It’s been confirmed that we are going three years into the future when Dragonflight launches. This puts us five years ahead of the beginning of Shadowlands. How does that jive with your head canon, or do you worry much at all about timelines within the game, and your own character’s stories?
Canonically, the beginning of Dragonflight is fourteen years after The Burning Crusade began.
Hello, I see you posted a thread about terrible writing. I stopped caring a long time ago, the story is complete and utter garbage! I only want good gameplay and good loot!
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As long as the story is good and our time isn’t wasted by pointless grinds I’m fine with whatever.
And like Edamann said. Good gameplay and loot is important.
It’s fine.
I trust Steve Danuser because he showed capable writing during 9.2.5 with the calia stuff and regrowing a new tree for the night elves and returning gilneas back to genn basically undoing all the damage (well almost all of them)
It’s 5 years though? And I’d say it works and makes sense
5 more years and I still won’t have Invincible
never forget: steve danuser canonically made elune a 3d-printed robot.
…seriously, who looks at a god and says ‘what if there was a machine that could make gods out of thin-air?’
as far as the time-skip is concerned, bfa was like, a 3-5-ish year timeskip after legion. this isn’t that big of a deal to me.
A five year time jump is a good amount for resetting the narrative and story and it gives Steve and his team leeway to tell more new stories and not retread old ones and basically soft rebooting the storytelling. (Like Steve said one saga ended another opens)
But I bet our characters won’t even look older right?
I just hope to see them start to update all the cities and zones now to look up to date and just sending us to other planets and focus on Azeroth going into the next story arc of Azeroth.
You’re asking them to do the impossible and not worth the developer time and also it’s not feasible in terms of doing all the zones at once and it might be possible if it’s per zone basis then we have another story.
Well I mean, the sundering happened over a decade man. I think it’s time for some restoration now.
Guess Blizzard is too chicken to demonize the Alliance in that span of time.
During those years in terms of technology they can only do so much and also they pick and choose which zone to change and which didn’t and also cataclysm was when they redone all the zones for flying and it was a bigger endeavor then they actually realized.
There won’t be enough meaningful change for it to matter.
So it’s the same but different?
They say they are aging-up some up some of the younger characters?
I’m not sure what characters they mean - I can only think of Anduin and Wrathion, maybe that ship finally sail?
Who else is going to get a new, older model?
And yet Li Li will not change one iota lol.
Players made her a robot. Nobody said anything about being printed. This is just immature nonsense that comes from not having a grip on the Lore (Fleshy creatures are relatively new on the cosmic timeline).
I hope there’s options in the barber shop to let us do that. Keep in mind though, that most mortal races live anywhere from 100 to over 10,000 years. Anduid will notice the time passing, but it’s barely a weekend to Velen.