Just wanted to pin this here: As a new player, they recently changed it so you DONT need to have a level 60 character to do Chromie time. Now you just need to be level 10 Also as far as I know, they no longer force you to do Battle for Azeroth. Should just be able to pick whatever expansion timeline you want. P.S I'm thinking of doing an updated chromie time video. If anyone has any specific things they want me to address/answer in it, let me know. I'll make it in a few weeks and try to do some more research on issues people are having with understanding it and what not
What happens if you reach the level cap before finishing the expansions main quests? Is there a way to delevel yourself so you don't kicked out before the end of it?
@@BrendamProductions so you cant delevel yourself no, but at the same time, theres nothing stopping you from just going back to doing those quests after you're kicked out. you just will no longer be in chromie time, so nothing will be scaled, so you wont be getting good experience anymore and the quests will count as "low level" quests and you'll be killing things really quickly your other option is to speak to an npc that can make it so you no longer gain experience, essentially just locking your level. so you could just do that before you get kicked out of chromie time check out this quick video to see where the NPCs are to lock your experience ua-cam.com/video/twaefqHraMg/v-deo.html oh and then one more option, is you can just pick up roughly where you left off on another character. that way at least you can still be leveling another character up anyways
I can't believe that you are the only one in the sea of content who knows how to explain something! Congratulations, this helped me a lot, and I almost gave up on WOW, I haven't played for a long time and there are many new things that are not clear to me, chromie is one of them! Thank you!
Wow thank you so much!! I know I'm a bit late replying to this but it truly means so much to me that you found it helpful 💜 how is your WoW adventure going? Still playing since you came back?
@@LadySurvivalWoW Unfortunately, I didn't continue playing due to commitments, but that doesn't mean I won't in the near future, and then I have to re-watch the video to remember all the details,
@@LadySurvivalWoW yeah hey thanks for making and uploading this to give us a little more info about this Chromie character that apparently in some spheres theres a lot of talk going on about - there such an immense sea of material so many of us that are fond of the game that just havent had time to further delve into all these stories and all this content thats been added since the burning crusade days (when some of us got off the ride)
My GOD, I’ve been looking for some sort of new player guide to point me in the right direction and explain why I am where I am when I started and what to do. This has been the only one I’ve found so far - thank you!
@RyanRoberts-qf5et hey I totally understand your confusion 😭😭 it sucks they've made it this overwhelming. Chromie Time kicks you out at level 60. You'll be having a good time questing at 59, then boom you hit 60 and it will teleport you out and back into org/sw. I personally tested leveling from 59 to 60 in my video and showed how it does this :) To farm older content for transmog, there's 2 ways to do it. Before level 60, I'd recommend talking to chromie and have her set you to present time. Which essentially means chromie time is off, which means dungeons don't scale to your level. You'll still need be a high ish level (like obviously you're not gonna solo dungeons at level 15) so you'll wanna be I would say at least 40-59 range. But that's just one option, and not the best option. The vast majority of the player base that does old content (for transmog and mounts) do it at max level. So level 60 in your case since you don't have dragonflight. But most of us will be level 70 (current level cap) and soloing old content. I hope this helps! :) feel free to ask more questions I'll try to help clear things up
You can join my discord too, there's a channel for "WoW noobs" to ask questions like this, and either I'll get back to you or someone else 💜 and you could even send screenshots of your issue so we can see more visually
Returning WoW player here that hasn't played since Lich King. REALLY appreciate this video as I wasn't quite sure the details of how Chromie worked. I look forward to seeing more of your content, as this video was really well put together, and straight to the points. Loved it, and thank you for making this!
hey welcome back to WoW! you're so welcome im glad it helped you so much! eventually I gotta make an updated chromie time video too since some things have changed now :) but thanks again, I really appreciate the support and love! have fun in Azeroth!
As someone who left after WoTLK around the time of the Cata patch, this was very helpful. I was very confused by the fact that nothing really seemed to change with Chromie time. Knowing that only the dungeon finder changes and that I otherwise just need to go to the right zone is hugely helpful. Now to re-level all my squashed toons back to 60 in the different expansions and experience what I’ve missed :D
I can't tell you just how much this video helped me as a new player who wants to experience the world and story of wow in a chronological order. Thank you! Also I have to say your room looks so good.
im so incredibly happy to hear that! you're welcome! i dont think i covered much about chronological order in this video so just as some advice, Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor is from classic WoW, and if you google "classic wow zones by levels" you'll be able to see which zones you can pick from in terms of approx "right order" from level 1-60 or 70 :D and thanks so much!
Leveled my first character to level 60 and honestly felt more confused after. This video right here helped clear up so much, and answered so many questions. Outdated forums sort of helped but often had old information. Thank you again for the info!
Hey thank you so much!! I have another youtube channel too called Ladysurvival. I was posting all my WoW content over there too, but figured it was getting confusing cuz i was doing fashion/makeup/vlog content there too. So decided to start a WoW specific channel! :D appreciate it a lot tho. more content to come. Im currently just reuploading my WoW beginners guide videos here (2 more videos left) then I will start posting new gameplay/lore content and guides
Thanks for this video, as a very lapsed player just coming back, I’ve been really stumbling in the dark. Really great, concise explanation of Chromie Time, exactly what I was looking for. Cheers!
Without this video, my first experience in World of Warcraft would have been extremely unpleasant. I advise everyone, when they want to try something new, to search on UA-cam, as there's always someone who can explain how to play. The video is interesting, and thank you - if you hadn't created it, I wouldn't have been able to play; I didn't even know how to control the character. All UA-camrs who produce these types of videos, even if they only have 20 views, are immensely talented. Bravo once again.
Wow thank you so very much for this comment! That means a lot to me and I'm so glad I could help you!! I've realized for quite some time now just how overwhelming WoW can be for a new player, and Im so glad I've started doing these guides. Trying to be as in depth as I possibly can be because I feel like sometimes other youtubers aren't as thorough with it. I'm here to walk you through the process as best I can. Appreciate the feedback. If you ever need anymore help feel free to leave a comment or join my discord server, we have a channel for WoW noobs and theres plenty of people (or myself) that can help you! discord.gg/wSD5n7wa
It was very clear, thank you again for this Chromie time explanation for beginner. It's much more easier for me to understand how it works now. Merci beaucoup !
Thanks for explaining this, I was pretty bummed out to find that I couldn't just play through the storyline in a linear way like with Final Fantasy XIV, and haven't played WoW since 2011, so there's a lot to catch up on.
If my nephew eventually shows interest I would suggest watching the Warcraft movie (cheesy as it is, still gives decent intro to first war) then look for Chronicles of the Second War (mod for Warcraft 3 covering Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal eventually) alliance campaign, then on to Warcraft 3 proper and finally WoW Classic. After that, make a fresh Retail character and use current expansion level boost from main menu but don't log into them. THEN make the actual Retail character to play through Exile's Reach and head for Chromie when able (after intro to BFA if she ignores you) then head for Burning Crusade, and Bob's your uncle. Remember to freeze XP gain at level 60 to keep Chromie Time. Such a messy process just to keep continuity.
Yo honestly, for a semi smaller channel, I thought this was a friggin great video! Hella informative. Great job! I am a returning player I havent played since legion and even then I didn't even finish the expansion and before that the last time I played was mop (didn't finish that either) the last xpac I finished was cata. So there's a ton of new stuff im learning about and you helped immensely! Thanks so much! And keep working hard, you did an awesome job !
Thanks so much for the explanation! Am completely new to WoW besides having watched the occasional video in the background and I wanted to play through the expansions in chronological order, but really couldn't figure out how to do that haha.
Excellent job on the video! I joined in May 2005, but in the past few years I play less and less time. So, I knew about Chromie Time, but didn't really understand it.
As a returning player I thought I'd make a new character and just go through the story of every expansion solo. If I understand things right, I should be able to turn off experience at lvl 59 to stay in Chromie time. I would also have to visit Chromie to turn off CT every time I want to do a dungeon and turn it back on afterwards. CT wasn't a thing last time I played and I think this isn't explained very well (or at all) in game. So, will this work or did I miss anything?
