On the topic of Midnight expansion. Assuming Xal’ath gets the dark heart back and continues her shenanigans, I was thinking she has been hitting areas with large fonts of power/energy. We know something will go down at the Sunwell. At some point, mid or late expansion, I wonder if she will hit up Karazan? There is alot of magic going on there and I don’t know its origins. How was it built and what fuels it. But it seems like a place similar to Dalaran. I don’t think Karazan will get destoryed like Dalaran did, but the weirdness of Karazan might fight back. It might stall her creating infinite unfolding rooms and hallways causing the Dark Heart to keep trying to syphon. It could open up new rooms or wings we previously didn’t have access to. We might learn new secretes to Karazan. Maybe another -ite stone is at its base as its primary source of power. Maybe we will find people who had been lost within for centuries.
I think it would be funny if Xal’ath is forced to play chess but she just can’t figure out the rules. She is stuck there for weeks losing over and over again. The rest of us are out putting out other fires. Eventually the topic comes up that we have not seen Xal’ath in a while and worried what scheme she is up to. Then someone reports in they saw her in Karazan playing chess. That is our queue to head out and stop her, but we don’t immediately know she has been there for months.
That could be a fun new version of the Chess boss fight. Instead its a raid fight.
Xal’ath is the raid boss set in the Karazan chess room. Her focus is split between fighting us and playing chess. We are focused on fighting her and ignoring the chess pieces but the chess board is still moving and trying to kill everyone. So we the player is not playing chess, but we are having to dodge the attacks from the pieces. The whole time Xal’atha is irritated and shouting out complaints.