How Blizz Are Using SoD To Tell Retail's New Story! Xal'atath's Season of Discovery Crossover 

I think Xal'atath might be Y'shaarj

Need more Evi sarcasm bits in the Weekly Reset. I laughed, I cried.

"I forget about it all the time" ... 11/10 on the Punny Scale. I chuckled

Final raid was Naxx, Tali

oh no not tali being back at saying harbinger wrong! we've gone through this tali!! hahaha

Evi's section this week was 🔥 from puns, to delivery, to pacing. Kudos to all involved!

As a horde member in the Ashenvale PvP event, one of the Keeper of the Grove bosses was named Larodar. They're definitely doing this on purpose

16:20 Nerubians? In Ahn'Qiraj? Tali, those were Qiraji and Silithids! Earlier you also mentioned Stormwind fell in the Second War, but really it fell in the First.

Wasn't expecting a little Outer Wilds OST at the end there, but it always brings such peace and good vibes.

I wonder if Shadow Priests might get some special dialogue with Xal'atath during the War Within ether using the Black Blade of the Empire or other Black Empire Transmog Weapons where she knows the Shadow Priest Hero who once wield her blade dagger during Legion.

thank you for breaking this down. I know I'm missing out, but I don't miss Classic, and I'm skipping on SOD specifically (even though my guild went nanners on it during this lull) because Classic gameplay is so not my cup of coffee. I'm very much not a fan of retail lore being planted in SOD, so I can't really experience it firsthand without investing time in Classic. Meh. So this saves me time! Thank you again!

I say this as someone that really really loves the mouse pet: It should not have been the transmog month gift. It's adorable, but that's not end-month I conquered my to-do list material. Also still waiting patiently for our Tuskarr...w a i t i n g

SoD is totally not for me, but I love a cool cross-game ARG that links the communities together. I hope they do more like that. It feels very much like something WoW would do in the glory days

You sure know how to make my work day infinitely better. Thank You

Good video, but I have to point out that the last vanilla raid was naxxramas and in AQ we faced the silithid and the qiraji, not the nerubians

There is a really interesting dagger* from MoP. Also the Klaxxiy tell you (when you're exalted with them) that they worship Y'Shaarj (SoO, duh) *"Ra'sha's Sacrificial Dagger: Use: A faint whispering can be heard inside of your own head. The dagger bids you to thrust it deep into your heart. Do you dare comply?"

blizz probably watching this video and thinking "fuck why didn't we do that"

I like to think that when we finished Legion we yeeted the artifact weapons into the sword and the bounce made them fly wherever

That Outer Wilds music always hit the spot.

Final raiid is Naxx not AQ?

That would be so amazing being a SoD player this is EPIC !!!

I keep picturing Evi filming that segment with Tali constantly cutting and describing how he would deliver those lines lol Great job tho, we could use more Evi!

Some great lore bits to get hyped on for the new expac!!

I'm so excited! This is the most fun I think I've ever had in wow.

OHBOY MIDNIGHT Weekly Reset?! Sweeeet.

Great story telling Tali. Keep at it and eventually you'll evolve into our Gandalf.

Evitel's bit this video was 10/10 - more please!

im actually using the watch transmog. its on my mage along with the waste of time and morchie's/chromie's timeworn/timespun shoulderpads (one on each shoulder). works good with my chronomancer transmog

16:37 The highly, highly nostalgic '14.3 Billion Years' is an interesting music choice for this segment.

Using SoD to flesh out narrrative for TWW was an absolute stroke of genius

I think this is the best pre. X pack ramp up that Blizz has ever done.

If the Old Gods can see multiple futures through the Void, then Y’shaarj could’ve foreseen the possibility of his death. It makes sense that he would create a Horcrux-like item as insurance.

It's funny I actually am using the watch transmog on one of my mages. Didn't think I'd wind up using it ever, but now that it shows over some gloves, might as well make use of that wrist slot, right?

Forgets a watch “all the time” 😂 great pun!

I am simply in love with you weekly and more often appearing here! ❤

Downloading this to watch on my flight from SLC to London. Cheers, y’all!

Definitely would have preferred the Sky captain outfit as the monthly trader log reward, over the cute mouse.

