Titan Delayed, so how does this affect WoW?

The rumor is that Titan, Blizzard's secret project, which is supposedly a new MMO based around a new IP, has been delayed as they adapt the idea to new technology. The developers working on it have largely been reassigned to the other Blizzard properties until they are ready to scale things back to full-fledged development on the new project.

What does that mean? Well, your guess is as good as mine, though I'm willing to bet that it means that we will not be seeing Titan at this year's Blizzcon. The additional manpower for the other projects, including WoW, will have some impact, I'm sure, but what it will be? Again, who knows?

My hope is that WoW's next expansion will be HUGE, with way more dungeons and zones and quests to level up with (despite having greater choice in leveling during Mists than we did in Cata, Kun-Lai's really the only zone that doesn't feel linear.)

If I could allocate more people to work on various parts of WoW, the main thing I'd like to see is more 5-man dungeons. I think the quantity of raiding content this expansion has been great so far - tier 14 was varied and huge (the largest raid tier since tier 7, if I'm not mistaken,) and Throne of Thunder is fantastic. Blizzard claims that Siege of Orgrimmar will be comparable to Throne of Thunder in length, which means that while we still aren't quite back to the volume we got in Wrath or BC, it's far from Cataclysm's anemic raiding game.

But Mists will be the expansion to have brought in by far the least 5-man content (admittedly, I love the Scarlet Monastery and Scholomance revamps, but they are revamps in the end.) Not only are there very few dungeons this time around, but their relevance has dropped precipitously thanks to the lack of any beyond the initial expansion's patch, with no new dungeon loot to be found.

I would be thrilled if we could get Frozen Halls/Hour of Twilight-quality 5-mans with each raid. Both were fantastic sets of dungeons (ok, Hour of Twilight the dungeon, rather than the group thereof, was a little underwhelming, mainly because End Time and Well of Eternity were so good.) It would be great to see 5-mans come back as an alternative to the daily quest grind as non-raiding content that still helped you out in the long run (maybe 10-15 Lesser Charms with your day's first random heroic?) The reason they claim they can't do so many 5-mans is because of the people they would have to pull away from making raids (to which I point out 3.3, which had a ToT-sized raid as well as three new dungeons with new environments.) But if they have more people, that excuse goes away.

Anywho, with Titan getting delayed, you can bet your ass that the biggest news at Blizzcon will be WoW's fifth expansion.

And Blizzard, if you're reading this:

Put some of those people on designing the new hero class: the Demon Hunter.

(Mine will be a Worgen.)

(please?)