BlizzCon begins tomorrow, September 12, and World of Warcraft is not getting one “What’s Next” presentation.
It is getting two.
According to Blizzard’s official World of Warcraft BlizzCon schedule, Saturday begins with the Opening Ceremony at 19:30 CEST, followed by World of Warcraft: What’s Next at 21:00 CEST. Then, after everyone has had just enough time to open Discord, argue about everything Blizzard said and declare at least three systems either dead or saved, Blizzard returns at 23:45 CEST with World of Warcraft: What’s Next II.
That is a lot of stage time devoted to a game already sitting in the middle of Midnight, Season 2 and an active Patch 12.1.5 PTR. Blizzard has previously told us that its BlizzCon plans stretch well beyond the next minor update, which is why we already knew the studio intended to discuss Patch 12.1.7, Patch 12.2 and potentially content beyond that. Two major presentations now suggest Blizzard has enough material that one presentation apparently looked at the schedule and asked for reinforcements.
Midnight Still Has Plenty Left
The safest part of tomorrow’s predictions concerns Midnight itself. Patch 12.1 has only recently settled into Season 2, while Patch 12.1.5 is already on the PTR with its new story campaign, the Kith’ix encounter, Labyrinths and the Aqir Invasion. We have spent the last couple of months watching Midnight expand into a very broad patch structure covering raids, Mythic+, Delves, Housing and major UI changes, and Blizzard clearly is not finished filling the calendar.
Patch 12.1.7 therefore feels like the minimum expectation. Patch 12.2 is where things become much more interesting. That update should carry the next major chunk of Midnight’s story and could begin pointing much more directly toward whatever comes after the expansion. Blizzard has been unusually willing to discuss future roadmap territory before BlizzCon, so tomorrow is unlikely to be a presentation built entirely around features we already know exist.
The interesting question is how far Blizzard is willing to look beyond Midnight.
Does Blizzard Finally Talk About The Last Titan?
The Worldsoul Saga has always been bigger than one expansion. Midnight is the middle chapter, which means The Last Titan is waiting somewhere beyond it, quietly occupying the enormous narrative space marked “this will probably involve very important rocks.”
BlizzCon would be the obvious place to begin showing what comes next, even if Blizzard stops short of a full expansion reveal. A title treatment, concept art, story direction, location tease or even a few carefully selected words from Chris Metzen would be enough to move the conversation dramatically.
That is especially true because Blizzard has repeatedly framed BlizzCon 2026 as a moment to talk about Warcraft’s longer future, not merely the next patch. The first “What’s Next” panel could comfortably handle Midnight. A second panel creates room for something considerably larger.
Then There Is Classic+
And this is where everything becomes beautifully irresponsible.
Classic players arrive at BlizzCon with Project Camelot hanging over the show. The mysterious encrypted WoW 1.60 branch has been tracked for months, and we recently covered its move onto infrastructure associated with external vendor testing. Blizzard still has not said what Camelot actually is. Classic+ remains unannounced. Nobody has officially promised an alternate future for Vanilla Azeroth.
Then somebody posted a Dark Portal teaser.
As we covered yesterday, AORUS briefly published a BlizzCon image showing a dark, apparently inactive Dark Portal under the words “All Eyes on Azeroth”. The post was removed, and the Classic community responded with precisely the measured restraint you would expect from people who have spent months watching encrypted server builds.
Nothing about that confirms Classic+.
But if Blizzard has something major to announce for Classic, tomorrow is where everyone expects the curtain to move.
Two Panels Means Blizzard Has a Lot to Talk About
There are plenty of less dramatic possibilities too. Blizzard could spend significant time on Housing, UI changes, the standalone game mode teased earlier this year, accessibility, future seasonal systems, Classic roadmaps or competitive content. Not every minute needs to contain an expansion logo descending from the ceiling while Metzen shouts about destiny.
But two separate “What’s Next” presentations create expectations whether Blizzard wants them or not.
We know Midnight has more content coming.
We know Blizzard intends to look beyond Patch 12.2.
We know Project Camelot continues moving.
We know Classic players have spent the week staring suspiciously at a closed Dark Portal.
And we know Blizzard has reserved two major Saturday slots to tell us what happens next.
Tomorrow evening, we finally find out whether that means a very detailed roadmap or something much bigger.
Probably both.
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