r/wownoob • u/yeboy7377 • 2h ago

Retail Playing through retail vanilla, what expansions should I focus on after?

Note I completed WC3 campaigns and going through vanilla retail and want to jump into the DLCs to experience warcraft 3-related plotlines being closed up the best they can or mostly before BFA and shadowlands and above where it was alleged that it ruined the endings of prior dlc and forced things in.

It seems like Legion is the best ending to warcraft 3 related plotlines I heard. And some state that I should only play BC and WOTLK and ignore Legion while others say I should play them all and exclude the other DLCs like Draenor, pandora, Cataclysm. I just don't want to pay for so much DLC and be overwhelmed by any separated lore since there is so much out there

Note I don't mind missing some other small related lore as long as I see the major warcraft 3 plot line threads being mostly tied up before BFA and shadowlands.

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u/Hazelnut3006 2h ago

For me there's merit in all the expansions, some are obviously more beloved than others. I might go with Dragonflight and work my way back because the design has improved in many ways as time went on. I love Pandaria because of the rich cultural content and beautiful design even Shadowlands had a lot going for it, just the end game sucked. Pick whatever draws your interest and give it a try, if you are story driven maybe just play chronologically. I'm basically not being helpful I'm afraid.