Last time I was playing WoW, we were angry at the zappy dragon (Razageth or something), and the raid was going to eventually lead to killing her. That was the story, that’s what was happening.
I just resubbed to WoW, completely overwhelmed, and as I’m trying to get back on track, I get to the point of questing, and I go into Valdrakken, a bit overwhelmed still, so I figure, "Okay, I’ll just follow the Campaign quests, right? It’s like XIV’s MSQ, surely that will keep me going from where I left off.
I talk to Shandris Feathermoon, she shoes me a cutscene with some fire dude torturing some night elf dude (I assume who is a dragon) and wanting to get into the Emerald Dream. The quest is Fire Seaon.
I have no idea how we went from wanting to fight a zappy dragon and now there’s a fire dude and ice sister wanting to break into the emerald dream.
I really wish there was an easier way to keep track of the story and follow a linear experience. Does anyone have an ideas or resources I could use to map my way through this mess of a questing system?
PS: I hope Blizzard sees this and improves the linear questing experience for those who don’t play every patch or take long breaks.
EDIT:
Someone mentioned an addon called BtWQuests. I installed it to try it out, and from what I can tell it showed each contained quest chains, and their order, but it didn’t tell the order of these “modules”, so even with addons it’s very difficult to play WoW and get a linear story.
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I find that the Wowpedia zone storylines pages are pretty useful for figuring out the order of stuff late in an expansion. Here’s the overview for Dragonflight.
I know it doesn’t help as an in game solution. I wouldn’t be optimistic about anything Blizzard would implement. They tend to build systems that care way more about getting players to the latest shiny thing than actually making sure the story is coherent for returning players.
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What I’ve found is the combination of using wowpediea, and sorting things via storylines on wowhead.
Obviously not ideal, but I can more or less try to keep track of things. Though I agree, I haven’t heard anything from Blizz indicating they have an interest to invest in making the story experience any better.
EDIT: Yeah, the link you provided is great, thanks!
I feel the exact same way. I just want to go through a story line and get caught up but it feels like I need to do every quest just so I don’t miss out on needed rep for continuing a story line.
There is no easy way to catch up on rep. I know you can trade flightstones to catch up on buying rep but I need those to upgrade gear.
I have the same problem after a layoff. The quest description for Eye of Ysera says I’m supposed to raise my renown with all the major factions but does not say to what level.
I personally don’t mind having to grind things to catch back up, I just knew which order to do things in, rather than having to google every quest to make sure it’s not out of order.
I got back into the game and it was telling me to watch cutscenes with Fyrakk in it, and I had no idea who Fyrakk was yet, so it was very jarring and confusing, not designed well at all.
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I also experienced this.
Left at the end of Shadowlands due to loss of interest, and reactivated and played for a month after Dragonflight launched. I think I did a couple raid wings and then decided to not resub.
It’s been a week now, and I feel like Quentin Tarantino became the narrative director. Playing catch up when the story is locked behind so many different reputation grinds is jarring at best. I’ve been able to piece most of it together, but man, talk about a mess.
I sincerely hope they don’t lock the narrative behind renown like they did in Dragonflight when they release The War Within. It will not be an attractor to the game for me.
I agree with you. Burying this information is not helpful to the player. Though, I did find that if you look at the Dragon Isles Summary screen where your dragon riding tree is kept, along with all the other factions of the dragon isles, you can click through the renown levels and see when “Questline: Such & Such” unlocks.
Thought, maybe this will help guide you.