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Evidence that Next Summer's "Revamped Iconic Raid" is Molten Core

According to the WoW:Forever roadmap, we will get a "Revamped Iconic Raid" next summer. Based on an answer from last month's WoW Q&A, we know what raid that should be.

During the [Q&A discussion](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5zzSMSVhRo) about the skyborne and high elves, Aggrend mentioned the "time bubble" that WoW Forever takes place in. Here's what he said ([starts at 1:02:33](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5zzSMSVhRo) \- cleaned up a few ums, uhs, and stutters and bolded the key points):

"We talked about the time bubble that WoW Forever takes place in. And if you think of it in terms of the original first year of WoW, what that really means is we sort of dilated that first year. It's like a time dilation effect so that **we can sort of hit a lot of content in between kind of the major beats**. **If you think of the major beats in original WoW, it's like, you know, Molten Core and Blackwing Lair and Zul Gurub** and etc etc. And also sort of but **we are following that chronology.**"

To me, this reads as Aggrend saying that we will get the raids from Vanilla WoW released in their original order ("that chronology"), with some additions in between (due to the "time dilation). That means that we should get MC this summer, followed by BWL, ZG, AQ, and Naxx in order after that, with some new raids in between.

EDIT: As u/[ocellot9119](https://www.reddit.com/user/ocellot9119/) pointed out below, the banner for the summer patch is also charred, pointing to a fire-themed raid like Molten Core.

If this is all correct, it's interesting to combine this information with the knowledge that each raid tier will have a 10-man and 20-man raid. For instance, that could mean that MC will be remastered as a 20-man raid but there will be a totally unique 10-man raid alongside it. If I had to guess, these will be the remastered tiers (again, with totally new tiers in between):

* Remastered MC (20-man) + Skywall raid (10-man) * Remastered BWL (20-man) + Grim Batol (10-man) * Remastered ZG (20-man) + Remastered Zul'Aman (10-man) * Remastered Temple of AQ (20-man) + Remastered Ruins of AQ (10-man) * As an outside prediction, I think they could do something extra cool here by combining AQ into a single massive 20-man instance and giving us a War of the Shifting Sands 10-man raid * Remastered Naxx (20-man) + Scarlet Enclave (10-man)

What do you all think? Interested in your thoughts! Am I reading too much into one answer or do you think I'm on the money here?

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