Questing and lore for a new player

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Hey all thanks for reading my forum post.

So im following WoW for some years but never been actively playing it myself. I just wanted to start today with it ( still deciding which class but started to make a Hunter Tauren on Draenor).

My question:

is there a guide to follow to play the game as chronologically as possible, or key zones to play to get the most out of the story so far.

if you want to play with me and show me around in this beautiful world of Azeroth by all means it would be an honor :).

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Chronologically?

It’s a bit “broken” as of today, as you won’t move in a straight line in the timeline while questing…

I’ll explain.
You start your adventures shortly after the Cataclysm, the even where Deathwing arose again and started his quest to destroy the world.
Which is why you’ll see many references to the Cataclysm and Deathwing while you are questing up to level 60.

When you reach level 60 you’ll choose between going to Outland or Northrend.
Outland is the Burning Crusade expansion which is the first expansion.
Northrend is the Wrath of the Lich King which is the second expansion.
Both of these take place before the Cataclysm, which is technically the third expansion.

Once you’ve reached level 80 you’ll choose between the Cataclysm and Pandaria.
Cataclysm returns you to the Cataclysm, which is the third expansion.
Pandaria is Mists of Pandaria which is the fourth expansion.

Once you reach level 90 you’ll go to Draenor.
Warlords of Draenor is the fifth expansion.

Then when you reach level 100 you’ll go to the Broken Isles.
Legion is the sixth expansion.

Then upon reaching level 110 you’ll go to Kul Tiras/Zandalar
Battle for Azeroth being the seventh and newest expansion.

So as you see, you won’t be able to chronologically go through each expansion. As the original quests were removed and replaced with a “Cataclysm” world.
So you’ll go “back in time” for The Burning Crusade or Wrath of the Lich King, then “forwards in time” again for the Cataclysm or Mists of Pandaria.

When Shadowlands is released they’ll revamp the leveling system, so that you’ll choose which expansion you want to level up in. Then move on to Shadowlands after that.
While new players will be forced to level in Battle for Azeroth since it is the closest in the story to Shadowlands.
Any character they make after they’ve reached max level on one will be able to choose where to level up.
The idea is to pick an expansion and see the entire story, instead of going to one then outleveling it and moving on to the next before you’re halfway through.

So don’t worry about doing things chronologically for now, just go where you want to, and pick what looks most interesting. The 100% XP boost will make you outlevel any expansion before you get to see it to completion anyway.

Good luck and have fun :slight_smile:

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Too bad for me :frowning: wanted to grasp the lore :p.

You have any advice for me to follow :)?

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Well there’s nothing stopping you from staying in an expansion after you outlevel it if you really want…

But at some point you’ll be a few levels above the content so you can’t use the LFG tool for dungeons for example.
And everything will be very easy to kill.

So if you really, really want you can XP lock yourself once you reach the max level for that content.
For Warlords of Draenor for example, that would be level 100.

For the Horde the XP lock NPC is in Orgrimmar. It’s an Undead guy called Slahtz. Experience Eliminator.
Then you can lock yourself once you reach level 80 in Outland or Northrend. Then finish the content before moving on and going to the same NPC to unlock your XP gain.

He makes it so you can’t gain any more XP from your current level, so that you won’t overlevel an area.

But if you don’t want to do that, I’d just suggest going where you want, staying there until you reach the appropriate level and moving on.

You can go back later at max level if you just want to see the story for the area, though you’ll one shot everything then :slight_smile:

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oke thanks for the info :slight_smile: much appreciated dont know what i wanna do yet xd just see where it goes

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Check out

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCTqUnnRlK-n44W6xPlx6JVQ

for some Lore :stuck_out_tongue:

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I started at around middle of BFA, first got the subscription which goes up to Legion so played that first for 9 months I guess before I bought the new expansion itself.
Tons of lore, confusing at times. I at least knew it pretty well before starting wow, grew up with the rts games.
But what I do is just read the wowpedia a lot, not for everyone for sure but I love the lore and really like to read about it. Did get me up to speed really well.

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@Beerwolf if i wanted to watch videos i would watch Nobble but thanks anyway

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From 1-60, you are in Year 28.

From 60-80, you relive the events of TBC (Year 26) and Wrath (Year 27).

From 80-90, you can be back in Year 28 (Caraclysm) or Year 29-30 (Mists).

90-100 (Draenor) is in our Year 31, or Year -4 in the Alternate Universe.

Busy years thay have! And we think 2020 is bad. :stuck_out_tongue:

After that, everything is chronologically correct.

Now, you are not missing out on lore in 1-60. While the quests have changed since Classic (which you can still play if you want), most of the change is around rearranging them to be more streamlined, and there really isn’t a lot of actual lore there anyhow, apart from in the dungeons and raids.

And you can tackle the zones in any order you are able to; each zone has its own story, and they don’t depend on each other.

After 60, all the lore is still there. The only real sequencing problem I see is that so much of the lore is in the raids, and you can’t do those at level. You can go back at 120 and do them, or get a 120 to bodyguard you through them.

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If you’re looking for lore, might I suggest some wiki reading?

I personally use Wowpedia, and it’s quite nice to read through and will give you a good idea of how stuff connects, even if you just read what interests you.

As for zones, I’d just do the ones you find interesting as long as you have the freedom to do that (zone progression tightens around WoD), I’d recommend Duskwood on ally and Stonetalon Mountains on horde as must-sees, not for any lore reason but simply how fun they are IMO.

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If you can tell me what race you plan on playing through the game I can make a list out for you of all the zones in order.

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If you want lore, doing Loremaster is a good way to get it! Of course it would be easier with a 120 but let’s say you’re levelling.

  1. Start in Silvermoon/Azuremyst (Belf and Draenei starting land) because they are The Burning Crusade. These days, it will get you to about level 40.

  2. Dungeon your way to level 58.

  3. Go to Outland (TBC) then to Northrend (WoTLK).
    You will have over levelled at this point but that’s not our goal!

  4. Go to Azeroth and do all of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms low level zones (This is Cataclysm revamp) and then the high level zones.

  5. Stops being complicated from here. Pandaria > WoD > Legion > BfA.

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