Hey everyone, came back to the game after a very long hiatus (last played seriously around the launch of WotLK), used to play on the Sha’Tar back in the day, but that server doesn’t seem to have survived the Merger of the Realms.
Anyway, enough with the babbling. Can anyone get me up to speed on what’s currently happening lore-wise/server-wide? Also is there any kind of dedicated RP general chat? It gets kind of lonely wandering around levelling a toon.
Lore-wise, there’s a lot to cover, and I feel like covering it beyond the obvious stuff would require a huge amount of time. I would suggest reading a synopsis of the expansion stories (as well as playing through them!) on their Wowpedia pages, then reading up on anything you think is particularly interesting.
You’re playing an Undead, which handily means you can also get involved in RP without knowing everything right out of the gate - you can simply claim to have only been raised recently, explaining why your character doesn’t know a whole lot about the world.
Server-wise, a lot of the guild plots are largely related to N’Zoth’s awakening, which a lot of people will regard as having happened following the release of the final LFR wing sometime in March. The Horde is also dealing with the aftermath of Sylvanas leaving them to focus on her own agenda, too.
There’s also currently a server-wise civil war between pro-Sylvanas loyalists and pro-Saurfang rebels.
Hello and welcome back to WoW and most importantly, Argent Dawn!
What kind of RP are you looking for? I think with the creation of discord most RP general chats ingame have died but there’s a few communities dotted about.
Oh buddy are you in for a wild ride
let’s not try to scare people off amigo!!!
I echo this in a big way, there’s a ton of variation so having some semblance of an idea of what you want to do is helpful!
Welcome back to WoW and welcome into AD, you will like it here if you seek to RP.
There are plenty of variations to RP as, what you seek matters.
Anything in mind for your character or the RP you seek?
Lore after Wrath?
Firstly, the Cataclysm happened. The former Aspect of Earth, Neltharion, turned into the Aspect of Death, Deathwing, emerged from the elemental plane of Earth, Deepholme through the Maelstrom, and he is the sole cause of many of the worlds now broken zones.
During this expansion, the Forsaken invaded Gilneas after they had a massive Worgen outbreak, turning (to my knowledge) the vast majority of their surviving population into Worgen. The Gilneans managed to eventually escape Gilneas after it was blighted to hell by Sylvanas despite being forbidden from doing so by the current Warchief (Garrosh Hellscream). They did so by the help of the Night Elves, who through means I forget, and am too lazy to look up, permanently restored the minds of the Worgen, for the cure they were given before this, wasn’t perfect.
Far out at sea, there’s an isle called Kezan full of little turds-… I mean Goblins, all run by Trade Prince Gallywix. He catches wind of another Goblins (your character) quick rise to power, so to speak, and aims to put a stop to that by crashing your sick pool party. What a douche. Anyway, then Deathwing shows up, and wakes up the dormant volcano on the Island and all the gobbo’s need to get the hell outta dodge.
There is a ship for them to do just that, and everyone, including you, is allowed on-board. Of course you gotta accept to be put into slavery to get on-board. Payment and all. Anyway, then your ship is spotted by an Alliance ship that just won a fight against the Horde, and they say “No witnesses” and sinks you as well.
You wake up on another island and basically just have to escape that aswell, thrall shows up and slaps Gallywix til he agrees not to make everyone slaves, and then they join the Horde.
Then you help out some losers under-water who haven’t developed gills, but then again neither have you, have fun. Or, you go help hippies in Mount Hyjal fight off cultists and fire elementals and twilight Dragons. Deathwing shows up again and revives Ragnaros who immediately purges you in fire. (jk, but he does revive).
Then you go to Deepholme to help some tough Dwarves to fix a stick in the middle of the zone, very important. Then you go to this zone previously called Uldum, but now known as UlDUM, and assist some Grave-robbers- ahrem, archeologist and cat-people. Turns out a big structure in the zone is actually an engine to wipe out all life on Azeroth incase of Old Gods. >__________>
Then you go to the Twilight Highlands, and since your horde, you get to Witness the Dragonmaw turn into Sparta for a moment before promptly showing them who’s boss and take over their little hamlet, then you complete some quests and hurray done.
