primalist. They are even taking their sweet time with Druids of the Flame who would be a great fit for shamans for Nelf, despite their name.

[Baraden]

Anduin isn't Varian.

Not to mention, Varian absolutely had his own trauma from Wrath to Wolfheart - he just dealt with it differently to Anduin, the fact Anduin was in the picture probably kept Varian from falling apart and turn his trauma outward rather than inward as Anduin has, towards the Horde and other foes etc

I would also say Varian's supplication was far different to Anduin's and probably far less severe

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So, we tried all the normal raids again with only lvl 70's yesterday, prefered people with atleast 300 ilvl and ward, and we breezed through them, only Lei Shen and Animus took a few tries, aswell as a stay over midnight haha.



Haven't tried SoO or any HC raids yet though, but tbf it's ok if you need a bit of gear and cloak for that imo.

I'm sure it would be fine in an organised group with ward - but pugging is an absolute nightmare right now if you didn't frog camp

[Throren]

Blizz just made a tweet a few min ago saying that they are making changes to make the LVL 70 time running gameplay better

https://x.com/Warcraft/status/1792636974982955457

[Baraden]

Blizz just made a tweet a few min ago saying that they are making changes to make the LVL 70 time running gameplay better

Probably won't see anything major until reset now

Hopefully it's significant buffs for 70s and rollbacks to people doing 20x the damage of other players or the mode won't really be improved

[Nymrohd]

Probably won't see anything major until reset now

Hopefully it's significant buffs for 70s and rollbacks to people doing 20x the damage of other players or the mode won't really be improved

It's no ones fault but Blizzard's that a predictable farm was used to grind up an infinite power system. The best they can do is just open it for all and revert the nerf. Alternatively, buff up the thread drop rate a ton and just slash upgrade costs massively so people can catch up to those who grinded.
Every bug and issue I've seen in MoP remix would have been caught if you had a group of 5 people from Q&A simply play through the mode for a 40h workweek.

[Baraden]

It's no ones fault but Blizzard's that a predictable farm was used to grind up an infinite power system. The best they can do is just open it for all and revert the nerf. Alternatively, buff up the thread drop rate a ton and just slash upgrade costs massively so people can catch up to those who grinded.
Every bug and issue I've seen in MoP remix would have been caught if you had a group of 5 people from Q&A simply play through the mode for a 40h workweek.

You're right, it is entirely Blizzard's fault and no one should be banned, that would be too far

Players that can do 5 million DPS when people who didn't do the exploit can do maybe 200k however, they need to be rolled back or the players who didn't exploit need to be signifcantly buffed

A simple cap on how strong your cloak can get each week would've easily prevented this