What expansion am I playing?

[Arcloki-doomhammer]

Started in November, new player.

I didn’t like Zuldazar, so I found a quest in Orgrimmar that took me to Pandaria. After I got a level 60 character Warchiefs Command Board appeared in Orgrimmar. I picked a notice about Legion and finished all the quests in Broken Isles.

Then I created a new character and the Board had a notification to talk to Chromie. When I did that, I can pick which expansion to play from Chromie. But my level 60 character cannot, nor any of my other characters that were created before my main hit 60. They just have notices on the Board, no Chromie.

So I finally went back to Zuldazar to finish BfA. But the king appears to be glitching in the ground of a temple after he almost died so I can’t turn in the quest. So I’m stuck in the story and still no Chromie.

The fishing trainer in Orgrimmar is only offering to skill up Legion fishing, I noticed. Does that mean I’m doing Legion still and not BfA on this character? Can that be why the king is under ground?

How can I tell which expansion is active when Chromie isn’t active for this character? And how can I finish BfA? How can I finish Legion for that matter, all the quests in the space ship are done? How do I know if an expansion is completed?

[Gráinne-earthen-ring]

Interesting problem. (You never want to have an “interesting” problem!)

Your level 60 character is beyond Chromie’s jurisdiction. Chromie manages previous expansions, and levels 10-59. Once you hit 60 on a character, that character is beyond her remit. It’s time for that character to sail off to the Dragon Isles and start Dragonflight.

You say “So I finally went back to Zuldazar to finish BfA”. Was this on your level 60? Your level 60 is outside of Chromie Time. It can take quests from the Board, and go to any of the expansions, and do quests and beat up bad guys with its superpowers, but it won’t have the expansion mobs change to its level, and alll that.

Since your level 60 is outside Chromie Time, it’s not “in” Legion, or BfA, in the same sense a level 40 is.

The Fishing Trainer in Orgrimmar doesn’t teach Zandalari/BfA or Shadowlands Fishing at all. If you want to learn BfA Fishing, you need to go to Silent Tali in Dazar’alor https://www.wowhead.com/npc=122705/silent-tali

I assume you haven’t bought Dragonflight, so your level 60 can’t continue to Dragonflight?

If a character is at least 10 and below 59, and Chromie isn’t there or won’t talk to you, that character needis “in” Chromie Time of BfA, although up to level 30 you can also quest in Kalimdor or Eastern Kingdoms,

Now, the root of the problem: this glitch. What is the exact name of the quest you are on in BfA where the King is glitching? I may be able to help with a Horde level 60 and Party Sync. Probably not, but possibly.

How do you know if an expansion is completed? Whoo, that’s kind of a philosophical question! The game doesn’t force you to “complete” an expansion below the current one, so there’s no real definition. You can do as much as you like, or nothing, in every one of them. I suppose the basic measure would be Loremaster of that expansion - completing all significant quests. For you, that would be Loremaster of Zandalar, which involves finishing all major quests in the three base zones of Zandalar.

But there is no obligation on you to do that. There are achievements, and it is part of what you have to do to fly in Zandalar, but the game doesn’t force it.

What do you want to do?

[Arcloki-doomhammer]

Oh, thank you, that makes things a lot clearer.

I expected a grande finale of each expansion but if it’s just the end of quests I am happy to just level alts in the other expansions.

Figure I will buy Dragonflight when I have played through all previous expansions. Not easy to figure out how to do that though.

[Gráinne-earthen-ring]

@Arcloki-doomhammer

I expected a grande finale of each expansion

The way it works is while an expansion is current is:

You do the quests in the zones to get to the max level of the expansion. For example, during BfA you would have done the quests in the three zones of Zandalar to get from level 110 to level 120. In Dragonflight, you do the quests in the four zones of Dragonflight to get from level 60 to level 70.

These quests in the zones could be called the “levelling campaign”. Or you can just think of them as the stories of the zones. Typically, each zone has a coherent story that you play through until you meet the Big Bad of that zone.

One you reach the max level for the expansion, there is another story campaign that overarches the zones. In BfA, that is called the War Campaign, It is to the story of the overall war between the Horde and the Alliance on Zandalar and Kul Tiras. This storyline typically includes dungeons and especially raids. For example, the raid Battle of Dazar’alor covers the Alliance’s attack on the Zanddalari. Typically there are 3 or 4 main patches, each with a raid that advances the story.

In the last raid of the expansion, you meet the Ultimate Big Bad who was behind all the other Big Bads. In Battle for Azeroth, that was Ny’alotha, the Waking City, where the Old God N’Zoth had been pulling the strings of all the conflict between the Horde and the Alliance.

Playing through ALL of that for BfA is still possible. Youcould finish the zones, work your way through the War Campaign, complete the raid Uldir, where you destroy the Blood-God G’huun, open up the new zones of Mechagon and Nazjatar, defeat Azshara and her minions in The Eternal Palace, scour the zones that N’Zoth corrupted in the Vale and Uldum, and then go kill N’Zoth in the raid.

 

You can do all that. And you could call that completing the expansion. It would take a while; there’s a LOT in it.

Also, at level 60, you can’t just easily solo the raids. You probably can solo the dungeons, at least mostly, but you would need some help with the raids. Sure you can walk into them, and probably kill some trash, but the bosses will be too hard to kill solo.