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

[Joshuaj]

https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com.../news/24174878



Hoping today means no more than a few hours away.

Me after reading this part of the article

[Worldshaper]

That article was so saved by the housing info dump tease. What a whole lot of ambiguity

We're listening to feedback and we're developing things.

[huth]

Me after reading this part of the article

[video]

Turning the world into a cartoon seems a little over the top as a reaction.

[Joshuaj]

Turning the world into a cartoon seems a little over the top as a reaction.

LMAOOO

The fact is, I'm excited. I'm joyous! I'm...well, LIBERATED!

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That article was so saved by the housing info dump tease. What a whole lot of ambiguity

We're listening to feedback and we're developing things.

It's typical PR stuff. Companies always do this.

[Worldshaper]

LMAOOO

The fact is, I'm excited. I'm joyous! I'm...well, LIBERATED!

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It's typical PR stuff. Companies always do this.

True, but the way they framed it in their tweet made it seem like they were gonna do a kind of Roadmap update with some actual info about upcoming content in 2025.

Not mad about it, just perplexed.

I hope the housing update is meaty.

[Marlamin]

That article was so saved by the housing info dump tease. What a whole lot of ambiguity

We're listening to feedback and we're developing things.

We know for a fact one of the integrations they're messing with is Discord integration, so the soft announcement of that is neat as well. Pretty excited about more roleplaying stuff too.

[Worldshaper]

We know for a fact one of the integrations they're messing with is Discord integration, so the soft announcement of that is neat as well. Pretty excited about more roleplaying stuff too.

That's fair. But as the old saying goes, "show, don't tell".

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OK - 11.1.5 was sniffed, An'she Beledar here we go!

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

That socialization stuff is like some crack pipedream stuff that I thought about, just so nice to see a more self aware Team realize their weaknesses and push for correction.

It is also just nice to see Roleplaying mentioned as a actual part of the game and not just the eternal boogeyman and cheap shots that it has been relegated to in the past.

Its so much better these days, whew.

[Cheezits]

Well that explains all the RP QOL features in 11.1.

[Black Rider]

11.1.5 appeared
https://x.com/algalon_ghost/status/1887211297927766319

[Dracullus]

That's fair. But as the old saying goes, "show, don't tell".

2-3 years ago people asked for more communication. But as the old saying goes, "wow player always whine about something".

[Ersula]

11.1.5 appeared
https://x.com/algalon_ghost/status/1887211297927766319

Patches we knew were coming appearing on the push servers has become a lot less exciting considering the time between them appearing & going on the ptr has been growing exponentially. 4 expansions ago these patches would go to ptr in a week or less. 2 expansions ago it would be between a week or 2. Now it can be up to a month or more after it first appears on the server. So I guess we'll be seeing 11.1.5 in march. That's like the opposite of exciting.

[Relapses]

2-3 years ago people asked for more communication. But as the old saying goes, "wow player always whine about something".

It's where the term promised pony derives. You could give players the pony you promised but they'd just take it, refuse to say thank you and promptly start writing a multi-paragraph thesis on why Blizzard is literally worse than Hitler because the devs forgot to put a color slider on the pony before giving it to them.

[Cheezits]

Haven't seen it mentioned but the announcement that they will be changing the NPE and then notes it will be changed in both Midnight and TLT make me hope that we will be getting updated versions of racial starting zones.

[Xilurm]

Well that explains all the RP QOL features in 11.1.

I haven't been keeping up to date, what's all that?

[Merryck]

I don't get it. Are they revamping durotar and elwyn forest to fit these neighbourhoods, or are they in another dimension?

[Cheezits]

I don't get it. Are they revamping durotar and elwyn forest to fit these neighbourhoods, or are they in another dimension?

They are their own dimension. If anything the new assets may be used for a revamp later.

[Xilurm]

Before we go, we want to mention the concept of Neighborhoods as a small tease… Houses are organized into roughly fifty plot Neighborhoods, letting players live next to each other, work together, and share in the rewards of being part of the Neighborhood. Neighborhoods are instanced but crucially also persistent so your neighbors can be your neighbors for years to come (or until one of you moves).

They're going the FFXIV route with neighbourhoods, but you won't have to worry about your house getting demolished.

I really wish the houses were out in the open world...

Well either way all the other stuff sounds amazing.

But I wonder, this seems like a Warband feature, can you have only one house per account?

[Sondrelk]

I haven't been keeping up to date, what's all that?

Bunch of RP stuff added to let you do stuff like lean on walls, or more toys like the two you can get on Siren Isle that lets you do a bunch of NPC emotes like read bokks and such.

[Lady Atia]

I don't get it. Are they revamping durotar and elwyn forest to fit these neighbourhoods, or are they in another dimension?

It looks like the zones are part of the open world, hence you have your neighberhood (and can also visit different ones prolly similiar to garrisons?).

Also while we start with "just" two houses, it seems like the plan is to add more zones with one house each as time goes by?