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

[micwini]

any 11.1.5 Tinker copium sniffers.
Also: Any speculation on the triangle thingy at the end? Another remix? Another special type of event?

[Alanar]

I think house placing is the biggest jump for tech hurdling, unless it is like ESO where the house is phased once you purchase it/enter the premises.

Actually placing it wherever? Not going to happen.

Probably has been said already, but cant help but thinking about Garrisons and how blizz likes to put weird restrictions on most things. Creating illusion of choice.

I truly hope this will give freedom... but having set slots or premade slots you cant change or costumize will simply not be interesting. We have seen that already. Also placements of your house should be endless. We need simple locations as well. Houses in stormwind or some random farmhouse. In or out the main cities. Just a lot options.., but I am not holding my breath of that type of freedom. I will put my money on set places and low on options. Maybe 8 for horde 8 for alliance or something stupid like that.

2 set places per faction per zone could also create cool pvp options maybe.. just thinking out loud.

[rainhard]

The special thing after the announcements might have been the orchestra play since there was no recording of it public untill now. Or it was just the housing lol

[Cheezits]

There is a small piece of map sticking out of the bottom right of the banner for the mystery rune thing. Looks to be Broken Isles which lines up with the Legion green. So it is PROBABLY Legion Remix or something including it.

[Marlamin]

Yes, but on the other hand, this was content from BFA so I'm sure that was enough time to straighten it out.

Only the base map was from BfA without any NPCs or anything, all the content on it and the modifications they did to the map aren't, so classifying the entire thing as BfA content is misleading.

[Kathranis]

One if not the last pieces of original content we were never able to go to, until this moment.

Yep. Finally getting to the point of resembling the original concepts for the World of Warcraft.






The Dragon Isles and Quel'danas now sort of resemble the original archipelago linking Northrend and the Eastern Kingdoms, with Khaz Algar taking the place of the original south eastern continent chain of Kalimdor / Ulduar / Undermine.

About all that's left at this point is Tel Abim, I suppose.

[Kiivar86]

I know its concept art after all but it never fails to amuse me to see how small Kalimdor is there and how honking big Ulduar is (and in the wrong location to boot)

[Alanar]

Yep. Finally getting to the point of resembling the original concepts for the World of Warcraft.






The Dragon Isles and Quel'danas now sort of resemble the original archipelago linking Northrend and the Eastern Kingdoms, with Khaz Algar taking the place of the original south eastern continent chain of Kalimdor / Ulduar / Undermine.

About all that's left at this point is Tel Abim, I suppose.

Nice one, it does resemble that. Undermine just feels right at this point. Long awaited as well.

Tel Abim and Plundre Isle I guess.

[Joshuaj]

In the span of 10 minutes, Blizzard gave the Champions of Azeroth a House and a Car...

I'm complete now.

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Nice one, it does resemble that. Undermine just feels right at this point. Long awaited as well.

Tel Abim and Plundre Isle I guess.

Imma say it now...

Tel'abim should be a summer event from Blizzard! In the recent "Exploring Azeroth" book, it's literally advertised as a resort.

[Relapses]

Can somebody point me to when they talked about revisiting Horrific Visions? I'll be honest: This is the only announcement from today's news that registered with me. HVs fucking slapped.

[Alanar]

In the span of 10 minutes, Blizzard gave the Champions of Azeroth a House and a Car...

I'm complete now.

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Imma say it now...

Tel'abim should be a summer event from Blizzard! In the recent "Exploring Azeroth" book, it's literally advertised as a resort.

New summer event in game. Yes! Great idea tbh! Only then can you visit it. Very exclusive stuff there. I can picture this.

[Trazzle]

any 11.1.5 Tinker copium sniffers.
Also: Any speculation on the triangle thingy at the end? Another remix? Another special type of event?

I'm on copium therapy, tired of haulin this tank around but alas, huffin till the cure's released ha. Undermined is going to be hard to cope with, watching all these goblin chads trundle around in their mechs while I stand there like an idiot with my sword and board.

[Sondrelk]

Can somebody point me to when they talked about revisiting Horrific Visions? I'll be honest: This is the only announcement from today's news that registered with me. HVs fucking slapped.

Pretty sure they didn't mention it at all. It just shows on the planned features of future patches.

[Kiivar86]

Can somebody point me to when they talked about revisiting Horrific Visions? I'll be honest: This is the only announcement from today's news that registered with me. HVs fucking slapped.

Its the second point under 11.1.5 on the roadmap.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

Can somebody point me to when they talked about revisiting Horrific Visions? I'll be honest: This is the only announcement from today's news that registered with me. HVs fucking slapped.

It's on the retail WoW roadmap. Spring 2025, 11.1.5.



And I'll second that sentiment. I loved Horrific Visions. The concept, the execution, the atmosphere, everything. I also loved Torghast for the same reasons.

[SunspotAnims]

For many many expansions now, I've taken issue with WoW's habit of over-simplifying non-instanced interior spaces. Compare the layout of the WoD Alliance barracks to the classic Alliance barracks. I remember the classic barracks being a bit challenging to navigate as a new player, but looking back that's kind of what made it believable and feel like an actual separate level from the outside world.

I have a lot of hopes for housing, but my biggest concern is that the available housing options will continue the trend of looking like elaborate houses on the outside and then on the inside just be made up of one or two big rooms.

Obviously we aren't going to have many answers until next year. In my ideal system, the houses are fully constructable like Sims houses—you have full control over the layout, and the visuals dynamically adjust to match. Or even just a full sandbox where you have a big empty plot of land and you can put whatever you want in it: a house, a town square, an elaborate garden, your own D&D dungeon, whatever.

Personally, I'd love to have a huge space like a mansion that I can get crazy with detailing and theming each room. I'm a bit doubtful that's going to be a possibility, but I know that if I could pick any house in the game to call my own, it'd be Waycrest Manor, and I'm hoping housing will let me get even a little bit close to something like that.

[Khaza-R]

I wonder if HV are going to be for updated locations or just for a sort of TW event

Imma say it now...

Tel'abim should be a summer event from Blizzard! In the recent "Exploring Azeroth" book, it's literally advertised as a resort.

I found it weird they made a whole hearthstone expansion about a resort but elected to make up a new location. Which they've never done before.

[KOUNTERPARTS]

Also... I'd like to point out as speculation: a lot of the images we saw are in-game and supposedly from the Undermine zone.

The shots of the red/pink/purple Old God-like corruption are contains titan architecture. There are also shots of goblin buildings in the same area.



One could say that a certain named titan facility that has not been seen yet could be in the Undermine?

I wonder if my personal speculation of Uldaz being in the Undermine holds true. Perhaps the "dark secrets" of Gallywix they mentioned will deal with him trying to exploit titan technology, or using titan technology to somehow manipulate the Black Blood of the Old Gods... like they tried to exploit Azerite back in BfA.

Time will tell!

[allegrian]

The roadmap does not say 10.2 will have a new zone...

[Relapses]

It's on the retail WoW roadmap. Spring 2025, 11.1.5.



And I'll second that sentiment. I loved Horrific Visions. The concept, the execution, the atmosphere, everything. I also loved Torghast for the same reasons.

Ah damn. I figured it was more than just a blip on the road map. I didn't watch the stream so I figured they might have at least mentioned it in passing. Thanks guys.