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

[lostsoup]

Very similar looking effect.

[Marlamin]

The "bunch of AI pictures" from the guy who legitimately leaked Legion and Dragonflight?

Fat chance.

He called it 50/50 chance of being real/AI himself, let's not jump to conclusions, he isn't either.

[Cheezits]

Very similar looking effect.

Well shit.

If that's real, I want to know what's going on with the wing structure on the right.

[Ersula]

He called it 50/50 chance of being real/AI himself, let's not jump to conclusions, he isn't either.

Its so obviously AI I assumed he was sending us a clue: Like he entered the real title of the expansion as a prompt as those images were the result.

[Woggmer]

Actually I think that the CE mount for Dragonflight , the green dragon, got leaked/spoiled ahead of Blizzcon. I think it's possible that the next CE mount is in the files right now or at least assets attached to it.

Maybe related?

https://x.com/keyboardturn/status/16...851294770?s=46

It sounds more like an actual chimera (like the traditional chimera that have a lion and goat head with a snake tail) especially the snake sounds in the background.

[Marlamin]

Its so obviously AI I assumed he was sending us a clue: Like he entered the real title of the expansion as a prompt as those images were the result.

It's definitely possible, we'll find out in a few weeks. All my cents are staying in my wallet this leak season, I'm just going to observe and not put my hopes/beliefs in any leak. Too much AI stuff so far.

[Hitei]

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Screenshots are misleading because area lighting changes colors.

The base color of the energy on the Blighted Brute is 50 255 255, like I said: Cyan. Drust magic uses basically the same color range as Ardenweald's anima gamut.

The gryphon is using something like 60 200 170. It's a significantly greener color. It's approaching Maldraxxus anima in color.



It also just isn't really drust aesthetic.

[Santandame]

The pictures could very well be AI, but it’s the theming behind the pictures that we should be taking into account; it he real hint so to speak.

Which seems to be both Dreadlords and the Void.

[lostsoup]

Screenshots are misleading because area lighting changes colors.

The base color of the energy on the Blighted Brute is 50 255 255, like I said: Cyan. Drust magic uses basically the same color range as Ardenweald's anima gamut.

The gryphon is using something like 60 200 170. It's a significantly greener color. It's approaching Maldraxxus anima in color.



It also just isn't really drust aesthetic.

How about comparing the gryphon with the green background energy from the Void Dreadlord pic?

[Hitei]

Well shit.

If that's real, I want to know what's going on with the wing structure on the right.

It's almost certainly AI and AI doesn't know how to handle structures that aren't basic limbs. You'll note that it also couldn't figure out that wings go to the back--they're lined up with the spaulders. That's also why it's full of just poorly reading jumbles (the head section, the wing, the legs, the non-claw hand).

[Alanar]

Because i've been asking for personalized tabards for ages and seeing it becoming a potential reality is really damn great.

A fair enough.

[ImTheMizAwesome]

Very similar looking effect.

the outline "corruption" like effect pretty much looks the same on both.

interesting.

[Sondrelk]

Well shit.

If that's real, I want to know what's going on with the wing structure on the right.

Well assuming it isn't AI then the only thing I can imagine is that the left side of his body is slowly phasing out of reality.
The wing being weird, his hand being weird, the left side of his chest being weird.

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the outline "corruption" like effect pretty much looks the same on both.

interesting.

I think that more so because that is how you make something look smoky than because they are the same.

[Cheezits]

It's almost certainly AI and AI doesn't know how to handle structures that aren't basic limbs. You'll note that it also couldn't figure out that wings go to the back--they're lined up with the spaulders. That's also why it's full of just poorly reading jumbles (the head section, the wing, the legs, the non-claw hand).

Yeah that was my first thought, but if they really wanted to go full bang "Chaos" then it would fit for the design to look weird.

The colors of the "aura" matching like that is very sus.

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I think that more so because that is how you make something look smoky than because they are the same.

I mean they are basically the same Aurora Borealis type color and effect, which I think may be the inspiration for both.

[Hitei]

How about comparing the gryphon with the green background energy from the Void Dreadlord pic?

It's pretty much the same color, but that doesn't really mean a lot.

[Ersula]

Screenshots are misleading because area lighting changes colors.

But the color of the glow on the gryphon mount DOES match the drust blight environmental effects in Ardenweald. And the eyes of the Kul Tiran druid forms.

[lostsoup]

It's pretty much the same color, but that doesn't really mean a lot.

The picture looks painfully AI, but it's possible it was generated to hint at something without leaking real images that could get someone in trouble, and the color is part of that.

Ah, whatever, we'll know soon enough I guess.

[Hitei]

But the color of the glow on the gryphon mount DOES match the drust blight environmental effects in Ardenweald. And the eyes of the Kul Tiran druid forms.

I don't really agree that it matches the environmental effects.

It matches the KT druid form eyes, but the KT druid forms also have noticeably more green effects than actual drust magic does (I assume specifically to make it readily clear that they aren't just using the exact same dark magic). They also specifically have a much more naturalized organically grown wicker look isntead of the bundled together artificial wicker look.

I just don't see this thing being at all drust related. Especially since nothing else about it is drust-like.

[Mysticdoll]

Very similar looking effect.

if you look at the full texture pack there is also dark purple

[Cheezits]

It being a gryphon, and also very much NOT a normal gryphon with any spell effects we know, makes me wonder if we are getting another OCshit Shadowlands 2 expansion.