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Warrior-Magi
As for 9.0 My three guesses are...
Ny’alotha/Black Empire: underground/underwater continent leading to N’Zoth, providing he’s not the end boss of BFA.
Scourge 2.0: anti-hero, Bolvar “the Lich King” Fordragon helps us while duping us to stop the Shadowlands, plenty of familiar dead faces return. This was my likely guess up until quite recently.
Dragon Isles: plenty of small teases and well Islands are all the rage now days for new “continents”. This is what I’d like the most of three guesses I have, from a world building perspective it’s the most fresh/new and relatively open ended.
Haha thanks re: back!
So with Nzoth is the thinking more that 8.3/8.3.5 is fighting it and some sort of re-established Black Empire, or it more like he is awoken and escapes at the end of the expansion, leading directly into a new expansion? I do have to say, as someone who has played since day 1, I'm not personally super-excited to spend an entire new expansion messing with the Old Gods. But I suspect many/most players started far more recently (NOT A BAD THING OR AN INSULT PEOPLE!!! ), so are maybe a little less fatigued by the whole concept or even actively enthused.
Re: Sylvanas, based on what I've played since coming back and the lore I've been looking at and so on, I'm kind of still making Sylvanas for making some kind of attempt to wrest power from Bolvar. She's obviously lost her marbles (far more so than previously), and has become not a self-interested nihilist, but an actual maniac, so her tenure as warchief is drawing to a close. The NEs eliminated another one of her dwindling number of Valkyr, and so it seems like she's either go to go out in a spectacular fashion or attempt to LK it up. Plus Bolvar has got a whole lot more active.
Ahhh interesting. When I was last around the speculation was more like:
BfA: Nzoth will rise and be defeated
Next Expansion: Lich King 2
Next Next Expansion: Void Lords
Which I have to admit was never hugely together/logical, just popular.
So I guess my question to you and anyone else is what does Nzoth in 8.X and/or the next expansion actually look like? What would a Black Empire expansion look like? Is it focused in a new set of zones, or is a more Cataclysm-ish deal, with either scattered new zones, or revamped zones (possibly only at max level)?
i think that if we are going to deal with death themes, it will be specifically Death and not Undeath. Might seem like semantics but it's different in Warcraft.
Bwomsamdi doesn't deal in Undeath for example, just death itself. So i don't think it would have to be LK2 perse.
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I might dare to already guess. This kinda feels for me like a week, where the Devs silently develop and we will see no build. Can't really explain why, just have the feeling, but would love to be wrong.
I'm definitely in the "let's wrap N'zoth up with 8.3" camp. I've had enough Old God nonsense for a while. I don't want another expansion with Old God themes. (BfA has really been an Old God expansion in disguise. I mean, the themes were present in both Zandalar and Kul Tiras.)
Totally agree. The problem currently with Old Gods is just the amount of enemies and their differences. N'Zoth kinda overuses the Faceless, K'thir and C'Thraxxi models. Besides insectoid buildings and cites, we also never really saw how the landscape would look in a black imperial way.
Few years ago I were predicting something like that:
8.0 Black Empire expac - South Seas - Zandalar (Zul) -> Kul Tiras (Jaina) -> Nazjatar (Azshara) -> Nyalotha (N'zoth) - apart from whole H/A, I think I were pretty close
9.0 Scourge 2.0 - Bolvar - Necromancer hero class with Kel'Thuzad as leader - cleansed Stratholme as neutral capital - zones: Northern Lordareon (untouched), Northern Plaguelands, Eastern Quel'Thalas, Dragon Isles - patch zones in Old Kingdom under Northend - we finally learn about Void Lords
10.0 big finale - awakening of Azeroth - Tinker class with titan theme - expac "continent" in space - final Light vs. Void battle
But after that we learned that Light may be "evil" (from our perspective) as well + Death may be much bigger threat than just Scourge. Also if their plan to squish levels, they will continue WoW for much longer, even if story become totally ridicolous (but this a fate or every story that drag too long, never seen tv show that was "great" beyond season 6 - at best).
Have you been playing BFA at all? All of the Zandalar questing concludes with old god stuff, an Kul Tiras uses old god imagery in every building they own, not to mention it all more or less builds up old god stuff. It so rampant from day one that it’s more old god than it ever was faction war.
Zek'voz and Mythrax were the only really old god type things in Zandalar besides Uldir as facilitie, which has stand as it's own plot. Also G'Huun is mere just a false Old God and was planning stuff on his own.
As for Kul Tiras, even the Male KT's have a joke about the squids and stuff in their buildings, which is just more than a typical style element for maritime nation with monster hunters. Just the segment in Stormsong with the Shrine of Storms is Old God related.
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Warrior-Magi
O'thanks Blizzard for proving me wrong: 8.2.0.30329 incoming.
Edit: 600mb, well still a nice number.
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I took the whole Xal'atath thing as one of those moments where once again gameplay and..well engagement is more important. Because well....Lightsong would of just left the black blade on the ground or threw it into the ocean(Hence why I just put it into my head). I liked the questline but not necessarily making the player character look stupid(I wouldn't be but this is still a video game at the end of the day).
I know people like "Knaifu" but I fear N'zoth more for different reasons. He scares me more and Xal'atath just makes me feel like an evil void being is flirting with me.
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According to the maps, the raid looks long, but not really big. And great Raid Test! More and more a early-to-mid June Release seems possible.
Last edited by Alga; 2019-05-07 at 11:18 PM.
Welp Mechagnomes have a dance
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