Holly mentioned the 10.2.6 patch will have an event that's available to both Classic & Retail players. Maybe there's going to be some more story overlaps there.

Blizz trolling Evitel 😁 And, yes, the pets are the very first things I purchase from the Trading Post. Followed by mounts.

Quick reminder that ahnqiraj wasnt the last raid, and it had qiraji, not nerubians. Although they are related enough to each other and to the old gods, as are the Klaxxi.

well seeing that old gods can affect timeways too(WotA novel is based on that) it would be nothing new to mid high tier old void creature to be able to do that in smaller scale. Also naxxramas40 was the final raid...?

Don't forget about the Mantid from MoP: "...originally descended from a group of aqir - insect-like spawn of the Old Gods - that settled in the southern parts of ancient Kalimdor." "Following the resurrection of the Heart of Y'Shaarj by Garrosh Hellscream, the Klaxxi allied themselves with the Warchief. Their paragons took up guard beneath Orgrimmar to protect the heart of their dark former god, but were ultimately defeated during the Siege of Orgrimmar." I feel it strengthens the theory that Xal'atath is Y'shaarj! Or at least related somehow.

Me playing The War Within and meeting Xal'atath: Her: "Remember that favor you owe me?" Me: "I'm a Vanilla player but didn't play SoD, so I owe you squat shit lady."

I've honestly never had an issue with not having enough flight stones, but I'm also someone who does all the story quests and events when they first come out. As a raider who does more than raiding i don't see the Flightstone issue. Crests are always what im struggling with.

Yay.... it's time for my weekly run of the "Tali can't say Harbinger correctly" drinking game ❤

I'm sorry if this has been asked before, but this is the second vid I've watched now on this channel that has Outer Wilds music in it. Is there a Tali playthrough of Outer Wilds out there?

Evi ATE THAT VIDEO and left no crumbs hahaha awesome guys

what they need to do is find a way to harness all the extra challenge points you would have gotten. I basically finished the challenge log playing super casually within the first day by jumping onto a few different alts just messing around leveling up or doing world content. I think I did a few random dungeons for fun.

If I recall right Void has been playing around with Infinites so in theory Time Travel could be a possibility that is if I remember everything correctly XD

If you're right, it will be the first time I ever begin to consider playing Classic. This sounds like a great twist.

season of discovery is not the "what if" that people expected. Tbh, its more like a WoW director's cut and I love it.

Playing from the "villain" perspective would make the game so much more interesting lore wise. Geting engaged in the their story and having an insight what their motivations are. Just like good old w3. Give scenarios like that..

Xa’latath being Y’shaarj might explain Blizzard’s recent push towards Pandaria related content. Hmmmmm 🤔

I'm so excited 😆

Im pretty sure that for Blizzard sod is like a laboratory,a big beta test for a lot of little thing before adding the new stuff/little feature/idea on the main wow.

The final raid of vanilla is Naxxramas, not the Temple of Ahn'qiraj.

evi is killing it this episode

Yes! Iwhould buy the mouse as first! After some "green" parts tabards and cloaks and at least i could by my frozen staff now.

Xalatath controlling the Dark riders would be a cool connection

This is AWESOME !!!

Crasy thought: It has been said that SOD players characters will go "somewhere" after SOD. What if we get to send our SOD Chars to The War Within?

Whoa whoa nerubians in Ahn'Qiraj?? I thought they were Qiraji lol

If that's Xal'atath in SoD I think the idea that it's just a reference could also hold significant weight. If SoD is canon and we owe her a favor back in classic, it kinda completely recontextualizes her giving us up to N'zoth, and retroactively explains why our character doesn't seem surprised by it (aside from a lack of facial animations). Maybe we knew it was coming all along, but were fine with it because we owed her a favor? Maybe she left us with N'zoth on neutral terms with us. *Maybe she won't actually be a villain in the next expansion.* (or at least, not a black and white blatant villain, but maybe she's even an ally occasionally through the story) A Harbinger isn't necessarily a bad thing, as scary as the name sounds, a Harbinger is just a messenger, or even more generously, a warning. Maybe she's trying to warn us about the void... or maybe... the War Within doesn't literally refer to where the expansion is, but also the subject of the expac. Maybe she's warning us about the light, and the War Within are the forces of the light turning on us for treating the void amicably. The best part about all of this is for the first time in a long while, Blizz have made a story that's interesting enough to theorize and guess over, and that any idea could be equally as possible. They've really managed to recapture a good bit of that old WoW magic

