World of Warcraft Leads Say the Worldsoul Saga Will Eventually Address the Sword of Sargeras: 'Metzen Promised and Metzen Doesn't Lie'

There's an elephant successful the country successful each treatment of World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion, Midnight. Or should I say, a sword. A really, truly large sword.

I'm talking astir the Sword of Sargeras, an perfectly colossal limb bigger than a upland that Sargeras stabbed into the satellite respective expansions agone and has since conscionable been sitting there, unaddressed, astir apt doing thing atrocious to the planet.

For years now, WoW fans person been asking if we were ever going to, you know, bash thing astir that. And Blizzard has been very, precise coy erstwhile asked. But answers are coming, says crippled manager Ion Hazzikostas, if not successful Midnight, past astatine slightest by the extremity of the Worldsoul Saga.

You tin spot this happening from the Barrens. I'm tellin' ya, it's huge.

As a recap, the Sword of Sargeras is the sword of, well, the Titan Sargeras, which helium stabbed straight into the satellite astatine the extremity of WoW's Legion enlargement arsenic he's being kicked retired of Azeroth. Initially, it's poisoning the planet, but players usage their Legion Artifact weapons to suck retired the poison and bargain the satellite clip earlier the sword does...something to it. Though the sword was discussed further successful the pursuing expansion, Battle for Azeroth, it's since been mostly forgotten from a crippled standpoint. Instead, it's just...sitting determination successful the mediate of Silithus.

And really, I can't stress enough, this happening is huge. You tin spot it from respective zones away! Doesn't anyone deliberation this is simply a problem?

At BlizzCon 2023, erstwhile the Worldsoul Saga was announced, determination was a little infinitesimal of joyousness that Blizzard mightiness yet propulsion the sword from the planet, oregon astatine slightest bash thing with it. There was an tremendous statue of the sword successful the normal hall, implicit with the meme-ified "What sword?" caption. Hazzikostas adjacent wore a garment emblazoned with "What Sword?". At the time, Warcraft enforcement originative manager Chris Metzen confirmed that we would spot the solution of the Sword Problem successful the last portion of the trilogy, The Last Titan.

No 1 connected Azeroth thinks this is an URGENT issue???

But The Last Titan can't travel soon enough, and The War Within and everything we've seen of Midnight truthful acold stay notably sword-less. So successful a speech with Hazzikostas and WoW pb UX decorator Crash Reed, I asked them astir the sword. What's the deal? Will we yet bash thing astir it successful Midnight?

"What sword?" some of them intoned successful response, simultaneous and predictable. I laughed. Yeah, okay. I deserved that.

But Hazzikostas did spell on. We will bash thing astir it. "Before the Worldsoul Saga is over. Metzen promised and Metzen doesn't lie."

So bent successful there, everyone. Just like, the remainder of this expansion, each of the adjacent one, and presumably each oregon astir of The Last TItan near to go.

For our impressions of each the bits of Midnight we've seen truthful far, sans add-ons, cheque retired our preview of the caller expansion. You tin besides work much from the aforesaid interrogation with Hazzikostas and Reed, specifically their effect to the changes astir WoW add-ons successful Midnight.

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