How to start full story + expansions chronologically Horde

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Hi There folks!

I’m not super new to WoW as i have played some of the endgame content of Legion and BfA.
However, having played the war campaign of both those expansions i feel like i miss a lot of the awesome lore that is in this game, being a legion baby.
There is so many things and characters i have questions for and thus i have created a new character to start from scratch and play through the entire wow campaign + expansions. Now my question is, where do i start?
I just finished the starting area for my class and am currently in orgrimmar. But i want to make sure to go through the content chronologically. Anyone that can help me get going? and show me where to go?

Thanks

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Well, there’s no way to do everything chronologically now…

You start a character in the Cataclysm… Then you’d go back in time to to The Burning Crusade and/or the Wrath of the Lich King…
Before going forwards in time again to the Cataclysm era again…
And from there onwards you could do it chronologically…

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It depends on what you want to focus on.

Garrosh for example is in Nagrand, Icrecrown, Rocktalon and so on

Pick a story you want to follow and try to do the related content

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Its hard to do all of it leveling with a signle character, normally you will outlevel the expac long before you finish it. But it is the best way to experience the dungeon lore for each.

Leveling you start at Cata no matter the race from 1-58, then you go to Outland (BC Era) 58-68, Northrend is next for Wrath of the LK 68-78. Now you run into the issue of Pandaland and Cata overlapping level wise chronologically you want to do Cata first then Panda. After that is Warlords and then legion which catches you up.

For the raid lore your going to need your max level character and just look in the raid journal, the order you see them is the order they released giving you a chronological order of those too

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#ChronormuCanFixIt

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Now if i were in your skin i would take this route Northern Barrens > Stonetalon Mountains (real epic story here) > Southern Barrens > Dustwallow Marsh > Western Plaguelands > Eastern Plaguelands > Stranglethorn Vale North then South.

If you are interested in lore so much i would advise you to do every zone, all of storylines, this will reward you with achievment Loremaster which would be fun for you i guess. To do so you need to do every storyline in every zone in a game. Don’t listen to people who will advise you to lock your exp on level 60, it’s nonsense, if you will outlevel zones then you will kill trash mobs faster, as i think you want to learn about lore, not to get more challenges while doing so. At level 60 just click magnifying glass on your minimap and check “trivial quests” option.

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It’s something Blizz should have paid way more attention too.
Frankly its baffling that they still haven’t gotten around to fixing it.
I know not everyone is in it for the story… but what a lousy game experience it is when you can’t even have a decent narrative structure that skips trough time so much and has missing parts because they love removing content rather than adjusting it.

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They don’t believe in their own narration, and didn’t expect that someone will be interested with their lore.

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The only real way to understand it now is through the books. Your best bet would be to buy the Warcraft Chronicles books. There’s currently three of them and go from the creation of the universe itself to the end of Cata.
Ofcourse they don’t go over everything in detail, but it’ll give you a great starting off point if you’re completely new to learning about the lore

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Well… I would suggest you start with classic and play Forsaken for example. After finishing Classic storyline, you should move on to TBC and then to WOTLK and finally start as a new character again at cataclysm and Skip TBC and WOTLK alltogether.

It is quite problematic and hard, i know. They did a poor job when implementing Cataclysm without any consideration to timelines.

Maybe phasing should have been to less extent, so that the initial Azeroth would have stayed as it is in Classic now but the textures would have been improved. After finishing TBC and WOTLK, the world would have to be phased for all 80+ as a Azeroth that was devastated by Cataclysm, Including Northrend. Then again that would have been lot more work.

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Even if we ignore the mess that is TBC and WOTLK between Cataclysm 1-60 and Cataclysm 80-85 still is very hard to play lore in chronological order.

Let’s say I want to do all the content from one expansion like Cataclysm content from 80-85. If you are level 85 you have available all the leveling quest from Cataclysm that you have not completed and every quest chain that was available at level 85 are available too, that means is everything mixed, level 85 content from launch, first patch, second, etc. with no indication of where is the order.

And the same happens with MOP, Pandaria, Legion, and BFA. You reach the max level and all the content is available at the same time with any indication of what is the order. Quests, dungeons, raids, all available, good luck finding the order. And then we have the questlines that were important for the story that was removed like Pandaria and WOD legendaries questlines.

WOW requires to have a Main Quest Scenario like FFXIV that guide the player thought the story in chronological order. Not necessary to be mandatory like in FFXIV, but at least allow those who want it to play in order. So for example if I want to play BFA content in order 8.2 quests will be hidden until finish quests from 8.1.5, and so on. And the same for old expansions. Is not so hard, they only need to link the first quest of a patch with the last quest of the previous patch and only for players playing the story like a Main Quest Scenario.

They should expand Party Sync feature, that has the important thing of allowing to replay quests, and add in the Adventure Guide a list of quest lines, zones, dungeons, etc in chronological order allowing those who want to do it to play in order and enjoy the lore. Including of course removed quest lines, they could add those only to be played with Party Sync mode, that means there are no rewards, so old players will have still the exclusivity of their achievements, mounts, legendaries, etc and new players can play all the lore.

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It sort of had before Cataclysm destroyed it. Then again 1-60 when i staarted a new undead recently, was quite good. I could basically follow undead “Storyline” but that was because i allready knew where is who and what. Then it is awkward to jump in to TBC to WOTLK which no longer have any prologue in the world.

Then there are things i completely miss from stories like the raid events in any expansion. I can do them on my own when i am much higher level, but i should be able to experience them at the right level and at a right point of timeline. Its not right ti kill Lich King after Legion for example. It feels stupid.

I cant cope with group content anymore due my visual impairnent and also due my will to RP all of it on my own.

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Yes, I know that Cataclysm destroyed any sense of chronological order for TBC and WOTLK, but no, it does nod had something like an MQS before Cataclysm. TBC and WOTLK had the same problem as other expansions when you reach the max level all the content from max level is available at the same time with no order explained.

If we stuck to just one expansion none of them had the story quest like an MSQ. In WOTLK you reach level 80, today and back when 3.3 was the last patch available, and all the quest chains from 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3 are available at the same time. WOTLK has not an MSQ that guides you through content in order, first doing the leveling zones, then level 80 content from 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3, including every duneon and raid. That is what FFXIV has as Main Quest Scenario.

The only content where he game guides you in chronological order are leveling zones, and that makes 1-60 from Cataclysm the one that is more closed to an MSQ because for that content there was no endgame. In contrast Cataclysm zones from level 80 to 85 also guides you in order but at soon as you reach level 85 it becomes a mess.

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