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

[Cheezits]

Light working its way up into cold iron is a nice way to aesthetically represent a Light and Void conflict. I think it's fake though, mostly for the name.

[Well Done Steak]

So will blizz be making an appearance at gamescon?

If they do then I'm sure they'll announce 10.2.

[Revamp Man]

We have remains of all 4 previous old gods in some form somewhere
Yogg= blood
Ysharjj= heart (yes its still a thing)
Nzoth= whatever is in the knife
Cthun= idk actually might be wrong

Then there is the flesh we kick into the void

5 torches

[Revamp Man]

The heart was completely drained at the end of MoP

Just saw that
I'm now thinking about alleria saying after we beat N'Zoth there are more whispers

What if old gods are literally just scouts and if they are defeated they reform together in the void.

I'm still 100% convinced Xal is #5

[Stickiler]

You can see her silhouette clearly through the portal. She is the Harbinger.

That is just an elf's silhouette, it could just as easily be Azshara.

[Joszef Kiprich]

Problem is the word isn't exactly widely known, even though it's just a corruption of Renessaince. Most non-native speakers probably never saw it before.

The logo isn't even trying to look remotely similar to existing ones.

And is renessaince a corruption of Renaissance? ;D

[huth]

The silhouette looks like that of Xal'atath, not Queen Azshara. It could not "just as easily" be hers.

It still doesn't, it looks more Night Elf. Besides, Xal'atath's model is just a generic High/Blood/Void elf one, so that isn't particularly helpfull anyway. It could be any of several hundred elves.

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And is renessaince a corruption of Renaissance? ;D

No, that's just me being tired.

[Auxis]

We have remains of all 4 previous old gods in some form somewhere
Yogg= blood
Ysharjj= heart (yes its still a thing)
Nzoth= whatever is in the knife
Cthun= idk actually might be wrong

Then there is the flesh we kick into the void

5 torches

"Flesh we kick into the void"?

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'Renascence' is apparently a weird alternate spelling of 'Renaissance' that I've never heard of before.

I've never seen 'renascence' before, and almost exclusively see 'renaissance' whenever the that period is being described. Just seems weird that they (if this is real) would use the alternate spelling when (I feel) that the original spelling is more widely known and accepted.

[Revamp Man]

"Flesh we kick into the void"?

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'Renascence' is apparently a weird alternate spelling of 'Renaissance' that I've never heard of before.

I've never seen 'renascence' before, and almost exclusively see 'renaissance' whenever the that period is being described. Just seems weird that they (if this is real) would use the alternate spelling when (I feel) that the original spelling is more widely known and accepted.

There's a little piece of pulsing flesh in the sark room we kinda just kick into the void on the other side of the broken mirror

[Foolicious]

So will blizz be making an appearance at gamescon?

If they do then I'm sure they'll announce 10.2.

They won't. They have a merch shop and you can play overwatch 2 at the microsoft/xbox booth. Thats all.

[Imotbh]

They won't. They have a merch shop and you can play overwatch 2 at the microsoft/xbox booth. Thats all.

I wouldn't be so sure



WoW EU Community Manager who is often involved with IRL events. It's also not new, look at the date.

[huth]

'Renascence' is apparently a weird alternate spelling of 'Renaissance' that I've never heard of before.

I've never seen 'renascence' before, and almost exclusively see 'renaissance' whenever the that period is being described. Just seems weird that they (if this is real) would use the alternate spelling when (I feel) that the original spelling is more widely known and accepted.

From my understanding, they created it to make a clearer distinction of when they're talking about the meaning rather than the time period... though it seems people realised just saying "rebirth" is easier.

[Sondrelk]

"Flesh we kick into the void"?

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'Renascence' is apparently a weird alternate spelling of 'Renaissance' that I've never heard of before.

I've never seen 'renascence' before, and almost exclusively see 'renaissance' whenever the that period is being described. Just seems weird that they (if this is real) would use the alternate spelling when (I feel) that the original spelling is more widely known and accepted.

Renaissance is French. Renascence is how you would write the same word in English.
In both cases its the same compound word of Re (again) and Nascence (archaic word for birth)

[Dracullus]

Btw, Gamescom officially starts on Wednesday, but opening ceremony (where we expect reveals) is tomorrow 20:00/8PM CEST.

[Sondrelk]

Btw, Gamescom officially starts on Wednesday, but opening ceremony (where we expect reveals) is tomorrow 20:00/8PM CEST.

Should we expect Blizzard stuff from the opening ceremony? It's not Blizzcon, so I imagined it would just be some quick focus on who is actually there.

[Dracullus]

Should we expect Blizzard stuff from the opening ceremony? It's not Blizzcon, so I imagined it would just be some quick focus on who is actually there.

For me it's indication how 2nd DF year will be carried out. If they keep current speed (which is also sorta kinda confirmation for 10.3 if 11.0 is November again), this is week to announce 10.2. So I would expect 10.1.7 cinematic (similar to Forbidden Reach one), then 10.2 reveal and more info through usual Blizzard channels.

If there will be nothing, I wouldn't expect 10.2 until end of November. At least it would be smarter way in my opinion, cause after expac reveal WoW will have activity spike even without new major patch + they usually avoid starting anniversary event right after patch.

As for other games, Diablo 4 has literally nothing to show now, it's too soon to reveal anything for S2; OV2 has horrible reputation, but people responsible for marketing/pricing are so out of touch currently I can see them promoting mission pack; no idea if Hearthstone has anything new.

Oh, there is also Classic stuff - Hardcore and ICC. Not if it would be interesting in any way for us.

[Foreign Exchange Ztudent]

Should we expect Blizzard stuff from the opening ceremony? It's not Blizzcon, so I imagined it would just be some quick focus on who is actually there.

I don't know but either way we get to dunk on some people if they are wrong or not. So what's not to like.

If something happens then cool that means we don't need to wait till Post-10.1.7 release and if not, oh well guess we just keep waiting.

[Alanar]

Come on now, it doesn't look at all like a Night Elf. It's Xal'atath without a question.

I mean, what other elf would it be?

Azshara pre sundering wouldnt make much sense to me.

[Hitei]

Should we expect Blizzard stuff from the opening ceremony? It's not Blizzcon, so I imagined it would just be some quick focus on who is actually there.

The Legion announcement was on day 2. (Aug 6, 2015 where Gamescom was Aug 5-9)

[Helothar]

I wouldn't be so sure

WoW EU Community Manager who is often involved with IRL events. It's also not new, look at the date.

I guess we'll see tomorrow, but my bet is that they are very soon revealing 10.2 because Ybarra's tweet pretty much implies that they're planning a 10.3 next year IMO.

So what I would consider logical is:
-Announcing 10.2 this week (either at Gamescon or simply via a Dev Update video)
-Thus letting space for either a 10.2.5 announcement during fall before Blizzcon (with potential 10.2 release in October)
-So that at Blizzcon they can reveal the new roadmap for 2023-2024 including (10.2.7 -->) 10.3 with slight hints what the final update will be about or where we're heading to

IMO it would be weird not to give at least some hints about the final patch while already announcing the next expansion.

(At first, I thought they weren't going to announce 11.0 at Blizzcon simply because DF will barely have been announced 1.5 years ago in November--remember? It was a really late reveal delayed by half a year during SL--but then I got convinced when they announced who would present the WoW news this year.)