So I just made a new Nightborne priest. I want to level through vanilla zones. I go to a command board, it has Chromie time, Broken Shore, and Tanaan Jungle. I pick Chromie time. Chromie offers all expansions except BfA, and no vanilla. So what gives?
I didn’t pick anything from Chromie, but I went back to the command board, and in place of Chromie time, there is now an option for Cape of Stranglethorn. So did the devs just try to make this as confusing and nonsensical as possible, or what?
Cata is where the vanilla stuff is, since that big ol’ dragon remodeled the old world in Cata and all.
But yes, they could have named it ‘Old World’ or ‘Kalimdor & Eastern Kingdoms’
But picking cata takes you on a path towards the cata zones. There should be something that takes you on a path through the other classic zones. It would make more sense if the other two options on the command board were starter quests in classic, like one for Eastern Kingdoms and one for Kalimdor.
Cata zones require flight. Until lvl 30, you can quest in the old world. You may notice, if you don’t pick chromie’s cata, your LFG dungeons will be BFA. with Chromie cata you can queue for the old world dungeons.
I guess maybe I’m not explaining it correctly. If you pick catta, you will go to only certain vanilla zones, basically the ones that were changed when Cata came out, so I don’t really consider those Classic zones. There is nothing telling you that you can just run over and quest in any zone in Eastern Kingdoms or Kalimdor. It just seems confusing to me.
Ah yes, it is indeed not explained right.
I myself picked Cata Chromie time and then went over to Legion to quest. I could queue for old dungeons while the broken isles were scaled to my noob level. (I NEEDED to tame a pet there… ya know… hunter thing)
Yes (giggle).
I found I had to accept quests to get the board to cycle through the zones (then delete them later. It’s a very odd system.
And what’s up with the Broken Shore and Tanaan Jungle options on the command board? Do those just take you to Legion and WoD as if you went to Chromie or what? I’m so confused by that.
Legion and WoD opening quests are in those two zones.
What I’m asking is what is the difference between selecting Tanaan Jungle from the Command board, and from selecting Chromie time and then WoD? Is it the same thing? This shouldn’t be so confusing.
Yes it’s the same. The starting quests for WoD are in Tanaan Jungle. After you destroy the portal you then go to Frostfire.
Adding a couple of random expansion options next to an option that is supposed to be the one way to go to other expansions makes zero sense. I’ve been playing for 12 years and I’m confused. I can’t imagine what it’s like for someone leveling their 2nd character.
I think they didnt adjust the AR starting level when doing the squish. Before my alliance AR’s first location was Duskwood. I think the other optional locations when i looked at the command board was Darkshore and Loch Modan? i’m almost certain i went to Duskwood before the level squish happened. Now when i roll a new AR the command board shows Cape of Stranglethorn just like it showed you now.
I think they have a bit more tweaking to do with the Chromie Time system so that it isnt so confusing
The big difference with WoD (and the others) and Chromie time is you do not level out until you hit 50. On my little lock, all quests leveled with him in WoD until he hit fifty, when he got a pop-up and a minute before being popped out of Chromie time. When I went back to finish a quest, all the mobs were 40, when they had been 50 a few minutes before.
Does that help?
Sorry, what’s AR?
I’m aware of how it all works with the expansions. My confusion is with leveling through classic zones, which just doesn’t seem to even be an option.
Classic zones should be an option from Chromie, OR put a couple of classic zone starter quests on the command board instead of Tannan jungle and Broken shore. Those two are redundant since you can also select them from Chromie.
The only think Chromie time does is keep you stuck in a timeline until 50. If you want to level in a specific zone, you can just go there and pick up the starter quest. You can also pick up a quest to go to a specific zone off the board if you like, but you don’t have to.
allied race nightborne, highmountain, vulpera or since i’m on alliance side void elves and lightforged draenei.
I had a bunch of void elves i started up months ago before the level squish. I went to the embassy, then the command board and i had the option to go to duskwood and i think loch modan and darkshore. On all of them i picked duskwood because thats where all my void elves are parked right now at level 10. I started a new void elf just a few minutes ago and now the option is not to go to duskwood but instead cape of stranglethorn like what you saw.
Part of the confusion is there is no classic/vanilla in retail anymore. Cata changed so much about the world and quests so that’s what you pick for ‘old world’.
I started an orc and picked the OG starting zone, then Cata from chrome and the leveling path through durotar/barens/azshara has worked out fine.
Agreed, it could totally be explained better in game.
Chromie time as a whole just makes the entire world scale.
You can do any zone in the game at that point, not just the ones surrounding the choice you made.
The board reflects that, and you can keep accepting quests until you have every single zone’s lead in in the game if you prefer.
The choice you made is meant to be a wider array of things though.
The most noticeable is dungeon access.
The way it works is, you choose a segment, it gives you a lead in to try to act as direction, and then the rest is up to you.
What I have done is chosen classic/cata just for the dungeon queues then went and quested in Outland and stuff like that.
Either way, I think the system is the way it is because they want to expand it some day. They spoke heavily about using it to adjust who the warchief is at Blizzcon, and I think that represents a grander plan they have.
What I REALLY hope it means is that we can eventually get content restored to match the era.
Especially Classic content.
I see no reason why they can’t take all the stuff from WoW Classic and just put it in the live game too, using Chromie time?
The only real point against it that I have seen is that flying would not work, but if you know me…
that will not be a concern for me haha.
This is what my issue is, there weren’t any classic zones on the board. It was Chromie, Legion, and WoD. After I picked Chromie, I opened up the board again and in Chromie’s spot was a quest for Stranglethorn Vale. There just doesn’t seem to be a reason to have a WoD or Legion quest on there. It confused the hell out of me.