Shadowlands is looking like an awesome xpac, but I am worried about what will come after. Personally, going from killing Argus, the titan of Unmaking to helping some farmers was quite a downstep. I fear that since Shadowlands will most likely end with us killing the Jailer or something similar we’ll be in a similar situation. However, there’s a way they can circumvent this. As we know, time flows differently in the Shadowlands.
When we exit the Shadowlands we could see Azeroth changed completly, but not into something we won’t recognize. We could see new factions of humans or other races. This is where my idea comes into play. Ever since Vanilla there’s been rumors of the South Seas, and since we haven’t seen the back of Azeroth I’m thinking that this could be a pirate kingdom. The reason no ships ever return is because they get captured and killed by the pirates. Think of Booty Bay, Freehold and the Southsea area in Tanaris for the rough theme of expansion. Raids could be against the pirate kings of each island kingdom, leading to us dismantling the entire pirate kingdom in the end of the expansion or something like that. We could see islands such as Tel’abim etc. No old god stuff, nothing ethereal, nothing like that.
The reason we go there could be because the Horde or the Alliance sent an important secretive shipment through the area but it never arrived, therefore forcing the faction to go in to finally find out why ships always dissapear and to get their ultra important shipment back (some mythical secret yadda yadda thing). It could be called “World of Warcraft: Mysteries of the South Seas, WoW: secrets of the Seas” or something similar
This is a very rough idea and I’m not sure how lore friendly it is, but it flew into my mind while questing down in the Southsea pirate area of Tanaris and I haven’t been able to let it go.
Ngl I appreciated going from “You’re the saviour of the universe waging intergalactical wars against alien races and through time itself” to “Welcome to drustvar adventurer. Something cursed this land and you’ll have to resurrect an old witch hunter brotherhood, uncover the dark past of these lands and prevent an great evil from reaching Azeroth”
(Yeah I kinda made it sound better than it actually is, but I hope you got my point here)
Farmer stuff can be better than being the chosen one imo.
Yeah confirmed by Ion that “it’s complex” so anything is possible and they already set the groundwork with the new leveling to do a decent time travel/skip (just move the required leveling experience for new players from BFA to SO for the 10-50 or 10-60 and no timelines issues like in cata.
Highly unlikely for two reasons imo
1/ It would be a shame to do a timeskip and work on unexplored stuff while there’s tons of opportunities to do a new EK/Kalimdor revamp and have parts of it be late game content. With zone phasing and Chromie time travel we won’t face the Cata issues so no harm in going banana with the updated zones
2/ Most of the South seas islands we’re slowly revealed over the course of WoW and there’s not much left to explore. Zuldazar and KT should’ve been part of it for instance bit now that’s BFA content.
Was initially planned to be the first xpack and expand on the Vanilla zones themselves, but Blizz decided it wasn’t cool enough so they went for BC.
Yea I know, it wouldn’t necessarily be the south seas just didn’t know what to call it. We could get Tel’Abim, Plunder Isle etc.
Just think a pirate expansion would be nice for a bit of a slow down, especially since there is a decent amount of stuff already set up to support it. I think that if we keep escalating…well, how do you one up killing death itself?
I would like something new. There is a lot of repentance in the game. 10.0 has been planed and i think it will close the arc they started with BfA. Your suggestion can happen at 11.0.
I feel it is a golden opportunity to tidy areas which need sorting out since Cata. If time has moved on, it would be odd to still have damaged areas etc. I wonder if we could have a cata 2 of sorts? Also repairing Azeroth and the Sword removed from Silithus etc.
A guild Hall would be pretty cool. Maybe have some sort of changeable portal that the GM can set to whatever content the guild is doing eg. My guild’s raid team is doing nyalotha, so my GM would set it to that.
I want a reset. Same world, but alternate universe. Jaina and Arthas would be finally together. Ruling over Lordaeron Until Kaelthas turn crazy and kidnap Jaina … Serious, I take everything. There are many possibilities. Maybe Yrel show up ? Just no more BFA please … Thanks to him I have more and more wow breaks.
There is ALOT we dont know about Azeroth, lots to use in xpacs.
Goblin super city - Undermine.
several islands! (Island expos just gave us a few)
reset / rebuild Teldrassil, Lordaron, Stratholme (we have been cleansing Strat for 15 years xD it should be clean by now) and maybe rebuild other places aswell. Maybe give the Kor’kron Orcs that still hangs around in Northen Barrens a day off. Maybe rebuild Booty Bay, they have had seaweed on their roofs for several years now xD There is ALOT to do!
Plus all the small areas on the outskirts of Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms. There are dwarven farmlands on the east sea side all along the coast of EK =P
Plus, where did Azshara go? Is Illidan coming back with Sargeras head on a pike? Is there any romance between Lor’themar and Thalyssra? or Anduin and Taelia? Sooo many possebilities!
I think the ‘south sea’ expansion has sailed (pun intended) with BfA. If it would have been in any expansion, that would’ve been the one. But instead we got a no-previous-lore garbarge heap island and a hole in the sea. And then 2 old zones rehashed into something ugly and irritating. Yay.
Until Kaelthas turn crazy and kidnap Jaina … Serious, I take everything. There are many possibilities. Maybe Yrel show up ? Just no more BFA please … Thanks to him I have more and more wow breaks.
