So since I’ve been going around old expansions using some addons and looking at cleaning up and finishing things (achievements, getting all the gear, etc.), sort of “completionist” mode.
I usually spend the last portion of my session running a couple of the old dungeons and raids for drops and achievements, and memories. Got me to thinking, is there a chronological order for the dungeons and raids for each expansion.
My understanding is they are primarily to finish up story lines in each zone, and not necessarily tied to each other very much. So I would think that one could create a sort of chronological order for them by using a map of the “level” of each zone right?
For instance zone 10-20, zone 20-30, zone 30-40, etc. So any dungeons in the 10-20 zone would be first in chronological order if I really wanted to do it that way.
Does that make sense, or does anyone already know of a list for each expac that has a suggested order?
In OG WoW everything that was in the game at Launch was happening at the same time(over a few month span) until BWL, that was the first time jump forward.
ZG exists at the same time as BWL.
AQ is the next jump
Naxx is the final one.
So for a “Chronological Order” run you’d run all the 10-20 dungeons, then all the 20-30s, then all the 30-40s, etc, etc.
Here’s one I should have researched prior to running it. Working up in Northrend, decided to run the instances at the Citadel. Started with Pit of Saron, and once done it continued on, and I realized it just automatically ran me through Halls of Reflection. Thought “that’s weird”, but googled and found out The story begins in the Forge of Souls, continues through the Pit of Saron, and concludes in the Halls of Reflection.
And apparently if you’ve already completed the quest “Deliverance from the Pit” in the Pit of Saron, (which is really second of the three), then it opens up the last two to run concurrently (which obviously I had done years ago).
So now I’m going to run Forge of Souls, but it seems I’m doing the first one last. Not that it really matters, but in this case, there is sort of a sequence to run this particular set of dungeons. But I think that’s kind of a rare circumstance.
I can tell you rfk’s lore leads to rfd
Tablets in ZF tell you how to trap hakkar’s soul in an egg in ST, which leads to hakkar resurrected in ZF
Also ST introduces is to eranikus who has been corrupted, though there is an unfinished quest line to end his corruption eranikus is summoned and killed as part of the gates of AQ quest line
LBRS introduces vaelen, with the quest to get the seal of ascension, aside from being the key to UBRS the seal has a hidden “on use” feature. If you use the seal in the waves during the event before fighting rend, then vaelen will appear and heal your party to full, or if you use the seal while fighting rend vaelen will appear as his true form…vaelstraz…and help you fight rend. Later vaelstraz is found in bwl corrupted by nefarion.
Speaking of bwl the chromatic drakes seen in bwl/UBRS are part of the black dragon flight’s experiments to create a perfect dragon flight, in tbc we see the netherdrakes are part of these experiments (lady sinestra shows up on netherwing ledge to retrieve netherdrake eggs for the experiments, and the culminates in the twilight dragons seen in wrath and cata
In tbc it is clear that tempest keep comes before sunwell. After killing kaelthas you can loot the verdant sphere from him which starts a quest indicating that kaels body was still twitching. When you turn in that quest kael yells a message to shattrath that he’s still alive and planning something big, though I can’t remember if he specifically mentions kil’jaeden or not
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There is usually one raid that caps the expansion storyline. Naxxramas, Black Temple, Icecrown Citadel, Dragon Soul, etc.
The others are filler I guess, but they are there to let players fight the boss level people of one of the many tangent story lines in the game.
How there isn’t a raid for the Scarlet Crusade is still a question for me.