Warlords of Draenor (Pre-Expansion Thread)

[daanji]

I haven't dug much into the news about the expansion, but is this just some big Caverns of Time expansion? I really wanted another Burning Crusade type expansion and a revamp of Outlands to bring it up to current lore. Instead we get to travel back to pre-apocalypse Draenor and and dick around with dead people?

Lets go after Sargeras and the Burning Legion. Lets go find the hero's from Warcraft 2 who went after them like Alleria and Turaylon.

Yes, no, well maybe?

Basically what I got from all the Blizzcon info is "IS NOT A TRAVEL BACK IN TIME" expansion. They have reiterated that point several times.

• This isn't a time travel expansion, time travel is just a tool to explain the ongoing story. It isn't being used to massively change the current timeline. The past is fine!

Yet they still use phrases like
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• The Horde will have a chance to go back and redefine itself, and come away from the end of Mists of Pandaria even stronger.

The lore of this time doesn't
The current timeline is already somewhat of a mess, so the team may just move access to the current Outland to the Caverns of Time...
When Garrosh goes back, he spins off his own timeline...

• Garrosh is creating the Iron Horde, but he only sets things in motion, he isn't the main bad guy. He is trying to open a portal to the current time to come back for his revenge.

How is this time travel going to work with the story?
We aren't going back in time, the Dark Portal is turning red, bad guys are coming through. We look at the Orc Clans as they were, but things are happening now. The end of this expansion will launch the next one.

Did Outland happen or was it changed by going back in time?
Outland is still out there.

Will we have two of characters due to the time travel?
No, this isn't a time travel or paradox story, it is about going to Draenor.

The timeline is during Rise of the Horde?
Garrosh goes back a few years before they drink the blood. So it is during Rise of the Horde before critical events take place.

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Someone has a hard-on for Draenor and they wanted to do an expansion that focused on as-it-was and then inserted some weird logic to justify it story-wise.
Basically the new Draenor is just a parallel Universe that is mostly the same, but not entirely.

I understand the desire or need to do retconns now and then, but an entire planet? Geez.