Best method to understand lore of WoWFollow

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.

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.

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.

Ah ok. I just select the first hit I get when I Google. Thank you for the heads up on that. :)

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.

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.

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, and skippingmissing half the continent while questing/leveling to 80 simply doesn't do the expansion justice at all.

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.

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