You must have hit the skip somehow. Those are skippable now.
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100% did not hit skip.
This is my first time through on my main.
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No, those have been removed completely, unfortunately.
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I’d imagine it’s an overcorrection due to years of people complaining about “having to do 3 hours of story quests to reach the current stuff.” Blizz seems real hesitant to just have skips in place for more of it some reason.
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Aha! I knew something was amiss.
One minute it was Ted Talks with Sylvanas to Anduin going full blown zombie mode.
Now… if I were blizzard and saw how this change went relatively unnoticed, well it seems the ‘lore buffs’ have left the building hehe
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Odd, I only ever heard of them being skippable, not removed. I don’t have anything that isn’t already passed those so never went through it myself.
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Sure, I get wanting to skip doing the same story ten times. I’m totally cool with having skip dialogues. But removing an entire chunk of storyline in the first patch is completely asinine.
This is just like when they took out the Wrathion quests in BFA that explained why he was even hanging out in the Heart to offer cloak quests. They need to cut that 
out.
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Right??
They removed the bulk of the main expansion storyline in the first patch.
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The worst thing about it is that Thrall and Jaina promptly came down with amnesia, so even if you did do the quests, they’ve completely forgotten your role in them, they just go “Oh, you know, some guy happened to be there to help.” when you ask them about escaping the Maw.
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shadowlands | story. Pick one
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bliz y
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They shouldn’t allow stuff to be skipped on the first run through. That’s just crazy! I thought accepting that quest from the pole-guy was the ‘skip’ we accidentally did, but seems not.
Blizzard, PUT THEM BACK IN, make the skip optional!
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It’s nuts considering some of the details they thought to put into the base game, like Draenei and Orcs being able to tell Mnemis their home planet is Argus or Draenor.
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I purposefully never accepted that quest (“The First Move”) just to make sure. The one time I accidentally started it, I abandoned it.
I have been very careful to try and play the story in order.
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I also figured they had been skipped in some sort of automatic fashion.
Had no clue they just up and gutted it.
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If memory serves, a lot of those quests are you going down into the Maw or torghast for a bit.
Oh I remember, there are two cinematics. Yeah so, they removed those probably because people complained. Because you trigger the xinematics by running torghast.
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OP this seems like a Bad Thing ™ in my opinion. A skip would be fine, deleting is dumb. Too alive a world, not enough of a convincing story flow of a world.
chrisp
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Why does Blizzard keep doing this?
Was it that expensive to keep the story quests in that it is worth it to lose not only the time players would be playing it but those of us that become more and more disenchanted with the game every time they do something like this?
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It’s a lot of gameplay for no real reward past a couple story cutscenes. Time-locked gameplay at that, as you could only do 2 or 3 of those quests a week.
Having those story cutscenes available to be watched still would be nice, but I don’t think locking people out of korthia for weeks so they can do all that still would be very good design.
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So, I found the cutscenes on Bolvar.
There’s a couple of “Tell me the story of . . .” options available that will show the two cutscenes.
But the quests are gone, so there’s no context for them.
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