“We don’t know how time works while we’re in the Shadowlands.”
Imagine that after coming back from the Shadowlands, you find out that Azeroth repaired itself and went back to its original form (one gigantic mass of land, single continent).
The Dark Iron Dwarfs went underground and avoided the Shadowlands. They spent all their time reconstructing a new train system similar to the one from Stormwind to Ironforge, but this time it’s across all of Azeroth.
A revamped Azeroth with a classic WoW feeling, updated graphics, and a better travel system. Perhaps, no need for flying mounts**
Would you be OK with this WoW 2.0? https://ibb.co/GcZGb3j
Actually this would be a great idea for the next expansion. The final boss traps everyone in the shadowlands as he/she rips apart azeroth. You finally escape back to your homeworld, but minutes were actaully days. Stormwind is in ruins and all hell breaks loose.
I don’t think WoW 2.0 will ever happen. They’ll just continue making engine and game improvements to the current game. I would love for them to use this as an excuse to do a massive upgrade to the old world. Have the next expansion take place across Azeroth as a whole. Could be pretty neat. The level cap would have to be raised significantly though, it wouldn’t work with the average 10 levels per expansion.
I would LOVE it if big changes happened, but this dev team does not appear to have the glandular bits to step up and do a big, complicated expac. They do systems.
Time does not seem to pass differently in our world, considering we keep going back for Covenant storylines where nothing has changed and we now have other NPCs coming in who are of our current timeline and have not stated any changes.
It’s a stupid retconned line that isn’t going to do anything. People are entering and leaving shadowlands from mortal realm easily with portals and nothing happens
The last we heard Blizzard said it only “feels” that way. The same amount of time passes but the Maw messes with your mid and alters your perception in order to make the torment more agonizing. While you may have only been tortured for 24 hours, they can stretch it out to feel like a week, making you that much easier to break.
In this way, they may have Anduin in their control for only a few weeks or months, but to him it will feel like he has been tortured for decades, explaining why he might yield to his torture.
In a past interview, some hints were dropped that time worked differently in Shadowlands, which led to speculation that when we return from the Shadowlands, there is a huge timeskip coming in a future expansion. Ion clarified this, saying that time is perceived differently in Shadowlands, like a dream where you sleep for six hours but in the dream state you experience events covering a wider range of time. It’s not like every day in the Shadowlands is equivalent to five days in Azeroth. “Don’t read too much into the timey-wimey-ness of it.”