I just started that same project. Gonna go through every quest line and story before the next expansion rolls out. Keeping Chromie Time active is a good way to keep things interesting. It's not fun to steamroll everything at max level with no rewards to speak of.
Thank you so much. I'm coming back after about a 8 year break and had no idea where I was going to start. Cleared everything up for me! Are you the new Aliana from "back in the day?"
Hey!! Aww I'm so happy to hear that!!! ☺️ and glad to know my video could help at all on your adventures 💜 it's a little outdated now cuz they've changed some things but yea haha :) Also I met my husband on WoW and we were long distance Canada/USA and have now been together for 5 years and married 💞 so I always love hearing about other WoW couples
Also feel free to join my discord! There's lots of helpful and friendly WoW players in there and myself too. If you have any questions along the way you can just ask in there in the #wowchat ☺️
@@LadySurvivalWoW oh that sounds great! Thanks so much! I am gonna tell my spouse to join as well! Yeah, we have been together 2 1/2 years and never got to play WoW as teenagers, so now we've decided to start together hehe. So far, we've been having an amazing time and it has been so nice to find some really helpful and great community already. 💜
Thanks for the info. As someone who hasn't played since Legion and is getting that itch again, was nice to learn what the heck Chromie Time was. Nice way to vary up where you level up. Laughed when I logged in and my characters were set back to level 50. Going to have to see what happened there. :) Will be checking out more of these videos.
glad it could be helpful! I think like a week or two after i uploaded this video they made some more changes to chromie time, so some of the stuff i mentioned might not be completely accurate - but yea chromie time is definitely nice to pick how/where you want to level up lol yea the level squish is a little weird for sure haha thanks
it was originally 1080p on my other channel. but i had to download them and reupload them over here and i guess it doesnt reupload at 1080p. no idea why. glad you liked the video tho
i should mention whilst waiting for the dungeon tool get you a group , after 5mins i think it will ask if you want to search other dungeons in other expasions
Great video. I've been playing WoW since it's first release (I'm THAT old) but for the past few years I've not really played as much but this guide made it really clear what Chromie time was! Subbed.
Fantastic video. Very informative. Exactly what I was looking for. Which expansions do you personally find the most enjoyable to level in? I’ve just started over in legion. Hoping it’s slightly more enjoyable than bfa.
thank you so much. Legion is definitely a good one, its the best newer expansion theyve had. other than that i love all the old school stuff like Burning Crusade and Wrath. mostly for nostalgic reasons haha. oh and Warlords of Draenor is pretty fun too
Maybe I am the only one, but I really like leveling characters. I played during WoD and Legion and I liked the high level cap. I really liked the fact that you played your character through all the previous expansions. Maybe I missed that point, but is it possible to disable chromie time, so you could play through all the previous expansions like before?And I mean I dont want to stop any exp gains or something like that. I mean like classic (level 1) - shadowlands 70 ( level 60) like it was before the chromietime / scaling changes ?
I love leveling characters too! It was pretty cool when the level cap was 120. So yes, you can have chromie time "turned off" by just simply not using it at all, or just ask her to return you to the "present" timeline. What that will do is change all the zones back to their default level ranges. But, it's not quite the same like how it was on classic. Because of the level squish from 120 down to 60 (now 70, and soon 80) All the zones are scaled kind of weird, and you'll hit max level faster, you won't be able to finish all the zones before you get there unfortunately What I'd personally do I start a new character and start playing through some Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor zones. Then maybe once you hit level 30 or so, maybe progress onto Outland. You'll likely hit 60 there. Then I'd personally make another new character and continue onto Wrath, then into Cata.. basically just keep making new characters until you can feel like you played through them all. Not quite the same experiencing since it's spread out across different characters but yea.. there's just too much content now for what the level cap is
Hello. Great video but I still have a couple of questions. I would like to play through as much of the story as possible, is there a way to play the original story in Chromie time, did you say that's through Cataclysm, the third expansion? They're combined? Also once I hot 60, can I no longer use Chromie time? Say, I finish playing through Burning Crusade, can I then play through Wrath of the Lich King wing and work my way through all the expansions with my character?
Hey! Yes so basically, if you want to truly play through the original story as it used to be back in the day, the only way to do that is playing Classic WoW. But yea with Cataclysm, while it is the 3rd expansion, that doesn't mean all of Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor IS the cataclysm expansion. You know how in a every xpac they introduce a new continent/area to level through? Well in Cata, they added 5 new higher level zones: Mount Hyjal, Vashj'ir, Deepholm, Uldum and Twilight Highlands These 5 zones are in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. but they were the "high level" zones back in Cata. The rest of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms, yes, it was altered in the Cata expansion because Deathwing literally came through and destroyed the world, so Blizzard had to update quests to make sense with whats going on (example, quests in towns would be like "oh no please rescue survivors, or please deal with these elementals, please put out these fires etc") but in terms of the zones themselves, i mean, Elwynn Forest is Elwynn Forest. you still have all your OG zones you know? a lot of the quests and story are similar (some even the exact same) as back in the day. so you'll still get the general vibe/story from back in the day. And overall, simply, Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor IS vanilla. in the same way Pandaria IS Mists of Pandaria, or Outland IS Burning Crusade..etc :) im sorry this is so long haha :P but basically a really good way to make sure you're questing through in the "right order" is to look at a website like this that breaks down what the level ranges of each zone in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms used to be. and just kinda follow the zones from low level to high level. wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Zones_by_level_(Classic) or if you do feel like it, playing Classic is honestly a great option. i adore classic. its slower leveling for sure, but damn its immersive
oh and one more thing about Cata/vanilla being combined is that with Cata chromie time, you'll be able to que for dungeons both from vanilla and cata :) and then, to answer your other question, yea once you hit 60 you wont be able to use chromie time (well actually, it might be til 70 now that the new xpac has come out. its usually 10 levels less than max level that it will kick you out of chromie time. and now with the war within max level is 80 but im not sure if theyve updated it yet with chromie time to be til 70) so if you were playing through BC and got to 60 (or 70 if its changed now) then it'll like kick you out back to Stormwind or Orgrimmar and stuff wont be scaled to your level anymore. so in that case i'd just start on another character and pick up where you left off or wherever you wanted to go next
Excellent video, however on my main I have never been to shadowlands. So I figure I will roll a monk and go there with Chromie Time. That worked great, and I think that I got there at level 13. The thing is that I leveled in the Panda starting zone, so I had a whopping item level of 7. I am level 23 now, my item level is still 7. I am getting the feeling that you get absolutely no gear doing it this way. I don't want to do BFA because I had a couple of toons go that route. Shadowlands will be fresh for me, but if I am not going to get any gear it doesn't make any sense. Also like in BFA the food doesn't scale, it starts at level 50 I think, nothing seems to be at level. Kind of sucks, why even offer it at that level, I don't get it?😊
i do yes! a few of them actually haha :P night elf druid was also my first ever character too, made her when i was 9 years old after seeing them og classic wow trailer haha
Questions: I read somewhere that once you hit level 50 it locks out some of the dungeons. So I've stopped leveling at 49 so as to not lock myself out of content. Firstly, do you know if this is true? Secondly, when I queue for a dungeon does it only group me with people who are also using chromie time or does it group me with anyone? Thank you. Just found your channel. Good luck!
What you read about level 50 is just old information, the level cap used to be 60 in the Shadowlands expansion, so at that time Chromie Time ended at level 50 so that you could level 50-60 in shadowlands. Now with Dragonflight the level cap is 70 which means Chromie time goes to level 60 now :) Yes as far as I know it only groups you with other Chromie Time people for dungeons. Cuz how it works is, say if you're doing Mists of Pandaria, it will only let you que for MoP dungeons. Which means other people who are in say Wrath chromie time can only do wrath dungeons. Kind of confusing but I hope that makes sense! Thanks for checking out my channel and leaving a comment 💜
I know this video is a year old but very good info. I do have a question. I am a returning player, i left after BFA. I am planning to level a new character. But do i level to 70 with chromie time?