Raids: Bastion of Twilight. Throne of Four Winds, Blackwing Descent, and Dragonsoul. Baradin Hold is basically just the Vault raid from Wintergrasp, so whatever.
Bastion of Twilight, we go in and clap the cheeks of a bit Etin, some two-headed reptile lover with a stick, then we proceed onto a pair of Twilight Dragons. I dubbed one of them Toothless after a few punches. Then we murder some guys High on Elemental power, no no, not Thrall, before we finally face the leader of the Twilight’s Hammer, another 2-headed thing. Just an ogre this time, with a thing for eye-balls. On Heroic, it goes further, and you get to kill (but not really) deathwings ex-wife.
Throne of Four Winds, we bum the Wind Lord Al’akir out so much, that he loses his second wind and dies. Basically he wanted the big world-ending tech in UlDUM and we say “no” he says “yes” so we bum him out so he quits. We also took his mount, so that probably helped.
Blackwing Descent. Nefarian forgot that he was supposed to be dead, so we go back in there and remind him.
Firelands. Ragnaros’s fire-purging was starting to suck a bit, and honestly Hyjal looked better before it was all burned. So we decide to break into his home, rinse his roommates for all they’re worth before we go and ask him where he keeps his parrot. Saying he drops it, we obviously had to murder him.
Lastly there is Dragon Soul. Which is just a big assault by Deathwing and friends on Wyrmrest Temple, where all the other Aspects are gathered, and they included a Pickle for some reason. Anyway, we start by killing this stone-guy, who splits into 2 stone guys, so our miners get to work and get some gold out of that.
Then we go and deep-throat some big Twilight tentacle Monster and kill a crab in it’s stomach, and then we do the same to another, except it’s more of a squid down there.
Then Deathwing sends his overly confident kid at us, and we promptly trip the little **** cause he was flashing this ugly mount in our faces, and we wanted that.
Then the Pickle opens fire on Deathwing, almost killing him. Super uncalled for. So he flees, we chase him cause apologising is the right thing to do. On our way there via Air-ship, nothing noteable happens, we enjoy a nice BBQ, meat provided by a Drake dropping a cow on the deck.
Then, when we’re above Deathwing, we drop down onto him, cause we need to apologise face-to-face like men. But there are obstructions in the way. So we remove those, and then suddenly, the violent Pickle shoots Deathwing again. While we’re on him. What a douche.
Anyway, Deathwing crashes into the Maelstrom, we tell the Pickle what we think of him, and then Deathwing pops up again.
Unfortunately, Deathwing told us he has a chance of dropping 2 mounts on Heroic, so we shed a tear and did what had to be done, removing 1 limb at a time til poor Deathwing died and was shot again.
That’s Cataclysm.
Where’s part 2?
I’ll start off easy with some light/medium RP (anything but ERP), before working up to more serious stuff.
Yeeh-Haw!
Next up is Pandaria. Some fog vanishes for some reason after an orc and a human came ashore there, and then finding new land, both factions immediately get to work on sending troops there.
We end up in the Jade Forest where you, as Horde, show dominance over some monkeys. Having made them into your obedient little banana-swallowers, you proceed and meet with Cho The Fat, who shoves tea down your throat, and tells you about your people. Then you smell some insence and spent the rest of the time trippin’.
Then you go to a Farm and solve a rat-infestation before being allowed to go into a Brewery, Fcking jackpot. Pot and Booze, this expansion’s looking up.
Then you go to another zone where they’re really heavy on BBQ’s. It just doesn’t get better than this. You eat your fill of the many, many… MANY moo’s around before you visit this temple where they worship a white tiger with blue stripes. Turns out he’s a pretty cool dude. What’s not so cool, is that little whiny Anduin is there, and he looks like sh*t, but you deal with it anyway.
Then we go to the next zone! Having gotten pot, booze, and more steaks than you could dream of, we’re quite happy. Especially since we’re immedaitely offered more steaks. But then we progress a little bit, and find out it’s actually not all happy-fun-times here in Pandaland, because it turns out that they have a very serious cockroach problem.
And we don’t like bugs. And as we know, Cockroaches don’t give a fck, so no amount of bug-spray is going to help us. And seeing as we weren’t really listening, we only have a vague idea of what all these black cotton-candy creatures are. They seem to appear whenever someone’s bummed out a little too much. Guess that’s why panda’s got an emphasis on being happy.
