Hi, so I am extremely confused. I’ve just got four questions that I would be so appreciative if someone could answer. Thanks in advance
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I’m VERY confused with the DK timeline, you leave the starter area after fighting off LKs forces and vowing to destroy him, give the letter to the leader guy, and BOOM suddenly he’s dead and a bunch of other stuff magically happened and now you’re at BFA? Excuse me what?!!
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If I already have a character who has completed the starting zone (Dk or SL) and who is supposed to start BFA but hasn’t and I want them to do the other expansions in a certain order first can I wait until I get another character to level 50 through BFA and have my original character go through the expansions or do they have to have been created after I reached level 50?
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Once you start one of the expansions in the new SL system do you have to do the rest in order? Like I want one character to start at Mists and do WoD but skip Legion and go straight for BFA and SL while my other character starts at WotLK and does Cataclysm then jumps to Legion.
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If I hit the level cap before I’m up to SL can I still play through the other expansions without leveling or will it force me to start SL?
Edit: I have another question that Google refuses to give me a straight answer to.
- If I level through BFA and SL can I go back and still use Chromie time to play through the older expansions even though I won’t level or are they forever locked off to that character?
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The timeline thing is just weird. It’s a side effect of a game that’s 16 years old. The main cities tend to “favor” the latest content when it comes to the default phase they are in. (Which is why as soon as you left the Wrath era phase, you found yourself in the Shadowlands phase.) At least with the new system you have the option of going directly to Northrend to level. Even when DKs were new they had to go backwards in time to Vanilla/BC to do some leveling before getting back to the current timeline.
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I’m pretty sure that existing characters will be able to access Chromie Time once it’s unlocked. I mean, all of my old characters have been able to access it, even though they were made before the Shadowlands patch was even a thing. It’s also important to note that even if you haven’t unlocked Chromie Time, you can still level in non-BfA expansions. You just will stop getting meaningful XP when you hit that expansion’s cap. You first character through Exile’s Reach will have to do the BfA opener. After that, you should be able to chose the “I’m familar with the city” option from the NPC when you get to Stormwind/Org to end the tutorial and choose other expansions.
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Generally, you can skip around as you like. The biggest caveat is that the old level 80+ Cataclysm zones can’t be started until level 30. (These zones were build around flying, so they can’t be started until flying is unlocked at 30.) You can easily get to 30 using any expansion, though, even without Chromie Time.
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I have not yet had a chance to test how this works. It has been pretty common in past expansions for the current expansion’s starting quests to stomp all over the starting quests for other expansions. So, if you wanted to do the starter quests for expansions that started in Stormwind/Org, you’d have to do the current expansion’s opening quests first. If you were already questing in another expansion, it would be fine, though. Generally, it’s just starting expansion quests that are the problem. The other thing to keep in mind is that if you are using Chromie Time, once you hit 50, you are kicked out and ported to Stormwind/Org. There’s nothing stopping you from ignoring the Shadowlands quest and going back to doing what you were doing when you were ported, though.
A couple of general notes:
Once you are eligible for the Shadowlands starter quest (level 48 and have purchased the Shadowlands expansion) you will not be able to turn on Chromie Time. If you already have it on, it will stay on until 50, and I think you can swap which expansion you are timewalking without turning it off first.
At any time, you can turn off your XP gains. So if you don’t want to risk the Shadowlands quest interfering with other stuff you want to do, before you hit 48 you can talk to the NPC to turn off XP. Then, when you are near ready to move on to Shadowlands, you can turn it back on. (Again, hitting 48 won’t mess up what you are currently doing, it will just might stop you from starting new stuff or turning Chromie Time on.)
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That was incredibly helpful thanks so much!!