It’s a chain reaction. One quest chain unlocks another. Quests locked behind reputation or just time gated. “BtWQuests” addon helped a lot if I wanted to do only the campaign or particular storyline. Another approach is to complete whatever you see in the zone until there isn’t any quest left and you see only the world quests.
You might like SOD. Really hit a good spot for me.
I had some stuff come up in life and fell too far behind. If anythings i wish the phases were LONGER.
If they start another sod oll be doing it
First, realize that everything in the game is entirely optional and you will never, ever complete all of it. Second, determine what parts of the game matter to you; sounds like it’s story. Third, do that… the main story was purple quests this expansion and the side quests are all traditional gold; the only part where it gets confusing is that there’s no bread crumbs to lead you to the Story Mode raid boss (you have to track down the right side quests).
If you want to know more about other content types in the game (raids, mythic+, delves, pvp, pet battles, rep grinds, etc) and you’re not figuring them out theough play, read a guide on WowHead or watch a YouTube video. WoW is more accessible now than ever and it holds your hand wayyy more in 2024 than it ever did in 2004.
It’s confusing if you’re one of these completionist people who feel like they need to do everything or feel like they can’t leave things incomplete.
I’ve been skipping the little Suramar/Naztajar/Korthia/Azjkahet zone time sink things (notice how all the insufferable slogs have super serious names and everything is super serious) since Legion. The outdoor questing stuff doesn’t interest me even 0.5% and I will only do them if they tie a mandatory currency like Valorstones to them. They know a lot of people are like me which is probably why they tie junk to these, they have gas lit people into thinking they like receiving a currency for following a quest dialogue, no one cares.
No its not you sre just old
The main story quests are littlerally a different icon in your quest log and a different icon above the noc when you pick it up…
yes… it’s been 30 years of Warcraft.
Have you not ever played any previous editions before World of Warcraft?
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It’s a bloated mess. Not just you. Very little new players come to this game for this reason.
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True, but this is 20 years of world of warcraft
Yes, I have played the other warcraft titles (aside from WCIII)
I recently found this channel on Youtube of this dad who plays WoW with his 2 kids and they’re like not even teens yet, they’re like 10 or something. It’s a very interesting watch.
Kinda mind blowing how good these kids are, granted they don’t play Arcane and Outlaw and Brewmaster, but still, they’re running dungeons and have a damage meter and are actually doing rotations.
Not sure if you are familiar with kids but at age 10 they can typically press buttons in a certain order.
Then why are you saying the OP is a time traveller when clearly Blizzard is announcing a 30 year anniversary?
You know what he meant and your sarcasm was completley unwarranted
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I was absolutely stumped when i came back mid DF. Too much to do. I got it after a while with guild help.
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I tried getting my kid to play but he was done after an hour. Not because the game was too complicated or confusing, he was just bored. 
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I agree, after twenty years of increasing systems and currency upon currency I’m really sick of it.
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If the game has you so confused now, that means Blizzard beat you. They won.
I was stumped, too. I didn’t bother. If Blizzard wants the game to be so confusing to new and returning players that they can never figure out what the heck they should be doing to make it make sense without many hours of research on many outside websites and input from many players, most of whose experience is at least somewhat out of date and give you obsolete advice, who am I to question whether they want me to play it at all? Clearly they don’t if saving 20 hours it would have taken to create and post a flow chart is more important than retaining those players.
Honestly I’d be happier if they started with paring down the button bloat and taking a really hard look at class design going forward. I don’t think they will though - I’m not sure they know how to do it.
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I don’t know where to put this. But here seems the most relevant, compared to other choices. I am a returning player, who’s been playing on a private server for 3 years and here is my feedback from having been back for about a month now. There seems to be a lot of “bugs” in the game, for example I have paid through to Shadowlands, but can’t see any quest givers, nor any flight masters in Oribos. I have bought a gem and a enchant that per the filters and the Data on them, should have been fine to use, but after purchasing or using, found out that they were for much higher level.
I have not been able to get or find any help with the Oribos problem.
I also can’t understand why BG queues are so long, I have seen queues from usually 14 minutes to half hour at low levels, while on the private server, I waited an average of 1 minute. This wasn’t because they had more players, definitely not, I think it’s a matter of Blizzard never caring about low levels, but this is where everyone starts out and judges the game.
I thought, ok, I’ll keep going and check out how end game is, but checking out videos on end game PvP, by-the-way, I love PvP, not so much PvE, I find that quite number of players are not happy at all with the state of PvP.
It just always bugs me when so much time and effort is put into promoting the game and then the area where new players start is totally ignored. It makes no sense.
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I’m sorry, but are people just incapable of using Google these days?
After about 48 I started to notice that I forget what I am doing more than I don’t. I accomplish stuff! but it’s rarely what I set out to do.
“Wth are you doing?”
“painting??”
“Paint your own house!”
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