They changed the max level to 61 in 10.1.5. You get the quest scroll to exit Chromie time at 60, but you don't get the countdown mandatory teleport until 61. Quests stop giving relevant experience at 60. But treasure chests and ore/herbs still give normal exp. I've been leveling in old Vanilla zones from 30-61 a lot recently just killing rares and opening chests. Goes fairly fast and you come out of it with 100,000-250,000 gold worth of transmog items.
ah okay interesting! yea i think they changed a couple of things since i filmed this video. Chromie Time seems to be a better experience now overall, not so restrictive to new players from what i've read, and i dont think it forces you into BFA anymore i believe? Thanks for the info!
That's weird, I'm a new player and didnt have to go through BfA and reach level 60. I was able to use Chromie Time from the start after picking up a quest to talk to her. Is this something that's changed since this video?
you should be able to. i mean, they didnt really start doing cutscenes in expansions until more recently ish (like vanilla, burning crusade and wrath dont have any - well wrath might have a little bit but not really) but its mostly few and far between. not until around Warlords/Legion did they start really adding a ton. but yes they will just pop up for you where they should during questing
I'm an old player returning after more than a decade. Every time I think I have it figured out, something else happens. Currently, I just hit level 35 and am now wrecking everything in my path in the Eastern Kingdoms. So does that mean that I now have to got to the Battle of Azeroth to finish leveling? What about all of my current quests?
Hey welcome back to WoW Do you have chromie time turned on? Try going to Chromie and switch it to the Cataclysm timeline because that's the one that includes Eastern Kingdoms and Kalmidor That will scale the quests to you and you can keep going You don't have to go to BFA I hope that helps, let me know if you have any issues still
As a new player this is extremely helpful. I have spent the past few weeks learning about the game, Asmongold LOL, and trying to figure out how expansions work and this is absolutely the best video I've seen on it. Reddit was def helpful but never truly pointing me in the direction of how exactly to do it. I really want to play through every expansion so may just no life and make a new character for each expansion. Do you know if its true that you can still stop earning xp? So hypothetically I can stop if needed to play the story out if I have to. Hahah. Hopefully! Either way, thanks for guiding us lol
im really happy to hear my video was helpful to you! thanks! playing through every expansion on a new character is a great way to do it! i believe you can turn off your experience yes, i think theres an NPC for it (just googled it- "To turn your character's experience gain on and off, visit the Experience Eliminator at your faction's capital city: On modern World of Warcraft Realms: If you are Alliance, speak to Behsten in Stormwind. If you are Horde, speak to Slahtz in Orgrimmar.") either you can turn it off, or you can just start another new character haha like maybe if you get through half of eastern kingdoms on one character, make another one and do the other half. totally up to you! good luck!!
@@LadySurvivalWoW Honestly I can't believe it's been a month since my comment. I've been playing SoD and it's fun and interesting. More so the amount of times I die and learn oh shit prob should have grinded a bit more. At one point I realized my warrior had such a lack of abilities annnnd found it's because I didn't talk to a certain person. Also appreciate the tips! I still plan on doing what I said above but def trying to play the shit out of SoD currently haha
you can switch around as many times as you like. for example you could do level 10-13 in burning crusade, then decide you wanna go to pandaria from 13-22, then legion 22-40...etc literally as many switches as you want. but if you mean in terms of fully completing each expansion in its entirety, yea you'd probably need a separate character for each one cuz you'd get too high level to keep questing :)
Are there any exclusive mounts, items, or achievements that you can only get by using chromie time? Will I miss anything by doing these zones and quests at Max level?
no not specifcally, i mean in general you will get some items and achievements in terms of just looting stuff and getting quest rewards but thats nothing you couldnt also do at max level anyways so theres no specific benefit like theres not a special mount or achievement for like "yayy you did Pandaria chromie time so you get this" theres nothing like that if thats what you mean :) but yea anything you can do in chromie time you can always just do later at max level hope that makes sense
@@LadySurvivalWoW thank you for the info. I've played off and on since vanilla and I'm really enjoying the game right now. I want to do everything I've missed through the years. I've done almost 1500 quests in the past month and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface
So I enabled chromie time, but did not get a campaign quest for Pandaria. It just said to "get to Pandaria" and showed me the portal marker in Ogrimmar. I jumped through and there were only 2 quests in a completely different village in Jade song Forest. Does it not work if you played the campaign selected when it first came out or something?
So I started playing wow for the first time. And expansion it started menwas dragonflight. Once I get to level 60 and unlock chromie time. Can I take my level 60 character into these old expansions or do I have to start with a low level character? Also do you have to start in dragon flight as a new player now? It seemed I didn't have a choice haha
So basically it will *want* you to go through dragonflight, kinda like how it used to force you to go through BFA. But you can actually just go talk to chromie right away now and choose anything you want. Even from lvl 10. Like technically you didn't even HAVE to do dragonflight to level 60. They made it so you can just pick now anything you want at level 10 so yea you definitely don't gotta do it again. Chromie time goes up to level 70 now that the new xpac is out and level cap is 80 So you can level your current char from 60-70 wherever you want with chromie time, but your almost there so you'll probably only play through one zone before your 70. You'll wanna start a low level character if you want to play through other chromie timelines :)
Hi so if you are doing an expansion you said you get ripped out at level 60. Does that mean you don’t get to finish the story of it? Like Is there a way to hat pay wow for its story?
yes that is correct, it will just rip you out. you could technically go back and keep doing the story where you left off, but you will no longer be getting any experience (or a very small amount because it wont be scaled) so it might kind of feel like a waste of time you pretty much would want to just continue playing through on a new character, you might have to repeat some quests you already did though of course.
I got a question, once I hit the max allowed level for chromie time and get "kicked out" can I go back to the area I was originally questing in and finish any quests I was working on? Like for example, if I was leveling through Legion and working on my Class Order Hall questline and I hit max level before I could finished it and I got kicked out of chromie time, could I go back and finish the questline even though chromie time is no longer active?
yes you can! it just wont really give you any experience so your leveling will kind of be halted but yea :) the quests will still be in your quest log and you can just keep going
@@LadySurvivalWoW Really? That's fantastic! I was worried about that. I'll just save the leveling from 70 to 80 for War Within. Thanks for clearing that up.
On my last fresh alt, I got the auto summon to Stormwind at 60 while in Cata Cromie time, and went on to DF. I'm now leveling a NE druid in BFA. Will i be able to go back to Kul Tiras to finish the story? Last time i did BFA was as horde during that expansion, and i kind of wanted to see it from the other side.
yea what Lahiss said too, you can definitely go back and finish it, you just wont gain experience past level 60/it wont be scaled with Chromie Time. you can always start a new character and do chromie time in BFA and i think you should be able to finish the whole story before you out level it.
no you can 100% quest in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms! (its the Cataclysm chromie time option and thats how you can que for Classic dungeons like Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep, Dire Maul..etc) You'll notice if you dont turn chromie time on (aka if you're in the "present timeline") if you go to your map and mouse over zones in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms, they naturally have certain level ranges. for example Westfall is level 5-30, Hillsbrad is 7-30, Tanaris is level 15-30, Mount Hyjal is level 30-35. (just a few random examples) but if you turn Chromie time ON, it actually makes it to where Westfall is now scaled level 5-61, Hillsbrad 7-61, Tanaris 15-61, Mount Hyjal 30-61. So basically you can now quest in ANY Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms zone at anytime. you could literally be level 50 and start questing in Elwynn Forest and the mobs will be your level :)
I'm a Wow noob, just started. so if I finish the battle for azroth campaign and im lvl 60, can I just use my same lvl 60 character to do chromie time in the other expansions? or must I create a new character? I guess I dont understand the reasoning for it, if I take a lvl 60 character to another expansion shouldn't the game adjust its diffcultiy to my current level whether im 10 or 60.
it wasnt a few months ago when i made this, new players who hadn't played through BFA/didnt have a max toon yet would be forced to play through BFA. but it looks like they just updated chromie time within the last few weeks or so and now its not like that and yep as far as i know u can just pick whatever after starter island
@YassineAhdaiba it's because chromie time stops at level 70 With the new expansion, you gotta level 70-80 in khaz algar the new war within zones Chromie time is just from levels 10-70 (Its always 10 levels less than max level, so in a few years when we're able to get to level 90, chromie will go to 80)
Thank god someone finally explained it to me... bruv last time I played wow was literally when it released lik 19 years ago! :D It is still confusing as fuck but I will get it i guess
Hi! I'm in chromie time at pandaria,i reach lv59 but i did not finish the mainquest so i'd like to stop the exp using the npc at stormwind but it didn't spawn... if chromie kick me off at lv60 how can i finish the mainquest of pandaria?
