When last we saw Arthas, his ghost was being tormented by the Void. Bad afterlife if you ask me lol
That leads me to think Arthas will be back in some shape or form in the next expansion, either taken by the Void or fighting against it.
That and… Well… “In case of sub losses, break the WC3 popular characters glass”.
I liked illidan better when I thought he was dead.
No thank you. They should develop new characters instead of rehashing old ones.
a better thing… Since Arthas’ corpse is somewhere… what if Sylvanas raises him as a undead servant. would be ironic and right up Blizzard’s alley if the former servant ended up making a servant out of the former master.
i think bolvar is up to some shady business, may even be behind sylvanas
I’m personnaly voting for Garrosh getting rez as a dk.
I think Arthas will stay dead, or just appear in spirit at best.
You know…
I WAS JOKING WHEN I SAID THE NEXT EXPANSION WOULD BE "WORLD OF WARCRAFT: SCOURGE"
They blew their resurrection token on Illidan. They can’t do that to Arthas so soon afterwards, they’d overplay their hand.
Sadly, the other remaining Warcraft 3 characters are either dead or irrelevant.
Jaina – BFA’s poster girl. Probably can’t carry another expansion on her back.
Muradin – Not popular enough.
Tyrande – Has been around since vanilla. People don’t seem to like her.
Malfurion – See above.
Cairne – Polymorphed into a char-broiled steak.
Rexxar – Returns every now and then. Never does much.
Uther – Dead
Mal’ganis – Returned in Legion just to retreat. Coward.
Grom – Returned in WoD just to have his character ruined.
Drek’thar – Literally who?
Gazlowe – Has been around. Also never does much.
Kel’thu-
THAT’S IT!!!
The character we need to make a grand return is Kel’thu-frickin’ZAD!
Make it happen!
Well, if necromancer would ever be a thing, it’d be with that.
Seems like a downgrade from DK, but eh. It’s ranged.
/Look at Garrosh
/Look at Sylvanas
When was Garrosh ever resurrected?
Sylvanas’s deaths have never removed her from the storyline nor caused the players to think that she was dead-dead. She has always been returned to undeath almost immediately. It’s not quite the same thing.
Technically we never found his phylectary so he’s still around somewhere.
Yep. We’ve known this for a while, meaning his return has been built up for years.
Ok sure, but picture this…
Lich Form.
I’d love to see Bolvar in action as the new Lich King. His voice is awesome and would make for some great cinematics I think.
Eh…my point was that just when we thought Blizzard would not dare to pull the same trick twice in a row, they did exactly that.
I do not want a lich to give birth to me. I want to become a sinister spell-slinging skellington.
Arthas WILL return, but it will be as one of the encounters for the 15th Anniversary Raid and the Deathwing Mount. I guarantee you, Kaelthas - Arthas - Spine will be part of the “multiple encounters” they talked about.
Ah, I see. Good point, point taken. Perhaps the deterrent for them would be seeing how that trick is being received by the community these days. There are only so many times you can trick a dog by pretending to throw the frisbee before he refuses to take his eyes off your hand.
You gotta see things through Blizzard’s perspective.
There’s no guarantee WoW will last much longer. That has always been true. That’s why they blew through Illidan and Arthas in the first two expansions. Tomorrow is never certain.
That’s why they had us go to Argus in a patch instead of an Expansion. If they had saved Argus for a third Burning Legion Expansion, would WoW have survived long enough to have a third Burning Legion Expansion? They don’t know, and neither do we. Nobody knows. It’s the future!
So I think they will milk the cows they can while they can.
And with Warcraft 3 Reforged on the horizon to build Arthas hype, now is an especially great time to milk the Arthas cow.