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

[Kaykas90]

it isn't just about the models, and everyone knows that. It is about the exact look and style, including (or excluding) certain visual factors, or even class options

Edit: like

Amani - should be buff
High Elves - should not have void racials

If was for me i would make both new ar for amani and high elves, and for makes high elves diferent from void elves gabe that newbhaitsyles warpaints etc but no a new body for drskspears Trolls or Green skins or rscials changing colors

[Nymrohd]

More like auntie's boy. Did we ever even get a scene of him reuniting with his parents?

Does it even matter?
Turalyon and Alleria did not raise him. Vereesa and Rhonin did. THEY are his parents, Alleria and Turalyon are just his biological parents. If this was a human in the real world and not in fantasy land where everyone lives for thousands of years yet still behaves like a teenager, it wouldn't even be up for discussion; the people who raise you to adulthood, who are present for your childhood and guide you through it, they are your parents. If your biological parents ever turn up, you have likely will have some clumsy efforts to establish a relation with them but they will never have parental authority over you. By the time Alleria and Turalyon showed up, Arator had learned to live alone, cook himself a meal, paid taxes, knew how to fight (was a competent enough Paladin to be a companion to the Highlord), probably had sex (though with that hairstyle he might be ace).

Oh btw, this means his actual dad, the man that raised him, was killed by the Horde using a Blood Elf WMD. But hey, that's water under the bridge.
Also he likely had to babysit his bucktooth cousins. Looking at those faces is probably why he is having a crisis of faith.

[BaumanKing]

probably had sex

I doubt it. An excerpt from the upcoming novel hints that, as a half-elf, he ages differently. This explains why he's in his thirties, yet still acts like a teenager. It even describes how he feels more kinship with a ten-year-old squire than with an older paladin like Grayson Shadowbreaker.

He's also close friends with Dagran, who is much younger than him.

[Nymrohd]

I doubt it. An excerpt from the upcoming novel hints that, as a half-elf, he ages differently. This explains why he's in his thirties, yet still acts like a teenager. It even describes how he feels more kinship with a ten-year-old squire than with an older paladin like Grayson Shadowbreaker.

He's also close friends with Dagran, who is much younger than him.

Ah lovely, so Vereesa was probably changing his diapers when he was 10 and Rhonin's raptors helped potty train him at 12.
Seriously, fantasy writers fail so badly when it comes to "longer-lived races".

[Enrif]

Ah lovely, so Vereesa was probably changing his diapers when he was 10 and Rhonin's raptors helped potty train him at 12.
Seriously, fantasy writers fail so badly when it comes to "longer-lived races".

you conflate physical maturity with emotional maturity or even social maturity

we even have this in our world as humans. more recent generations take longer to reach the same emotional and social maturity that previous generations had way earlier. While physical maturity actually accelerated.

[BaumanKing]

Here is a quote and link to the chapter.

Although Arator was much older than Winthrop, the years of a half-elf did not keep pace with those of humans. It was one of many challenges bequeathed by his unique parentage. For all Arator’s experience and all he had seen, in many ways, he felt more kinship with the new squire than with his lord knight.

https://www.amazon.com/Blood-Ties-Wo.../dp/0399594248

[Super Dickmann]

I doubt it. An excerpt from the upcoming novel hints that, as a half-elf, he ages differently. This explains why he's in his thirties, yet still acts like a teenager. It even describes how he feels more kinship with a ten-year-old squire than with an older paladin like Grayson Shadowbreaker.

He's also close friends with Dagran, who is much younger than him.

Aside from this being itself a strange retcon (Golden’s own Sylvanas matured like a human until twenty) this raises two burning questions.

One, is Anduin Arator a virgin and will we help him get laid once he’s done solving all ongoing racial and cosmic struggles?

Two, irrespective of the above, does that make him the inverse of those 10k year old anime little girls? “I know I look like a grown man, but mentally I’m a teenage boy.”

[Mecheon]

Oh, but he's anything but fine. Not only he regularly defends absolute slop, but in between glazing the awful writing or complaining about fictional racism or whatever doesn't conform to his real life ideals, he also regularly goes on long rants online that WoW has too many straight couples for his liking and he hates it. That's anything but fine. That's someone whose opinions should be thrown straight into the garbage, lid closed, and forgotten. It's very sad that there's really nobody to counter this tiny group because the other bigger names stopped caring or quit

You are whining because a man likes the content and accusing him of 'defending absolute slop' when your posts on this forum are such slop I wouldn't even feed them to pigs. Even for you, this is the most pathetic argument I think you've ever made

You're complaining about someone's twitter post not confirming to your real-life ideas and you're going on long rants online that WoW doesn't have enough macho bara men for you and you hate it. But somehow you're fine to voice these complaints and if anyone counters your tiny, insignificant group, they're a problem in your eyes.

Attack the storyline content all you want, but if you go after people putting this out there and the fact people like different things? Absolutely pathetic. Please just go outside and touch grass. Maybe quit the game while you're at it because you clearly don't enjoy the upcoming content if you're just here to complain about everything.

[Reive]

Somehow midnight's writing feels even more fanfiction tier than tww's and dragonflight's lol. At this point just nuke retail's story and focus only on gameplay.

Hopefully classic+ will have better writers

[BaumanKing]

Hopefully classic+ will have better writers

Did SoD have better writers? Honest question, cause I haven't played it, but I've always heard there were some interesting quests and ideas.

[Nymrohd]

Two, irrespective of the above, does that make him the inverse of those 10k year old anime little girls? “I know I look like a grown man, but mentally I’m a teenage boy.”

He is Tom Hanks!

[Super Dickmann]

He is Tom Hanks!

The Light is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you get.

[Nymrohd]

The Light is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you get.

That's the pick up line he'll use on Xal'atath

[BaumanKing]

Anduin Arator

It's incredible how similar they are. Golden has nothing to do with Midnight, but Arator feels like he came straight from her pen.

[Reive]

Really baffling how blizzard is actively trying to improve the gameplay while letting these dogshit ruin the lore of this game more and more with each new line of dialogue

[Nymrohd]

It's incredible how similar they are. Golden has nothing to do with Midnight, but Arator feels like he came straight from her pen.

Any writer whose main influence is shounen would be able to pen Arator and Anduin. Let's see if Arator can Talk no Jutsu everyone around him like Anduin can. It would explain the hair as well.

[Reive]

It's incredible how similar they are. Golden has nothing to do with Midnight, but Arator feels like he came straight from her pen.

The soft spoken "we must be better men" character is the standard archetype of good male character in modern blizzard's writing

[Nymrohd]

The soft spoken "we must be better men" character is the standard archetype of good male character in modern blizzard's writing

They aren't men though. Not saying that to comment on their masculinity. They are actually teenage boys.

[Reive]

They aren't men though. Not saying that to comment on their masculinity. They are actually teenage boys.

Anduin is almost 30 and arator is in his early 30s

[allegrian]

Personally I find Voidstorm so redundant. Especially after a whole K'aresh patch. Strong contender for worst expansion-launch zone ever.

I'm very salty we got Quel'Thalas condensed into a single zone in favor of this.

It could've just been the raid.

I fear Quel'thalas and blood elves will get the same treatment as earthen in TWW, where they get overshadowed completely after 1-2 zones and ignored in the main patches, keeping it only as the expansion hub. And I think that's what is going to happen every expansion from now on, where very content patch could work as an standalone expansion for how different the zone, vibes, and story is to the previous one.