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

[Ersula]

Has anyone confirmed if you can unlock Earthen today, or is it gated to Ansurek kills?

Currently, no one knows. Broken Tools is one of the Quests required to unlock Earthen & it's still not in the game. We don't know it that means they're encrypting it for some reason or comes with the opening of the season. But it's apparently in the Ringing Deeps meta achievement so here's hoping we can unlock them this weekend.

The War Within campaign achievement doesn't require beating the Nerubian Raid. The climax of the campaign is destroying the machine that creates Skardyn.

[Marlamin]

There was a new non-story trailer in an in-game style, Ion and Tina are at the interview desk now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67DimNfopZE

[Enrif]

A new TWW clip in the style of Classic trailers, with ingame models in better resolution. Now Ion is interviewed

[Xilurm]

Ion with a beard looks interesting. Chad Ion.

[Enrif]

Ion with a beard looks interesting. Chad Ion.

Casual Ion. Seems things changed a lot at Blizz.

[Lady Atia]

SO far it's only recaping of TWW. Lets hope they atleast tease something new at the end lol.

[Darkarath]

Well, that was dissapointing.

[micwini]

People were expecting new news 8 hours from launch?
Small cinematic (which we got) is all that I expected.

You could know the general setup of it from all the other panels today and yesterday.

[Cheezits]

We aren't getting any new information until 11.0.5 is revealed on PTR.

Guessing no 11.1/next zone reveal until Direct.

[Dracullus]

People were expecting new news 8 hours from launch?
Small cinematic (which we got) is all that I expected. Especially if you saw all the other panels.

Bro, some people here expected they will come and announce 11.1 for crowd where 99% don't care about WoW.

[Reive]

i expected a new high quality cinematic or a new short. wtf is that garbage trailer lol

[Enrif]

Well, i expected something, which we got in the small new trailer, and as expected, it came on thursday. But the format of that stream wouldn't allow really the massive focus on new things. I wonder if there is a stream of their booth, and if they have a event there.

[Ersula]

i expected a new high quality cinematic or a new short. wtf is that garbage trailer lol

there's also a new youtube short that features fully animated action shots in Khaz Algar.

https://youtube.com/shorts/q5t0vt4oH...sCktANQFjkXxpN

[Enrif]

Yeah, it's not gated to the raid, but there is a "campaign completed" condition and most campaign final chapters require at least an LFR (or now the story mode) kill on the raid final boss.

I have every allied race unlocked, and i don't raid, not even raidfinder. Never had to set a foot in a raid for an allied race.

[Timester]

Well, that was dissapointing.

You kinda dissapointed yourself there. There will be plently of buzz starting tomorrow (with the in-game questing cinematics), there was no need to present anything new.

[Enrif]

there's also a new youtube short that features fully animated action shots in Khaz Algar.

https://youtube.com/shorts/q5t0vt4oH...sCktANQFjkXxpN

That is the trailer from the life, but only as a vertical video instead of a horizontal

[Darkarath]

Well, i expected something, which we got in the small new trailer, and as expected, it came on thursday. But the format of that stream wouldn't allow really the massive focus on new things. I wonder if there is a stream of their booth, and if they have a event there.

Yeah hopefully we will get the typical interviews of a new expansion. MMO Champion was supposed to interview them soon right? We should get the questions that we send ansewered this week.

[Lorgar Aurelian]

Depends on how much input he takes from the other devs. He said he ain't going to force his own ideas on them.

Given that lack of any and all mention of Steve and the fact that Metzen’s return and taking over match’s up with his departure I think it’s save to say his vision over rid what ever they were doing and while he might not “force” it on him it’s going to be him at the helm with the team having input.

[Lady Atia]

Given that lack of any and all mention of Steve and the fact that Metzen’s return and taking over match’s up with his departure I think it’s save to say his vision over rid what ever they were doing and while he might not “force” it on him it’s going to be him at the helm with the team having input.

Why should they mention Steve when he is no longer part of the company? Would be absurd and unprofessional lol.

Also yeah, Metzen implied they atleast changed the name of TWW and I guess they had planned to do Avaloren next instead of going back to the old zones initially.

[Cheezits]

I think between SL, DF, and TWW, there was a lot of "make whatever you want" in terms of story and locales with an emphasis on creating new stuff that had some ties to existing Warcraft lore and races, but still had that emphasis on being "new" with an emphasis on trying to add more brand new stuff to the Franchise. You see this in pretty much all of the Shadowlands, some of the Dragon Isles, and most of TWW also being new areas, new races and/or new factions of existing races.

The other two WSS expansions being world revamps in two of the most popular old expansion locales points towards a shift towards not only revamps but "Old Warcraft" which I think is the biggest takeway from Metzen coming back. I'm sure we may still see new factions of old races like Maruukai Centaur and Algari Earthen but not nearly as many as we did for the past few expansions, and fewer complete OCs like Harronir and the Dracthyr.

I think Avaloren is inevitable but I'm curious how it will be designed now.