Evitel I am WEARING my watch transmog!! Me and my best mouse friend Teele have never felt so attacked in our lives! T_T

Taliesin: I have juicy stuff *shows picture of Xal'atath*

I think N'Zoth is hanging out in Xalatath's old dagger and all we fought was a meat puppet with some magic void goo sacs that casted stuff at us.

Removing crest cap is super useless since at this point in the seasln you will never ever be able to spend the cap anyway. I had no idea they are still capped.

To be fair there are still voices inside heart of Y'shaarj, so I'm gonna put a doubt on the reservation within a claw theory.

Oh, I never thought about if that shadowy figure in the Dawn of the infinite dungeon was Xal'atah then they she would be in the past. Do you think there will be another legendary in the next patch?

I figured the trading post was all more Mardi-Gras related. The masks, the peacock mount and the colors are all very Mardi-Gras themed IMO. Forget the Irish, in 'Murica it's Mardi-Gras season. :P (Just kidding we love the Irish >_>)

Knaifu? Surely you mean baeblade.

Taliesin and that darn word, Harbinger lmao

Now classic would be a huge retcon factory

Blizzard released something. And Evitel took that personally.

First things I buy every month are the pets, so yea.. I'm happy with the mouse. Nevertheless, I would've preferred the mount to be the overall reward as well as the mounts are usually more expensive than the pets.

I really like the mouse

isn't naxx the final raid of vanilla?

6:06 account wide currency for DF would be a massive boon, my Storm Sigil and Untapped Forbidden Knowledge are just sitting on my main doing nothing.

I play druid main and don't have a single level 70 alt, so I'm not fussed about mounts. I collect druid forms ahead of transmog. And I collect battle pets. I'm the person who is happy with this month's reward.

Yes, I would definitely pick pet over transmog all the time. Mounts > pets > toys > transmog. :o)

So how does Darkheart Thicket come into it ?

Evi's inability to remember my awesome watch is not indicative of my love of my awesome watch

I like to think something happens during dawn of the infinites that created a paradox by having a classic era timeline offshoot but with xal'atath appearing in that era sewing seeds that bloom in the current timeline, what we though may have been ressolved with the timelines.... nah this is wow obviously 😂

I'm fundamentally broken, I guess. I always go pet, mount, toy, them transmog when buying stuff in the Trading Post.

I do like the idea of using SoD and time traveling to retcon and add to the OG story.

Tali, both Blackwing lair and Naxx came after AQ40.

"March is the beginning of Spring!" The Southern Hemisphere sends its greetings through gritted teeth

should have made it that you can buy those boxes but with crests making you able to buy chest for crests and flightstones which increase the ilvl of the gear, instead of current 441 ilvl from chests make it 483 with aspect crests and flightstones and the others too

Well, this was juicy

Xal'atath: Be warned Champion... You... OWE. Me...

11:16 lmao. I love WoW lore.

I said SoD and Retail should do a convergence event and I thought it was gonna be Emerald dream, Im happier to think it could be Xal'atath.

Pirate themed brawlers guild. Callin' it

I like the mouse!!

hey tali, great video! Q: is the stuff in SOD (lacking a better word) "good fomo"? in 5 years will we be telling other players who were unsubbed at the time or weren't playing yet about this similarly like we do for southshore vs tarren mill pvp, the opening the gates of ahn'qiraj, or the secret finding event?

My life is so much more fun with you two ❤🎉😂

Would be interesting if the SoD toons were turned into her army we fight in TWW

Cool!

a intresting idea, we never see them go back to the future during the mega dungoen they just use a normal void portal to leave not a bronze time portal. what if she has been setting up the ground work all this time in the background and we are just finding out this now. it can even been hand waved away time changes because the true timeline was changed at the end of the dungoen as well there was never any mention before about the infinates attack on the proto aspects

Wasn't final raid of Vanilla Naxxaramas?