The Expansion after Legion?

[purebalance]

Naga as first stage of the expansion with it then moving on to old gods as others have said seems plausible.

However I wouldn't be mad with an entirely naga-focused expansion. I think Azshara in of herself has the potential to be a "big bad" for one expac, and misc. threats can be dropped in between all the naga raids (such as what they did with Emerald Nightmare and the whole Helya business in Legion.)

Not even remotely. The headcanon in regards to Azshara is so astounding. She's either on par with or weaker than Malfurion.

[DaHomieG]

I think it goes without saying but Old Gods and Void Lords would obviously be in the same expansion; not two separate.

[Ealyssa]

Army of the light and Sargeras/Azeroth/Illidan

Void lords and gods will come after.

[Deleted]

N'zoth and Azshara as the main villains.

I mean there really is no better chance now. After Cataclysm it would have worked because of the overall theme of doom that surrounded Azeroth. After Pandaria it would have worked because hey, we are on the southern end of the planet, so South Seas? Now that we got distracted by the Legion for two expansions, and the current one heavily hints to darkness and shadow themes, I think it's really about time.

Although, I won't mind another Scourge expansion later on, provided that it didn't' feel very similar to WotLK despite that being my favorite expansion to date.

[Dastreus]

My gut is leaning towards a sea-themed expansion with Kul Tiras, Undermine and Azshara as the final boss. We'll get our own sailing ship. It'll sound awesome. The promise will be something as cool as Assassin's Creed IV Black Flag, but the novelty will wear off in a week when we realise it's basically a floating Garrison that's required for endgame that we'll need to grind out and sink several million Single-Expansion-Arbitrary-System-Magic-Fun-Points into to make viable.

L O L

It's funny because it's true.

[Raetary]

Its gonna be an old god expac with n'zoth and azshara.

There's absolutely no doubt about that.

[Darkarath]

Wow¡ So many things to say about this topic, let's go¡

Assuming we defeat Sargeras on Argus in 7.3, my guess is the fabled South Seas expansion focused on Azshara and N'Zoth.

I agree with you and you gave some very good reasons. It seems so clear that next expansion will be focused in Azshara and N'Zoth, that they may yet surprise us and follow another path.

In case that someone its interested, I made a post about a possible BIG revamp in the next expansion, because I think that it's the perfect opportunity for it. Here it is: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...massive-revamp

you're kidding me right.

You're doing the first zone of ARgus in this expansion .not the whole planet. So blizzard can churn out new content faster, they are giving you the first zone as the patch in the previous expansion, .. it' just to roll out faster

Ion himself said that 7.3 will feature Argus, a huge zone, obviously not the full planet. He also said that an expansion about Argus won't make sense because all zones would be corrupted, and it will be boring.

I think that if they wanted to do it, an expansion focused in Argus would be perfectly pausible, but it seems very clear that they aren't going to do it. In any case, if they decided to do it, it won't be the next expansion, because they always change themes, and we had enough Burning Legion for a while.

I am seriously hoping that Legion is the last or next to last expansion for WoW. They're really running out of ideas for big bads, with the Old Gods/Void Lords being the only real threat left at all after Legion (Sargeras is still left of course, unless we somehow take care of him before the end of Legion). I also feel like WoW has just ran its course. I've been a diehard Warcraft fan ever since Warcraft II, but I feel like they've REEEEAAAAALLLLLYYYYY milked this for all it's worth. If they continue on with Warcraft, I really hope they make a Warcraft 4 and take it back to its RTS roots for a change.

0 chances of that man. WoW is going to be alive for a very long time. As long as they make money they will keep making expansions. They have so many possible choices to go, and Chronicles books keep expanding the lore, so, unless something really bad happens, WoW will live.

But I agree that a Warcraft 4 will be amazing, and I think that they can do it without any problem, even with WoW alive. Warcraft lore is so vast that they can go to other places while we keep doing our stuff in WoW.

Not even remotely. The headcanon in regards to Azshara is so astounding. She's either on par with or weaker than Malfurion.

People keep underestimating Azshara. I wrote in another post, Mannoroth shit himself with just a glance of Azshara, and I quote WoA book: ''Azshara is a force against which only his lord and Archimonde would prove superior". And yeah, his lord is Sargeras. Plus Azshara has been empowered by the Old Gods for millenia and god knows if she has been playing with the remains of the Well of Eternity in the bottom of the sea. Plus she has Neptulon's Tridents, so she could sink continents if she wants.