Lastly, we assist in assembling the Cockroach Avengers to fight against the big bad Roach-Queen, because she’s being a little Wuss and is scared of the big bad cotton-candy.
We can’t allow that, but we put it on hold for a moment to go rinse a vault of valueables.
Raids: Mogu’shan Vaults, Heart of Fear, Terrace of Endless Spring, Throne of Thunder, and Siege of Orgrimmar.
We already cleaned the vaults, so we return to the big Roach Queen in Heart of Fear. Cause she’s still being a wuss. We made sure to bring the Heavy Flamers this time around, and cleaned the place out. Nobody likes a bug infestation. Turns out the big scary Cotton-candy had been manipulating her, and it ran away.
We follow it to the Terrace of Endless Spring, and soak the cotton-monster in a puddle so he quickly disolves.
BUT THEN! Turns out while we were eating beef and enjoying ourselves, the try-hards of WoW revived this Mogu called Lei Shen, and he wants to enslave everyone or some sh*t so we go to his house and knock on the door.
A lot of trolls answer, they revere this Mogu guy like a god, we roll our eyes and spank them cause they’ve been bad. Turns out they were just used at Meat-shields by Lei Shen. So when we come to a bridge, he breaks it, which I think was an over-reaction. Could’ve just asked us nicely to go.
Instead, we indulge in animal cruelty by breaking a turtle, slapping a snake around before we see this magnificent bird. It was too pretty, so we just left it alone. Then timmy saw it could drop a mount, so naturally we had to snap its neck.
We move on and find a floating head with one eye, and introduce it to physics, so it falls down and realises its dead. We then find Gollum swimming around in some goop, and we feel bad for him, so we kill him.
Later we find some Golems, powered by the Goop Gollum liked to swim in, so we dismantle those with the help of our local engineer.
After all this, we move on and tell some Mogu that they’ve been bad, and should feel bad, and send them to their rooms before going to Lei Shen. We tell him we don’t want to be enslaved, and demand a salary, but he says no, so we kill him.
Then Garrosh and Vol’jin has some lovers-spat, and Garrosh tries to have Vol’jin killed, which I think was a disproportional reaction. We all go to Orgrimmar to make Garrosh apologise for being so rude, but he’s hiding deep below Ragefire Chasm like a wuss, not wanting to admit he was wrong. So we go down there and spank him cause he was a bad boy, and he gets house-arrest in some cell in Pandaland. ( I think).
And that’s Pandaria.
Eeeey! There’re quite a lot of former Sha’tar players here. If anything, you’ll always be able to commiserate with those of us who remember it.
Take a look around the forums (I know, I know, you probably have), but specifically for Discord channels. That’s where a lot of RP chat happens now. AD has inspired a Discord for near every race, as well as plenty for other mores specified RP scenarios such as mage meetings, monk tournaments…
Yes, humans should know their place.
But seriously, these have been some entertaining summaries.
Next up we have WoW: Doctor Who Edition. Garrosh pulls some time travel shizz and goes to an alternate Draenor in the past cause he was tired of his House Arrest. We follow him to discover he’s turned Draenor against us. So we clap a lot of Orc cheeks… A lot… A WHOOOOOOLE LOT. SO MANY. You would not BELIEVE the amount of Orcs… OOOOOOOORCS-… anyway then Archimonde appears and tells us he wants to burn this world. We totally agree and let him get started, but -… damn.
He drops this really cool mount, so you already know what happened.
And that’s Warlords of Draenor.
If you want military / loyalist RP have a look at PCU guilds. Very welcoming community with high activity.
If there’s a different theme you’d like let us know and we can point you in the right direction.
Thanks for the link. This is definitely a RP avenue I want to venture down.
The Ritual of Balance isn’t perfect either. According to Wolfheart it just gave your human side a hand on the wheel. Those who gave in to their rage still turned feral even after the ritual, which is why Varian initially refused to accept them into the Alliance. Worgen who lack discipline are a huge liability. There is no permanent, perfect fix that makes you all hunky dory again.
You could RP a recently-risen forsaken (since Cata Sylvanas has val’kyrs), that would give you the chance to learn more about the world alongside with your character
That’s the plan.
Ahh, I see. Thanks for the info. ^^