While I personally think the Shadowlands and to a lesser extend the Dragon Isles will/could be the focus of the next expansion, I can’t help but recall how Warlords wasn’t anticipated. So I thought it fun if everyone shared their wildest or curve theories for the next expansion.
Mine is an invasion by Yrel and the Lightbound and we strike back by invading the ogre continent teased in the Warlords announcement. Final raid would be the Temple of Karabor, with Yrel as the final boss.
I’d actually like to see the final raid of a Lightbound expac as an alternate universe Tempest Keep, with Xe’ra as the final boss.
I can’t really recommend the Lightbound threat as the community might call it “Light Legion” and lose interest.
World of Warcraft: Space Adventure. In the absence of the BL and the Titans we find out that space is, in fact, very, very, very big and neither of them actually explored the entire thing so it’s not as desolate as they thought.
Wildest Ideas? The night elves getting a victory once.
Most likely outcomes? Sylvanas getting redeemed and we have to see her in the 3rd expansion cinematic in a row…
Look I’m as violently angry about Night Elves as the next tree dwelling loon but let’s not ruin another thread with that. Try and have fun with the idea.
I can easily see them moving to do an echo of Wrath, with a change of some sort like Legion was Burning Crusade…with a twist. The DK starting scenario desperately needs an update anyways.
My ideal would be for them to a cataclysm scale refresh of the world as a brand new world wide phase. Make the past expansions visions of the past that leveling toons travel into in order to get strong enough to face the threats of modern Azeroth. Framed that way old expansions being out of sync with the current day actually becomes thematic instead of a glaring issue.
The Void Lords are coming…and the first phase of their invasion?
THE MOOOOOOOOOON!!
Revenge of the Blood Elves!
Sylvanas get to the Shadowlands, there she uses her pact with the death ‘‘god’’ to ressurect Kael’thas and all true blood elves that died in outland back in tft -pandaria, these blood elves would be led by no other than the Sun KING! Kael’thas Sunstrider.
Kael’thas would swoop over Silvermoon and kill Lor’themar in one scenario, where the alliance go with jaina to try to understand what is happening, and the horde go with rommath.
the scenario ends with Lor’themar and Kael’thas 1x1 and kael’thas decapitates Lort’s head and yells ‘’ NO MORE REGENTS! THE KING HAS RETURNED!’’
Jaina teleport both horde and ally forces out( since now we are buddy buddy) and rommath kneel before the true king of the elves!
while in the shadowlands Sylvanas begins to plot the next phase of her plan and she comes back to lordaeron to kill calia and use her light cursed blood as ink to sign some letters to the death god.
Thrall gives into dispair( cuz all scenarios seems to show him doing that)
Thalysra is waiting lort’s baby and hides away in outland.
liandrin flees to velens side
and the old gods keep whispering to alleria some kink stuff.
Sylvanas casts a death ritual that makes her a nigh-invincible world threat, so to stop her the gnomes, mecha-gnomes, and goblins invent shrink suits that allow us to infiltrate her inside systems, and we spend the expansion laying waste to her kidneys, liver, and stomachs (elves have three). For raids, we visit her ear canals and spend some time flying around in the aftermath of a sneeze.
As a result of the damage we do somewhere in here, her voice actor is replaced by that guy who did Plankton in Spongebob. This is unfortunate, since she will narrate our adventures Arthas-style.
In 9.3, however, we discover none of our efforts mattered because undead elves don’t need their stomachs, so we approach a frozen-throne shaped symbol of her consciousness and sing the Friendship song with her.
This redeems her as a character but also gives her diabetes, which she can’t handle because of her lack of a pancreas, so she dies tragically on the sunset of her redemption.
Would the hub city be the spleen?
Azeroths blue moon is Y’Shaarj and the dark moon Faire is is his pawn hence the obvious symbolism with their symbols and his form and maybe tyrande didn’t get power from elune and got it from the remains of Y’Shaarj and she goes mad and unwittingly does his bidding as his avatar
No big threats. 9.0 is all about rebuilding the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. Horde and Alliance don’t even interact with eachother.
Raid is Molten Core, vs. the Ragnaros cultists trying to reanimate him (Druids of the Flame remnants and Dark Iron). Canonically it’s done by the Alliance, Horde gets no idea what they’re doing there.
It’s mostly definitely gonna be some return of the lich king non sense
Wild ideas?
I have always felt like we need some more evil Tauren action. Some big Tauren threat that we fight for a patch or a raid. Not because I dislike Tauren, but because I think a Tauren themed patch and raid zone would be different.
Just on that basis, I could see the Grimtotem and the Feltotem being antagonists in a raid. But they would need some more firepower from some where to be a real threat. Maybe if Magatha takes that Doomstone or conjures up something like Murmur or worse.
I cant think of many Tauren that we fight in raids or dungeons as enemies. Especially compared to Elves, Orcs, Trolls, Humans, Dwarves, Goblins…
There’s Baine in the End Time dungeon. There’s Warmaster Blackhorn in the Dragon Soul raid. I think there may be some Tauren Trash Mobs here or there. But a whole raid could be cool.
Crazy idea eh? Well… I know time travel and alternate universes didn’t go over too well with WoD… but I would be interested in seeing what alternate Azeroth looks like. Especially since the orcs, ogres, and Legion never came over to mess with the races there. Would the human nations be fighting amongst themselves? Would the sundering still happen from a different event (the idea that events must always play out but they might go about it differently)? Maybe the old gods help start the chain events with the different races fighting against them?
It would be cool to see a good King Arthas leading the alliance.
Maybe Zul’jin is still around and leading a strong force of united forest troll tribes against the elves.
Perhaps the pandaren are more aggressive and focused more on emotion than their main universe counterparts.
Really, just avoid anything space themed. With BC it was cool. With Legion it was a little tired, but had a pretty good landing. I need at least 3 more expacs before I can deal with another Legion/Space type theme… please. This is a fantasy world, not a sci-fi world…
If they’re being ressurrected as Darkfallen, then I’m already sold.
Wild ideas? Playable scourge faction led by Bolvar.
An End of the Era event for the last patch.
Expansion is going great at the start before going belly up by the end. Azeroth is now in the middle between between an all out battle between the the forces of which ever world ending threat we’re dealing with by that point. No matter what the the Horde and Alliance do, it becomes clear that they are all doomed regardless of anything.
So how does everyone respond to this? Why attack each other in the shadow of the world actually ending of course because of course.
So you have the armies of the Horde and Alliance fighting on the ground with the world ending threats tearing the world apart. Meanwhile, newly developed characters who are actual characters and not race/faction mouthpieces make one last ditch effort to save the planet and use some sort of crazy magic to force the Pantheon to Azeroth to save everyone.
This works, but these guys didn’t take into consideration that Sargeras is also at the Seat of the Pantheon and they succeed in bringing him as well. In a surprising move, the Pantheon move to stabilize the Azeroth’s soul, while sicking Sargeras on the World Ending Threats. Sargeras throws hands while the rest of the Pantheon nurtures Azeroth until she is finally born, which of course causes untold havoc on the actual planet.
Aman’Thul uses his power to send the Champions of Azeroth into some sort of time stasis before the Pantheon turns and helps Sargeras defeat the World Ending Threats.
The Champions of Azeroth (and the players) blink back into existence on a reformed Azeroth, 100 years later. The whole world is different, new borders, new nations, new monsters, new everything.