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

[Aeluron Lightsong]

The only thing that comes close(Being too silly) is the mole people. While they look cute I feel they are a bit of a detriment to the patch(10.1)

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I imagine those open to embracing the Lightbound would be Turalyon, Moira, Fareeya and others. Whereas you’d have Velen and Alleria as the key alliance figures to oppose.

W̶h̶y̶ ̶M̶o̶i̶r̶a̶?̶ ̶S̶h̶e̶'̶s̶ ̶n̶e̶i̶t̶h̶e̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶c̶e̶p̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶j̶i̶n̶g̶o̶i̶s̶t̶i̶c̶ ̶n̶o̶r̶ ̶e̶x̶c̶e̶p̶t̶i̶o̶n̶a̶l̶l̶y̶ ̶r̶e̶l̶i̶g̶i̶o̶u̶s̶.

Correction: I forgot about her role as a priest. Disregard.

Either way, I'm hoping a Lightbound-based faction schism doesn't culminate in another civil war. I'd prefer for this direction to be permanent for the Alliance.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

permanent

No Faction Schisms, let the Alliance not deal with the same stuff the Horde has had to tolerate...twice.

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I wonder what location the part is with the dead trees right before you see Murozond?

Seems to be a vision of the End Time.

[Cheezits]

This might be cope, but Thrall's armor looks much brighter/contrasting than it was in BFA and SL. Maybe a return to his vanilla color scheme, and an overall Vanilla themed expansion?

[Revamp Man]

So we have Thrall and we are getting dragonflying in the old world

WR might be right

[Khaza-R]

Everyone in this thread : Omg Thrall. Its a world revamp!

Me : Omg Thrall. Finally a remake of WarCraft Adventures!

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Me : Omg Thrall. Finally a remake of WarCraft Adventures!

Oh, if only. Make my dreams come true, won't you, Blizzard?

[Santandame]

If it is World Revamp and Blizz go with the route of merging zones together to make them larger to change terrain and accommodate dragon riding; how do we see the zones merging?

I think we could see:

Kalimdor:

Uldum, Silithus, Un’goro, Tanaris
Desolace, Feralas, Thousand Needles
Mulgore, The Barrens, Dustwallow
Durotar, Azshara
Ashenvale, Felwood, Stonetalon
Hyjal, Winterspring
Azuremyst, Bloodmyst

Darkshore and Teldrassil’s remains as an endgame zone.

Eastern Kingdoms:

Elwynn, Westfall, Redbridge
Duskwood, Deadwind
Swamp of Sorrows, Blasted Lands
Burning Steppes, Searing Gorge, Badlands
Dun Morogh, Loch Modan,
Wetlands, Twilight Highlands
Arathi, Hillsbrad, Hinterlands
Gilneas, Silverpine
Tirisfal, WPL, EPL
Eversong, Ghostlands

Stranglethorn as an endgame zone.

As a bit of fun I’m just gonna brainstorm some dungeons.


Kalimdor:

Mean Streets of Gadgetztan
Timbermaw Hold
Isle of Dread
The Wyrmbog
Everbloom Caverns

Ruins of Darnassus as a raid.

Eastern Kingdoms:

Karazhan Depths
Deatholme
Jintha’Alor
Stonewatch Keep
Greymane Manor

[Mecheon]

If it is World Revamp and Blizz go with the route of merging zones together to make them larger to change terrain and accommodate dragon riding; how do we see the zones merging?

They couldn't without breaking any concept of backwards compatibility.

but maaaan imagine Warcraft Adventure getting remastered and released finally. That'd be the dream

[cocomen2]

Everyone in this thread : Omg Thrall. Its a world revamp!

Me : Omg Thrall. Finally a remake of WarCraft Adventures!

Watch Thrall opening Dark Portal to other dimension, to fix a past.

[Luck4]

Watch Thrall opening Dark Portal to other dimension, to fix a past.

Dejavu...

[Shadowferal]

If not Thrall, then Jaina. Only two icons left I think.

[Luck4]

I'm going to check out the Orc Heritage chain quest later.

If there are any hints rn ingame, one must be on that Heritage chain, just like the Tauren Heritage back in BFA.

