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All about the next World of Warcraft expansion

World of Warcraft Shadowlands is coming to an end. But the next WoW expansion is coming! Here’s all the... | 8. March 2022

World of Warcraft Shadowlands is coming to an end. But the next WoW expansion is coming! Here’s all the info we have about the next WoW expansion.

After a pretty tumultuous run, World of Warcraft’s controversial Shadowlands expansion will come to an end after Update 9.2, Eternity’s End. With The Jailer finally defeated and Sylvanas Windrunner freed from her mental prison, everyone is excited to see what’s next and what can be explored. So here’s an overview of everything we know about the next WoW expansion, from possible locations to storylines.

Next WoW expansion: possible release dates

Unfortunately, the next chapter of the WoW saga will not be released this year. This is simply because patch 9.2 for Shadowlands has not yet gone live and is still being tested on the Public Test Realm (PTR). In a January 18 tweet, Blizzard CEO Mike Ybarra indicated that a number of product reviews have been conducted recently and added that he “can’t wait until he can share it with everyone.”

It is already known that Blizzard will unveil the next expansion on April 19, 2022 to show WoW fans the next chapter in the story of Azeroth. Nothing is known about the new expansion yet, but it won’t be long before we see what Blizzard has planned for World of Warcraft.

Possible locations of the next WoW expansion: The Dragon Isles

After several scaled bird creatures were released, players believe that the next WoW expansion will take place in the Dragon Isles, an area that was originally supposed to appear in the Wrath of the Lich King expansion. The area was planned as a raid, and although it exists in alpha and beta, it hasn’t been touched since. Blizzard plans to continue from past glory days and has reportedly almost completed the area, so it will be interesting to see if the fans’ theories turn out to be correct.

Possible plot: “Lightlands

Following a dialogue from an in-game NPC, some fans believe that the story of the new WoW expansion could revolve around the Lightlands, a mysterious race about which very little is known. After the Mag’har orcs were driven out of Draenor in the Warlords of Draenor expansion, a brief reappearance in Battle for Azeroth is all we’ve seen of these majestic creatures since then.

Since the Light seems to be intertwined with the fate of our heroes, it may be the only way to truly cleanse Sylvanas and the fallen king Anduin Wrynn of the Jailer’s bad influence.