[Stardrift]

WoW is in need of a good ol' pirate themed expansion detailing the Naga, N'Zoth, Undermine and Kul'Tiras.

[anaxie]

nope she is weaker than archimonde and kil'jaeden if we kill sargeras in this expansion
we even need a bigger bad than the old gods

Sargeras becomes the void lords dark titan at the end of legion.

Also azshara and nzoth and a flood of faceless corrupting the minds of everyone is in fact a legion scale threat

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Wow¡ So many things to say about this topic, let's go¡



I agree with you and you gave some very good reasons. It seems so clear that next expansion will be focused in Azshara and N'Zoth, that they may yet surprise us and follow another path.

In case that someone its interested, I made a post about a possible BIG revamp in the next expansion, because I think that it's the perfect opportunity for it. Here it is: http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...massive-revamp



Ion himself said that 7.3 will feature Argus, a huge zone, obviously not the full planet. He also said that an expansion about Argus won't make sense because all zones would be corrupted, and it will be boring.

I think that if they wanted to do it, an expansion focused in Argus would be perfectly pausible, but it seems very clear that they aren't going to do it. In any case, if they decided to do it, it won't be the next expansion, because they always change themes, and we had enough Burning Legion for a while.



0 chances of that man. WoW is going to be alive for a very long time. As long as they make money they will keep making expansions. They have so many possible choices to go, and Chronicles books keep expanding the lore, so, unless something really bad happens, WoW will live.

But I agree that a Warcraft 4 will be amazing, and I think that they can do it without any problem, even with WoW alive. Warcraft lore is so vast that they can go to other places while we keep doing our stuff in WoW.



People keep underestimating Azshara. I wrote in another post, Mannoroth shit himself with just a glance of Azshara, and I quote WoA book: ''Azshara is a force against which only his lord and Archimonde would prove superior". And yeah, his lord is Sargeras. Plus Azshara has been empowered by the Old Gods for millenia and god knows if she has been playing with the remains of the Well of Eternity in the bottom of the sea. Plus she has Neptulon's Tridents, so she could sink continents if she wants.

Chronicles havnt expanded the lore beyond VOID lords. At this point its hitting the first and second war with volume two then retelling wc3 and WoW in book format.

The lore is not infinite it quite literally had an end and its very close

[A Chozo]

I still hope that my weird Old God Meteor concept will actually be the next expansion.

[Xeroz]

The 7.3 patch really leads up to "while we're on Argus, Azshara and N'zoth will overrun everything"

[Volendrung]

People keep underestimating Azshara. I wrote in another post, Mannoroth shit himself with just a glance of Azshara, and I quote WoA book: ''Azshara is a force against which only his lord and Archimonde would prove superior". And yeah, his lord is Sargeras. Plus Azshara has been empowered by the Old Gods for millenia and god knows if she has been playing with the remains of the Well of Eternity in the bottom of the sea. Plus she has Neptulon's Tridents, so she could sink continents if she wants.

I think the only reason she was so powerful before was because of the well. Now that it's gone, she's probably significantly less powerful than she was before. Not to say she won't be a worth adversary, but the only reason she'll be strong NOW is because of N'zoth's gifts. She would have probably been Jaina-level if it hadn't been for the well and N'zoth.

[iamthedevil]

3 of your 5 choices are literally the same thing....

[lesty]

I don't really mind or care, as long as it stays on Azeroth. They abandon too many characters and storylines when we go off-world

A Cataclysm 2.0 where we update every single story/character might be cool, I think it would go over better than Cataclysm if they really make use of the scaling technology and make the entire world relevant.

[Lordpete]

Keep in mind that Odyn is back from HOV and he's probably pissed at someone/something on azeroth. I'm pretty sure he will be part of next expansion.

[tommyhil622]

After we defeat the legion, and go to argus we return to Azeroth.

Nzoth's prison is finally shattered as a direct result of the events that transpired with the legion invasion.

He is actively working to corrupt azeroth and turn her into a dark titan. He begins to influence the center of powers around the world starting with the new Lich King. He powers his power into Azhara and she launches an assault into the souther seas and has her sights set on a power artifact that is linked to the dormant titan. Nzoth takes advantage of the different orders that arose from the legion invasion and creates a massive civil war. The Death Knights continue to get influenced by the lich king and stages attacks against the Paladin and Priest orders. Remenants of the burning legion align themselves with Nzoth after the collapse of the legion. IDK.

