What do you think the raid dungeons between Ulduar and Icecrown will be?

[Phokas]

Naxxramas > OS/EoE > Ulduar > Zul'Drak/Nerubian Raid > Icecrown.
Archivon 1 > Archivon 2 > Chamber of Aspects 2


Difficulty level comparison.

Naxx = Kara
Os/EoE = Gruuls/Mag
Ulduar = SSC
Zul'Drak/Nerub = Hyjal / BT
Icecrown = Sunwell


at least that's what I wish for the difficulty levels, will probably be more like

Naxx = kara
OS/EoE = ZA
Ulduar = gruuls
Zul'drak / Nerub = Mag
Ice crown = SSC

Nothing is ever planned to be as hard as Sunwell. GC stated himself that Sunwell was way to hard for the general wow population, and it wasn't quite fair that the lifeless top 5% hardcore got to see it and thats it.

I imagine Icecrown will be in similiar difficulty as Hyjal/BT.




I have been suspecting that the mystery raid would be Grim Batol for a while. It just makes to much sense, with The Black Dragonflight talking about 'The master' on Netherwing ledge, the recent release of the WoW lore book about Grim Batol, and with the destruction of the evil of the Blue Dragonflight, why not finish off the Black while we are slaying dragons?

[Nezoia]

I don't know how many times I have to repeat it.

Icecrown will be the Sunwell of WoTLK.
Blizzard stated this at Blizzcon (Or somewhere else).

Actually they didn't, but they hinted there wouldn't be a "bonus" dungeon, such as Naxxramas 1.0 and Sunwell Plateau were.

They intend to have the next expansion ready within a reasonable amount of time after the launch of Icecrown Citadel.

In regards to Grim Batol, next expansion is likely to focus on the revamp of Azeroth, as they pretty much used up all current landmass, except a few islands.

With the phasing technology it allows them to easily shift things, so I think next expansion will be more focused towards "returning to the roots". With all this focus on Northrend, it's time to go home and clear up in a world who been left to itself for 20 years.

Gilneas, Grim Batol, Modern day Hyjal, Kezan (Undermine), or perhaps some lore-wise larger focus on the Maelstrom.

Hopefully after Ulduar they can keep content comming more streamline, because the break from having cleared all current content (I killed 25man Malygos the 27th November), and until the launch of patch 3.1 been way to long.

To speculate what the patch 3.2 dungeon is, I'd say it'll be focused on the Scourge Campaign, ie. something related to Nerubians and Scourge.

It'll not be Grim Batol, and it'll not be another Caverns of Time dungeon.

[faris1]

First blizz isnt going to do 2 instances of the same theme in one expansion, so no uldum. Its not going to be related to the lich king specifically and probably not the dragons as the main theme.

However there's is one area not being covered that played a somewhat big part of questing for both horde and alliance. The Nathrezim specifically Mal'ganis not being dead and the fact that Varimathras got a new model. Mal'ganis and his control over the scarlet onslaught plus they have similar goals in over throwing the lich king. Varimathras got a new model in the expansion, looking oddly a lot like resurrected kael'thas, sylvanas and wyrnn both being large parts of the event getting new models but no other city leaders getting updates.

I cant really figure out where but my money is on it being something with Varimathras, Ma'lganis and the scarlet onslaught.

[Whole]

Emerald dream and another troll type thing similar to ZG or ZA. What I think they should do is each month pick an old 5man dungeon and make it a lvl 80 heroic. Just for something to do since they're just sitting there. Have some kind of interesting loot to gain from it too.

[kriS411]

emerald dream will be lv90+ content, gilneas and grim batol lv80+.

I have no clue either, but alot of suggestions here we will first see in one of the next addons.

[RestoRiven]

a Troll instance ofcourse. either that or possibly fill some of those old world gaps Grim Batol. we're dealing with alot of dragons so i don't see why not.

PLEASE GOD NO!!!

Zul a Zul a Zul. Yes very original. How about they make the bosses each take on an animal aspect? YES!

[RestoRiven]

i say make all the classic wow and tbc raids and dungeons lvl 80 specific ;D is it tooooooo much to ask?????????

Sorry man I'm exalted with Hydraxian. If MC/BWL is ever part of progression again I'll likely quit. I've spent way too much time in those instances to see them every week again.

As far as the next raid I'd like to see Jotunheim. Theres just too much going on over there for it not to be already planned out.

