There’s also The Collapse:
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“Continuity exists to enhance a story, not to tie the hands of its creators.”
World of Warcraft: The Collapse
Cinematic opens on the sands of Tanaris. In the distance is the entrance to the Caverns of Time. Shot holds on low music, no movement. Suddenly a dead bronze dragon falls to the ground. Then another, then another, and another, and another.
Camera pans down through the sands to show the Caverns collapsing into ruin, the great central hourglass shattered. Dragons roar as they die from wounds cut by invisible weapons, bronze sand pouring out of them. Timewalkers of every race are in a panic, rushing around. Camera moves towards Chromie who, in a moment of fear, jumps through a portal as the shot is filled with falling rocks and cuts to black.
9.0.1: Players log in to a summons by Queen Varianne Wrynn in Stormwind (Alliance) and King Kael’thas Sunstrider in Silvermoon (Horde), advising you that the time has come to finally put Lord-Regent of Lordaeron, Aedalas Blackmoore, to death and rescue the Menethil line. The new levelling zones are a remake of Gilneas/Silverpine (Alliance), Eastweald (previously WPL/EPL, Horde), Tirisfal Glades (shared) culminating in the first raid, Capital City.
Patch 9.1 will have players log in to a summons from Queen Alleria Windrunner in Silvermoon (Alliance) and Warchief Orgrim Doomhammer in New Grom’gol (once called stormwind, Horde) confirming the worst: Queen Tyrande Felwind and Malfurion Chaosrage have sailed from the west and are making war on the shores, threatening the tenuous ceasefire that the Alliance and Horde have come to. Features a new max level zone Hyjal and a raid related to cleansing the world tree of Tyrande’s corruption. Also killing her.
Patch 9.2 is a holiday! Moira Bronzebeard has been born a healthy baby girl to her father Magni and he’s throwing a celebration and YOU are invited, along with all your friends! Take part in numerous games around the lands of Dun Morogh and Loch Modan. Compete in not one but two tournaments for glory and gear, earn unique mounts and transmog and have fun. Peace is great!
Patch 9.3 is the release of the Icecrown Citadel raid. Strike hard and fast into the depths of the Lich Queen’s fortress. Though Jaina Proudmoore may be beyond redemption, her most trused Death Knight Arthas Menethil may yet be swayed. Shatter Frostmourne and free Azeroth from the grip of fear that the Scourge has planted in it.
Expansion Features
Time-Lost Campaign: Meet Chromie periodically (sort of) throughout the expansion to try to get to the bottom of what is going on with the timelines and try to save the entire timeway from failing. Maybe you’ll even succeed. Or maybe not. Depends how many people stay subscribed.
Time-Touched Talents: A new talent row for everyone with a set of time-themed talents, a residual result of being wrenched through rivulets of time. Repeatedly.
New mage specialisation: Chronomancy. Join a region-wide effort to have mages spec this to fix the timestream and hope the bar fills up before 9.4! It’s just like the AQ War Effort except not at all.
Bronze dragon corpses everywhere but only you can see them and no one will ever react to them.
Also featuring: New zones (sort of). New mounts! New dances! New quests! New dungeons and raids! New monsters! New items! Level cap stays the same. Then raised to 130. Then dropped to 60. Then to 80. Then raised again? Maybe? Dance studio (we mean it this time).
I dunno about you guys but after the problems we’ve had with BfA I’m pretty excited for The Collapse. It’s good to have Blizzard recognise the problems that they’re having with telling a coherent story and address them in the best way possible.