There is sometimes a bit of confusion about Shadowlands for those wanting to do it for things like mogs, pets, mounts, etc. I’ve tested it out and want to clarify one point.
Assuming you have done Shadowlands before, if you create a NEW character and level it to 70 without touching Shadowlands, you can then go speak to Darion Morgraine in your capital city, choose to skip the whole Maw sequence and be taken directly to Oribos.
You will then meet the NPC who will offer you the option to do Threads of Fate.
Note, I am assuming the prior Shadowlands workthrough is necessary; as I played during Shadowlands this is how it worked for me. I can’t test it to see if it works for someone who never did it before. Perhaps others can clarify that part for me.
PS: Apparently it can be done on a level 60+ (or possibly 62+ for non Drakthyr races) as long as you do not take that character to the Shadowlands via any means prior to starting the quest with Morgraine.
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This is correct. If you’ve been through SL before, played during SL, and you make alts DONT DO ANYTHING IN THE SHADOWLANDS BEFORE LEVEL 70 INCLUDING JUET GOING THERE. Avoid it like you avoid death irl. Never touch any of it until you ding 70 and the moment you arrive in oribos you get the threads option.
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The only way you can’t do threads of fate is through chromie time. If you go to SL without chromie time at the intended level (or higher) to start the expansion, you will be offered a skip and threads of fate.
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Are you sure of that? I tried it on a lower level character and there was no option for Threads of Fate. It only worked for me on a level 70 that had never touched it previously via any method.
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I have a warrior soon able to go so I’ll try.
Did you do it on a 60? I tried and it didn’t work.
Were you in chromie time when you tried?
Dracthyr can do it at 60, other races can do it at 62+, from my experience.
The important part is to never touch SL at all, like you said.
OK, well that clarifies it a bit more.
Do you know if the requirement to have worked on Shadowlands on other toons previously is also a requirement?
I don’t think so, but it was a while ago so my memory may not be serving me atm.
Yeah, the original requirements to unlock ToF for the account still apply. It’s just the wonkiness of it bugging out or if someone went to Oribos or started it in Chromie Time that can leave them out.
I haven’t tried on a lower level character other than my 62+ ones. I do know Dracthyr can get in at 60. I somehow assumed those having issues at level 60 were because they were still eligible for Chromie Time through level 61, so it was messing it up.
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I need 3 levels to try, doing them through timewalking, will come back or edit once I get there.
yeah at original level required for it, it doesn’t work. Oh well, guess my warrior is never setting foot in shadowlands ever again
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Your warrior’s sacrifice is honoured (:
Well, you could take them there again but sadly you’d need to do the full runthrough to level up. It’s a dumb set up as it is now; if we have done it previously on any toon, we should be able to select ToF as long as a character hasn’t started doing the normal way (as it was during SL). Its unnecessarily restrictive really.
I figured it was impossible to balance threads of fate with chromie time but ffs, what’s the harm in letting me do it at the intended level…
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Just did it a few seconds ago on a 60 warrior.
Skip the maw intro, enjoy getting ported to a grayed out Oribos that makes you choose threads or regular storyline.
I learned this last week that Threads still exists, and I had already did some SL quests on my level 50s-60s I was leveling. 
Now they all have to complete the entire SL campaign just to get a covenant. Even when I go back at lvl 70. Really stupid design.
I get if they didn’t want people to Chromie Time and Threads level but why can’t I skip the campaign at any time at 70? I’ve also seen wowhead comments where Blizz tell people in tickets that Threads has been removed from the game but it hasn’t. It just doesn’t work after you start the campaign, when it used to work at any time during SL.
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Pretty sure the quest dialog still says that you can go back to threads at any time if you started the storyline. You can’t go in reverse for sure though.
Have you tried going back to the threads npc?
I need 5 more levels and I’ll try.
I’ve tried to talk to the NPC. Once my alts have the Bastion campaign started (chapters showing on quest log) and are going to the zone they don’t have any options with the Threads NPC.
Alts who never touched SL have no issue. Only tried on 70s though.
On some alts I have gotten the quest to talk to the Threads NPC when I first enter Oribos. I talk to them, complete intro quest that says I can use it if I want, and then I should get the option to pick Threads. But they have no option to start it.
I need to look around more but from what I have seen it looks like once you start the SL zone story at all it locks you out permanently on that character. Really weird.
Yes, I’ve done it on a 60. From what I understand - as long as you have taken one character through the story - you can do threads of fate at 60. Other than that they’ve locked it.
Is that everyone’s experience?
