Next at Blizzcon is the WoW: What’s Next Panel. This is a summary of the panel:
- Roughly 760 million turtles have made it to the water since the start of Battle for Azeroth.
Patch 8.1
- Summary of Tides of Vengeance (Patch 8.1): A new Warfront in Darkshore, Assaults (Invasions) are coming to BfA, New Island Expeditions and updates to the system, Battle of Dazar’alor Raid, War Campaign continues, Heritage Armor for Blood Elves and Dwarves, Azerite Armor Improvements, Dubloon vendor, Improved emissary rewards, alt reputation quality of life improvements, war mode bonus changes, pvp talent reworks, Warfront quest structure improvement (world quests, daily things to do)
- Patch 8.1 will be released on December 11th/12th.
- The Battle of Dazar’alor will release at a later date.
- A new cinematic was shown: Terror of Darkshore (see below)
Patch 8.1.5
- The next patch will be patch 8.1.5.
- Kul Tiran Humans and Zandalari Trolls will become available in 8.1.5
- Zandalari trolls can be druids, hunters, mages, monks, priest, rogues, shamans, warlocks, warriors, paladins
- Kul Tiran humans can be hunters, warriors, priests, rogues, monks, druids, shamans
- The Darkmoon Faire gets a new attraction: a rollercoaster
- Children’s week will get an update with Kul Tiran and Zandalari storylines
- A few new micro-holidays will be added
- Warlords of Draenor will be added to the Time-Walking rotation.
- Orgrimmar and Stormwind are getting Portal Rooms to make it easier to get around the ever increasing world of warcraft
- Crafting Professions are getting new Tools of the Trade Questlines. They result in unique items for crafting profession users.
- The Brawler’s guild returns in patch 8.1.5
- A new questline is being added to the brawler’s guild.
- New transmog sets and a mount are being added to the brawler’s guild
- Warsong Gulch and Arathi Basin are being remastered with a whole new set of models.
- There will be a new Brawl where players face AI in Arathi Basin.
Patch 8.2
- After the battle of dazar’alor both factions leak their wounds.
- The Naga take advantage of this and make their move!
- Both the Horde and Alliance find a crack in the ocean: The zone Nazjatar
- The content patch will be called Rise of Azshara
- Nazjatar will feature new story quests, new friends for the factions, replayable outdoor content
- There will be new rewards: Naga themed weapons and armor sets and mounts (crab, seahorse)
- The crab mount walks sideways!
- New pets such as a little naga holding a fork
- Azhara’s Eternal Palace has 8 bosses and features a naga hatchery, an underwater boss and of course Queen Azshara!
- There will be a Gnome and Goblin adventure, featuring the zone Mechagon.
- This is not a happy place. Both factions will find friends here. Alliance the Mechagnomes and the Horde
- King Mechagon wants to turn everyone into full robots.
- This will feature a new Megadungeon, like Karazhan in Legion.
- It’s a mythic only (for now) 8 boss dungeon.
- The major stories for Sylvanas, Saurfang, Jaina, Anduin and Magni will continue in 8.2.
- New Heritage Armors will be added for the Tauren and Gnomes.
- More islands will be added for the Island Expeditions: Crestfall and Snowblossom
- A new difficulty will be added to Warfronts: Heroic Warfronts.
- They require 10+ players, have a higher difficulty with new mechanics and new rewards
- Mechagon Arena will be introduced for arena pvpv
- Flying will come back in this patch!
- BfA Season 3 for both Mythic+ and PvP will come in 8.2.
Patch 8.2.5
- Patch 8.2.5 was teased: New Character models for Goblins and Worgens will be added in 8.2.5