The Most Epic Questline in WoW

*Update: Click here for the movie playlist*

I finally got around to wrapping up a project I've been working on ever since the end of Wrath. It is about the "Scepter of the Shifting Sands" questline that was removed from the game when Cataclysm came out.

It is viewed as one of the longest and most epic questlines ever put on WoW and it was the culmination of a server wide gathering quest to open the gates of Ahn Qiraj. This was needed to get access to the AQ raids.  A one person quest, the backing of a well geared entire 40 man raid team and still you might not make it before someone else on your server did. When the gates where opened a 10 hour war would ensue, places all over Kalimdor would be invaded by Qiraji elites and raid bosses. At the end the person who rang the gong to open the gates, and anyone within these 10 hours that also did, would receive the legendary quality mount, the Black Qiraji Battle Tank, and the title of "Scarab Lord...".

I found out at the end of Wrath of the Lich King that this questline still existed in the game and as a lore nerd, and having heard the stories about it, I felt that I needed to complete it and see what all the fuzz was about. This took quite a while and at the end I almost didnt' make it in time (cursed GM's), but that is another story. While I was completing it I randomly filmed some bits here and there, things I thought where cool. And slowly I realized that noone would be able to see any of these things after they removed the questline. So I decided to try and put something together as an attempt to preserve it.

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The strange future of WoWs timeline

Wow, no pun intended, I havent written here in a while. Time to fix that.

World of Warcrafts in-game timeline. I have been thinking about this little subject since Cataclysm was announced but a bit more ever since Mists of Pandaria came out. Blizzard has really made things very difficult for themselves and I can not understand how they did not see this coming.

Ok, to illustrate my point (Horde view). Previously you started off leveling up your character in vanilla WoW, everything was taking place before the opening of the dark portal. Then you hit level 58-60 and you could now enter the Burning Crusade expansion, with the story of how we tackled Dreanor and eventually defeated Illidan/Kil'Jaeden (not that you where very likely to actually see that particular content but still). Then you swiftly moved on to Wrath of the Lich King where Arthas kept hopping out from around the corners and the story unfolded much better than it had in the previous incarnations of the game, but then something happened...