hey! so actually chromie time goes up to level 70 now because the new xpac came out a few weeks ago, so the new max level is 80 (and chromie time will let you go to 10 levels before max level) so ur good for now anyways :) but regardless, u dont gotta turn off exp. once u get to level 70 and it "kicks you out"/teleports you back to SW/Org, you can just go back to pandaria and keep going. its essentially only kicking you out of chromie time scaling, but nothings stopping you from going wherever u wanna go afterwards :) u just wont level up anymore and will probably one shot all mobs
So basically it will kick you out and teleport you to Orgrimmar or Stormwind. At that point it will try to get you to go to the current expansion Dragonflight, but technically if you really want to you can just go back to wherever you were questing and still do those quests, but you won't really get any experience for it because chromie time is no longer activated. Most people will just level a new character and try to pick up roughly where they left off But there's really nothing stopping you. You could be level 70 max level and go do old quests for no experience :)
Having started with it, Battle for Azeroth had a great starting zone, but story-wise you're very much being tossed into a story in progress with no context as to why anyone iconic is important (Returning player; played briefly back in BC)
I think they ended up changing Chromie Time pretty recently, I filmed this video about a month or so ago (reuploaded here, it was on my main other channel Ladysurvival) so yea im not really sure why/how you were able to do that!! I think from what I heard, they made chromie time more accessible right away to new players. Like in this video I was saying how they'll force you to do BFA, and i dont think thats the case anymore. so maybe it works the same for trial accounts now, once u reach level 10 ur just allowed to use chromie time i guess
@@LadySurvivalWoW well whatever happened, the change, I like the fact I can now fully experience the "Classic" content, including dungeons... ...though, I am sorta locked out of some dungeons (Upper Blackrock spire and Zul'Gurub), and the dungeon finder doesn't exactly show all the dungeons (missing Sunken Temple)
big time XD you should see my main channel Ladysurvival and my instagram Ladysurvivalwow. basically Sylvanas has been my life inspiration for over a decade
It's like they're begging new players to not play it lol I'm a new player and I had to do a bunch of research just to know where I should begin to understand the story. I play games for the story and lore, and I want to play from the beginning...
@marcosmoraes8654 I feel this SO much 💔 I'm the exact same way and I really wish they made WoW more new player friendly and guided them through the 20 years of content in the correct order instead of just plopping you into the game and being like "pick whatever you want!!" Or even worse, by default they try to force you into going to BFA, or I think now it's dragonflight since the new xpac is out. It makes no sense, I don't understand why blizzard does this 😭 I hope you figured out a good order to play through tho! Basically just follow the expansions so start with Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor. I really recommend doing your races starting zones in order if it's your first time through :) The Exiles Reach starting zone is stupid but they'll make you do it once before you have the option to pick the actual racial starting zones. If you ever have any questions I'd be so happy to help! Either comment here or join my Discord
@@LadySurvivalWoW Well, I googled it and found out the three first expansions are Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich king and Cataclysm. So I think I will use this Chromie NPC and start from there. But it would be good to have a way to play from the actual base game. From the immediate events after Warcraft 3 🤔
@marcosmoraes8654 yes those are the first 3 expansions, Burning Crusade takes place in Outland, but back in the day that was to get from level 60-70 The original/vanilla game before Burning Crusade was in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor and you'd go from 1-60 there. The only thing is that in the Cataclysm expansion, they changed a lot of the zones in eastern kingdoms/kalimdor cuz deathwing came through and destroyed a lot of stuff. So a lot of the quests are different from what they used to be. But still the best place to start for that original 1-60 story The Cataclsym chromie time is the one based in those continents so I'd start there then afterwards do Burning Crusade, then wrath Then Cataclysm itself comes after wrath and theres specific zones in eastern kingdoms/kalimdor that actually tell the Cataclysm story (Mount Hyjal, Vashj'ir, Deepholm, Uldum and Twilight Highlands) I know that's probably a lot of info haha but I hope it makes sense. There's a TON of zones in eastern kingdoms/kalimdor. It might be hard to know where to start, what I'd personally do is go to this site to see the "original" zone levels from back in the day to get an idea of what zones are meant to be low level and which ones are mid/high level. And you can kinda form your route by that. wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Zones_by_level_(Classic)
@@LadySurvivalWoW Thanks, that helps. Still, it's a bit confusing. The Cataclysm is the third expansion, so the game throws us three expansions ahead, with the map being altered to adequate that expansion. So, if I start the Chromie quest and go back in time, the base/vanilla map changes too?
@marcosmoraes8654 well the base/vanilla game doesn't exist anymore in retail. Basically once cataclsym came out, a lot of stuff changed. The zones and quests are pretty similar to what they used to be, some even the exact same. So it's the closest you'll get, unless you want to actually play Classic WoW to fully experience it as it used to be you can do that. You can play classic as long as you have a subscription. But yea, i know it sounds confusing but Cataclysm chromie time just means Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. They essentially blended vanilla WoW with cata. But the only actual Cataclysm part is those few Cataclysm specific zones I mentioned
I watched one vid on the classes and then got recommended this vid. Dont know who this is and sadly it wont pertain to me (i forgot wow is sub based and im not a fan of that in 2023 lol) but theres one large take away i got from this vid. This lady might like sylvanus. Maybe. Idk it was just a feeling
Your information has a major error, Chronormu is a MALE bronze Dragon. There was a short clip produced by Blizzard about how Nozdormu got his visage form (can't locate now).
@colnagocowboy you don't have to do bfa at all! This chromie time video is a bit outdated now. As soon as you hit level 10 you can just go to chromie and pick/do whatever xpac you want So I'm not sure what level your hunter is now but go ahead and leave bfa, go back to SW/Org and talk to chromie I hate bfa too so I totally feel you!
@@LadySurvivalWoW thanks i clicked a quest in ogrimar and after an annoying cinematic where i felt like i was just along for ride i found myself in Zanadlar.
Just wanted to pin this here:
As a new player, they recently changed it so you DONT need to have a level 60 character to do Chromie time. Now you just need to be level 10
Also as far as I know, they no longer force you to do Battle for Azeroth. Should just be able to pick whatever expansion timeline you want.
P.S I'm thinking of doing an updated chromie time video. If anyone has any specific things they want me to address/answer in it, let me know. I'll make it in a few weeks and try to do some more research on issues people are having with understanding it and what not
this was very helpful thank you, the additional comment too. :) Liked and subscribed!
What happens if you reach the level cap before finishing the expansions main quests? Is there a way to delevel yourself so you don't kicked out before the end of it?
@@BrendamProductions so you cant delevel yourself no, but at the same time, theres nothing stopping you from just going back to doing those quests after you're kicked out.
you just will no longer be in chromie time, so nothing will be scaled, so you wont be getting good experience anymore and the quests will count as "low level" quests and you'll be killing things really quickly
your other option is to speak to an npc that can make it so you no longer gain experience, essentially just locking your level. so you could just do that before you get kicked out of chromie time
check out this quick video to see where the NPCs are to lock your experience
ua-cam.com/video/twaefqHraMg/v-deo.html
oh and then one more option, is you can just pick up roughly where you left off on another character. that way at least you can still be leveling another character up anyways
I can't believe that you are the only one in the sea of content who knows how to explain something! Congratulations, this helped me a lot, and I almost gave up on WOW, I haven't played for a long time and there are many new things that are not clear to me, chromie is one of them! Thank you!
I agree I’ve seen a TON of videos out there and by far she’s the BEST I’ve seen at giving a detailed and comprehensive explanation
Wow thank you so much!! I know I'm a bit late replying to this but it truly means so much to me that you found it helpful 💜 how is your WoW adventure going? Still playing since you came back?
