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

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

So, is everyone ready for the release in a few days? Any final preparations or anything in DF you want to finish first?

How will you guys level? Will you only do the main storyline quests and then finish off with side quests if needed, or will you clear out all quests in the entire zone before moving on to the next?
When I played on beta I cleared out all quests in the first zone and ended up being level 75 when I got to the Ringing Deeps.

[Lady Atia]

So, is everyone ready for the release in a few days? Any final preparations or anything in DF you want to finish first?

How will you guys level? Will you only do the main storyline quests and then finish off with side quests if needed, or will you clear out all quests in the entire zone before moving on to the next?
When I played on beta I cleared out all quests in the first zone and ended up being level 75 when I got to the Ringing Deeps.

I'll just play through the campaign first as you have to do that anyways and after that finish with dungeons I guess. Than a good nap before starting with my first 2 alts haha. My gf is also coming over aswell keeping me awake and preparing some snacks and sandwiches for the night

[Dracullus]

So, is everyone ready for the release in a few days? Any final preparations or anything in DF you want to finish first?

How will you guys level? Will you only do the main storyline quests and then finish off with side quests if needed, or will you clear out all quests in the entire zone before moving on to the next?
When I played on beta I cleared out all quests in the first zone and ended up being level 75 when I got to the Ringing Deeps.

I just clear all quests before I even turn on adventure mode. In DF I hit lvl 70 in second zone. So no point for me turning war mode or care about farming anything during leveling.

For alts I simply wait for TBC timewalking, especially with XP bonus. I wish Chromie Time was present for last 10 levels - and they would give option to repeat any quests you did in the past.

[Darkarath]

So, is everyone ready for the release in a few days? Any final preparations or anything in DF you want to finish first?

How will you guys level? Will you only do the main storyline quests and then finish off with side quests if needed, or will you clear out all quests in the entire zone before moving on to the next?
When I played on beta I cleared out all quests in the first zone and ended up being level 75 when I got to the Ringing Deeps.

As always, I will calmly enjoy the zones, exploring them, doing and reading every single quest that I find. I am particularly excited about trying Delves and particularly worried about how Hero Talents will feel. At least I think that they will be interesting while leveling while we get use to them.

Regarding DF, I will like to finish some achievements, and also to get all the pristine versions of Draenor's artifacts (4 remaining), but sometimes it gets exasperating.

I would like to play some alts but sadly Warbands are not quite good enough to "allow me" to shift the focus from my main. Hopefully they will keep improving them and really make everything truly account-wide as it should be.

[Sondrelk]

So, is everyone ready for the release in a few days? Any final preparations or anything in DF you want to finish first?

How will you guys level? Will you only do the main storyline quests and then finish off with side quests if needed, or will you clear out all quests in the entire zone before moving on to the next?
When I played on beta I cleared out all quests in the first zone and ended up being level 75 when I got to the Ringing Deeps.

I imagine I will level the way I usually do. Taking my time to read all the quests and take in the ambience, even as I struggle to stay awake from having started the expansion the second it launches at midnight.

[Makabreska]

I imagine I will level the way I usually do. Taking my time to read all the quests and take in the ambience, even as I struggle to stay awake from having started the expansion the second it launches at midnight.

I always do every q I can find on my first play-through (plus dungeons for their quests), but don't really have the patience to read q logs. Early Access + weekend may be the first time I will instantly lvl an alt.

[Sondrelk]

I always do every q I can find on my first play-through (plus dungeons for their quests), but don't really have the patience to read q logs. Early Access + weekend may be the first time I will instantly lvl an alt.

Will definitely be interesting to see how busy the levelling zones will be during early access. I imagined lots of players would go for it, but I suppose most people are more patient and don't care as much for cosmetics.
I am very curious how the early access launch will look like compared to the regular one though. I always love the feel of when everyone starts cramming into wherever the intro quest will start, making mount conga lines or impromptu transmog competitions. Hopefully early access still had that feel.

I always try to read quest texts the first time I do the questlines. Trying to just speed ahead just burns me out quicker when I don't fully appreciate the story the writers are trying to tell.

[Makabreska]

Will definitely be interesting to see how busy the levelling zones will be during early access. I imagined lots of players would go for it, but I suppose most people are more patient and don't care as much for cosmetics.

Not much busy, considering that sharding has made each launch so much better in terms of crowds.

[FossilFree]

Not much busy, considering that sharding has made each launch so much better in terms of crowds.

Too bad sharding is the exact problem the game has had all of DF, with people bypassing the shard limit by making raids for all the world events. This causes so much server CPU lag that the whole game runs choppy no matter your specs. Low pop servers help, but you shouldn't have to transfer just to play the game. Luckily, warbands help with being a multi-server player.

