Breakfast Topic: New 5-man dungeon plotlines
by Daniel Whitcomb 
Mar 30th 2009 at 8:00AM
So the rumors of a new 5-man dungeon to come sometime before Icecrown, maybe in 3.2 or 3.3, continue to persist. Assuming they're true, I wonder: What would you like to see? I have a few ideas of my own.
How about a Grimtotem dungeon? Let's unmask Magatha once and for all as a Scourge agent. Some quest lines point to the possibility, and it's an excuse to implement a nice Great Masquerade type quest line complete with confrontation in Thunder Bluff. It's topical to Wrath, and it shakes Tauren lore up a bit. It's a perfect idea all around, as far as I'm concerned.
If that idea doesn't tickle your fancy, I have a few more after the break.
Another idea is to create a third Azjol-Nerub dungeon. Let's face it. For a sprawling subterranean empire, Azjol-Nerub feels sort of small, thousand mile drop aside. I'd like to see another section of Azjol-Nerub opened up into a BRD style dungeon. It'd be a nice experiment in bringing back longer dungeons, and it could be a proper large spider city that does justice to all the talk about the ancient kingdom of the spider people.
Finally, I'd sort of like to see another Vykrul dungeon. No reason other than I think they are awesome, and I want more back story. Plus I wanna meet some of the "good" Vykrul who didn't go for Ymiron's blood thirst and evil. Maybe even some of the ones who protected their poor sickly mutant kids. It'd be sort of like meeting Adam and Eve for us Human PCs. There's got to be more awesome Viking giant back story. Don't let it end with Ymiron's unceremonious death!
What about you? If there's a new 5-man or even a new secret raid dungeon coming, what settings and story lines would you like to see explored?
Filed under: Analysis / Opinion, Podcasting, Breakfast Topics, Instances, Lore, Wrath of the Lich King, Rumors
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 8)
Axolotl Mar 30th 2009 8:04AM
Maybe some more Troll-dungeons, I think we realy need more Trolls
Evelinda Mar 30th 2009 8:13AM
you, sir, are the devil
Axolotl Mar 30th 2009 8:33AM
Thank you Evelinda, I do my best ;-)
Thomas Mar 30th 2009 2:29PM
I would like to see a dungeon, as well as a full raid, relating to the old god that is corrupting the area under grizzly hills and howling fjord
Avister Mar 30th 2009 3:52PM
that is Yogg'saron who is supposed to be in Ulduar.
hashde Mar 31st 2009 4:42PM
You are correct. We do need more Trolls. Trolls who drop bears when killed quickly.
Natsumi Mar 30th 2009 8:49PM
Just replace the word "Troll" with the word "Gnome"
and you have a deal ;)
Leelad Mar 30th 2009 8:05AM
I'm disapointed that they haven't given much thought to the 5-mans at all this patch. would have been nice to see POWPOWBLAMBLAM HARRRDDDD UBER Heroics. where they make everything double hard bastards and have the new badges from from the bosses.
Leelad Mar 30th 2009 8:06AM
Drop* from...
dAnixx Mar 30th 2009 8:09AM
Murlocs?
santiag9 Mar 30th 2009 8:29AM
THIS ^^^
Guilwolf Mar 30th 2009 8:11AM
Glineas/Greymane?
Timbermaw Hold?
Grim Batol?
Any of the above would make me a happy camper. These places have been around since WoW's launch and have either had little, or nothing, pointing towards whats going on behind those giant locked and sealed doors.
WoWie Zowie Mar 30th 2009 8:15AM
word
themightysven Mar 30th 2009 8:29AM
Grim Batol has always been rumoured to be a future raid (it currently is the probable locale of Deathwing) but one that they'll revisit when dealing with the Emerald Dream (because he's a prime canidate for the source of the Nightmare) whatever's behind the door at Timbermaw could also be related to the Emerald Dream. (in fact, most anything in the old world could have this relationship, and could lead to dungeons where your zipping between ED and OW so as to choose your bosses
Greymane they said they forgot about, but for it to be acurate geographically, it would be the size of a zone. I think they're saving it for if/when they add worgen as a race.
Macgayver Mar 30th 2009 9:37AM
I don't understand why people keep bringing up Gilneas. It has always been one of the most powerful nations of all. Reducing it to nothing more than a dungeon, or having it be taken over by little worgen, is equivelant to Hogger taking over Stormwind and Mankrik's wife conquering Orgrimmar.
Guilwolf Mar 30th 2009 9:45AM
@ Macgayver,
I bring it up because its there. It was the largest human nation in all of Azeroth. Where did it go? What happened to it? There are too many unanswered questions.
And who is to say that the entire region has to be an instance? I say open the gates, let people explore, and keep the main city itself an instance - IE, Stratholme - while leaving the rest of the area gradually going from lowly level 13 worgen to high enough level worgen to topple the largest human nation ever.
Phun Mar 30th 2009 9:52AM
I have to go with Macgayver here. Why the hell does everyone think Gilneas is populated by worgen? What? Because there are some on this side of their GIGANTIC FRAKKING WALL?
The one no-one gets past.
Fyve & Boomstick Mar 30th 2009 10:41AM
Classic trashy horror movie plot, Some rebellious Gilneas teens want to know what all the fuss is about and go for a little camping trip to the gilneas wall. finding a group of survivours camped on the other side, being unable to open the gates, being just a small bunch of rebellious teens and all they instead begin passing stuff through the gates, snacks, Gilneas Pale Ale etc etc, much drunken hilarity ensues, even though someof the survivours do look kinda shifty as its gets dark... then horrors of Horrors, One gets bit on the hand passing a drink through the gates, they all run back to their town, but dont tell anyone because they dont want to get told off...
Cue Worgen invasion.
Farthing Mar 30th 2009 4:01PM
The worgen have to be summoned to Azeroth, so it's possible that Gilneas is populated by worgen now, but I'd like to bring up a few things that make me think this isn't so:
-Gilneas is behind a giant freaking wall
-No implication is ever given that the worgen are anywhere outside silverpine/ night-elf zones, and now Northrend via Arugal
-There IS mention of the naga surfacing and setting up a base near Gilneas. Being isolated between the Graymane Wall and the ocean, I think the naga would take full advantage of that.
As for instances, the Karazhan crypt would be sweet.
S Mar 30th 2009 8:34PM
Are you talking about the Timbermaw Hold in Azhara?
I don't think that is a instance.....instead I think they intened that to link up with the tunnle and have it spread across all 3 zones. (there is a sealed part of the tunnel in the Main room)
but they scrapped the idea.....
Not official. but thats what i think