@josiahdanglade7646 thank you so very much I'm overjoyed to hear you found my video so informative
@@LadySurvivalWoW Unfortunately, I didn't continue playing due to commitments, but that doesn't mean I won't in the near future, and then I have to re-watch the video to remember all the details,
@@LadySurvivalWoW yeah hey thanks for making and uploading this to give us a little more info about this Chromie character that apparently in some spheres theres a lot of talk going on about - there such an immense sea of material so many of us that are fond of the game that just havent had time to further delve into all these stories and all this content thats been added since the burning crusade days (when some of us got off the ride)
My GOD, I’ve been looking for some sort of new player guide to point me in the right direction and explain why I am where I am when I started and what to do.
This has been the only one I’ve found so far - thank you!
Im so glad to hear it!! thank you for the feedback
@RyanRoberts-qf5et hey I totally understand your confusion 😭😭 it sucks they've made it this overwhelming.
Chromie Time kicks you out at level 60. You'll be having a good time questing at 59, then boom you hit 60 and it will teleport you out and back into org/sw.
I personally tested leveling from 59 to 60 in my video and showed how it does this :)
To farm older content for transmog, there's 2 ways to do it. Before level 60, I'd recommend talking to chromie and have her set you to present time. Which essentially means chromie time is off, which means dungeons don't scale to your level. You'll still need be a high ish level (like obviously you're not gonna solo dungeons at level 15) so you'll wanna be I would say at least 40-59 range.
But that's just one option, and not the best option. The vast majority of the player base that does old content (for transmog and mounts) do it at max level. So level 60 in your case since you don't have dragonflight. But most of us will be level 70 (current level cap) and soloing old content.
I hope this helps! :) feel free to ask more questions I'll try to help clear things up
You can join my discord too, there's a channel for "WoW noobs" to ask questions like this, and either I'll get back to you or someone else 💜 and you could even send screenshots of your issue so we can see more visually
Returning WoW player here that hasn't played since Lich King. REALLY appreciate this video as I wasn't quite sure the details of how Chromie worked. I look forward to seeing more of your content, as this video was really well put together, and straight to the points. Loved it, and thank you for making this!
hey welcome back to WoW! you're so welcome im glad it helped you so much!
eventually I gotta make an updated chromie time video too since some things have changed now :)
but thanks again, I really appreciate the support and love! have fun in Azeroth!
As someone who left after WoTLK around the time of the Cata patch, this was very helpful. I was very confused by the fact that nothing really seemed to change with Chromie time. Knowing that only the dungeon finder changes and that I otherwise just need to go to the right zone is hugely helpful. Now to re-level all my squashed toons back to 60 in the different expansions and experience what I’ve missed :D
Hey happy to hear I could help make things easier to understand!! Good luck out there!
I can't tell you just how much this video helped me as a new player who wants to experience the world and story of wow in a chronological order. Thank you! Also I have to say your room looks so good.
im so incredibly happy to hear that! you're welcome!
i dont think i covered much about chronological order in this video so just as some advice, Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor is from classic WoW, and if you google "classic wow zones by levels" you'll be able to see which zones you can pick from in terms of approx "right order" from level 1-60 or 70 :D
and thanks so much!
Leveled my first character to level 60 and honestly felt more confused after. This video right here helped clear up so much, and answered so many questions. Outdated forums sort of helped but often had old information. Thank you again for the info!
i totally understand why you'd feel confused haha! they dont make it very new player friendly.
but im glad my video could help you!
after almost 10 years returning too wow this is a good heads up
Always good to see new content creators entering the space and community. Very well done, keep it up! Love the tattoos and makeup!
Hey thank you so much!! I have another youtube channel too called Ladysurvival. I was posting all my WoW content over there too, but figured it was getting confusing cuz i was doing fashion/makeup/vlog content there too. So decided to start a WoW specific channel! :D appreciate it a lot tho. more content to come. Im currently just reuploading my WoW beginners guide videos here (2 more videos left) then I will start posting new gameplay/lore content and guides
@@LadySurvivalWoW Haha, all good. I will definitely check your channel out as you post :)
nice pfp
@@daftpunkstan7599 Thanks Stan the daft punk
Thanks for this video, as a very lapsed player just coming back, I’ve been really stumbling in the dark. Really great, concise explanation of Chromie Time, exactly what I was looking for. Cheers!
So happy to hear it was helpful to you! Thanks for the feedback :) Good luck in Azeroth!
Without this video, my first experience in World of Warcraft would have been extremely unpleasant. I advise everyone, when they want to try something new, to search on UA-cam, as there's always someone who can explain how to play. The video is interesting, and thank you - if you hadn't created it, I wouldn't have been able to play; I didn't even know how to control the character. All UA-camrs who produce these types of videos, even if they only have 20 views, are immensely talented. Bravo once again.
Wow thank you so very much for this comment! That means a lot to me and I'm so glad I could help you!!
I've realized for quite some time now just how overwhelming WoW can be for a new player, and Im so glad I've started doing these guides. Trying to be as in depth as I possibly can be because I feel like sometimes other youtubers aren't as thorough with it. I'm here to walk you through the process as best I can.
Appreciate the feedback. If you ever need anymore help feel free to leave a comment or join my discord server, we have a channel for WoW noobs and theres plenty of people (or myself) that can help you! discord.gg/wSD5n7wa
This is exactly what I needed to understand what’s up with the expansions for new players such as I and my wife. Thank you.
so happy to hear my video was helpful to you!!
It was very clear, thank you again for this Chromie time explanation for beginner. It's much more easier for me to understand how it works now. Merci beaucoup !
Glad it was helpful! You're welcome!
Thanks for explaining this, I was pretty bummed out to find that I couldn't just play through the storyline in a linear way like with Final Fantasy XIV, and haven't played WoW since 2011, so there's a lot to catch up on.
of course! :)
yea i wish they made it simple like that, it would make so much more sense for sure.
If my nephew eventually shows interest I would suggest watching the Warcraft movie (cheesy as it is, still gives decent intro to first war) then look for Chronicles of the Second War (mod for Warcraft 3 covering Tides of Darkness and Beyond the Dark Portal eventually) alliance campaign, then on to Warcraft 3 proper and finally WoW Classic. After that, make a fresh Retail character and use current expansion level boost from main menu but don't log into them. THEN make the actual Retail character to play through Exile's Reach and head for Chromie when able (after intro to BFA if she ignores you) then head for Burning Crusade, and Bob's your uncle. Remember to freeze XP gain at level 60 to keep Chromie Time. Such a messy process just to keep continuity.
Yo honestly, for a semi smaller channel, I thought this was a friggin great video! Hella informative. Great job! I am a returning player I havent played since legion and even then I didn't even finish the expansion and before that the last time I played was mop (didn't finish that either) the last xpac I finished was cata. So there's a ton of new stuff im learning about and you helped immensely! Thanks so much! And keep working hard, you did an awesome job !
Thanks so much for the explanation! Am completely new to WoW besides having watched the occasional video in the background and I wanted to play through the expansions in chronological order, but really couldn't figure out how to do that haha.
This was absolutely wonderful. Simple but comprehensive, so rare. Thanks!!!
thank you so much! im really glad you found it so helpful
Excellent job on the video! I joined in May 2005, but in the past few years I play less and less time. So, I knew about Chromie Time, but didn't really understand it.
thank you! glad i could help you to understand it a little better :)
as a og wow player who stopped at cata, then played classic now on retail i must say i love them all and i really enjoy questing in retail really fun
As a returning player I thought I'd make a new character and just go through the story of every expansion solo. If I understand things right, I should be able to turn off experience at lvl 59 to stay in Chromie time. I would also have to visit Chromie to turn off CT every time I want to do a dungeon and turn it back on afterwards. CT wasn't a thing last time I played and I think this isn't explained very well (or at all) in game.
So, will this work or did I miss anything?
I just started that same project. Gonna go through every quest line and story before the next expansion rolls out. Keeping Chromie Time active is a good way to keep things interesting. It's not fun to steamroll everything at max level with no rewards to speak of.
Thank you so much. I'm coming back after about a 8 year break and had no idea where I was going to start. Cleared everything up for me! Are you the new Aliana from "back in the day?"