[Dracullus]

Well, no matter how many technical issues sharding may cause, it still beats 200 people running around trying to mark 10 trees to chop.

[Eldryth]

How will you guys level? Will you only do the main storyline quests and then finish off with side quests if needed, or will you clear out all quests in the entire zone before moving on to the next?
When I played on beta I cleared out all quests in the first zone and ended up being level 75 when I got to the Ringing Deeps.

I'll probably focus on the main campaign and whatever other quests are needed to unlock Earthen, then do extra stuff as needed to level up.

With the Warband changes there won't be any big reason to do any particular side quest on more than one character (since the big rep rewards are once per Warband and iirc the next patch will unlock all transmog from completed quests), so I'll do the other side quests while leveling alts.

[Santandame]

The last thing he worked on was the BFA cinematic though...

The opening cinematic for BfA literally launched whilst Legion was still current. It would have been in development during Legion’s development time.

[Auxis]

Just realized something: when Dalaran falls, we might be at risk of losing the Forge of the Guardian and - as a result - Alodi. Wouldn't surprise me if it was an ulterior motive of Xal's attack on Dalaran was to snag the Forge, given it's capabilities.

It would be a shame for it to go out without a bang considering it's technically an important part of Guardian lore (it's what the Council used to empower Guardian's).

[Cheezits]

Just realized something: when Dalaran falls, we might be at risk of losing the Forge of the Guardian and - as a result - Alodi. Wouldn't surprise me if it was an ulterior motive of Xal's attack on Dalaran was to snag the Forge, given it's capabilities.

It would be a shame for it to go out without a bang considering it's technically an important part of Guardian lore (it's what the Council used to empower Guardian's).

Would be nice if that and Aluneth are tied into whatever is happening to Dalaran.

[Nize]

So I plan to level through main campaign on my main, but want alternate methods on alts.

Can Delves be used to level? If so, how comparative are they to dungeons for experience?

[Joshuaj]

The opening cinematic for BfA literally launched whilst Legion was still current. It would have been in development during Legion’s development time.

Which means they were planning stuff for BFA while Legion was going on. That literally helps my point. Metzen never intended for TWW to be the next part of his story.

[Sondrelk]

Too bad sharding is the exact problem the game has had all of DF, with people bypassing the shard limit by making raids for all the world events. This causes so much server CPU lag that the whole game runs choppy no matter your specs. Low pop servers help, but you shouldn't have to transfer just to play the game. Luckily, warbands help with being a multi-server player.

Will be interesting if I notice a difference from all the previous launches then. My current main is on EU Argent Dawn, as compared to low pop Bladefist that is bundled with 5 other servers just to maintain even one raiding guild.

[Kiivar86]

So, is everyone ready for the release in a few days? Any final preparations or anything in DF you want to finish first?

How will you guys level? Will you only do the main storyline quests and then finish off with side quests if needed, or will you clear out all quests in the entire zone before moving on to the next?
When I played on beta I cleared out all quests in the first zone and ended up being level 75 when I got to the Ringing Deeps.

I'm off for the next two weeks (unrelated to the release, I always take the last week of August off anyway and I have an absurd amount of leave, that I have to "burn off" some before year's end) so I'm just going to take things at my usual pace and enjoy myself. Probably finish main storyline and some side quests as needed.

In the past I pushed myself hard so I could get the mounts I wanted ASAP but there's honestly no mounts in TWW that have me really chomping at the bit, so I'm ok with just taking my time and see what comes my way.

[Explicit Teemo Nudes]

Just realized something: when Dalaran falls, we might be at risk of losing the Forge of the Guardian and - as a result - Alodi. Wouldn't surprise me if it was an ulterior motive of Xal's attack on Dalaran was to snag the Forge, given it's capabilities.

It would be a shame for it to go out without a bang considering it's technically an important part of Guardian lore (it's what the Council used to empower Guardian's).

I would be surprised if the WoW writers thought about that at all.

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So I plan to level through main campaign on my main, but want alternate methods on alts.

Can Delves be used to level? If so, how comparative are they to dungeons for experience?

You will probably end up running hundreds if not thousands of delves before the expansion is over, so I don't understand why you would bore yourself of them before you're even max level.

[Makorus]

Just realized something: when Dalaran falls, we might be at risk of losing the Forge of the Guardian and - as a result - Alodi. Wouldn't surprise me if it was an ulterior motive of Xal's attack on Dalaran was to snag the Forge, given it's capabilities.

It would be a shame for it to go out without a bang considering it's technically an important part of Guardian lore (it's what the Council used to empower Guardian's).

We also have Kathra'natir powering Dalarans defense system in a Soulstone, so I imagine he should probably break free.