World of Warcraft: Shadowlands #HG

The Next World of Warcraft Expansion

9.2 - Eternity’s End
A new Arbiter is created to reestablish the flow of souls and end the drought.

Zovaal, the Jailer is trying to unmake reality by destroying Azeroth’s world soul.

In the final cinematic of the Sepulcher raid, before the Jailer succeeds, Elune intervenes. In an attempt to prevent the unmaking of reality, Elune draws forth the Sister’s Tear and stabs Zovaal in his chest. The tear siphons all of Zovaal’s anima, triggering a degradation of Zovaal. Elune pulls the Tear from the lifeless husk of the former Jailer and claims to use the Tear to restore her lost children - the Night Elves.

Sylvanas submits to Tyrande’s judgement. However with the pursuit of finding a home for her people, Tyrande leaves Sylvanas’ judgement to the other faction leaders.

9.2.5
From all the pain suffered, Azeroth’s world soul is about to awake from her eternal slumber. This will bring with it cataclysmic consequences to all denizens of Azeroth.

Ardenweald is flourishing and has overcome its drought and the player is send here to inform The Winter Queen of the fate of their home, if no action is taken. The Winter Queen returns her sister’s favor and sends Ysera back to Azeroth in an attempt to halt Azeroth’s awakening.

10.0 - Pre-patch
On arrival to Azeroth, Sylvanas finds the Forsaken led by Calia Menethil and is offered the rank of Ranger General of the Forsaken.

The Jailer’s actions has caused a disturbance to the core of Azeroth, awaking an infinite swarm of dragons from their slumber. In their wake, towns, cities and farms are purged with fire and it’s up to the player to save the denizens of Azeroth.

10.0 - World of Warcraft: Dragon Isles
Brought back to the land of the living, Ysera travels to the Dragon Isles, the home of all Dragonflights, accompanied by the player on a quest to gather her kin and prevent Azeroth awakening. At the Dragon Isles the player is introduced to the birthplace of the Green Dragonflight, Elythios.

The Dragon Isles consists of three islands split into five zones, each tied to one of the five dragonflights. The continent is located northwest of Eastern Kingdoms, between Northrend and Lordaeron.

The first island is located at the western part of the continent and contains three leveling zones, which can be progressed in any order:
Elythios - Green Dragonflight - Themed around the Emerald Dream and housing a World Tree
Stillbloom Covert - Red Dragonflight- Forests with dragon temples scattered all around and an area with a lot of flowers.
Frostwind Summit - Blue Dragonflight - Mountain zone filled with snow. This zone is centered on the first island.

The second island contains a single zone and is located in the east of the continent. After completing the story of the three initial zones, your next stop is Silent Wastes, which is here you’ll hit level 60:
Silent Wastes - Bronze Dragonflight - Desert with some green areas near the shores.

The third and final island contains a single zone and is located at the southeastern part of the continent:
Galakrond’s Nest - Black Dragonflight - A volcano with caverns, tunnels and pools of lava. This is a max level zone with a raid located deep within the volcano. Traditional mounting isn’t allowed inside the volcano, however alternative travel methods will be available early on.

Level cap will remain at 60. Every character between level 50 and 60 will be scaled down to level 50. Shadowlands will take part in the Chromie time expansion collection and level 50 characters will be ready to dive into the new content of the Dragon Isles expansion.

No new race, however we will see more heritage armor and customization options added for existing races.

No new classes, but some specs will receive reworked mechanics and others will only see minor changes.

Archaology will receive an update. The profession now involves digging up ancient dragon bones and eggshells for construction of eggs, which in turn can be taken to its respective dragon aspect and fueled with new life. The eggs will hatch after a fixed duration, resulting in materials and at rare occasions pets and mounts.

In each zone you will be able to unlock the choice of one of two zone abilities themed around that zone’s Dragonflight. This will work much like WoD zone abilities.

All of this will be revealed on a stream shortly after 9.2 is released by the end of February.