Since 2020's World of Warcraft: Shadowlands, the venerable MMO has been following a very specific expansion release formula—four new zones, three raids, eight dungeons, a couple of new features such as delves, and four seasons to keep you busy after you’re done with reputation grind and the campaign.
Even though Blizzard did expand and improve this formula in Dragonflight by adding smaller patches like 10.0.5 and 10.0.7 focused on class balancing and new events, the structure has remained intact across the last three expansions, and much of that structure was also inherited from the expansions that came before. WoW's changed a lot over the last 20 years, and it's time to change again—to shake up the good old formula and breathe in a new life into the expansion cycle.
