Now I’m just picturing Demons having a class of warlock, except instead of summoning other demons, they summon mortal warriors to fight for them.
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To be blunt, I’m hoping that they steer clear of the Draenei for the next while, barring maybe updating their home zones and have them build something up. Despite a very strong start in bringing them into WoW in their retconned form in TBC, every time they’ve tried to focus on the Draenei since then has been… a mixed bag.
Similar to Night Elves, and dragons, the Draenei are something of a favourite punching bag for the narrative, and a lot of the nuance that made them so interesting in TBC has now been shaved away, or usurped by the more ‘edgy’ zealot Draenei in the form of the Lightforged. My concern is that they’ll be further watered down into ‘lawful good Light-lovers’ entirely or ‘misguided zealots’ in some form. And then get smashed by some errant force again anyway.
The Draenei have plenty of avenues for future content.
Purely cosmic wise, they are still tied to both light and fel magic. We know Sargeras will break out someday and another Legion/fel based expansion is a possibility. Then we have Yrel and her potential light crusade/potential ties to the light realm.
More grounded wise they could simply serve as Alliance advisors/moral compasses. More specific to Dragonflight we have Dornaa, assuming Blizzard doesnt retcon her and just make the Blood elf orphan the “canon” orphan who deals with the dragon.
I know it would be extremely difficult to pull off, but writing a story that takes place entirely within a city zone would be all the excuse the devs would need to build/rebuild city zones like Gnomeregan, Silvermoon, Gilneas, and to show us what the Draenei have been up to in terms of city building in their own corner of Azeroth. Suramar showed us it’s doable, and that people can enjoy it. Dragon Age 2, while it was the least liked of the Dragon Age games, was still a good bit of story writing that took place almost exclusively in one city.
I had thought it would be interested if, now that they aren’t being hunted by the Legion, the dedication of some started wain. Some start to turn away. You should have “Void Draenei” or maybe “Dark Draenei”.
Though this would be a decent Horde race before. But now I think Alliance players are going to demand any dark oriented races be exclusive Alliance property.
Honestly would like something akin to a Lorewalker Cho character that tries to revitalize Eredar culture and customs. The Draenei and their mastery of the Arcane didn’t get as much attention as I’d like. Maybe even a band of Auchenai that tour Azeroth and do spirit resting rituals.
Hell, maybe there can be a rogue gang of Draenei that just put each others souls into robots because mechas are awesome. Something some Gnomes could be interested in as well 
A break from Draenei x Light is sorely needed.
Also thanks for the, mostly, constructive responses folks!
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I still don’t understand why we left the poor Krokkull at Argus.
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I’d like to see the Draenei’s thoughts on the Titans and see them learn about those, especially since it turned out that Argus had a world-soul. Then they can either add new Draenei characters or expand on existing ones. I’d love to see more of Archmage Y’mera from the Army of the Light.
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I recently started a new draenei character and I noticed they changed the introduction to their race quite a bit.
From I can tell the draenei are currently trying to heal Outland and preparing for the great battle ahead that Velen forsaw, atleast thats the jist of what I got from the intro. Lets not forget that Akama is still around and he made it his goal to restore Karabor to its former glory. I think they can still do some stuff with Akama and the broken draenei and perhaps have a part to play in the future with Yrel, but I’m not sure. Ive got little faith in their capacity to tell a good Warcraft story from a classic characters perspective, they hardly used him in Legion, but we’ll see.
That and sealed away inside a dimensional bubble.
We weren’t give a choice… it was either leave or get sealed in with Illidan.
What? Argus is sealed?
That’s why it’s not doing its Second Earth impression in the sky any more.
Either that or it ceased to exist when we killed it’s corrupted world soul.
I don’t think this has any basis in the lore.
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The game is t he ultimate authority. When Illidan pulled Argus to the local neighborhood the planet was literally in Azeroth’s sky for months. When the expansion story ended after the final raid boss fight, the planet was gone replaced by a glowing pink starlike object marking where the Pantheon had sealed themselves, illidan, and Sargeras off from the rest of the universe. Either way Argus is GONE as shown by the ultimate lore authority… the game itself.
No, it’s not. Blizzard is. They’ve contradicted what’s in the game before.
Just because the planet is no longer in the sky, doesn’t mean it’s inaccessible.
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It’s not gone. It’s currently being used as a prison to house Sargeras, with the other Titans making sure he doesn’t break free. Whether it’s still accessible is another matter entirely 
I thought Sargeras was stuck with that floating throne room for the Titans rather than Argus.
I assumed the throne room was on Argus itself. I never did the actual raid so shrug
It’s gone in the sense that it’s NOT THERE ANY MORE. It’s no longer Azeroth’s companion and technically speaking it’s not canonically reachable as the Vindicarr is no longer hovering above it.