I came back to wow after 6 years and have no idea what is going on now. Thanks for the video, new sub :)
welcome back to WoW!!! im really glad my video could help you in any way :)
Thank you so much for this video! Me and my spouse are finally able to get into WoW and are a little lost. Can't wait to watch more of your videos!
Hey!! Aww I'm so happy to hear that!!! ☺️ and glad to know my video could help at all on your adventures 💜 it's a little outdated now cuz they've changed some things but yea haha :)
Also I met my husband on WoW and we were long distance Canada/USA and have now been together for 5 years and married 💞 so I always love hearing about other WoW couples
Also feel free to join my discord! There's lots of helpful and friendly WoW players in there and myself too. If you have any questions along the way you can just ask in there in the #wowchat ☺️
@@LadySurvivalWoW oh that sounds great! Thanks so much! I am gonna tell my spouse to join as well!
Yeah, we have been together 2 1/2 years and never got to play WoW as teenagers, so now we've decided to start together hehe. So far, we've been having an amazing time and it has been so nice to find some really helpful and great community already. 💜
@@LadySurvivalWoW I also love hearing other people's stories! That's so cute that you and your husband met on WoW! 🥰
Thanks for the info. As someone who hasn't played since Legion and is getting that itch again, was nice to learn what the heck Chromie Time was.
Nice way to vary up where you level up.
Laughed when I logged in and my characters were set back to level 50. Going to have to see what happened there. :)
Will be checking out more of these videos.
glad it could be helpful! I think like a week or two after i uploaded this video they made some more changes to chromie time, so some of the stuff i mentioned might not be completely accurate - but yea chromie time is definitely nice to pick how/where you want to level up
lol yea the level squish is a little weird for sure haha
thanks
im so grateful for this guide, i'm really new too the game and wanted to explore some of the past expansions myself, thanks alot!
im so glad its been helpful to you!! good luck out there :D
Nice job on the video 👍🏻
Currently going through BC through chrome time. Gonna work my way through all the expansions
nice!! that sounds like a lot of fun, hope you enjoy :)
Hi. This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you !
PS: Welcome to 2023, try 1080p resolution !
it was originally 1080p on my other channel. but i had to download them and reupload them over here and i guess it doesnt reupload at 1080p. no idea why. glad you liked the video tho
Wow this is the best tutorial I’ve watched so far you helped me out so much! Thank you
i should mention whilst waiting for the dungeon tool get you a group , after 5mins i think it will ask if you want to search other dungeons in other expasions
yes that is a great mention!! thanks
Great video. I've been playing WoW since it's first release (I'm THAT old) but for the past few years I've not really played as much but this guide made it really clear what Chromie time was! Subbed.
im glad it was helpful to you! thanks!
wow great video. Nice clear, calm speaking voice and great explanations. LOVED IT
Thank you kindly!
Fantastic video. Very informative. Exactly what I was looking for. Which expansions do you personally find the most enjoyable to level in? I’ve just started over in legion. Hoping it’s slightly more enjoyable than bfa.
thank you so much.
Legion is definitely a good one, its the best newer expansion theyve had.
other than that i love all the old school stuff like Burning Crusade and Wrath. mostly for nostalgic reasons haha. oh and Warlords of Draenor is pretty fun too
Very good video, just what I needed :) thanks!
thanks so much im happy to hear it was helpful to you!
I have to admit it makes leveling up pretty fun.
yes!! so fun to play through expansion stories
Amazing explanation, thank you very much! Greetings from Brazil!
Maybe I am the only one, but I really like leveling characters. I played during WoD and Legion and I liked the high level cap. I really liked the fact that you played your character through all the previous expansions. Maybe I missed that point, but is it possible to disable chromie time, so you could play through all the previous expansions like before?And I mean I dont want to stop any exp gains or something like that. I mean like classic (level 1) - shadowlands 70 ( level 60) like it was before the chromietime / scaling changes ?
I love leveling characters too! It was pretty cool when the level cap was 120.
So yes, you can have chromie time "turned off" by just simply not using it at all, or just ask her to return you to the "present" timeline.
What that will do is change all the zones back to their default level ranges. But, it's not quite the same like how it was on classic.
Because of the level squish from 120 down to 60 (now 70, and soon 80)
All the zones are scaled kind of weird, and you'll hit max level faster, you won't be able to finish all the zones before you get there unfortunately
What I'd personally do I start a new character and start playing through some Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor zones. Then maybe once you hit level 30 or so, maybe progress onto Outland. You'll likely hit 60 there.
Then I'd personally make another new character and continue onto Wrath, then into Cata.. basically just keep making new characters until you can feel like you played through them all.
Not quite the same experiencing since it's spread out across different characters but yea.. there's just too much content now for what the level cap is
also forgot to mention really excellent video :)
Thank you so much!!
Hello. Great video but I still have a couple of questions.
I would like to play through as much of the story as possible, is there a way to play the original story in Chromie time, did you say that's through Cataclysm, the third expansion? They're combined?
Also once I hot 60, can I no longer use Chromie time? Say, I finish playing through Burning Crusade, can I then play through Wrath of the Lich King wing and work my way through all the expansions with my character?
Hey!
Yes so basically, if you want to truly play through the original story as it used to be back in the day, the only way to do that is playing Classic WoW.
But yea with Cataclysm, while it is the 3rd expansion, that doesn't mean all of Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor IS the cataclysm expansion.
You know how in a every xpac they introduce a new continent/area to level through? Well in Cata, they added 5 new higher level zones: Mount Hyjal, Vashj'ir, Deepholm, Uldum and Twilight Highlands
These 5 zones are in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. but they were the "high level" zones back in Cata.
The rest of Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms, yes, it was altered in the Cata expansion because Deathwing literally came through and destroyed the world, so Blizzard had to update quests to make sense with whats going on (example, quests in towns would be like "oh no please rescue survivors, or please deal with these elementals, please put out these fires etc")
but in terms of the zones themselves, i mean, Elwynn Forest is Elwynn Forest. you still have all your OG zones you know? a lot of the quests and story are similar (some even the exact same) as back in the day. so you'll still get the general vibe/story from back in the day.
And overall, simply, Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor IS vanilla. in the same way Pandaria IS Mists of Pandaria, or Outland IS Burning Crusade..etc :)
im sorry this is so long haha :P but basically a really good way to make sure you're questing through in the "right order" is to look at a website like this that breaks down what the level ranges of each zone in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms used to be. and just kinda follow the zones from low level to high level. wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Zones_by_level_(Classic)
or if you do feel like it, playing Classic is honestly a great option. i adore classic. its slower leveling for sure, but damn its immersive
oh and one more thing about Cata/vanilla being combined is that with Cata chromie time, you'll be able to que for dungeons both from vanilla and cata :)
and then, to answer your other question, yea once you hit 60 you wont be able to use chromie time (well actually, it might be til 70 now that the new xpac has come out. its usually 10 levels less than max level that it will kick you out of chromie time. and now with the war within max level is 80 but im not sure if theyve updated it yet with chromie time to be til 70)
so if you were playing through BC and got to 60 (or 70 if its changed now) then it'll like kick you out back to Stormwind or Orgrimmar and stuff wont be scaled to your level anymore.
so in that case i'd just start on another character and pick up where you left off or wherever you wanted to go next
Excellent video, however on my main I have never been to shadowlands. So I figure I will roll a monk and go there with Chromie Time. That worked great, and I think that I got there at level 13. The thing is that I leveled in the Panda starting zone, so I had a whopping item level of 7. I am level 23 now, my item level is still 7. I am getting the feeling that you get absolutely no gear doing it this way. I don't want to do BFA because I had a couple of toons go that route. Shadowlands will be fresh for me, but if I am not going to get any gear it doesn't make any sense. Also like in BFA the food doesn't scale, it starts at level 50 I think, nothing seems to be at level. Kind of sucks, why even offer it at that level, I don't get it?😊
Thank for the guide. Also, I think you like Sylvanas, which is kinda cool.
you're welcome! haha yes maybe a little bit ;)
Terrific video! Very Helpful!
You have a nelf druid? My first ever character was one, I have an old account I don't have details for with him and 3 other L90.
i do yes! a few of them actually haha :P night elf druid was also my first ever character too, made her when i was 9 years old after seeing them og classic wow trailer haha
Very helpful video. Thank you!
