Hi everyone,
I have a quite question: what is the best way to experience the lore of WoW?
I have been questing, and I am just not seeing or feeling it. I think it might be because the quests are starting to become a bit repetitive (naga's took over the beaches in the Eastern Kingdom, naga's took over the shores of Outland). I am to the point where I might just power through the quests (66-80), but I am a bit worried I might miss some of the experience.
Do you all think that will happen? Is there a place where I can get a good feel of the lore besides the (leveling) quests?
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I use wowpedia.org for lore. I just search up a key name in whatever I'm curious about and then follow the links inside that article for whatever else seems interesting. I've spent hours just browsing through all the information on there.
Wowpedia.org is a good place for lore info.
One of the issues with WoW lore is that there is just so much of it surrounding EVERYTHING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. You'll never know everything about everything. Just look up anything you specifically have questions about.
One of the issues with WoW lore is that there is just so much of it surrounding EVERYTHING IN THE ENTIRE WORLD. You'll never know everything about everything. Just look up anything you specifically have questions about.
75 Rabbit/75 Sheep/75 Coeurl/75 Eft/75 Raptor/75 Hippogryph/75 Puk
75 Scorpion/75 Wamoura/75 Pixie/75 Peiste/64 Sabotender
51 Bird/41 Mandragora/40 Bee/37 Crawler/37 Bat
Items no one cares about: O
Missions no one cares about: O
Crafts no one cares about: O
75 Scorpion/75 Wamoura/75 Pixie/75 Peiste/64 Sabotender
51 Bird/41 Mandragora/40 Bee/37 Crawler/37 Bat
Items no one cares about: O
Missions no one cares about: O
Crafts no one cares about: O
Yeah, I'd suggest wowpedia as well, or another option is to buy some of the Warcraft books. They aren't great literature, but they're enjoyable. The ones I've read have been anyways. You can get them on Amazon pretty easily. Any of the books by Christie Golden are good, as is the War of the Ancients trilogy.
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In addition to reading the quest dialogue fully (which I know from another post you're already doing 
), I've discovered that whenever I Google a question such as "What weapons can a Paladin use?" I find the answer plus the entire back story of Paladins on WoWWikki. I find similar info with almost any question I look up from equipment to tips on completing a particularly difficult quest, traveling/geography, etc.
), I've discovered that whenever I Google a question such as "What weapons can a Paladin use?" I find the answer plus the entire back story of Paladins on WoWWikki. I find similar info with almost any question I look up from equipment to tips on completing a particularly difficult quest, traveling/geography, etc. Terrillian Mistfyre
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Wowwiki is the old wowpedia basically. Site sold out advertising to gold selling and hacking advertisements so the development team bailed and made wowpedia. So I recommend wowpedia instead.
Or at least that's what I was told about the site.
Or at least that's what I was told about the site.
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Thanks guys! I will defiently check out Wowwiki when I have some free time.
CaptinXeith wrote:
Wowwiki is the old wowpedia basically. Site sold out advertising to gold selling and hacking advertisements so the development team bailed and made wowpedia. So I recommend wowpedia instead.
Or at least that's what I was told about the site.
Or at least that's what I was told about the site.
Ah ok. I just select the first hit I get when I Google. Thank you for the heads up on that. :)
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Wowwiki has this annoying "You're now leaving our website, AD IN YOUR FACE, click here to close and move on" pop-up if you click any links that lead off-site.
And loading all those ads causes their site to load slower than Wowpedia.
And loading all those ads causes their site to load slower than Wowpedia.
Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
Mazra wrote:
Wowwiki has this annoying "You're now leaving our website, AD IN YOUR FACE, click here to close and move on" pop-up if you click any links that lead off-site.
And loading all those ads causes their site to load slower than Wowpedia.
And loading all those ads causes their site to load slower than Wowpedia.
For some reason I don't get that ad or any pop-ups. I do have a couple of different pop-up blockers so not sure if that makes a difference. I honestly don't pay that much attention to which site I'm on; just wherever I find the relevant info. But if I did have that situation you describe, I wouldn't go there either.
Terrillian Mistfyre
Owner/Operator of The Redhead Express
Intellectually honest, not politically correct
Owner/Operator of The Redhead Express
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AdBlock will remove the ads, but not the loading time, from what I've experienced. And not the "Leaving WoWwiki" pop-up.
Please "talk up" if your comprehension white-shifts. I will use simple-happy language-words to help you understand.
