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

[Jastall]

There are areas in Azj'Kahet that definitely give Nyalotha

I'm still salty we didn't get a Ny'alotha zone. All the grand, ominous temples and tall spires filled with tentacled monsters and cultists baying for heretical blood is my fucking jam. BfA really went through far too many cool concepts in a single expansion.

Still, a properly made Nerubian zones with heavy Void undertones is something I can work with too.

[Khaza-R]

I am hoping we still get a zone that's a pocket of the Black Empire left untouched for millennia

Maybe even a friendly k'thir allied race

[Xilurm]

lol no. Especially not Azj'kahet

Are you sure? There's no elevators or ropes or stuff like that? You can walk on spiderwebs at least?

[Nymrohd]

Are you sure? There's no elevators or ropes or stuff like that? You can walk on spiderwebs at least?

I mean sure and there are some elevator things. But good luck traversing that zone without flight, it is extremely vertical and with multiple levels stacked on top of each other.

[Xilurm]

I mean sure and there are some elevator things. But good luck traversing that zone without flight, it is extremely vertical and with multiple levels stacked on top of each other.

As long as that's possible I don't mind. I want to be immersed into the zone for my first time, not above it.

[Nymrohd]

As long as that's possible I don't mind. I want to be immersed into the zone for my first time, not above it.

I don't think your immersion will suffer in that zone if you fly. So many creatures in that zone are flying to begin with.

[Xilurm]

I don't think your immersion will suffer in that zone if you fly. So many creatures in that zone are flying to begin with.

Well it will certainly look bigger, won't it?

I mean, I did the Zaralek Cavern campaign strictly on foot/with a ground mount.

[Nymrohd]

Well it will certainly look bigger, won't it?

I mean, I did the Zaralek Cavern campaign strictly on foot/with a ground mount.

Zaralek wasn't really vertical. It had locations at different elevations but you could still project the zone on 2D if you wanted. Rarely did you have multiple locations on the same axis. In Azj'kahet you may be questing in three different locations that are on top of each other (and look completely different)

Also all the underground zones have very high ceilings in TWW; Zaralek did not have that high a ceiling. There is always space to fly high if you want.

[Vakir]

I was against it on the assumption that the world soul is a titan. If Azeroth is a light being, which could be true or not, it would align with my hypothesis that the radiant song and the themes of light and dark for tww and midnight are not a coincidences. Nothing of that is backpaddling

Nah. It's backpedalling. Everyone can see it. You were pressing that it wasn't the World Soul. It is.

It just means you're media illiterate and cowardly.

[Nymrohd]

Nah. It's backpedalling. Everyone can see it. You were pressing that it wasn't the World Soul. It is.

It just means you're media illiterate and cowardly.

why do you care though?

[Scyth]

Did not expect 26th of August as release date, wonder if they decided to speed it up a bit?

Not complaining either way, excited for launch!

[huth]

Zaralek wasn't really vertical. It had locations at different elevations but you could still project the zone on 2D if you wanted. Rarely did you have multiple locations on the same axis. In Azj'kahet you may be questing in three different locations that are on top of each other (and look completely different)

Also all the underground zones have very high ceilings in TWW; Zaralek did not have that high a ceiling. There is always space to fly high if you want.

What annoys me about Zaralek is that they didn't do anything with the ceiling of Zaralek. So much wasted space.

[Tiradon]

Did not expect 26th of August as release date, wonder if they decided to speed it up a bit?

Not complaining either way, excited for launch!

Looks like they didn’t watch to sandwich it up with Diablo IV expansion too

[username993720]

Go back to talking about Alleria/Anduin/Jaina, as they are the ones you will be questing with for the next 4 years.

Aren't expansions meant to be shorter?

There is a lot of middle ground between conventionally attractive and being the ugliest creature ever witnessed. And then adding tons of scars, blind eye and missing arm as well.

Female characters don't need to be attractive. What's wrong with you, guys? Are you really drooling over digital characters? I can't stand modern representation and even i don't get this desire for beautiful females. What is it worth if that charater is written like a hot garbage? Moira isn't good looking. Neither is Talanji or Ashvane. Meanwhile, we have this new Xal'atath and Alleria who are supposedly attractive but, to me, are boring as fuck. They have no personality whatsoever. It's about being badass, not good looking. Jaina became cool when she went batshit crazy and wanted to drown orgrimmar with all its citizens. Sylvanas turning Banshee just added another layer to her badassery. Tyrande almost killing Sylvanas in a fit of rage, as a Night Warrior, was what i wanted out of this character. Meanwhile, we have Dagran, Moira's son, who looks lame as fuck. That's the true crime of TWW. With two overly ambitious parents, his looks are a complete subversion of what i expected and a total letdown.

[huth]

Aren't expansions meant to be shorter?

Leaving aside that nobody actually said that, we will likely be seeing them for the rest of the saga. Not just TWW.

[mcsch]

I came here today to read about some interesting observations from the cinematic, some lore theories, but ended up with 10 pages of cringe scuffle about a character. Thank goodness people calmed down a bit towards the end and talked about Undermine and Rootlands. I'd just like to remind you that this is the "World Soul Saga Speculation" Thread.

[username993720]

Leaving aside that nobody actually said that, we will likely be seeing them for the rest of the saga. Not just TWW.

That'd be overusing them.

[mcsch]

Also anyone wants to bet on xal being the original elune or at least some part of her? It's even more obvious that her eyes look like moons with the rendered model.

Bro, that's a super cool idea. Back during the first fight with Sarkaret, I was discussing with the guys that his cosmic void magic is very similar to Elune's setting, and that it would be a very serious plot twist to have Elune either directly from the void or somehow connected to it. Then there was a video from megadungeon of a mysterious figure standing in the shadows, and our first thoughts were “it would be cool if it was Elune” But after that our joking hopes were quickly dashed by the Xal'atath reveal. But after your post, I got the impression, but were they really dashed?

Just look at design of "Elune related" weapon of Tyrande and others, and a original Xal'Atath blade

[Lorgar Aurelian]

But if you are black you represent black humans, what more is there to it than your amount of melanin ?

Don’t know what it’s like in other areas but as a black person who lives around a lot of middle eastern/Indian people, melanin isn’t the be all end all.

Pretty much every one will refer to features or cultural garb before Melanin and you can have a “brown” middle easterner who is darker then a “black” African/Caribbean/Jamaican person and they will never be referred to as black.

[Jolly Roger]

Are there features coming in TWW that I'm missing? Most of the features appear to be extensions of previous new features from DF: Hero talents off the new talent system, and Dynamic flying coming off of Dragonriding.

Also a single allied race isn't much compared to a new race/class that we got in DF.



Those inclusions would be quite a departure from previous expansion classes.

another profession change
new race with multiple classes
delves with an ai companion
warbands
cross realm guilds iirc

DF gave
dragon riding
talent trees
profession revamp
new race with 1 class


as for the new class possibilities im going to not engage in that discussion when you have shown in the past you arent open to differing ideas.