Take the fight back to the demons.
The adventurers of Azeroth will be heading to an entirely new planet some time next year.
According to Polygon, World of Warcraft game director Ion Hazzikostas confirmed that the demon planet of Argus will be coming to the game as part of patch 7.3, and it won’t be a new expansion.
“It felt like the right time,” Hazzikostas said. “I don’t know if Argus would hold up as an expansion in and of itself. We could make up a whole lot of ecologies and things there, but at the end of the day, it would feel like a very one-note, alien expansion.”
Argus will instead be added as a finale to the current expansion, Legion. Players will be undertaking a “suicide mission,” which Hazzikostas likens to the end of Mass Effect 2, in order to drive back the Burning Legion on Argus.
In Warcraft lore, Argus is the homeworld of the Eredar, the race which later split into the Draenei and the Man’ari. Its importance to the game’s backstory has had fans questioning when it would finally appear as a playable space – as it turns out, relatively soon!
Patch 7.2 is expected to launch in early 2017, so we won’t be seeing Argus in patch 7.3 until at least a few months after that.
Keep your eye on IGN for all the other news coming out of Blizzcon. For example, legacy servers for WoW are something Blizzard is “taking seriously.“
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Source: IGN Video Games
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