WoW: Twinks get a “Skip” button, can skip story

With Shadowlands, Twinks in WoW receive a “Carefree” package – they can simply skip all the “annoying questing” of the story.

Unlike in previous expansions of World of Warcraft, the story in the Shadowlands is linear. You have to play the areas in a fixed order, as only then will the story of the Shadowlands unfold correctly. At least that applies to your first character. All other Twinks can simply say “Skip!” and pass everything.

What will change? In the upcoming beta patch, second characters will have a new option to choose. After they have played through the intro of Shadowlands and escaped from the Maw, they will find themselves in Oribos. However, there will be a new NPC named “Fatescribe”. When you speak to this character, you will be presented with options and can:

• Experience the entire story of Shadowlands again and quest through all 4 areas as usual.
• Skip the entire main campaign. It will be treated as if you had completed it.

Thus, second characters have the freedom to choose how they want to proceed.

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What does that mean? Those who choose the second option and skip the campaign are still level 50. However, they can immediately choose one of the covenants and join. In the areas that have been skipped, there are now new bonus objectives that can be completed for XP. Additionally, world quests, treasure chests, dungeons, and rare enemies provide opportunities to level and gear up the character.

Why did Blizzard change this? Blizzard is responding to player feedback from beta testing. The original plan was for second characters to freely quest and level in any area of their choice, while already having chosen a covenant. However, that felt strange. It didn’t make sense to experience the story in Revendreth while your own hero had already joined the Venthyr. The “wrong” order of areas also caused confusion and an unpleasant gameplay experience.

With the new variant, players have more options to decide how they want to approach second characters. You can also think about this extensively at the login screen…

What do you think about it?