I will say that likely in WotLK there will be no new instance portals in vanilla WoW. Too much to do in Northrend IMO.

[Iron]

Naxxramas > OS/EoE > Ulduar > Zul'Drak/Nerubian Raid > Icecrown.
Archivon 1 > Archivon 2 > Chamber of Aspects 2


Difficulty level comparison.

Naxx = Kara
Os/EoE = Gruuls/Mag
Ulduar = SSC
Zul'Drak/Nerub = Hyjal / BT
Icecrown = Sunwell


at least that's what I wish for the difficulty levels, will probably be more like

Naxx = kara
OS/EoE = ZA
Ulduar = gruuls
Zul'drak / Nerub = Mag
Ice crown = SSC

If you see Ulduar as being an SSC/TK in the time aspect of things then blizzard is moving extremely fast compared to BC.

[norfin]

I dont really have much to go by but this idea just randomly popped into my head. I was thinking about what would be could be some suitable themes for the 3.2 raid (naxx = scourge, ulduar = titans etc) and pretty much came up with:

-Azjol, nice but not many major nerubians left
-Furbolgs/Vordrassil, just a random idea that i liked, never been a raid involving furbolgs however the failed world tree is pretty much linked to yogg-saron so nothing really to build a story around
-Dragon aspects, strongest contender imo with both Deathwing and/or the Emerald Dream/Nightmare to build on.
-Trolls, unoriginal but

Location was also something i dwelled on, going through zones that don't have an existing raid in it already, planned or exisiting.
-Grizzly Hills would obviously suit something for furbolgs/Vordrassil however there isn't really any suitable location for it besides underground, and that just leads to more yogg-saron business.
-Zul'Drak has a very large and unused collection of buildings and would be where any troll related raid would be however unless Blizz come up with something new for fighting trolls then I don't see us storming in there anytime soon (that giant snake tail in gun'drak does have my curiosity however).
-Howling fjord; nothing I could think of to go here, we've already killed the leader of the Vrykul.
-Scholazar; same as HF, no major THING here besides Titan lore which will be covered in ulduar.

The Chamber of Aspects, imo, seems like the only sensible option for 3.2's mystery raid at this time, involving a major raid with a sanctuary rather than just being a small one like OS. With Deathwing located down in Grim Batol (and no idea about would the Ruby Sanctuary would involve) I would guess that the Emerald Sanctuary is the most likely option where we finally get to deal with the Emerald Dream and the nightmare of corruption and help Ysera etc. Personally I think the emerald dream would make a lousy/impractical expansion as the Dream is mearly the Azeroth that would have existed had it not been influenced by sentient life and would be much more suited to a major raid zone (or instance hub, much like CoT). Just my thoughts/ramblings

If you see Ulduar as being an SSC/TK in the time aspect of things then blizzard is moving extremely fast compared to BC.

BC was released with the 2nd tier raids included, unlike Wrath.

[cestrs]

i'm afraid it's too early for grim batol.

i'm really afraid it will another troll fest and oh god am i sick of those. i do hope blizz will hear the general playerbase and forget that motive for at least this expansion.

[Trolgar]

PLEASE GOD NO!!!

Zul a Zul a Zul. Yes very original. How about they make the bosses each take on an animal aspect? YES!

DONT FUCK WITH TROLL TRADITION, ASSHOLE!

Theres alot of trolls on this very internets ready to fuck you the hell up.

[noobadrood]

There is no reason for it to be a troll instance. We already did everything there was to do in Gun'Drak, Zul'Drak etc.

The only POSSIBLE troll instance would be a one man boss (ala magi) of the IceTroll King. He is the only remaining Ice Troll. Even all their gods are dead. But i don't think he actually lives in Zul'Drak anyway (maybe wrong).

I really think we will see a CoT related to early Arthas/Lich King stuff, probably featuring Anub'Arak and some other lore characters.

Don't challenge WoW Lorelol devs...unless you want to see Sen'jin coming from the depths (yeah, he should be dead, but you know how it works with dead chars in WoW) with an army of murlocs!

[couchatron]

Grim Batol.

Too many hints and pokes at fighting Deathwing in blue posts over the past year 1/2.

In addition, Wyrmrest Temple still has alot of unopened portals which lead to different aspects.

If anything we are about to fight alot of dragons, and possibly a new 10 man in Zul'Drak which will further advance some storylines of Hakkar. This will bring us to our next xpac...

EMERALD DREAM