Blizzard’s not going to be making any new change unless new quest activity is planned. land revamps are not cheap.
The Vale of Eternal Blossoms got fixed up so it could be invaded by a Lovecraftian nightmare.
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I wouldn’t mind a timeskip but the world should reflect it. How many years as Moira’s kid being a baby? He was born sometime during Vanilla - TBC but was still a “baby” during Cata.
The problem is, that would never happen unless blizzard has plans to use them. Such as them aging up Salandria for the blood elf scourge epilogue.
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^This. A timeskip would be great for an expansion revamping the old world. It is suspect they are having one for a Pandaria styled island expansion.
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I agree. We need to experience the wedding of Thalyssra and Lor’themar as a fully fleshed out flashback quest in order to grasp the full weight and implications of the time skip. Then, and only then, will we be fully ready to head into the events of Dragonflight.
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While I’m leery of the timeskip, I’m fine with Lor’themar and Thalyssra’s wedding being part of the pre-expansion patch.
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Let’s do the … TIME SKIP… AGAIN!
In theory I’m in favor of this. I also think WoW should jump ahead and then stick with real spacetime.
I find it very stupid WoW exists in some other flow of time where the entireity of the game’s events have happened over like 12 rather than 17 years. Because it’s needlessly confusing and purely in service of keeping characters like Anduin boyishly young.
But I’m kinda disinterested in it unless they move the plot forward in Azeroth. They dont have to do a Cata thing where they update the whole of Azeroth. But at the bare minimum there needs to be questlines showing how things have advanced over the years for every playable faction.
Theres tonnes of fertile fields for stories there. How have our Orcs acclimated to absorbing their AU cousins into the population? Have the Shaldorei helped the Sindorei rebuild Silvermoon and incorporated their own architecture and sensibilities? How about the Forsaken and Worgen? The last quest hinted at a normalization of relations and call me crazy but I think it’d make sense for the Halloween monsters to find some common ground and try to share the Haunted Acre Wood as it were.
What about the disparate Troll tribes? Have the Zandalari been able to broker peace between the Horde and the innumerable number of hostile tribes?
Hows Gazlowe getting along with being a head of state? He’s only been a mayor before. Being governor general of an outright nation has to be a bit of a shift.
Have 90% of the Horde’s mounts stopped trying to eat the vulpera? Do mechagnomes dream of electric sheep? Have the Kul Tirans influenced Stormwindian culture after punching everyone who sounded too chipper?
I demand answers to at least most of these questions!
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That joke’s already taken by mages lol
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Anduin will be twenty-seven when he returns, at least. With all the peach fuzz jokes in BFA, his new older model better have a full beard.
Let’s not forget that also means Sylvanas can possibly have finished her duties.
“I’ve returned after all these years to help, after spending a near decade in the Maw!”
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I see no problem with this. But that’s me 
Time being loose in the shadowlands means Sylvanas could potentially return whenever the writers want and just handwave it away saying that from her POV she spent thousands of years cleaning up the Maw.
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I look forward to her 4th cinematic debut.
“Liiiiiiiife…. Is regreeet, and learning from your mistaaaakes. Not alllllll, are fortunate enough to get this chance.” -Blizzard entertainment presents-
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They had an opportunity for a massive time skip with ‘time works different in the Shadowlands’ but they didn’t actually go through with it. Instead time flowed just perfectly fine as it normally does, and several years will have passed since when we got back and when Dragonflight starts.
Frankly I want the Forsaken’s society to advance somewhat. I’ve admired the subtle hints to stuff like the American Gothic parody picture.
Personally I’d love for them to have that unnerving 1930s-50s consumerism vibe. What the hell are the Forsaken supposed to do in peacetime other than distract themselves with meaningless?
Seriously am I the only one curious what their version of TV shows and commercials would look like? How weird would ish get if they were left alone and allowed to develop their own society?
Strongly against:
- First as a Role player, it will make a mess in the story of our characters.
- More importantly, it will be a way for the (extremly lazy) writers to not do many event like the wedding of Lor’themar and Thalyssra, the Forsaken at Lordaeron, the return of the worgens to Gilneas (that should mark the ending of our story arc by the way), Gnomeregan etc…
It’s obvious that the writing team will say: “This and that happened” without any change in the world or working on a a contextualisation of said event.
I bet that we will have a (badly written) book from Danuser and Copeland to tell us what they refuse to put ingame…
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I’m okay with a time skip, but on the other hand, it is kind of lazy writing. We got zones like westfall, darkshire, gilneas that been frozen in time since cata. Than you got places like quel’thalas and the Draenei starting zone literally stuck in TBC era.
All these zones should’ve been updated in game at some point
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I really like the idea of the time skip - Azeroth needs it, but it presents us with the same problem that MoP>WoD, and BFA>Shadowlands created: What is happening across Azeroth in that time?
Every time there’s some cataclysmic event (like a globe spanning war, or the near death of the planet twice over), Blizzard hyper focuses on a brand new, entirely unrelated topic instead of exploring the aftermath.
Great that we’re getting a time skip, but can we see a bit of the Eastern Kingdoms, Kalimdor, Northrend, etc, and what’s happening there now? I really don’t care about the Dragon Isles, personally - I care about the zones we’ve spent nearly the past two decades developing stories in. I’d really like to see what happens across the world during a five year time skip.
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They should do an intro cutscene for every expansion that briefly explains the important changes to the status quo. Make it similar to the racial openings but for the Alliance/Horde as a whole.
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Hmm… no, I don’t think that would work.
There’s way too much story in each expansion for a cutscene, even if you slimmed it down to major story beats, your cinematic is going to be extremely long and most people are just going to tune out and not bother with it.