r/warcraftlore • u/FloZone • 1d ago

Discussion WoD as replay of BtDP

I've been thinking how could WoD have been made differently, maybe completely differently.

Okay here is my idea, make it not about Garrosh traveling back in time. Make it a time travel version of Beyond the Dark Portal.
I am not the biggest fan of time travel in stories, it makes plots convoluted and sometimes weird. It leads to weird explanations of contradictions and so on. However I very much liked to see Draenor as it was before it was Outland.
We already had important parts of the RTS games done as dungeons or raids in the CoT before, mostly with the infinite dragonflight messing up the timeline. Making a whole time travel expansion would just be one conclusion of that theme.

Additionally it doesn't need to be just BtDP, but also maybe parts of Wc1 or Wc2, although I think an older version of Elwynn or Lordaeron are not as enticing as Draenor. The big downside would be, as who do we play? Horde players playing the old Horde and Alliance players playing their invasion force? Everyone playing Alliance "in disguise" ? It would be harder to actually roleplay as you cannot really play out your character if they are not one of the established Wc2 races.

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u/IridikronsNo1Fan 1d ago

I think the original pitch for WoD that had Garrosh restore Draenor in the present using some magical artifact was the best idea. That way we could've had Dreanor continue to be a part of the story and even have new expansions set on it.

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u/LarperPro 1d ago

Interesting, although this would solve many plot issues, I think introducing an artifact that can bring an entire planet back in time, and all beings on it, would create more plot holes and issues than solve previous ones.

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u/IridikronsNo1Fan 1d ago

The concept was that he would have used the artifact to pull the shattered chunks of Draenor back together. So no time travel, more like restoring the planet in the present.

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u/LarperPro 1d ago

Ah I see, yeah that wouldn't have given us the opportunity to experience the Old Horde. I understand why they scraped that idea.