Honestly, I hope we get Xal’atath as a final raid boss of Warthin.
She doesn’t need to be dead by the end of the expansion, but it would be cool if she will be the final raid boss of Warthin but somehow ‘wins’ and that would bring us to 12am because she is the HARBINGER.
It’s very likely that she would survive to show back up in a later raid. Blizz would prob pull a Iridikron, and make her a boss in a mega-dungeon to show up in a raid as the penultimate boss of said raid
I hope she isn’t a boss and that she lasts at least into midnight. It would be a waste otherwise, even her just being a boss before midnight - she needs to be demonstrate that she’s one step ahead to actually pull off the story of midnight.
Funny enough, I think another choice for the final boss is that crystal(?) in Hallowfall. The Arathi do seem to extend their turf into Azj-Kahet and even the unrelated Kobold’s invasion against the Machine Speakers would fit this enemy’s arsenal. Just my two bolts.
I don’t think that’s the plan no, most likely it’ll be either she or Iridikron survive till Last Titan but the likely case is she’ll betray iridikron at one point. She may even cause whatever bad events happen in Midnight but I can’t imagine she’d die immediately like Razageth did
In World of Warcraft: The War Within (TWW), Xal’atath will be the boss of the first raid, where she will be defeated and sealed once again inside a small item where she can do no more harm. However, the events of the initial raid will lead to the awakening of the Naaru embedded in the earth, who will then be the boss of the second raid, where you have to defeat him to prevent his scouring Azeroth as a means of wiping out what he perceives as the Old God threat.
Iridikon seems like the perfect final boss for TWW. He’s an Earth Elemental dragon who’s associated with the Void. And where are we going in TWW? Deep into the earth to fight the void.