Thanks to Shredow, a blue has actually responded and we now have a “rough” estimate of Warcraft’s timeline. So, DF is year 40(after the Dark Portal). Shadowlands is year 35. Mists is year 30, while BC is year 26 and Vanilla was year 25.
So a few sides notes, this means the Worgens have been homeless for the past 2 decades. We had 8 expansion in the span of about 10 years.
It’s the fantasy of being a Worgen! You get to be a perpetual lycanthropic hobo and your racial leader is practically the “Old Man Yells At Cloud” meme!
Night Elf fantasy is being a hippy squatter in Stormwind because the tree you were living in burned down in a war!
Jokes aside, maybe something should be done to move Night Elf and Worgen stories forward? They’ve done enough tragedy for the Night Elves for now and there’s only about two female Worgen characters that actually appear in more than one expansion.
For example, why don’t they use Lieutenant Thorn more? She should be appearing alongside Lord Crowley in battle and whatnot. Perhaps Lieutenant Thorn can be a quest giver leading forces somewhere.
It’s also just getting absurd that the Worgen have been “We’Ll ReClAiM gIlNeAs SoMeDaY” and they simply don’t for years and years.
You have very bad math skills.
Two decades=20 years.
If we’re using 40 ADP as the year for DF, then 40-20 is 20 ADP.
For the record: 20 ADP is when Warcraft III took place.
Also be aware that while early WoW and the first expansions (BC/Wrath) mostly kept the timeline on a parallel to the passage of time in real life (one year IRL used to equal one year in game), it was about the time of the Wrath>Cataclysm three year time skip that things started to get wonky. Since about the time of Cata or Mists, each expansion has actually been more like one year of time passing in game, which when you consider how much has happened is actually kinda ridiculous.
And looking at the timeline now? I honestly think they might have retconned the Cata timeskip. It was explicitly stated at the time that Cata started three years AFTER Wrath. That should have been about 31 or 32 ADP. Based on what I’m seeing on what I’m now looking up, Wrath was 27 ADP and Cata was 28 ADP.
While it’s not an official timeline, what’s up on Wowpedia apparently uses all official sources for the timeline, so it’s about as close as we’re going to get. I know for a fact that some of the years I’m looking at are NOT matching up with what myself and many others have been using for years at this point.
It also seems like Classic, BC, and Wrath are also being treated like they each only took a year now…
https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Timeline
Blizzard has always been bad about keeping the Warcraft timeline post WoW straight. Might be about time to give a definitive answer on the matter.
As for the timeline? Well, it’s even more ridiculous now. Apparently, the entire storyline of WoW from Classic to SL has only been ten years.
Anyway, off on a tangent. Going off what’s apparently the “official” timeline, Gilneas fell in the wake of Deathwing’s return in 28 ADP. If 40 ADP is when Dragonflight is supposed to be, that’s only 12 years.
Little longer than many of us originally thought as Cata was generally agreed upon to be 31 or 32 ADP following what was originally a three year skip, but the point remains: that’s still not 20 years.
I was kinda hoping for a world revamp coming into DF, but unless they surprise us in either 10.1 or 10.2 (which for all the mockery they rightfully get over 6.1 during WoD, a world revamp WOULD be a reason to declare it a major patch and not a X.X.5 update), I’m thinking we’re not seeing one now until 11.0 at the earliest.
Game desperately needs a revamp at this point. We’ve had post Cata versions of Kalimdor and the Eastern Kingdoms for longer than the originals at this point. It’s actually insane to think that they’re actually declaring a five year timeskip, yet the questing in these areas is going to reflect the world state from what will now be 12 years prior in universe.
So Vanilla, BC, Wrath, and Cataclysm happen between years 25-30, but there is a three year timeskip between Wrath and Cataclysm, which means that at the latest, the events of Wrath end in 26, where Cataclysm starts in 27, ends in 30 so MoP can begin, and the events of
Mists, Warlords, Legion, BfA all occur between years 30-34, but there is also a 3 year timeskip between MoP and Legion, which means that the events of Mists and WoD occupied the years 30-33 at the latest, which means that Legion and BFA occupied the year 34. Lol. Then Shadowlands happens for 5 years, I guess, and we arrive at DF.
And fix the Cata damage!
Who cares, our toons are ageless anyways. They die when we die in RL or Blizzard turns off the servers forever.