Of course, this expansion has been, and will continue to be fun for a good while yet, I'm not calling in the doom bells on this. From watching the trouble with Mission of Mercy, to the epic return of my friends in Bridgeburners, to all my long winded speeches about raiding in Fear Itself, you know, my guild, Mists has some great moments and memories for me. However, we must start looking toward the next expansion, because we know that Blizzard is.
Chances are that Blizzard will be announcing the next expansion at Blizzcon in November. From there, if things are going the speed they are we can expect the next expansion to drop sometime in early 2014. I would guess that if Blizzard keeps at the pace they are going that the aim would be before summer hits. Heck, I will even make a guess, the next expansion will drop on May 13th. Now it's in writing and we can all see how close I am.
Of course traditionally it's been a nine months to a year after the last big patch before the next expansion has dropped. I don't think Blizzard will stick to that this time. I think they are too dependent on dropping another expansion quickly, and making it hit all the right notes to bring some of the players they have lost back. They have maintained a breakneck pace of releasing content for Mists, so I am assuming they plan on keeping that momentum going.
There are things I hope to see in the next expansion....
New Class. My hope for this would be the Demon Hunter. It has long been in Wow's lore and would be awesome if implemented correctly. They could even go pure dps on this one, with a melee spec, a ranged spec, and maybe some sort of caster spec. I wouldn't mind them stealing a couple of things from Diablo's Demon hunter for this as well. Plus, they could introduce one handed guns/crossbows and warglaves into the game with this... Whatever they choose the next class will probably be a Mail armor wearer. Other armor types have three classes. Plate (Warrior, Pally, DK.) Cloth (Priest, Mage, Warlock.) Leather (Monk, Rogue, Druid.) Mail (Hunter and Shaman.)
New Character slot? This one I don't think will happen. (I won't say it will never happen) With Virtual Realms opening up if you want more then 11 characters on your realm, you can just choose of the the realms connected to yours and have the same access you would if your rolled on your home realm. The caveat to this being, that if you are on a high population realm, or one that isn't pulled into virtual realms as firmly it might limit your options a bit.
New Race. I am not sure we need a new race, but I am not sure they can pass on putting some more coolness into the game. My guess on this varies, but if we go on another space adventure, like in Outlands, plan on the new race being demon/alien like. If we go to the Emerald Dream or somewhere closer to home then it will be a local thing we have never seen, or they may roll something we have fought for years rolling into our ranks. I.E. If it's an underwater expansion (shudder, I love Vash'jir, but didn't make a point of going back after I left it) there might be a rogue group of Naga that join our factions. As it is, the races I'd like to see (but most probably won't) turn playable would be, Etherial, Naga, High Elf (for the alliance),, and Saurock/Jinyu. NO MURLOCS!!!! I am guessing if they do another race they will do them like the Panderan and they will be multi-factional. Not only was that done well, but it cuts down on development time to only have to throw in one race.
New Places. This expansion we got Panderia. Next expansion who knows? There has been plenty of signs that we may be facing the burning legion again. My guess is that we will avoid that direction though until Wow has about pushed it's life cycle to the end. Eventually we will go after Sargeras, but I feel that is the big bad Blizzard will save until the end. We may also end up facing off again Queen Azshara which would mean some under water work. Of course with us still discovering things from the Cataclysm, we could go to Kul Tiras, see Jaina's family and find several new islands/areas that have popped up in the sea. Tie in Zandalar, and maybe we can have a tropical expansion where we hop island to island. I am just throwing this in, because everyone else says Space Adventure/Emerald dream.
Level Cap. Blizzard will add more levels. Whether it's 5 or 10 remains to be seen, but I would put my money on 5. I think there will be an item squish this time around and we will see all stats/ilevels bosses, npc's etc.. in the game get squished with us so we aren't tracking 1.5 mil dps by the end of next expansion. With a squish they may go for 10 levels, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Dance Studio. MWha ha ha, lol, hee hee hee, ho, ho, ho, Mwha ha ha ha ha. Needless to say at this point even if put in and done well, they would get nothing but mockery for it.
New Talents system. I hope not.
Swimming mounts. If we get our undersea expansion, I imagine we will have an array of Undersea mounts to collect. Then again, Blizzard has said that if they could, they would go back and avoid putting flying mounts into the game.
Always nice to remember where we come from.
And more.... What do you think the new expansion will have/be about. What have I missed? As a matter of fact comment on anything you think you can add to this and make it a discussion. What do you think?
Dizzty
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