It'd be cool to get a timeline of what players do. Like Bfa was two years but what happened when? Was the zone quests like 6 months and the raids 4 or something? Hard to picture the 4th war lasting longer than the legions final invasion.
So three years and still no home for the Night Elves? No Elune-tear-planting? Or is that going to be in the digital short story, perhaps? Time skips can be very interesting, as long as they don't gloss over too many things. Having to go back and explain/tell can also be a bit boring (as it's telling vs. showing). It could definitely still work, though!
It's so weird to think that the orcs have only been on Azeroth for 40 years.
See? Not that difficult talking to your community, Blizz, huh? Nice one.
Okay so I'll be that guy for a second here:If Shadowlands took place 35 years after the dark portal, then When the &*!@ did WOD happen since it was suppose to ALSO be 35 years... can argue time travel shinanigans and garry being on draenor for a while after that cutscene but still.
I'm not a fan of time skips from a roleplay perspective. And this one seems a bit useless, as all we're really getting in return for it is justification why two characters (let's face it, it's Lor'themar and Thalyssra), are ready to get married in a story told out of the game. The main justification would be world progression, but it sounds like that's not going to happen. Gilneas isn't getting reclaimed during it. Tyrande for inexplicable reasons is delaying bringing renewal to her people for 3 years. And we're sadly not getting a world remake (not that that would require a timeskip at this point, given how long ago the last one was).
i just wanna know whats going to happen in stormwind with turalyon if i spel;t that right?
Timeline is incorect WoW Classic is set 4 years after WC3 so 29 years after the dark portal.
I remember in some of the old installation screen lore-dumps from Wrath of the Lich King mentioning that the timeline from the end of War3:TFT (Arthas ascending the Frozen Throne) to the opening cinematic of Wrath (Awakening and raising Sindragosa) was five years.
1. So our characters are in their 50s?2. There will be a digital short story about "one particularly joyous occasion". Could be new NE home, or Thrall's son becoming Warchief, or the wedding of Lor'themar and Thalyssra.Honestly, REALLY looking forward to this expansion! They're doing a lot of things that fans have wanted for a long time in one expansion. Hopefully Blizzard continues WoW this way.
Blizzard, put more story IN the game please.
Well, I don't know.Retrospectively applying the concept of an overarching, numerically dated timeline to the history of WoW seems very inappropriate to me at this point. Most of their story episodes culminate in dungeons or raids which we replay ad nauseam with a big wink, as if each replay was the first and only time something happened. And that should now suddenly be part of a numbered chronology?Kind of reminds me of that part of the Zelda community that, despite all logical contradictions, tries desperately to force every reimagination of the always same game plot into a large, linear sequence that only serves the end in itself of a senseless concept of order.
“There is usually 1-2 in-game years between the start of each expansion.”This sentence doesn’t mean what you think it means.