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

[Cheezits]

I think the entire argument against Pirates as a decent major theme for an expansion from a lot of people I’ve seen in this thread boils down to the fact they’re lumping Pirates in with the camp, Jack Sparrow theme and are either unaware of the copious amounts of media out there depicting them in a completely different way or are just outright disregarding it. It just shows a complete lack of imagination.

I think the issue more is how to break the Pirate theme into 4-6 zones and 2-3 major patches. I think it would be spread very thin without getting into more ideas like the Void, Naga, etc, and those two were done very abundantly in BFA.

Can you do a Pirate expansion with 6 zones and 3 patches that are diverse enough to keep players interested? Yeah, but I'm not sure how. Even WOD had dueling Orc and Draenei cultures.

If anything it would be like Dragonflight where Dragons are on the box, Dragons drive the plot, but the Dragons are not very present in 80% of the areas and they do a bunch of different cultures/aesthetics instead. What those are I couldn't tell you.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Man, I member our ideas for BfA patches, and the most popular one was an entire undead fleet under Daelin Proudmoore. That could be sick.

Sylvanas has entered the chat.

[Cheezits]

They are having secret 10.2 PTR Testing on the 11-25 of September.

No chance they are keeping it hidden for that long.

[ChairmanKaga]

Did someone a few pages back mention a chinese leak? I tried going back through the thread but couldn't find whichever leak they were refering to.

[Catastrophy349]

https://www.wowhead.com/news/secrets...-launch-334761 What "secrets" will we learn?!?!

[TheOtherGuy10235]

They sent out Emails asking people for their classes that they play, how long that they will be able to put time into the PTR during these two weeks, and asking if they can even attend a Zoom call at 4 separate times during the day explaining, I'm assuming what they want "Us" (IE, those that get invited to this secret test) to test whatever is this secret build
I'm not saying there won't be a Public PTR, but there is definitely something more beneath it.

[Woggmer]

It's not going to be a Faction War, that ship has sailed. But an expansion that ACTUALLY features the factions doing faction stuff is overdue.

Gallywix and the Pirates is a good angle but it couldn't be a whole expansion.

I'm not suggesting we'd go back to a Faction War (even though we didn't even get that with BFA and most of it was focused on wasting N'zoth's potential) but that doesn't mean there isn't some level of tension going on.

And I can't see Gallywix being a villain of a whole expansion, but maybe as the final boss of an off-shoot raid. Pirates aren't the only thing under his belt, there's also a good chance that he seized control of the Venture Co. after he made us kill the former president back in BFA. [Aka the final boss of the Motherload dungeon]
(People might not consider these guys to be that much of a threat, but they've appeared in multiple expansions more so, if not, just as much than the Naga...)

[Santandame]

I think the issue more is how to break the Pirate theme into 4-6 zones and 2-3 major patches. I think it would be spread very thin without getting into more ideas like the Void, Naga, etc, and those two were done very abundantly in BFA.

Can you do a Pirate expansion with 6 zones and 3 patches that are diverse enough to keep players interested? Yeah, but I'm not sure how. Even WOD had dueling Orc and Draenei cultures.

If anything it would be like Dragonflight where Dragons are on the box, Dragons drive the plot, but the Dragons are not very present in 80% of the areas and they do a bunch of different cultures/aesthetics instead. What those are I couldn't tell you.

Yeah I don’t think they could or should take up the entire expansion. Definitely have them involved with either Azshara or whatever the main threat of Avaloren or the Other Side of Azeroth is. But I think a raid, a prominent storyline in a couple of the zones, and a capital city that is pirate themed is all definitely achievable.

To play devils advocate though, if Nightsquall is a villain you could have him and the threat he poses change radically over the course of the expansion. An idea could be:

11.0 - the pirate raid. Could be on Plunder Isle, features naval battles.
11.1 - Undermine as the “filler” raid where we deviate to another threat. Maybe Gallywix and the Venture Co are financially backing Nightsquall for whatever reason. Could also work in the Blingtron war here.
11.2 - Nightsquall desperate to achieve his goals allies with the Harbinger and Azshara. Much of his fleet is transformed into hideous grotesque monsters whilst backed up by Naga and other void entities.

[Cheezits]

They sent out Emails asking people for their classes that they play, how long that they will be able to put time into the PTR during these two weeks, and asking if they can even attend a Zoom call at 4 separate times during the day explaining, I'm assuming what they want "Us" (IE, those that get invited to this secret test) to test whatever is this secret build
I'm not saying there won't be a Public PTR, but there is definitely something more beneath it.

Might be a really big PTR then, do they usually do this? Maybe Argus 2 is in the cards.

[milkmustache]

Has there been any indication that we'll see some development with the Windtotem Tribe's new settlement in the Ohn'arhan Plains (Toghusuq Village)? Tauren being a druidic race like night elves, I assume they may have some form of impact on 10.2 and a Dream related plotline.

[Cheezits]

Has there been any indication that we'll see some development with the Windtotem Tribe's new settlement in the Ohn'arhan Plains (Toghusuq Village)? Tauren being a druidic race like night elves, I assume they may have some form of impact on 10.2 and a Dream related plotline.

Not yet, but I assume Tauren will be the main Horde race involved in the patch because of Tauren's involvement with Cenarius/Druidism.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

Might be a really big PTR then, do they usually do this? Maybe Argus 2 is in the cards.

I wouldn't read anything into it until PTR drops. Be wary(Not that 10.2 won't be big but you get my point).

[Catastrophy349]

We need a built-in "copium tank" for this website.

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https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/...835659295?s=20 Trading Post

[TheOtherGuy10235]

I should have taken more screenshots of the survey but I just didn't becuase I'm dumb sorry : (
But the schedule is still for this secret one is the 11th-25th of September. I can't even post the end of the survey picture that I did take because I'm still a new account

[Cheezits]

We need a built-in "copium tank" for this website.

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https://twitter.com/Warcraft/status/...835659295?s=20 Trading Post

I know it's because Pirate Day but that's very funny for it to coincide with the pack as well.

[SloidVoid]

I should have taken more screenshots of the survey but I just didn't becuase I'm dumb sorry : (
But the schedule is still for this secret one is the 11th-25th of September. I can't even post the end of the survey picture that I did take because I'm still a new account

Why would you want to take screen shots. The entire thing is under a None Disclosure Agreement. You'd be disqualifying yourself immediately for sharing it.

[Reive]

pirate expansion confirmed. hope we get our personal ship to customize

[Cheezits]

I should have taken more screenshots of the survey but I just didn't becuase I'm dumb sorry : (
But the schedule is still for this secret one is the 11th-25th of September. I can't even post the end of the survey picture that I did take because I'm still a new account

Is it confirmed secret?

[TheOtherGuy10235]

I wouldn't post my information with it lmao, as well as that NDA doesn't start until after I, or whoever else is invited.

[Makabreska]

pirate expansion confirmed. hope we get our personal ship to customize

And still Pirate Day has nothing to do with all of this?