Questions: I read somewhere that once you hit level 50 it locks out some of the dungeons. So I've stopped leveling at 49 so as to not lock myself out of content. Firstly, do you know if this is true? Secondly, when I queue for a dungeon does it only group me with people who are also using chromie time or does it group me with anyone? Thank you. Just found your channel. Good luck!
What you read about level 50 is just old information, the level cap used to be 60 in the Shadowlands expansion, so at that time Chromie Time ended at level 50 so that you could level 50-60 in shadowlands. Now with Dragonflight the level cap is 70 which means Chromie time goes to level 60 now :)
Yes as far as I know it only groups you with other Chromie Time people for dungeons. Cuz how it works is, say if you're doing Mists of Pandaria, it will only let you que for MoP dungeons. Which means other people who are in say Wrath chromie time can only do wrath dungeons.
Kind of confusing but I hope that makes sense! Thanks for checking out my channel and leaving a comment 💜
@@LadySurvivalWoW awesome! Thank you so much
I know this video is a year old but very good info.
I do have a question. I am a returning player, i left after BFA. I am planning to level a new character. But do i level to 70 with chromie time?
@gatomon2002 hey thanks!
Yes they've changed chromie time now to be up to level 70 :)
do they actually force you to level up in Bfa? sureley theres a way to spawn in elwyn forrest and do it the old way
Such a wonderful video!!
Thank you so much!
They changed the max level to 61 in 10.1.5. You get the quest scroll to exit Chromie time at 60, but you don't get the countdown mandatory teleport until 61. Quests stop giving relevant experience at 60. But treasure chests and ore/herbs still give normal exp. I've been leveling in old Vanilla zones from 30-61 a lot recently just killing rares and opening chests. Goes fairly fast and you come out of it with 100,000-250,000 gold worth of transmog items.
ah okay interesting! yea i think they changed a couple of things since i filmed this video. Chromie Time seems to be a better experience now overall, not so restrictive to new players from what i've read, and i dont think it forces you into BFA anymore i believe?
Thanks for the info!
That's weird, I'm a new player and didnt have to go through BfA and reach level 60. I was able to use Chromie Time from the start after picking up a quest to talk to her. Is this something that's changed since this video?
Can we see each expansion's cutscenes during leveling up in old expansions?
you should be able to. i mean, they didnt really start doing cutscenes in expansions until more recently ish (like vanilla, burning crusade and wrath dont have any - well wrath might have a little bit but not really) but its mostly few and far between. not until around Warlords/Legion did they start really adding a ton. but yes they will just pop up for you where they should during questing
great instructions, thanks!
I'm an old player returning after more than a decade. Every time I think I have it figured out, something else happens. Currently, I just hit level 35 and am now wrecking everything in my path in the Eastern Kingdoms. So does that mean that I now have to got to the Battle of Azeroth to finish leveling? What about all of my current quests?
Hey welcome back to WoW
Do you have chromie time turned on? Try going to Chromie and switch it to the Cataclysm timeline because that's the one that includes Eastern Kingdoms and Kalmidor
That will scale the quests to you and you can keep going
You don't have to go to BFA
I hope that helps, let me know if you have any issues still
@@LadySurvivalWoW That was exactly what I needed to do! Thank you so much for your time and help. Subscribed!
@@stubpadoka I'm so glad to hear it worked out!! You're welcome!! 💜
As a new player this is extremely helpful. I have spent the past few weeks learning about the game, Asmongold LOL, and trying to figure out how expansions work and this is absolutely the best video I've seen on it. Reddit was def helpful but never truly pointing me in the direction of how exactly to do it. I really want to play through every expansion so may just no life and make a new character for each expansion. Do you know if its true that you can still stop earning xp? So hypothetically I can stop if needed to play the story out if I have to. Hahah. Hopefully! Either way, thanks for guiding us lol
im really happy to hear my video was helpful to you! thanks!
playing through every expansion on a new character is a great way to do it!
i believe you can turn off your experience yes, i think theres an NPC for it (just googled it- "To turn your character's experience gain on and off, visit the Experience Eliminator at your faction's capital city: On modern World of Warcraft Realms: If you are Alliance, speak to Behsten in Stormwind. If you are Horde, speak to Slahtz in Orgrimmar.")
either you can turn it off, or you can just start another new character haha
like maybe if you get through half of eastern kingdoms on one character, make another one and do the other half. totally up to you! good luck!!
@@LadySurvivalWoW Honestly I can't believe it's been a month since my comment. I've been playing SoD and it's fun and interesting. More so the amount of times I die and learn oh shit prob should have grinded a bit more. At one point I realized my warrior had such a lack of abilities annnnd found it's because I didn't talk to a certain person. Also appreciate the tips! I still plan on doing what I said above but def trying to play the shit out of SoD currently haha
So if I wanted to experience all of them I have to create a new character everytime?
you can switch around as many times as you like. for example you could do level 10-13 in burning crusade, then decide you wanna go to pandaria from 13-22, then legion 22-40...etc literally as many switches as you want.
but if you mean in terms of fully completing each expansion in its entirety, yea you'd probably need a separate character for each one cuz you'd get too high level to keep questing :)
Are there any exclusive mounts, items, or achievements that you can only get by using chromie time? Will I miss anything by doing these zones and quests at Max level?
no not specifcally, i mean in general you will get some items and achievements in terms of just looting stuff and getting quest rewards but thats nothing you couldnt also do at max level anyways so theres no specific benefit like theres not a special mount or achievement for like "yayy you did Pandaria chromie time so you get this" theres nothing like that if thats what you mean :)
but yea anything you can do in chromie time you can always just do later at max level hope that makes sense
@@LadySurvivalWoW thank you for the info. I've played off and on since vanilla and I'm really enjoying the game right now. I want to do everything I've missed through the years. I've done almost 1500 quests in the past month and I feel like I've barely scratched the surface
So I enabled chromie time, but did not get a campaign quest for Pandaria. It just said to "get to Pandaria" and showed me the portal marker in Ogrimmar.
I jumped through and there were only 2 quests in a completely different village in Jade song Forest.
Does it not work if you played the campaign selected when it first came out or something?
So I started playing wow for the first time. And expansion it started menwas dragonflight. Once I get to level 60 and unlock chromie time. Can I take my level 60 character into these old expansions or do I have to start with a low level character? Also do you have to start in dragon flight as a new player now? It seemed I didn't have a choice haha
So basically it will *want* you to go through dragonflight, kinda like how it used to force you to go through BFA.
But you can actually just go talk to chromie right away now and choose anything you want. Even from lvl 10.
Like technically you didn't even HAVE to do dragonflight to level 60.
They made it so you can just pick now anything you want at level 10 so yea you definitely don't gotta do it again.
Chromie time goes up to level 70 now that the new xpac is out and level cap is 80
So you can level your current char from 60-70 wherever you want with chromie time, but your almost there so you'll probably only play through one zone before your 70.
You'll wanna start a low level character if you want to play through other chromie timelines :)
Don't if you choose a hero class like Death Knight, you get a unique starting zone instead of exiles reach?
I believe you get either the original starting zone with Arthas, or the new one with Bolvar (orange lich king)
Hi so if you are doing an expansion you said you get ripped out at level 60. Does that mean you don’t get to finish the story of it? Like Is there a way to hat pay wow for its story?
yes that is correct, it will just rip you out. you could technically go back and keep doing the story where you left off, but you will no longer be getting any experience (or a very small amount because it wont be scaled) so it might kind of feel like a waste of time
you pretty much would want to just continue playing through on a new character, you might have to repeat some quests you already did though of course.
I got a question, once I hit the max allowed level for chromie time and get "kicked out" can I go back to the area I was originally questing in and finish any quests I was working on? Like for example, if I was leveling through Legion and working on my Class Order Hall questline and I hit max level before I could finished it and I got kicked out of chromie time, could I go back and finish the questline even though chromie time is no longer active?
yes you can! it just wont really give you any experience so your leveling will kind of be halted but yea :) the quests will still be in your quest log and you can just keep going
@@LadySurvivalWoW Really? That's fantastic! I was worried about that. I'll just save the leveling from 70 to 80 for War Within. Thanks for clearing that up.
