Expansion ideas

This article or section includes speculation, observations or opinions possibly supported by lore or by Blizzard officials. It should not be taken as representing official lore.

For possible future races for these expansions, see Future race ideas.

It was rumored that there would be 5-6 expansions to the world of Azeroth, mentioned in an interview by a leading person within Blizzard ("We have made concepts for this expansion, and we already have enough ideas for 5-6 more").^{[citation needed]} 

Below are ideas by users where future World of Warcraft expansions could possibly visit. The following are undeveloped regions that have enough content for an expansion pack. These ideas are grouped geographically:

General expansion ideas

The Emerald Dream

• Related areas: Emerald Dream, Emerald Paradise, Emerald Nightmare, lesser, unfinished Emerald Dreams.
• Possible new hero classes: dragonsworn, spirit walker.
• Related intelligent/playable races: Children of Cenarius, sprite, furbolg, treant, dryad and satyr.
• Related opposing forces: The Nightmare, Druids of the Nightmare, N'Zoth
• Nethaera said: "As for the Emerald Dream, there are no plans for anything as of yet but it is a consideration for the future. The Emerald Dream opens up a lot of different opportunities and the Burning Crusade is definitely not going to be the last of the expansion packs. There are many different places and storylines that can be pursued. The story is going to keep growing and as it does so, people will get to experience it."
• Metzen said: "The Emerald Dream is a nice idea and the team has talked about making it into an expansion many times. Building an entire expansion worth of zones around a green lush forest theme would get very boring, so the Emerald Dream would be better used as raid, dungeon, or a subzone, not an entire expansion."
• Possible extra stuff: Spirit mounts you can use while corpse running, portals and/or shortcuts to several places in the world. Lore states that powerful druids can obtain supernatural abilities in the Dream, unknown if playable druids are powerful enough.

 

See also: Emerald Dream expansion ideas

The Great Sea

• Related areas: The Great Sea, South Seas, Maelstrom, Nazjatar, Mak'aru, Tel Abim, Plunder Isle, Gishan Caverns, Zul'Dare, Crestfall or Balor.
  • Return to Kazan/Undermine or Lost Isles.
  • Possible lands: outer islands of Broken Isles or Kul Tiras, Zandalari islands outside Zandalar or previously undiscovered lands.
• Possible new hero classes: Steamwarrior, techslayer, sailor, pirate, buccaneer, tinker, potion doc, and primal.
• Related intelligent/playable races: Murlocs, makrura, naga, ogres, half-elves, and high elves.
• Related opposing forces: Naga, Queen Azshara, and her underwater army. Perhaps also the Elemental Lord Neptulon the Tidehunter. Underworld Minions. Mur'gul. The Stormreaver clan remnants. Some of the other forces in the Great Sea are the Bloodsail Buccaneers and the trolls of Zandalar.
• Possible extra stuff: Underwater mounts, Underwater dungeons / raids, Swift Aquatic Form (maybe its a shark/penguin), Boat mounts.

 

See also: Great Sea expansion ideas, Great sea race ideas, Cataclysm

Underground Azeroth

• Related areas: Underground Azeroth (Barrow Deeps, Azjol-Nerub, subterranean Khaz Modan, other underground regions).
• Possible new hero class: Runemaster
• Related opposing forces: N'Zoth and the Twilight's Hammer clan
• Related professions: Faiths
• Related intelligent/playable races: Troggs, titan-forged, kobolds, elementals, nerubians, Dark iron dwarves, naga, faceless ones, and qiraji.

Time travel

Ancient Kalimdor before the Sundering

• Related areas: Ancient Kalimdor before the Sundering. (Accessed via Caverns of Time)
• Related opposing forces: Highborne, satyr, Burning Legion, Azotha (primitive humans) aqir, trolls, and infinite dragonflight.
• Related intelligent/playable races: Earthen, furbolgs, Ancients, demigods, night elves, sprites

Old Horde/Alliance Wars

• Related areas: Lordaeron, Dalaran, Alterac, Quel'Thalas, Old Draenor, Gilneas;
• Related opposing forces: Mainly Horde/Alliance battlefields; (see: First War, Second War, Beyond the Dark Portal)
• Related intellegent/playable races: ogres, goblins, forest trolls, Wildhammer dwarves;
• Related enemy bosses: Blackhand, Lothar, Khadgar, Ner'zhul, Sargeras, Alexstrasza, Deathwing, Orgrim Doomhammer, Zul'Jin;

Great Dark

• Related areas: Other planets besides Draenor and Azeroth.

