As far as the Burning Legion goes I think the next expansion will be related to them. Though I don't believe we will end up killing Sargeras. We may end up finally getting our first in-game glimpses of him, but they'll hold off the ultimate battle. Most likely the end boss of the next Legion related expansion will be a fully realized Kil'jaeden (possibly on a newly updated Outland), where this time around we actually end him once and for all.
Purely speculation on my part, but maybe a couple of expansions later we find the location of the Legion's primary base world (I'm thinking Argus, or something in that vein), as well as some means of transporting our forces there. Thus for the first time in Warcraft history mortal beings wage an offensive war against the Legion. This would be after Velen's "Army of Light" plan comes to fruition, and would likely lead to us finally facing off against the Dark Titan himself.
to clean out the old gods we need to figure out the titans, who have weapons to put old gods to sleep... thats the closest we know of old gods dying.. which ain't even death its just a perma slumber unless someone yanks out the sword
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if anything I think will kill Kil'jaeden for good as he will most likely head the expansion, and maybe a small avatar fight against Sargeras who won't be there but with a fake type of body thingy like the first time we faced kil'jaeden, I would presume a fight sorta like the end of ToT where you face Ra-den but with sargeras avatar
The one thing that is certain is that ANY new expansion will be based off of Old Bosses already established in lore. The pattern of who the choose just depends on what is the complete polar opposite of the previous expansion's theme. Pandaria has been nothing but butterflies and rainbows on the surface. The next expansion will be shady as all hell.
Kil'Jaeden will return and we will fight him.
I really don't get how people can go, "Burning Legion Expansion? Sargeras! End of WoW!". They really don't have any imagination or lore knowledge at all?
Here's me just throwing some villains out there.
1. Dreadlord Leader and new Pit Lord Leader
2. Kil'jaeden, for real this time, with legs! =D
3. Sargeras
There we go! That's 3 Legion Expansions! They can always do more lore and new baddies among the Legion. Sure it can't go on forever, but heck, I see no problem with those three. More detail!
1. Legion invades Azeroth, the Pit Lord and Dreadlord leader leading the charge with commands from Kil'jaeden, so we'll have some interaction with him too, but no fight.
2. We go to a world of the Legion (Argus maybe) and take the fight to them, slaying Kil'jaeden.
3. We go to wherever Sargeras is (somewhere in the Twisting Nether perhaps, who knows where he's hiding) and defeat him with the power of some great force.
Easy.
This is a very good idea. But delivering content + building a new WoW requires a lot of effort. I would probably go for an expansion with an extra raid-tier to buy more time and to work towards the ultimate showdown. For the coming expansion(s) concentrate on a great involving story line and postpone game-changers for the new engine. Let the new engine take place in a different time and you got a great explanation why people have to start fresh.
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Sargeras' spirit and body aren't one atm though. I think his spirit is still locked in Sargeras' tomb, isn't it? On the lost isles, where Gul'dan died. Perhaps it will start with the legion attacking Azeroth again, and we'd fight em on isles and places in the great and south seas. Azshara could be trying to free him from his tomb, with the trident taken from Neptulon during the Vasjh'ir questline (I think at least its hinted towards that). We defeat her and push the legion back, but sargeras is free.
I'm not sure where to find it, but a blue once said that we will definitely 'feel' Sargeras' presence looming over us, long before we will face him and the full force of the Legion.
After this I'd expect another Old God expansion before we take the fight to the Legion
Edit: I may be wrong about his spirit being trapped in the tomb though. It might have just been the Avatar defeated by Aegwynn. But Azshara freeing him in some way from somewhere might be plausible. Why else haven't he been able to take physical form, if he isn't trapped somewhere.
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