If you were to play through the story that is available in game chronologically, how would you do it?
Would you account for when you go back in time like in Caverns of Time? What about Warlords of Draenor?
How would you go about playing through the story in game in WoW chronologically?
I would probably Google everything in chronological order and then follow that path. I used to do the same thing with SWTOR just to make sure I didn’t miss anything or skip any planets.
Step 1. Play the warcraft series (recently added to gamepass)
Step 2. Yeah, I guess certain Caverns of times happen before vanilla
Other than that, there isnt much out of order stuff. I guess you could do the human heritage armor quest, that has some pre-vanilla stuff in it
You know this makes me wonder if there’s an add-on for this. It’s quite a good idea. As for how I would do it I am not entirely sure which is why I want an add-on. Someone else figure it out for me, thanks.
I would grab BTWQuests and all its sub addons, make sure WoWHead is overlayed via the new Windows 11 gamebar feature, and get to work.
Love BTWQuests but is there a way to see lore time on a WoWhead article?
I usually use like the wikipedia pages for WoW for lore/time periods but it’s still kinda hard to tell sometimes because it will just say something like “third war” or “post Dark Portal”
Not really, I would use WoWHead for general quest troubleshooting.
I just input a query into Copilot, and it looked like it could tell you at least the base chronology of like each zone.
It said start off with doing each racial zone, and that makes sense. I would try fiddling with that some if you wanted, you can get Copilot to do a good bit of the research portion.
Currently doing this by playing classic. We are about to enter the MoP era.
In retail, I think people have the right idea. I haven’t gone through all of them yet, but Chromie time and turning off XP has let me sort of experience each expansion again. You don’t get the classic skills from back then, and a lot of the features that used to exist are turned off, but without Classic it is the best we can do.
Personally, I would start with TBC. I wouldn’t touch the caverns of time unless a quest prompted me to do so, as they were designed.
After TBC I would do Wrath.
After Wrath I would do Kalimdor zones and Eastern Kingdoms zones, all were redone after wrath to bring them up to date with Cata.
Then MoP and the rest in order of release.
Beyond that you just run the expansions in the order they were released in, skipping WoD because that was in the past.
It may have been in the past, but it still fell between MoP and Legion Chronologically due to alternative timelines and events leading to it and caused by it… remember we don’t go to the original Draenor we go to a Draenor in an alternative timeline altered by Garrosh’s meddling…
Yes, but chronologically it happens before WC1
Chronological order doesn’t always strictly follow the standard flow of time. When time travel is involved, chronological order follows the order in which events happened.
That is chronological order. You don’t insert future time travel events to when the original past events occurred. You especially don’t do it when the time travel occurs on a separate timeline as well. None of the events of WoD affected anything that occurred before WoD, its affect on our timeline only impacted events that happened afterwards. So chronologically it still belongs between MoP and Legion.