Hello everyone. We had alphabet soup for lunch today. It was very tasty so I ate a lot. Unfortunately it was too much and I threw up on the floor. As I fetched a mop and was ready to clean it up, I noticed the letters spelled out an expansion concept. Since leak season is on I figured I would share it:
WORLD OF WARCRAFT: LORDS OF DEATH
Alexstrasza the life binder summons the heroes of Azeroth to the Dragon Isle to share with them a terrible news. The cycle between life and death is breaking. Souls do not pass on and ghosts flood the land. The reason? The same being who clouded Vol'Jin on the Broken Shore and elected Sylvanas as Warchief.
Garrosh Hellscream.
When he died, he did not take it lightly. His soul, filled with vengeance was planning sceaming and gaining strength. With likeminded orc souls he conspired and managed find a way to extend a hand to the realm of the living. He hated Vol'Jin for his rebellion, so he made sure he dies on the Broken Shore and nominated Sylvanas cause he knew she would undo everything Vol'Jin did or wanted to do.
But that's not all. He wants to be the ruler of the Shadowlands and he is gathering new souls into his ghostly army. His conquest against the various death gods is what causes the imbalance in the mortal realm.
For her part, Sylvanas knew about Garrosh. Her excuse for her super nazi war is that if everyone becomes undead, no souls enter the Shadowlands, and Garrosh can't have his army. Obviously she was stopped so this plan didn't work.
What about the Old Gods? Patience, that will come soon enough. Now, Xalatath (the spirit) will join the expedition into the Shadowlands under a disguise and use this opportunity to gather dead members of the Twilight Hammer cult.
Features:
Level squish. You start as 60 and level to 65.
New class: Necromancer
Starts at 40
available to all races except the two draenei
3 specs. One healer, one dot based dps and one pet based tank
New neutral race: Naga
Without Azshara to lead them the Naga are without purpose and are seeking a new one. Anduin welcomes them with open arms, while the Horde would rather have them at their side than as enemies. Suits them just fine.
Available classes: Cant be rogue, monk, death knight, druid or demon hunter
New zone: Dragon Isle
New continent: Shadowlands
New excuse to grind: The Lantern
An artifact quality trinket. There are several beings that hold domain over death in the Shadowlands. You offer your trinket to one of them. This gives you a talent tree like the one artifact weapons had, only slightly bigger. Doing one for each spec would have taken enormous resources and would deprive players of choice, so another route was chosen. There are two kind of gifts the Lords of Death could give. One that fits your class or one that fits your role (tank, healer, physical dps, magic dps). As a shadowpriest you might not like the general priest talent tree, so you pick the magic dps one. It's up to you.
New flight system: Each zone in the Shadowlands has rare mobs that guard it and prohibit flying. Find them and kill them all to enable to you to fly before the first content patch but after you already experienced the leveling content on foot.
Obvious stuff:
Extensive class revamp again
More quests, dungeons and everything
No garrison or mission table
I would add more stuff but a world revamp would just extend the workload without adding much. So no world revamp.