I’m loving the War Within, and have gotten through what I think are all the major present storylines. I’m excited to see what comes next, but it seems that with the end of the Nerub’ar Palace raid, we’ve largely removed the Nerubians as the primary enemy faction. Khaz’Algar is all new, but there are a few places that have been foreshadowed. I’ve made up names to describe these concepts, but really I’m just wondering where we’ll go next.
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Rootlands - You may have noticed some roots in the cavern ceilings above Azj-Kahet and some of its neighboring passageways. It’s been implied that the mysterious haranir (that we see in Azj-Kahet and in the second cinematic trailer) may have a connection to them. It’s unlikely these roots feed the normal sized trees in the Isle of Dorn, so there’s likely a forested, underground zone with these druidic people adjacent to the current caverns.
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The Sunless Sea - There is an entire underground ocean surrounding Hallowfall, going out further than we can see, and we know nightmarish things lurk in its depths. Honestly, you could make an entire expansion out of this concept, and we could travel by airship to distant shores beyond the water, or down beneath to where the Kobyss hail from.
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Deep Core - The Coreway gets its name because it’s supposed to go down towards Azeroth’s core. Even with the Ringing Deeps opened up, the deeper reaches are implied to be collapsed. We could wind up going straight down, to deeper depths, perhaps titan-made facilities, caverns corrupted by the old gods, or chambers thrumming with Azeroth’s energies.
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The Arathi Homelands - I personally think this is unlikely… right now. I’m anticipating a follow-up fleet from the Arathi Empire arriving as an antagonistic faction sometime in Midnight, setting the stage for explorations in a future expansion… but it’s possible we could find our way there sooner rather than later.
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Something Else - We’re dealing with new lore here. It could very easily be something else, and if you have ideas, I’d love to hear them!
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We already know where the next two are going, so who knows after that
I was thinking in terms of patches for this expansion, not Midnight or the Last Titan.
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From the state of the forums. The Realm of Wehhhh. Would be appropriate.
idk but im pretty sure there’s a raid entrance under that giant sword.
3rd Expansion will be us riding Dalaran v3 through space.
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Dr. Who on Dalaran!!! I’m in!
Undermine, something with the harronir.
Then we know we’re going to Quel’thalas next expansion, and Northrend in TLT.
Then the Arathi Empire perhaps after Worldsoul.
I have no idea. But I was actually thinking about and wanting a Snow biome. A true Snow biome such as Winterspring or Storm Peaks, not Azure Span.
Hopefully we’re going some place to get Xal some socks and shoes
Undermine. I think it’ll be a patch zone like Mechagon.
Imo, it’s been hinted at too much.
Gazlowe was talking about it.
Venture Co. is around.
Trading Post for next month even has a pet that lives “in the smokestacks of Undermine”.
More underground zones found in eastern kingdom, kalimdor, and northrend so large how the heck did we miss them.
I want additional stories with all existing groups.
Trip to Undermine.
Further interactions with Nerubians. After all we need to help restore their Queen and improve our faction relations otherwise they will never be a true ally.
Help the Arathi find a way to get home or at least make contact. Explore the Beledar and learn where it came from
Learn more about the Harronir people and culture. Stop the spread of the Black blood.
Discover more about Xal’atath’s master plan which might require us to visit the Ethereals
Hopefully at least two of these will be touched upon before we leave this expansion.
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While there may be a bunch of trees in their zone, we know that the roots are from Elun’ahir, the first World Tree in Un’goro that was ripped out by Aman’thul.
I do think that the Rootlands (or whatever they call it) will be the 11.1 zone, because we already have an entrance (there’s a hole in the ceiling in Ahn’kahet that puts you to sleep if you try to fly up it) and the harranir were featured in the trailer as you said, so their development was obviously set in stone early on.
You didn’t mention Undermine, but I’ll echo others in saying that’s almost certainly coming, and I suspect it will be 11.2. We have a direct storyline route to the harranir lands right now because of the empowered Black Blood and the way it’s attacking the roots, but I don’t see a plot connection to Undermine that’s obvious yet.
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I wasn’t aware that these roots were related to Un’goro!
As for Undermine, I think I can sort of see the plot that would lead us there. Gazlowe was one of three characters to receive short stories before TWW, and he’s a surprisingly active figure in Azj-Kahet. He helps us break out of Nerubian confinement… but he also parleys with Venture Co. goblins, getting them to be friendly for the first time I can remember.
It’s possible his personal story and drive to reform the goblins away from ruthlessness and self-destructive culture, or even just business entanglements, could get us to Undermine.
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Yeah, that’s more of a Horde or even just goblin relevant story, though.
There’s going to need to be a connection to Xal’atath and the overall TWW plot for us all to go there.
It might tie into whatever the ethereals are up to down here. I could see the ethereal and goblin cartels getting along, or at least working together.
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I would like to go to the The Arathi Homelands