Return to Argus

• Related areas: Return to Argus, the eredar homeworld.
• Related opposing forces: Burning Legion, unknown others
• Related playable races: Broken
• Related opposing races: felguard, eredar, and infernal
• Related enemy bosses: Void or return of Kil'jaeden, Sargeras
• Possible extra stuff: Guild spaceships, Exodar-looking.

Twisting Nether

• Related areas: Other parts of former Draenor, because it is said that Draenor was much larger than Azeroth, so it is probable that Outland is not the only inhabited part. And maybe portals to other worlds that Illidan sealed.
• Related opposing forces: Burning Legion, The Void, maybe some new currently unknown faction. Gul'dan's surviving death knights.
• Related playable races: Broken, arakkoa, and ethereal.

Miscellaneous ideas

• K'aresh
• Xoroth
• Other portal gates.
• Other side of Azeroth.
• The Fall of Silvermoon in Caverns of Time.

User expansion ideas

We welcome users to be creative and add their expansion ideas per policy. After your idea has been added in full, feel free to link to it on this page. Please use the subsection most relevant to your expansion idea's theme.

When you add your idea use the template {{fanfic user idea}}, and remember to help keep the list organized by placing your idea in alphabetical order (by user name).

This template assumes you created your expansion idea as a sub-page of your user page (User:username/expansion idea).

Example: {{fanfic user idea|user=Coobra|idea=Goblins are among us}}

• General

  • Time Chaos by Finalius.
  • Spider Kingdom Expansion Concept by GoldenYak.
  • Fate of White Lady expansion by Neutralion.
  • Rage of the Banshee Queen by Nincaro.
  • World of Warcraft: Fall of Azeroth by Pandasorous.
  • The Titans Return by Redheadmrt151.
  • Shargas the Naga's Ideas by Shargas the Naga.
  • The final Darkfall by The WoWer.
  • Revamp Expansion #2 by Nincaro.

  The Emerald Dream

  See also: Emerald Dream expansion ideas

  • Nightmare Approaches by Jaberwaki.
  • World of Warcraft: The Age of Nightmare by Lon-ami.

  The Great Sea

  See also: Great Sea expansion ideas

  • World of Warcraft: Fall of the Queen by Garroshsucks12.
  • Great Seas Expansion Concept by GoldenYak.
  • World of Warcraft: Empire of the Tides by Lon-ami.

  Deathwing/Old Gods

  • Fury of N'Zoth by Dremord1.
  • World of Warcraft: Whispers of Madness by K1tty
  • World of Warcraft: Fall of Twilight by Lon-ami
  • Death Wing and the Old Gods by N'Nanz.
  • World of Warcraft: Rise of the Black Empire by TehLucario.

• Argus

  • Fall of Argus by Finalius.
  • Fall of the Pantheon by HighlordDarionMograine.

  Twisting Nether

  • Return to Outland by Beluriel.
  • Deceiver's Vengeance by Farseer Lolotea.
  • New Expansion Idea by Stormcub.
  • The Demonic Dimension by TheDmon.

  The Burning Crusade

  • What TBC could have been like by Storm_svk.

  Lich King/Scourge

  See also: Northrend expansion ideas

  • World of Warcraft: Whispers of Madness by K1tty

  Cataclysm

  • The Cataclysm Comes To Northrend by GaroxxOfTheCabal.
  • The Cataclysm Comes To Outland by GaroxxOfTheCabal.
  • Alterac Mountains Idea by Ujimasa Hojo.

  Other worlds

  • War of the Legion by Dremord1.

See also

• Class ideas
• Race ideas