Story :
-After the defeat of N'zoth , As a final act of Defiance , He will
Curse the players , this will be like the effects of defeating him , just like when Yshaarj died
-This curse begins to spread across all of Azeroth , killing many people in the process
-8.3.5 will focus on the curse and there will be quests for it
-if the curse spread too much , all living beings on Azeroth could die , making the planet empty
This will be the Story of the 8.3.5 patch which will lead us to the next expansion
Story of the next expansion :
Key characters : Wrathion -sylvanas - anduin - bwonsamdi - Lorthemar -odyn
-We will Travel to the Titan Islands , a new place that is filled with secrets , there we would know more about the history of the titans and their machinations , How we would cure the curse , etc
-Players will use a titan device , where they will slowly learn more information , and unlock new powers , This will be the new Artifact traits/Azerite powers/essences , called Path of the titans (the scrapped cataclysm feature)
-Wrathion will be the one who is associated with the titan stuff , not magni
-on one of the zones we learn that sylvanas has already known how to purge this curse , we learn of much of her plans , and how to become immune to it , sylvanas is the important character here
-Another zone is the story of a Corrupted titan watcher , we learn some secrets that leads to his corruption , and how we can avoid losing our sanity , wrathion is the important character here
-Another zone is a zone that revolves around the people who died from the curse , How their spirits and souls is serving an unknown power , which is later revealed , this is a death themed zone , Bwonsamdi and anduin players key roles here
-Another zone is blood elf themed , where lorthemar plays a big role , here the enemies have reached huge knowledge of magic and power , and have transformed alot of things into magic , even the environment , We stop them before they become very powerful
-The last leveling zone is about the Army of the Black empire like , where they imprison one of our allies who after years of experimenting was able to finally know how to deal with them , He dies and a cinematic plays where he say the secret in his final breath
The rest of the expansion aka later patches will focuses on sylvanas , wrathion and bolvar and transition into Shadowlands basically
Expansion features :
1) New continent : The Titan fields , formed of 5 zones , and 1 max lvl zone
2) New Neutral race : Titan watcher (Male look like titan keeper hezrel , female looks like maiden of vigilance)
3) New feature : Path of the Titans : You will be able to gain new powers and align yourself to titans and titan watchers , There is many themes here , you can gain storm abilities from storm titan , fire abilities from fire titan aggramar , earth titan , arcane titan etc , Any class can choose any titan , you will gain active abilities themed after the titan , you will also gain an armor set based oñ the titan theme
4) New talent system , Now instead of 3 options on talents , you will have 2 options , but more rows , thus overall gaining more Talents , this is to lessen pruning , Plus there will be a new Minor Talents system specific for Specializations , Dungoens , raids , and zones
5) New feature : Cross-faction , You will be able to play PvE content with the other faction players , though if you toggle warmode on , You cant and will be able to Kill him
6) New feature : Untapped power : An instanced content where you return to old zones and gather info about many things , they are similar to island expedition , but they will be part of zones , You fight AI , you will work in the zone to solve a mystery
7) Level cap increased to 125
8) 9 new dungoens at launch and 1 raid of 9 bosses¥
9) New Itemization system : Upgrading armor instead of Titanforging , Azerite armor removed , Loot is made more accesible and less RNG
10) Many new minor changes and QoL improvement
-There will be a new arena bracket , 2v2 as double dps , where if u que as double dps , you would face only doube dps , if you qued healer dps , you get vs healer dps
-Seasonal affix , Tyrranical and Fortified removed , New mythic+ affixes added
-Graphical update to Alterac valley
-and much more