Agree with the others. I don't get caught up in the lore while questing very often (with notable but powerful exceptions - I still shed a tear for you every time I level through the Plaguelands, Pamela! :)), but I enjoy reading it in the Wiki to get a better sense of the world.
As a disclaimer WoW lore has been known to change with some frequency. Don't get to attached to it. 
That monster in the mirror, he just might be you. -Grover
Also understand that Blizzard, over the 7 years the game has been out, has "improved" the rate of leveling, so while each expansion gives it's original exposure to it's lore (in it's original full intended glory), the amount and quality that a leveling character experiences later is lessened since you level thru it that much faster.
I'd argue that WotLK has had the best lore/end boss build up to date, andskippingmissing half the continent while questing/leveling to 80 simply doesn't do the expansion justice at all.
I'd argue that WotLK has had the best lore/end boss build up to date, and
"...for he suffers the worst fate he can know, and that is to know that he dies."
Also remember that Blizzard has changed it's lore a few times.
Case in point.I've been playing since the beginning and have the original book that came with the game.It WASN'T the Scourge that destroyed the High elves home,it was the Orcs.as the original Horde.
It's their game,they can change whatever they want,but it does get confusing
Case in point.I've been playing since the beginning and have the original book that came with the game.It WASN'T the Scourge that destroyed the High elves home,it was the Orcs.as the original Horde.
It's their game,they can change whatever they want,but it does get confusing
Tamran wrote:
Case in point.I've been playing since the beginning and have the original book that came with the game.It WASN'T the Scourge that destroyed the High elves home,it was the Orcs.as the original Horde.
Since the Orcs didn't attack Quel'thalas until WC2, I could have sworn that while the Orcs hit QT and captured some runestones, their invasion into Eversong wasn't much more than a series of raids. Sure, they did more if you played the Orc Campaign, but the human one was canon, iirc.
Someone on another forum wrote:
Wow, you've got an awesome writing style.! I really dig the narrator's back story, humor, sarcasm, and the plethora of pop culture references. Altogether a refreshingly different RotR journal (not that I don't like the more traditional ones, mind you).
The One and Only Poldaran wrote:
Tamran wrote:
Case in point.I've been playing since the beginning and have the original book that came with the game.It WASN'T the Scourge that destroyed the High elves home,it was the Orcs.as the original Horde.
Since the Orcs didn't attack Quel'thalas until WC2, I could have sworn that while the Orcs hit QT and captured some runestones, their invasion into Eversong wasn't much more than a series of raids. Sure, they did more if you played the Orc Campaign, but the human one was canon, iirc.
Yeah, Pold is correct. I've read the book that is supposed to be the plot of WC2, and it doesn't say that the orcs destroyed QT. They did damage to it for sure with the fires and all, but they didn't destroy it.
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Inga Freyasdottir, lvl 40 Norn Mesmer
Deathbringer Kaami, lvl 16 Asura Necromancer
Popina, lvl 15 Asura Elementalist
Althaia Willowbark, lvl 7 Sylvari Engineer
Maeve Amnell, lvl 4 Human Guardian
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Tamran, I think you're talking about two different wars.
The Orcs razed Quel'Thalas during The Second War (Warcraft 2). The Scourge, led by Arthas, razed Quel'Thalas during The Third War (Warcraft 3). Both are correct, they just happened in two different wars.
Following lore from Warcraft 2 is considered canon:
So you're right that the Orcish Horde originally razed Quel'Thalas, but the Scourge also invaded it. This was considered canon lore way before World of Warcraft. You invade Quel'Thalas in Warcraft 3 during the fifth mission of the Undead campaign. The mission is called The Fall of Silvermoon.
Edited, Feb 10th 2012 3:10am by Mazra
The Orcs razed Quel'Thalas during The Second War (Warcraft 2). The Scourge, led by Arthas, razed Quel'Thalas during The Third War (Warcraft 3). Both are correct, they just happened in two different wars.
Following lore from Warcraft 2 is considered canon:
Wowpedia.org wrote:
Quel'Thalas razed by the Horde (orc campaign). While it did not completely fall, much of Quel'Thalas was destroyed by dragons during the second war (and ravaged by the undead in the third), forming the Blackened Woods (later known by is alternate nickname, Ghostlands).
So you're right that the Orcish Horde originally razed Quel'Thalas, but the Scourge also invaded it. This was considered canon lore way before World of Warcraft. You invade Quel'Thalas in Warcraft 3 during the fifth mission of the Undead campaign. The mission is called The Fall of Silvermoon.
Edited, Feb 10th 2012 3:10am by Mazra
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