Originally Posted by
A Blue Smurf
For one, this doesn't occur anywhere near the events happening during Classic's time period.
Two, this happened ingame during a time-limited pre-expansion patch event.
This is the problem with how they handle lore and general story events in WoW. Most of the important bits of story are rushed/glanced over during time-restriction pre-patch/patch events and aren't ingrained in the natural progression of the game.
This generally goes for WoW as a whole, it has become extremely segmented due the expansion focused nature it begun with in TBC and worse worsened by the increasing focus on patches through mid-late WotLK all the way to BfA. If you aren't playing each and every patch you either lose access to content or have to skip it entirely in order to maintain pace with the rest of the player base.