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

[Ochinko]

While I agree with Syegfryed, I really want to see Goblin / Mechagnome / and so on mechanical druid forms. That just sounds amazing to me and would tempt me very hard into making the first druid in ten+ years of WoW

[Cheezits]

Looks like the blog post mentions variations of heritage armor, but I'm unsure why they wouldn't market it if this was true.

[micwini]

https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com...slops-transmog

More pirate stuff. It does not stop. 11.0 confirmed?

[Raetary]

They are really pushing quite a lot of pirate stuff.

[milkmustache]

These Bucaneer transmog sets were some of the first datamined from the Trading Post if I remember correctly, but man are they pushing the pirate/seafaring idea hard.

[micwini]

Skipping MoP, WoD, Legion and just going straight for BFA 2.0

[Well Done Steak]

https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com...slops-transmog

More pirate stuff. It does not stop. 11.0 confirmed?

This is starting to have the opposite effect for me. It's waaaay to on the nose. Feels like they're trying to divert is from the actual theme

[TheramoreIsTheBomb]

Skinny Kul'tirans when

[Darkarath]

Yeah, everything is about pirates and sea... Suspicious.

What if after dealing with Fyrakk, we follow Vyranoth to wherever Iridikron is? For example, Avaloren. We go to an island next to the continent itself that would be 11.0. We contact the Nightsquall to lead us there. We deal with a raid of heretics to introduce them, while finding a way of overcome their defensive systems. We establish a base in this island just to prepare for 11.0.

[Santandame]

Bring on the pirates!

[Hitei]

https://worldofwarcraft.blizzard.com...slops-transmog

More pirate stuff. It does not stop. 11.0 confirmed?

That's just a recolor of the set from the first trading post, which was already "Swashbuckling Bucaneer's Slops"

[Sondrelk]

This is starting to have the opposite effect for me. It's waaaay to on the nose. Feels like they're trying to divert is from the actual theme

It does give the impression the devs are offloading assets they won't be using elsewhere. It's not like Dragonflight was preluded by giving five different dragon mounts and the entire suite of Dragon themed open world sets.

[Hitei]

It does give the impression the devs are offloading assets they won't be using elsewhere. It's not like Dragonflight was preluded by giving five different dragon mounts and the entire suite of Dragon themed open world sets.

This. Previous expansions have been evidenced by like a single item on a single tier's loot table, or one mount, or a few random NPCs, not a half a dozen vanity items.

[Cheezits]

I think the devs are having some fun and this isn't a coordinated effort to tell the playerbase that the next expansion is Pirates of Plunder Isle.

[micwini]

Adding the remaining islands that have been mentioned since beginning of time would be a perfect addition to a revamped world.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

I think the devs are having some fun and this isn't a coordinated effort to tell the playerbase that the next expansion is Pirates of Plunder Isle.

Thats where I'm at. It would be too obvious if it was sailor/pirate themed. The adding of old rares and elites that got removed in Cataclysm is probably the biggest "WAT"

[Cheezits]

Adding the remaining islands that have been mentioned since beginning of time would be a perfect addition to a revamped world.

Yeah, if anything I think it's just hinting something like this.

[Ersula]

The Reforging Tyr questline sounds like "Paladin for everyone" in 10.2, not gonna lie.

I think we're all happy its an entirely new if not tangential organization rather than just extending the Silver Hand to everybody. We now know "Paladins for everyone" as a completely surprise patch feature is something they'd do (per the surprise dark ranger customization & the surprise legendary questline) but it would be wild for them to do that in the same patch that features the return of the Fire Druids & Emerald Dream.

[Kiivar86]

Wowhead's trading post datamining has a Kirin Tor staff that isn't part of the trading post this month. Maybe something in the next patch?

https://wow.zamimg.com/uploads/scree...al/1120834.jpg

Khadgar having a purpose finally?

Kinda looks like the Kirin Tor skin of Aluneth that went unused, but repurposed. (edit: upon comparing it not super similar after all)

Still salty we got that sheep staff but not the Kirin Tor skin. Bleh.

edit 2: Also continuing off the twitter link for the Aluneth alt skin that never got used, never realized that holy priest artifact was a mace originally.

[Catastrophy349]

Very excited to talk with everyone about the 10.1.7 stuff next week!