So, it’s now a month i’ve start to play wow again, and i’m getting back on track with the storyline i left in legion. I got all the raids and quests i left behind and finally start to play bfa. Quite confusing, but i got the main things, done some things in zuldazar and nazjatar, then i went to stormwind for a very urgent missive from my king and i learn that N’zoth is free. HOW? WHEN?
Then i realized i just spoilered myself a bunch of things because i simply accepted a quest ahead of its time. I’m pissed off!
Is there an addon that tells me how to play the quests chronologically? I don’t mean btwQuest, i already have it, it says all the questlines, not when to play it to avoid spoilers.
Edit: I feel the need to clarify a few things. The problem here is not that some quests can be confusing or that a player might not understand where to go or how to complete a quest or which quest to complete next. The problem here is that Blizzard hasn’t set the right boundaries and prerequisites for the introductory quests! As soon as you reach level 70, any player can find themselves catapulted into the Emerald Dream and see a cinematic where Tyrande plants a seed without having the SLIGHTEST idea of what it’s about, only to then find themselves playing quests that explain what happened in a cutscene you might have seen a month ago.
There should be an addon that organizes things and warns you that “this quest is better accepted only after completing this other quest”.
I am playing for the first time with a friend through the pandaria remix as he wants to experience the story from Pandaria up to DF, and he has also accidentally been spoiled on multiple story beats due to the fact that certain content just spoils the story before you get to it
You could try using BTWQuests.
I’ve used it in the past to complete missing quests, I’m not sure if it goes chronologically, but it’s worth a shot. https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/btw-quests
Ah yes BFA
The time they tried to rush 3 expansions worth of story into one
all to get us to shadowlands quicker to prove how great the writing would be
what an era, what a time
Excuse me, I don’t mean to be rude, but in my post I literally wrote in the last line that I’m already using BTWQuests. I don’t have any missing quests, i simply complete quest AHEAD of their right time.
Thanks anyway for your response.
I can’t help you with add-ons, but given the absence of suggestions here is what I do.
As far as the capital is concerned, Chromie time and level locking are tools to avoid receiving quest starters.
You could consult wowhead or similar to see their storyline chains.
In classic titles completing quests sorted by level mostly helps.
Loremaster achievements and their objectives are sorted in sequence. The quest log shows the objectives. (Maybe the campaign, too. Certainly in Remix.) It usually correlates with regional layout as well (unlike Skyrim). It isn’t too much of mental effort to keep focusing on the next set of quests based on this intel.
(WoW is not an RPG but an ARPG, you’re always supposed to play the most current content - everything is designed with that in mind.)
It gets worse in Dragonflight. When you ding max level your map will light up like a xmas tree.
And DF thought it would be a good idea to use the Shield Icon which denotes Campaign quests on about 6 different Campaigns at once. So even this won’t help you much in navigating the main story.
Not to mention the fact that some of the campaigns have Renown gates so you won’t be able to do the story in a coherent order without doing a grind for a few weeks (at the least, took me months to get Dragonscale renown 24 as I can’t do races and climbing quests).
The stories are there. It wouldn’t take a vast effort to have them available in a coherent narrative.
This would make playing old expansions good for new players or for leveling a new alt through a story you’ve not done for a while and might want to do again. Personally I don’t like redoing whole campaigns over and over too soon (so skips are very welcome) but I’m not opposed to going back to a story I’ve not seen for a few years.
They’re putting on a story mode for raids, i don’t get why they don’t put a nice switch somewhere to enable story mode on quests too.
You know what could be really usefull? If they put Chromie timelocking to a season deepness. I want to play BfA Season 1, then Season 2, then Season 3. I could manage or forgive little spoilers like Azerite missions before even realizing Ashbane are doing stuff with Azerite, but i can’t really stand large spoilers like playing season 3 while i’m starting season 1.
