As soon as the new expansion of World of Warcraft was announced, Blizzard already revealed the final boss of the AddOn Warlords of Draenor. The actual surprise: It has been known for a year. Surprisingly, Blizzard keeps no secrets about this matter.
At Blizzcon in 2013, a fan already asked the Blizzard developers on a panel if they knew who the final boss in the next expansion Warlords of Draenor would be (at that time, it was still a long way off). After all, they had already revealed before Mists of Pandaria that Garrosh Hellscream was intended to be the main villain for MoP.
No one in the audience really expected a serious answer to this question, especially since it had a clearly audible sarcastic undertone. But developer Tom Chilton simply said: “Yup, Grom Hellscream.” Laughter in the audience, the fans thought it was a joke. After all, Garrosh Hellscream, Grom’s son, was already known as the final boss of the current expansion. But Tom Chilton shrugged and reacted to the scattered laughter in the hall with: “Why? Didn’t you want to know?”
Now the release date for the latest World of Warcraft expansion is known – and it is still quite far off. At Gamescom, Tom Chilton again found time for an interview and was once more asked the question (this time by the German WoW fan site vanion) about who the final boss would be. And again he freely announced: “Grommash Hellscream for the final raid, with 6.0 it’s Blackhand.”
Somehow you think Blizzard would make more of such an announcement, but no. The fans in the corresponding threads have been discussing the message heatedly since then. According to a theory, Blizzard could copy the raid structure from Burning Crusade: In the second raid tier, Gul’Dan could then await the players and in a “Sunwell”-like bonus raid, Kil’Jaeden again. However, there is controversial discussion about whether we haven’t had enough Hellscream already. One even speculated that we would surely deal with Garrosh’s mom in the next expansion. The renewed focus on the Horde as a supplier of villains is also criticized.
