My wish for the story side of the game and its systems would be a new quest system that was flexible. Allowing adding content to zones along the way as mini-updates.
That, with a focus on events the player is moving through, and doing the actual development of the world where characters are supposedly living, would improve a lot I think.
With scaling, there isn’t a reason for things to just fade away and be forgotten. They should be the living world they can be.
I only wish Blizzard would work on the Forsaken lore. We are in a terrible place with our main city destroyed and our leader made villain and killed.
Who’s going to be the Forsaken leader now? Will we get Undercity back? Is there a way to get rid of the blight? Will the forsaken be relocated to Scholomance or Stratholme?
I don’t think the Forsaken should made human but Blizzard should acknowledge they completely destroyed the lore of one of the Horde’s most iconic factions.
I remain cynical, that we end with UC and Teldrassil restored.
And it ends up all being meaningless.
Just windmill jousting.
Yeah, the night elves should also get darkshore.
I can’t believe that Blizzard will just ignore two major factions like that. I particularly hate the way they destroyed Sylvanas’ character.
She went from “let’s have a home for all the forsaken” to “let’s destroy everything and everyone just because I’m crazy, specially the forsaken”
They do, canonically. Elves control Darkshore and Hyjal. They also canonized that Twilight Hammer killed all Dark Trolls off-screen and only one woman is left, so there’s no trolls in Hyjal anymore.
Shatterspear Tribe is the only tribe left in Darkshore, but they can reasonably head to Un’goro and have the Trolls make a settlement there, what with all the dinos ready for the taming.
Goblin outpost in Winterspring can easily be relocated to Azshara.
Like he said. They called both Warfronts for Alliance at the last real Blizzcon.
I agree. It’s been happening for awhile.
If every Forsaken were cured of undeath, it would create schisms and give some interesting conflict. Some would go back to the Alliance but some would remain in the Horde, as surely the majority of them wouldn’t abandon the faction that’s helped them for so long. If the Undercity were to ever be retaken, it would still be a Horde city and be more like how Alterac was. I assume it’d be much like the Blood Elf situation, in how the Sunwell is now basically the Lightwell but they’re still with the Horde. I don’t think the Forsaken being cured of undeath would change what much of them think about the Alliance.
I don’t think anyone thinks the Forsaken should be made human. This thread is a hypothetical discussion - a “what if” scenario. I’d be outraged, as a long term Forsaken fan, if this were to happen.
This is actually my prediction for what’ll happen. The Forsaken will work steadily away to de-blight the Undercity and will reoccupy it, although have a much weaker political presence in the region (Exploring Eastern Kingdoms has already indicated that Southshore is restored, making Hillsbrad contested territory once again). Basically they’ll be chucked back to their classic-era holdings. The Kaldorei, at the end of Shadowlands, will see some great-big-Elune-and-Winter-Queen-Miracle whereby Teldrassil is restored and the murdered Kaldorei returned to life. I just have that feeling.
I don’t even think it’d be the world’s best storytelling, but it’s what I think will happen.
Yeah.
Though I expect it to be sudden, like the Teldrassil you describe.
For the next Xpac…
Alliance civil war, very possibly premised on a rejection of Anduin not killing, or not allowing the killing of Sylvanas.
Horde ends up a bystander until needed to Heroically join in the conquest of whatever Alliance city the “evil” rebels hold. (Come on, it’ll be Stormwind, can’t make the mirror if it isn’t.)
But! Shocking no one, it turns out that we’re seeing the Light/Void Cosmic War come to Azeroth!
(LOL if so. Sylvanas would get to conquer Stormwind, just not how she thought! Freaking Azerite.)
I’m buying into the theory about Turalyon starting a new war. I mean the man explicitly says it’s his intent to reclaim old Alliance territory - that Stromgarde was merely a good first step.
Gilneas? Lordaeron? Quel’thalas? Theramore? I wonder what lands he has claim on, in his head!
Cosmic light war follows when Yrel comes through the Dark Portal with a force of AU Draenei 
The Light has commanded her to save the leader of the Army of the Light from the heathens! (Perhaps after the War Crimes II novel, we haven’t worked that part out yet. /joke)
Alliance learns how to Lightforge slain Horde so that they come back loyal to the Alliance and proceeds to grab like 3 dozen Horde NPC’s and a handful of named characters.
When we eventually lose the war we’ll pinky swear we’re really sorry but keep all the land we took and NPC’s we stole.
While the Emperor tells you to embrace the Dark Side.
And since this isn’t as rigid with characters as the original trilogy, the Alliance just becomes the Sylvanas they hated. (While she gets to look down her nose at you.)
Also, you don’t actually get the land the books or interviews talked about, but it’s there, just imagine it.
Lightforged Orgrim Doomhammer gets freed by Anduin and returned to the Horde where he teams up with Lightforged Grom Hellscream to go and rejoin the Alliance again, because there are Lightforged Orcs in the Alliance now and those are “their people” and not, you know, the actual Orcs.
You missed the Lost Honor thread where they discover how evil Turalyon and his plans actually are.
So they turn on him, and the good people of both sides join them in their desperate attempt to stop the madman.
The Alliance Lightforges Talanji and a bunch of Zandalari trolls. They use them to seize Dazar’alor again, but this time they don’t leave because you can’t take Zandalar away from the people of Zandalar