Maybe a timeskipe where technology is more common and everyone can be a tinkerer class HAHAH
Maybe a timeskipe where technology is more common and everyone can be a tinkerer class HAHAH
Have no idea why so many pll think it will be timeskip.10 000 years in shadowlands=1 second in azeroth.Even beter right befor d last blow is delivered to d final boss he put d barrier betwen d worlds back up and all heroews are locked in shadowlands forever!!!
There will never be a timeskip as big as 1000 years in the future or smth like that. That would only happen if WoW ever shut down and Blizzard wanted to make another game using the world.
The greatest time skip we will probably see is a maximum of 10 years. Just a timeskip, not going forward and then back, etc.
You go into the shadowlands to fix death. Because death is broken and connected to Azeroth time in the Shadowlands and azeroth pass relatively the same.
Once you fix Death, time is disconnected between the 2. This means that going back to Azeroth after fixing death there might be a 5-10 year gap.
Not enough to completely change the landscape but enough to have some changes that would not be exactly explained in a single year.
Then you have a ready made leveling experience/narrative of our characters trying to figure out what the fuck happened while we were gone. Great potential for mystery story lines. Something not possible right now because we have been part of every major event that has happened in the world for the last 30 years or so
More than likely it's just gonna be "whoever was invading had the chance to take over blah blah blah cause we were gone for a year!"
Frankly I think a major timeskip would be a bad idea while a smaller one would be useless.
A minor time skip is essentially what we saw in the battlefronts. We jumped from one state(destroyed Darkshore/Stromgarde) to another(occupied zone/rebuild captial). Don't get me wrong, it looked impressive and was a major lore development, but the lack of player involvement in let's say the Shatterspear Tribe returning to their homes or freaking Danath Trollbane taking over and rebuilding his nation meant we were less invested than we could have been with rather minor work on Blizzard's side.
A major timeskip disconnects us from the characters and world we are supposed to care even more. Imagine ending the expansion and returning to a world having major changes you had no hand in. A rebuilt Lordearon(capital) with Callia as queen? Let us help with the rebuilding, see the characters live in and take part in Callia's coronation. Likewise the retaking of Gilneas or the creation of a new Night Elven capital ... wherever and it whatever form.
The one thing which would reconcile me with it would if it came with a major reconstruction of the world. Not a revamp like in Cataclysm, but a change so that Silvermoon and Gilneas would no longer be locked behind gates. It would be a major undertaking in terms of the structure of the game, but in the wake of it a time skip seems justified. They could build a much better system this way.
Hear, hear! Characters that are neutral mercenaries and heroes can also still fight PvP including arena and whatnot as they wish. Open world PvP also is not going to work in a game centered around PvE and is not something people should feel pushed into, in order to get some extra XP & REP, just to be cannonfodder for whichever side is stronger that day. The faction war needs to go away. The factions being able to work together would also effectively double the number of players queing for various dungeons etc.
He did say those numbers, but in reference to how much faster time has gone for the people we encounter in the Shadowlands. The question was about how it seems that more time has passed for the familiar faces we meet in the Shadowlands, then has passed on Azeroth since their death. Such as Uther being a Kyrian, though becoming one is stated to often take eons.
People are concluding Time Skip, even though time seems to be moving faster. In the end though, Ion's comments are likely just there to create wiggle-room where it comes to the state of the NPCs we encounter.
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people are insane if they think a revamp is happening,cata had the largest wow team ever and was a huge failure content wise because of the revamp,the team is a shadow of what it once was,what ion said was simply a dodge as usual,at best wwe can expect a 2 year time expansion instead of the usual 1,thrall iwll proly have an extra gray hair
Honestly, I agree. I think 10 is going to be something insane.
Think about it.
We could come out and so much time has passed everyone we knew is different.
The whole world might be different.
So much time might have passed that the illidan and sargares storyline boiled over.
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