World of Warcraft: Dragonflight Interview - Steve Danuser

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is letting the dracthyr evokers, and everyone else, return to the Forbidden Reach with patch 10.0.7, learning new lore and uncovering a whole new dungeon of Zskera Vaults. As a midseason patch, this is providing an immense amount of content, and it all leads into the upcoming 10.1 patch which should be coming in the next several months. Now that Raszageth is defeated, it is time to come back to the Forbidden Reach and uncover all of its mysteries.

has a whole roadmap of content coming in 2023, with this patch 10.0.7 being just the second of major content releases that fans will get to enjoy. This patch is live now on retail servers with bits and pieces of 10.1 starting to show up on the PTR. 's Narrative Director, Steve Danuser recently sat down to chat with Screen Rant about what 10.0.7 means for the lore of, the dracthyr, and more.

Screen Rant: With this patch, the Forbidden Reach is opening up as a brand-new zone now that Raszageth has been defeated. So what does this mean for the dracthyr evokers?

Steve Danuser: Yeah, for the dracthyr, it represents a sort of homecoming, if you will. Thinking about their experience, what they've been through, what you can play through as you start a dracthyr. They awaken kind of bewildered, not knowing, not remembering what's caused them to be put into this stasis, why things have changed there; they weren't really aware at first of the passage of so much time coming into this world that felt different. Suddenly, there's these blue dragons that are kind of trying to keep them suppressed, all of the storyline of really getting their feet under them and realizing what's going on. And then only to have this primal dragon Raszageth released and create this huge storm that drove them