[un_known]

I'm going to speculate and say that while we're on argus, another cataclysm will fall, only this time it'll be in the form of the old gods that had been released after using the 5 pillars of creation against the legion and we find out we fucked up when we get back

[Felrane]

I'm going to speculate and say that while we're on argus, another cataclysm will fall, only this time it'll be in the form of the old gods that had been released after using the 5 pillars of creation against the legion and we find out we fucked up when we get back

I am kind of hoping we fail at Argus. At the last moment of our defeat Faceless/Naga come through the portal and finish what we started. We escape but its really N'zoth that takes out one of the Legions main base. Once we come home a huge landmass had risen from the ocean(n'zoths body)leading into the south seas expansion.

[Explorer]

95% that it's N'Zoth (Nightmare) AND Azshara (Naga) simultaneously.

Enemies will be: Nazjatar empire, Twilight Hammer, faceless and nightmare creatures, Zandalari under Zul, maybe some other sea creatures, like undead/drowned ships/pirates, reanimated by N'Zoth.
So there will be a great lot of enemies to fight, not just one single theme.

[Chemical Ellis]

I don't think it's likely, but the expansion I'd love to see is a return to the Eastern Kingdoms. A story that doesn't devolve into monster of the week power creep and cosmic, earth shattering forces, but rather gives satisfying, effective resolution to some of our most long-standing story issues, and deals with warfare, politics, cultural shift - with inspiration from the RTS games.


Just to be silly, here's my dream expansion (which would obviously never happen, but it's fun to think about)~

Eastern Kingdoms

Zones: Kul Tiras, Zul'Dare, Crestfall, Balor, Greenwood, Tor'Watha, Channel Islands. Cleanup some of the Cataclysm (fix broken structures, remove natural disasters, alter Deathwing/Twilight's Hammer-specific quests/story), and rework Quel'Thalas.

Setup: Sylvanas' arc that began in Cataclysm has come to its head. She's unlocked a source of power (scourge-style necromancy? something Titan?) that frees her of the need for diplomacy, and she's begun an aggressive campaign to retake all of Lordaeron and Quel'Thalas she believes belongs to her people, by raising armies from Azeroth's bloodiest battlegrounds.
Opposite her is Kul Tiras, a xenophobic human kingdom that seeks no less than the complete genocide of orc and troll kind. While it is ostensibly led by Jaina Proudmoore, she is strangely absent, and we discover over the course of the story that she is being held prisoner, while the island nation is actually led by the puppet regent of Kel Thuzad - who desires to raise his own undead army and leverage Kul Tiras' position in the Alliance to a full scourge takeover.
This story would examine the long-simmering hatreds and oft-forgotten fallout from the Second War, and would put the spotlight on both living veterans and the spectres of their long-fallen comrades, and give more sympathetic examinations of the groups devastated in their aftermath - forest trolls, ogres, gnomes, high elves, etc. This story would give a final, major blowout to the Horde-Alliance faction war, before canonically ending it (and allowing us to more believably move on to bigger threats).

one of the following

New Hero Class (if it has a new class): Dark Ranger. The spirits of High Elf and Blood Elf rangers who have used their banshee powers to re-inhabit dead bodies, this class is available to all races (as all races have corpses that could be reanimated). Signature class gameplay includes multiple spells to manipulate enemies' wills, the ability to conjure multiple types of limited-duration undead minions, switching into banshee form to avoid physical damage and become a more effective curser, and siphoning life between units. Features an archery spec (focused on physical ranged damage), a banshee spec (centered on switching between banshee and physical forms and magically manipulating minions and enemies), and a healing spec (focused on summoning multiple types of minions and siphoning their health, armor, vitality into allies).

New Races (if it has new races): Ogres. At the end of the Second War, most of the Horde's ogre clans were abandoned and left to go feral. One clan, the sole inhabitants of Zul'Dare, has spent the ensuing decades growing wise in their study of the grand arcane library in the island's derelict human-elven fortress, and they'ce come to value their isolation. When a Gilnean fleet arrives to retake the long-abandoned fortress, it is with the aid of a troop of orcs and goblins that the ogres are able to secure their home, and they agree to rejoin the Horde.

High Elves. Uncomfortable with their reliance on their enemies in the face of growing faction tensions, a High Elf expedition reclaims a piece of Quel'Thalas at Greenwood, and attempts to create a new arcane and holy well to sustain themselves. In the course of their quest, they face off against Blood Elves and undead, and receive the aid of Draenei and Wildhammer Dwarves. Their area is blocked from the Ghostlands, and features portals to Stormwind and Aerie Peak.