So you get sent off at that point, and when you come back you see another cinematic that ties off what happened right after the raid ended.

When you create a Demon Hunter, one of the first cinematics that you see kind of launches off right at the point where The Black Temple is being raided in Outland. There are a lot of loose ends in the Illidan storyline, and in this expansion a lot of those loose ends get tied up. Why bring him back to focus again? Was returning to his story at some point something that has been planned since Burning Crusade?Ĭhilton: We did have a sense that we were going to come back to it at some point, but we didn't know exactly when that would be. GameSpot: Illidan is a character whose story felt like it finished in The Burning Crusade expansion.

Game director Tom Chilton and senior art director Chris Robinson explained more behind the process in an interview with GameSpot, which you can read below. According to Blizzard, Illidan's return had always been on the cards, with concept planning kicking off as early as during Mists of Pandaria (2012). It's been nine years years since players killed Illidan in The Black Temple, yet it would appear that the Lord of Outland survived the assault and has since returned to lead a new generation of Demon Hunters to fight the Burning Legion. Legion will raise World of Warcraft's level cap to 110, and introduce a Demon Hunter class, amongst other additions. World of Warcraft's upcoming expansion Legion will feature the return of Illidan Stormrage, who featured in 2007's The Burning Crusade expansion.

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