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

[Raetary]

Damn, what news to wake up to!

So imo, 10.3 is off the table at this point.
10.2 wil be the final patch, followed up with an epilogue patch including a fated season at some point, and then the next expansion launches.

[klaps_05]

With the tenders being added for preorders, this practically confirms 10.3 is scrapped. My guess is they did not expect new talent trees and simps to be this hard to balance so they will dedicate a slightly longer final season in 10.2 to wrap up on specs and be ready for 11.0 where they can focus on content.

DF was the maintenance expansion that was heavily needed - low-key irrelevant story with nothing happening and tons of reworks of specs. At least this prepares us for an amazing 11.0.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Well in 10.2 we will be probably killing fyrakk 100% and vyranoth maybe, but for vyranoth i think there's higher chance for her to change her ways and see reason.

Iridkron is probably saved for next expansion, so i don't know who would be a boss of 10.3.

[Lady Atia]

Better not mean no 10.3

Lmao at everyone who was expecting 10.3. to not be the fated raid season with extra open world content, which was confirmed in interviews since the launch of dragonflight.

[Scyth]

This does make it less likely there will be a 10.3 unfortunately but one can still hope!
I guess the Reds will get their story in 10.2.5? Or the upcoming Tyr campaign could be the Red story.

[micwini]

If 10.2 comes out early nov then 10.3 april and 11.0 late 2024, that still fits no? We'll have to see, but the situation is still the same as before the 10.2 vendor build and tenders in 10.2. I reckon pre-orders will be up right after announcement and if 10.2 goes live week after blizzcon then obviously the data would need to be in the 10.1.7 patch. 6-8 months of fated would suck balls.

Only way we dont get 10.3 is if 11.0 releases august 2024 or earlier.

[Lahis]

They're pumping out so many assets that I wouldn't be surprised if they have the pala mounts ready. It's "only" 14 mounts for the remaining races and they are always just an edit of the racial mount.
Druid seems to be the most work by far. Druid is 15 races and they need multiple forms for each race. And they are always completely new models.

Which is why more druids will never happen. 10.2(.X) is the best and probably only chance for it happening, but druid is just too much work to expand for more races.

[Raetary]

Why do we keep necessitating that the classes MUST be added to every single race in a single patch?

Especially in the case of druids, just gradually adding the class to 1-2 races every patch or 2 is enough.

[Zaganite]

Why do we keep necessitating that the classes MUST be added to every single race in a single patch?

Especially in the case of druids, just gradually adding the class to 1-2 races every patch or 2 is enough.

Because imagine how vocal the fanbase would be because they are waiting X months because their favorite race doesnt have Druid yet. If the models are the issue, I'd prefer they release Druid to all classes with a generic model and just give them specific ones later like they did with Paladins.

[KurtMash]

Which is why more druids will never happen. 10.2(.X) is the best and probably only chance for it happening, but druid is just too much work to expand for more races.

Are you saying... it would cost us a raid tier? I guess 10.3 is officially not happening.

[Raetary]

Because imagine how vocal the fanbase would be because they are waiting X months because their favorite race doesnt have Druid yet.

So?
Then they will wait, just like they waited the last 10-20 years for it to happen in the first place.

Giving all races some hyper generic druid models, just for the sake of it, would bring forth a bigger outrage than "oh no, i gotta wait a few extra months for it to happen due to obvious dev work".

[huth]

Damn, what news to wake up to!

So imo, 10.3 is off the table at this point.
10.2 wil be the final patch, followed up with an epilogue patch including a fated season at some point, and then the next expansion launches.

Based on what? There's been no new information that would affect this in any manner.

[Raetary]

Based on what? There's been no new information that would affect this in any manner.

Based on 11.0 getting revealed at Blizzcon.

[huth]

Based on 11.0 getting revealed at Blizzcon.

I repeat my previous comment. That's been nothing out of the ordinary for decades now.

[Darkarath]

So?
Then they will wait, just like they waited the last 10-20 years for it to happen in the first place.

Giving all races some hyper generic druid models, just for the sake of it, would bring forth a bigger outrage than "oh no, i gotta wait a few extra months for it to happen due to obvious dev work".

I think that it is guaranteed that by the end of the expansion all races would be able to be all classes, except for Demon Hunters and Evokers.

Druids are probably coming in 10.2.5 or 10.2.7, and I bet that every race would have different forms. They know that players expect this and I doubt that they would take the low effort way of shared forms.

I would not discard that Shamans for all come right along with 10.2, with Paladins following soon enough.

They have stated that they are lifting class restrictions and It seems that they want to get this out of the way in DF.

It is cool because when they are done with it, in 11.0 patches they would be able to focus their efforts in other stuff.

Also, 10.3 seems to be in a bad place right now, but I believe that we will get one, although It might be more like 8.3 than 7.3, sadly.

Another possibility is that they have the balls to go world revamp (unlikely) and that they do a proper 10.3, releasing 11.0 when it is done, even if that means 2024.

[Holdodlig]

They can develop multiple things at the same time. They likely started on 11.0 long before Dragonflight released.

This. Since BFA almost every 3D assets are in the first build of each patch. Only the features are distilled through builds cycles because they want to target specific feedbacks.

But following the patch cycle, it is unlikely that we're going to see a 10.3. 10.2 will probably release during november / december, then 10.2.5 will be out for feb / march 2k24, 10.2.7 for June. If the expansion is announced during Blizzcon, it will likely be released one year after its announcement. It would be a big marketing hit if they could ship it for the 20th anniversary of WoW, and it will leaves us with 5 months of 10.2.7, almost a 1 year season (unless they cut it in half).

[Black Rider]

I hope we'll get 10.3 major and after that 11.0

[Vexilius]

Lmao at everyone who was expecting 10.3. to not be the fated raid season with extra open world content, which was confirmed in interviews since the launch of dragonflight.

Link the interviews that state this

[Nymrohd]

I am sure having the 10.2 raid stay for a full year will go amazing with retention rates. Fated season after all is the apparent silver bullet. And just add some new invasions on the map.

/s

[Santandame]

When the news comes, I’ll be here. Until then, enjoy the HYPE!

I think I speak for most of us when I say we’ll appreciate it more when you stop capitalising hype.