Guess what the next expansion will be.

[Dartz1979]

I'm gonna say south seas expansion.

[Wildberry]

Well since they are copying everything from there why bother.

Personally, I'd prefer anything that even remotely resembles Diablo gameplay be purged from the game at this point.

[Spunt]

Expect even more diablo 3 bleed over with Jay "Fuck that loser" Wilson working on wow.

[artline]

Personally, I'd prefer anything that even remotely resembles Diablo gameplay be purged from the game at this point.

YEs! Diablo is a disaster what they did with a so big potential... They just ruined the game. If i were blizzard manager i would have fired diablo team related to mechanics and gameplay, its terrible.

Hope we don't receive Paragon levels next expansion hahaha

[TriHard]

I hope we're going for N'zoth and Azshara, but I have a feeling we'll get a filler expansion that takes us to space.

[Snes]

We've had a green-themed expansion, so next up is purple fel. I mean void.

[TheHodedOne]

We've had a green-themed expansion, so next up is purple fel. I mean void.

2 actually. BoringLords of Garrisoenor and now Grey-Green: The theme park.

[Sansnom]

We've been to alternate timelines, the future and the past, and now the possibility of interstellar travel has opened up as well. This means that we can basically go ANYWHERE and ANYWHEN we want.


With that said, what do you think the next expansion will be?

The Universe or whatever cannot handle the power of the all artifacts put together. This will cause a cataclysmic event. The world as we know it ripped apart.

From the ashes a big bang occurs. A new Universe rises and everyone starts afresh in a new world at 0.

Seriously, I have no idea.

[TheHodedOne]

The Universe or whatever cannot handle the power of the all artifacts put together. This will cause a cataclysmic event. The world as we know it ripped apart.

From the ashes a big bang occurs. A new Universe rises and everyone starts afresh in a new world at 0.

Seriously, I have no idea.

That sounds very nice actually, we are basically more powerful than our class idols now (Thrall, LK, etc.), starting again at 0 sounds great.

[Saverem]

You lost me at "something will happen"...

I mean if you're going make a brand new thread to try to guess the next expansion, you HAVE to break it down to specific story details..
How the hell else would the story move in the first place?

It's kind of like making a cake and forgetting some key ingredients.. Do you expect your cake to look and perform well?

The specific isn't really important, it's what it leads to that is. The Blizz writers can easily come up with 100000000 excuses to have the players enter a ship or portal and then 100000000 other plot devices that can cause it to go wrong (unstable power, sabotage, traitor, attacked by void, etc).

So the specific isn't really important since they have a shit load of plot devices to choose from that can lead to us being stranded on an alien world.

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We're all going to go to Argus at the end of this expansion, and lore wise all the most powerful heroes of Azeroth will be off planet...

So I see the next expansion opening with us coming back only to find Azeroth being seized by Azshara and N'zoth.

Que old god/void lord expansion.

This is basically what I wrote in my opening thread, with the only difference being that we have an expansion in between Argus and N'Zoth/Void taking over Azeroth.

The expansion has us going to a new planet (we need another break from Azeroth, how many more continents can we discover...) and then coming back and dealing with the same old zones, except they are remodeled because they are all corrupted by void (a-la Cata remake, except limited only to a few zones, not everything).


I'd like to go to another planet in the next expansion though to give the Void time to corrupt. Would be silly if we spend only a few months in Argus (which is literally right next to Azeroth, we can literally see the zones from Argus, we'd notice if Kalimdor suddenly turned purple) and that is magically enough time to have the Void completely take over/corrupt the planet. It'll seem rushed.

[Wildberry]

We're all going to go to Argus at the end of this expansion, and lore wise all the most powerful heroes of Azeroth will be off planet...

So I see the next expansion opening with us coming back only to find Azeroth being seized by Azshara and N'zoth.

Que old god/void lord expansion.

In fairness, we were off-planet in BC and WoD.

[Aeluron Lightsong]

In fairness, we were off-planet in BC and WoD.

Thing is, we were mostly back on Azeroth when Sunwell patch came around.

[Wildberry]

Thing is, we were mostly back on Azeroth when Sunwell patch came around.

Then, sure. Prior to that? Off-world.

[Jokubas]

They've been making a big deal about this weird time-warping thing with how long Turalyon and stuff have been fighting. When we've gone off world previously, things have been normal. Perhaps this time, we'll return and find out a few years have passed.

[Nyel]

They've been making a big deal about this weird time-warping thing with how long Turalyon and stuff have been fighting. When we've gone off world previously, things have been normal. Perhaps this time, we'll return and find out a few years have passed.

Oh god please no time jump bs again. WoD was bad enough we don't need this again. I mean it sounds even valid but... no, just no.

[Soulwind]

Either Azshara and N'zoth (which at this point seems like a step down from having Titans in a raid...) or the Void.

After the power creep of the last two expansions, the Scourge, the Trade Princes of the Undermine, the pirates and trolls of the South Seas and other non-end-of-the-universe-threats don't feel like expansion material anymore.

And Blizzard won't dare using the Bronze or Infinite Dragonflight after WoD. They already made fools of themselves by not understanding the point of alternate universes, why would they try with the minefield of paradoxes that is "linear" timetravelling.

[Nyel]

Well since they are copying everything from there why bother.

They should copy the Necromancer and I'd be more than happy.

[Jokubas]

I just posted a bit ago about how the Void is pretty much the only remaining villain faction left (with N'Zoth and Azshara as major bosses), but that there are a lot of ways you can not only divide that up, but other hanging plots. The thing is though, Legion dealt with a large number of hanging plots itself. It's possible that the next expansion will deal with all of these.

As just a quick example, and for argument's sake, let's use another common speculation that next expansion will do with races what this expansion did with classes, here is a list of things the expansion could deal with:

Main Plot: N'Zoth has broken out of his prison and is extremely active, being way more of a danger than the more powerful old gods thanks to having no restraints on his power. We desperately have to stop him before he can either corrupt Azeroth or otherwise bring a major Void Lord presence into the physical universe.

Human Storyline: Resolves the fate of Kul Tiras.
Forsaken Storyline: Deals with Bolvar finally starting to make his moves (death knights break away on their own like before) and the return of Kel'thuzad.
Troll Storyline: Resolves the fate of Zandalar.
Worgen Storyline: Retakes Gilneas.
Night Elf Storyline: Deals with the return of Azshara who wants revenge on Malfurion and Tyrande.
Goblin Storyline: Kezan becomes a place that can be returned to.

[Nyel]

One thing I always wondered and never understood: why is there an Eredar in the Underbelly?

[Prime92]

My guess is: World of Warcraft: The Casino Royale.
I'm calling Ion will say those words at the announcement:
- The titanforge system has proven an awesome idea and WoW saviour.
- Random sockets are cool
- Random PvP gear has proven awesomtacular, every-fucking-body loves it
- Items can now titanforge up to +200 ilvls to spice things up
- Crafted trinkets can now roll negative values, there are winners but sadly there have to be some loosers too, I'm sorry but that's the Nevada style babe!
- Everybody gets an item called "Dice of Fate", you can roll it once a day. Spin the wheel of fortune and give yourself a chance of winning a random mythic Ilvl item!
- Every item can now roll random amounts of primary stats (1 - 10k) depending on your luck