[cocomen2]

Dejavu...

With all Miltiverse and time-travel by microverse or some 88 MpH, i would not deny a possibility that Blizzard can take a bait and say "Why not, sure in second time we not gonna fail it" and just like a Barry understanding that he must allow someone to kill his mother (blows a mind ye?) so he can get a powers to save a world in future, then miserably fails at doing so and goes back in time once again.

RUN ION RUN!


(funny how Avengers: Endgame uses same badly written plot, but cameos and RDJ saving it, while Flash just dips toe in time travel to erase whole world population and he not even Thanos)

[Teriz]

Dejavu...

Lightbound Garrosh incoming.

[huth]

Everyone in this thread : Omg Thrall. Its a world revamp!

Me : Omg Thrall. Finally a remake of WarCraft Adventures!

Does it count as a remake when the game was never actually released?

[Nibelheimy]

Thrall being the wow rep has got me curious..

In all honesty it's likely that as we've missed a couple of blizzcons now he's just one of most recognizable wow characters for players who have left the game, could grab the most attention.

To preface, I feel a revamp at this point is unlikely. But, if it's ever going to happen. This blizzcon with all the anniversaries is the time to do it. Just to speculate, if we acknowledge dragonflights attempt to return to roots they're going to want to build upon that right now. Thralls one of the many characters certain to be In the forefront of an expansion like that.

I'm reminded of that I believe Chinese leaker (or at least predicter) who got most of the settings right so far, who suggested an elemental expansion is next.

Although I don't think an elemental expansion is at all likely after what we've faced, if a revamp is something they're going to do and most of the old world is still stuck with the elemental fallout of cataclysm, and the elemental lords (any elemental characters or lore whatsoever) has been so strangely left out of the primalist threat, this could be it.

New expansion is building on what dragonflight started with reawakening the ilses, with healing the world. We work with the elemental lords and red dragonflight to find out wtf happened to the elements, and heal the old world throughout the expansion.

Thrall has a convenient story ready too. He's lost his way with the elements, and him finding it again would fit nicely with the theme of renewal and finding roots blizzard will want to push.

The only ways I can think of this working right this second are:

Alexstraza isn't doing so much so far in the expansion. I wonder if her flying around the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor dive bombing Fyrakk style to heal the scarred places of the continents back to their natural state pre-cataclysm could anger Tyr at all. Maybe it would cause lifeforms to be reborn in their natural state, landmasses and rivers to run in ways the titans and their constructs hadn't ordered. Possibly this could include the titans and constructs as the baddies, and would lead on quite nicely from dragonflight imo. Maybe that'd be the races of the worlds reward for helping protect her home, she heals ours.

Or the factions of the world work through the expansion to manually fix, change, update things in a world progress bar instead of solo story content. Work with the druids and shamans of the earthen ring to heal the scar in the barrens, or work with the Dwarves and gnomes to repair the damn in loch modan? With dragonflight patch cadence I can imagine if we are fixing 3 or so zones a continent a patch, we'd be close to finished by the end of the expansion. But this would leave out a villain/threat. But this way we'd get a tasty darkshore/arathi styled update for each zone.

I honestly for the first time in a long time can't decide which way they're going next, I think the last time I was really surprised by the setting of an expansion was WoD possibly? It feels good to get the pre blizzcon juices flowing either way. Whatever the end result, I'm certain the cinematic for this next expansion will be a belter. It's gunna be large.

[FossilFree]

Jesus fuck...Scaleface may have actually had a point...

Which one was that again? Too many leaks to keep track of. What did Scaleface say would happen?

[FossilFree]

https://twitter.com/NasDaCN/status/1486816908653510666 This guy. I swear to fuck, if he ends up correct in all his predictions, I'm gonna be convinced that mf is either a Void Lord, or even a Progenitor in disguise.

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Cause admittedly this is a pretty smart way of looking at things.

Oh damn, yea or someone with inside access. I kinda hope we get more into the real void stuff like in Aberrus, that whole trash pull before Sarkareth is really cool. If a Void Knight class comes with it too, I'd be so stoked!