Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
So first thing, first tier boss is a dragon. I expect end boss to be a dragon too but at least one of the mid tiers needs to be something else. We will need a palate cleanser. On one hand it could be something thematic like an elemental but I don't see us facing Ragnaros a THIRD time (unless we befriend him this time and put down Smolderon which would imo be cool). It could be something completely funny; I think we might see a kobold megadungeon or raid with Togwaggle since we are going underground (because after that Hearthstone movie trailer, King Togwaggle deserves his own raid). The most likely option though is whatever type of Aqir those dudes assaulting the Dracthyr were get their own boss. Could be there is a group of primordial aqir (Before they differentiated and followed the different old gods) somewhere. Or maybe they are whatever aqir were shaped by Xal if she was the fifth one. Finally we could have Odyn make a move.
For end boss I expect Murozond. Galakrond could be something else. He could be a penultimate boss. I think it could be cool to make him a world boss you fight using dragonriding all over the Dragon Isles. Give a server wide message when the Primalists unleash him and everyone joins in and fights him. Probably not something the servers can actually handle though.
I do not think Chromatus will be a boss this expac. We need to restock villains. We have a weyrn that is likely to go hostile to Alliance and Horde, would be cool if they find and unleash Chromatus who is very much the dracthyr Aspect (a chromatic experiment combining all dragonflights by Neltharion, only in Dragon form and stronger than any of the Aspects). Do that and we can have his faction show up in the next few expansions alongside the few people left (Azshara, Denathrius) so that they actually have familiar options to throw against us in zones as side enemies.
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We could find out that it just can no longer work and the Primalists broke it beyond repair. Or when it is fixed Nozdormu intervenes as it is his turning point to Murozond and becomes a super Aspect. Or the primalists use the power to bring back Galakrond only this time far stronger.
I really think the future of the Dragon flights should be beyond Aspects with all dragons being empowered. However Blizzard is extremely character focused so I doubt I'll get what I want.
Well, we got that one infinite in Uldaman who yeeted the disc that contained the info on how to empower them again into the timeline.
We'll definitely go on a treasure hunt to find it again.
And given the speech he gave, Super Murozond (or Superzond, if you will) is likely to happen.
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Well, that would feel be super bad. Work (almost) entire expansion to gather some artifices only for them to end up helping Big Boss. Would be worse than gathering Pillars in Legion to close ToS portal, only for Illidan to immediately lolopen gateway directly to Argus.
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Which again, is so boring, with it's 12yo of not even foreshadowing, but saying it will happen. I hope for a twist in the end.
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Sometimes, the light of the moon is a key to other spaces. I've found a place where, for a night or two, the streets curve in unfamiliar ways. If I walk here, I might find insight, or I might be touched by madness.
I think there was one raid tier were Mistweaver was mandatory and that solely due to the overtuning of Essence Font. Otherwise, Mistweaver is by far the most replaceable healing spec (next to Holy Priest) in raids. In Mythic+ they are neither the sought after healer.
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So, I love everyone’s response to this question so far and some really good ideas. However, here’s my opinion on lore/bosses/etc.
Personally, I hate the whole “big bad of an expansion” and “defeat big bad at the end of the expansion” theme. What would I prefer? Regardless of your personal feelings on Garrosh, Guldan, and Sylvanas, something I really liked about these characters was the fact that they were built up over the course of an expansion and moved into the next.
For example, Sargeras and the Burning Legion. It was SO cool to see that story build up in WC3, then we had the Burning Crusade, Wrathion questline in MoP, WoD Guldan and HFC ending, and finally, the Legion expansion and Argus.
Then, there’s Zovaal (the complete opposite). His character was basically “rickrolled” onto us at the VERY end of BFA (kind of), then introduced “properly” in SL and, unfortunately, discarded in SL (the same expansion), too. This felt awful.
What I don’t want to see in Dragonflight is another SL “big bad then kill”, and instead, a Burning Legion, Sylvanas, Guldan, or Garrosh situation where maybe Murozond is finally introduced and takes us into 11.0 similarly to Garrosh (MoP to WoD) and Guldan (WoD to Legion), and Sylvanas (BFA to SL). That would be awesome, again, IMO.
Personally, I think they should make Nozdormu resist whatever was going to make him turn to Murozand. Show that fate isn't something set in stone that can never be altered, but an ever shifting flow of causality dependent on the actions of those it concerns.
I just really hate the idea of prophetic visions always coming true. It means that there isn't any actual free will, if everything you do still leads to the same outcome.
When the time comes to re-empower the aspects, have Nozdormu step down and make Chromie or someone else aspect. This relinquishment of power is the one thing he probably never foresaw himself trying, and would lead to an altered end, one that he hasn't seen and cannot see going forward.
You should keep your info updated. The top two guilds in Sepulcher used two holy priests. MW was also used. The healer neither of the top two guilds used was Resto shaman. Also if you just take 30 seconds to look at the healer leaderboards for mythic+ it is mostly holy priests at the top. Your post is like a time capsule from Sanctum days a year ago that somehow just got slowly posted now.
I do not see Chromie as the leader of a flight, she seems to want to be free of that kind of responsibilities.
Focusing in Nozdormu... Do not know, I find really interesting to explore how he deals with his known fate, and we kind of know that he HAS to become Murozond, right? What other fate would he have, though? Retiring? Being a Cairne and do nothing in future expansions? I think that he could be an amazing villain, I just hope that they keep him alive and develop him properly.
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive.
Chromie becoming an Aspect is something that's been pushed by fans for a long time despite it not making much sense. She's a good character, but not a leader, and Nozdormu already has an established heir in Anachronos (and a bait-and-switch doesn't really make sense when the entire flight has time magic and should be aware of that much). It's just people pushing a well-known character over the sensible one that we don't see much.
As for Nozdormu escaping his fate... I think there's a good chance of that now given that the new Uldaman boss's dialogue suggests that Murozond's origin revolves around us completely failing our mission and him being the only Aspect. Also, though, the original lore for Murozond is that he was corrupted when he tried to prevent his own destined death. If that isn't changed then he might have to die to avoid becoming Murozond- maybe a heroic sacrifice that he refused to make in other timelines?
An heroic sacrifice would be a fitting end for him, but ONLY if he gets a lot of development in DF. If not, his death will not matter to most players, as we have barely interacted with him in almost 20 years. We barely know him.
Although the idea of him becoming an overpowered aspect is interesting, could still become a good villain and could push the rest of the dragons to interesting and unpredictable paths.
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