On my last fresh alt, I got the auto summon to Stormwind at 60 while in Cata Cromie time, and went on to DF. I'm now leveling a NE druid in BFA. Will i be able to go back to Kul Tiras to finish the story? Last time i did BFA was as horde during that expansion, and i kind of wanted to see it from the other side.
you can always do any quests at max level
yea what Lahiss said too, you can definitely go back and finish it, you just wont gain experience past level 60/it wont be scaled with Chromie Time.
you can always start a new character and do chromie time in BFA and i think you should be able to finish the whole story before you out level it.
I'm so confused, so if you're leveling in retail now you just do... nothing in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor?
no you can 100% quest in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms! (its the Cataclysm chromie time option and thats how you can que for Classic dungeons like Deadmines, Shadowfang Keep, Dire Maul..etc)
You'll notice if you dont turn chromie time on (aka if you're in the "present timeline") if you go to your map and mouse over zones in Kalimdor and Eastern Kingdoms, they naturally have certain level ranges. for example Westfall is level 5-30, Hillsbrad is 7-30, Tanaris is level 15-30, Mount Hyjal is level 30-35. (just a few random examples)
but if you turn Chromie time ON, it actually makes it to where Westfall is now scaled level 5-61, Hillsbrad 7-61, Tanaris 15-61, Mount Hyjal 30-61.
So basically you can now quest in ANY Kalimdor/Eastern Kingdoms zone at anytime. you could literally be level 50 and start questing in Elwynn Forest and the mobs will be your level :)
I havent played since wotlk and im going through bfa with my son now. This channel is awesome to help us catch up. Thank you.
I'm a Wow noob, just started. so if I finish the battle for azroth campaign and im lvl 60, can I just use my same lvl 60 character to do chromie time in the other expansions? or must I create a new character? I guess I dont understand the reasoning for it, if I take a lvl 60 character to another expansion shouldn't the game adjust its diffcultiy to my current level whether im 10 or 60.
Great video thank you :)
very great video :)
thank you!
Hey thanks this was helpful
you're welcome!!
Is the level 60 character account wide or does it have to be on the same server to activate Chrome Time?
should be account wide as far as im aware
I thought Chromie Time can be reached right after the starter island if you go to your faction's capital city, is that not the case?
it wasnt a few months ago when i made this, new players who hadn't played through BFA/didnt have a max toon yet would be forced to play through BFA. but it looks like they just updated chromie time within the last few weeks or so and now its not like that and yep as far as i know u can just pick whatever after starter island
@@LadySurvivalWoW thank you anyway this video helped me immensely
you make dope stuff :) Bankai
thanks so much!!
Best guide!!!
thank you!
I have a character lvl 70 but when I got to Chromie, she doesn't give me the option to choose timelines..?! Help, please!
@YassineAhdaiba it's because chromie time stops at level 70
With the new expansion, you gotta level 70-80 in khaz algar the new war within zones
Chromie time is just from levels 10-70
(Its always 10 levels less than max level, so in a few years when we're able to get to level 90, chromie will go to 80)
You dont need to ne level 60 any longer
Good video and cool hair
thank you!
Thank god someone finally explained it to me... bruv last time I played wow was literally when it released lik 19 years ago! :D It is still confusing as fuck but I will get it i guess
I just started playing wow. Made my first character. I feel soooo lost lmao
Hi! I'm in chromie time at pandaria,i reach lv59 but i did not finish the mainquest so i'd like to stop the exp using the npc at stormwind but it didn't spawn...
if chromie kick me off at lv60 how can i finish the mainquest of pandaria?
hey! so actually chromie time goes up to level 70 now because the new xpac came out a few weeks ago, so the new max level is 80 (and chromie time will let you go to 10 levels before max level)
so ur good for now anyways :)
but regardless, u dont gotta turn off exp. once u get to level 70 and it "kicks you out"/teleports you back to SW/Org, you can just go back to pandaria and keep going.
its essentially only kicking you out of chromie time scaling, but nothings stopping you from going wherever u wanna go afterwards :) u just wont level up anymore and will probably one shot all mobs
@@LadySurvivalWoW top 🤩 tnk 🤙🏻
what if i want to complete the expansion but have reached lvl 60 ?
So basically it will kick you out and teleport you to Orgrimmar or Stormwind. At that point it will try to get you to go to the current expansion Dragonflight, but technically if you really want to you can just go back to wherever you were questing and still do those quests, but you won't really get any experience for it because chromie time is no longer activated. Most people will just level a new character and try to pick up roughly where they left off
But there's really nothing stopping you. You could be level 70 max level and go do old quests for no experience :)
Thank you , yes thats what I thought@@LadySurvivalWoW
I don't like Bfor Azeroth either, gonna level my toon to 60 so I can chromie time
as a new player this has to be one of the most confusing storylines
How hard is to let we start from the start? this is the addons thing always put me off
i 100% agree. i feel so bad for the new players haha, not a good first experience at all
im too bad at wow but i love this game XD
haha i feel you! i kind of suck too hahaha im just obsessed with it
Very very helpful, weird lady
@@SoyoyoS I'm honored x2 🙏😍
Thanks night elf
haha you're welcome :P
Okay the forcing of new players into the latest expansion is actually stupid.
Happy new year, by the way.
Having started with it, Battle for Azeroth had a great starting zone, but story-wise you're very much being tossed into a story in progress with no context as to why anyone iconic is important
(Returning player; played briefly back in BC)
Don't have to get to level 60 now which is nice
yes! much easier now!
and now I'm confused on how the hells I somehow activated chromie time on my Trial account.
I think they ended up changing Chromie Time pretty recently, I filmed this video about a month or so ago (reuploaded here, it was on my main other channel Ladysurvival)
so yea im not really sure why/how you were able to do that!!
I think from what I heard, they made chromie time more accessible right away to new players. Like in this video I was saying how they'll force you to do BFA, and i dont think thats the case anymore. so maybe it works the same for trial accounts now, once u reach level 10 ur just allowed to use chromie time i guess
@@LadySurvivalWoW well whatever happened, the change, I like the fact I can now fully experience the "Classic" content, including dungeons... ...though, I am sorta locked out of some dungeons (Upper Blackrock spire and Zul'Gurub), and the dungeon finder doesn't exactly show all the dungeons (missing Sunken Temple)
i wonder if you're a sylvanas fan
hmmmm 🤔😁💜
That is such a long time to be stuck in BFA. Oof.
Bfa restriction makes no sense. I quit during bfa. I don't want to come back to it
This kid really likes sylvanas 😳😳
big time XD you should see my main channel Ladysurvival and my instagram Ladysurvivalwow. basically Sylvanas has been my life inspiration for over a decade
It's like they're begging new players to not play it lol
I'm a new player and I had to do a bunch of research just to know where I should begin to understand the story. I play games for the story and lore, and I want to play from the beginning...
@marcosmoraes8654 I feel this SO much 💔 I'm the exact same way and I really wish they made WoW more new player friendly and guided them through the 20 years of content in the correct order instead of just plopping you into the game and being like "pick whatever you want!!" Or even worse, by default they try to force you into going to BFA, or I think now it's dragonflight since the new xpac is out.
It makes no sense, I don't understand why blizzard does this 😭
I hope you figured out a good order to play through tho! Basically just follow the expansions so start with Eastern Kingdoms/Kalimdor. I really recommend doing your races starting zones in order if it's your first time through :)
The Exiles Reach starting zone is stupid but they'll make you do it once before you have the option to pick the actual racial starting zones.
If you ever have any questions I'd be so happy to help! Either comment here or join my Discord
@@LadySurvivalWoW Well, I googled it and found out the three first expansions are Burning Crusade, Wrath of the Lich king and Cataclysm. So I think I will use this Chromie NPC and start from there. But it would be good to have a way to play from the actual base game. From the immediate events after Warcraft 3 🤔
@marcosmoraes8654 yes those are the first 3 expansions, Burning Crusade takes place in Outland, but back in the day that was to get from level 60-70
The original/vanilla game before Burning Crusade was in Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor and you'd go from 1-60 there.
The only thing is that in the Cataclysm expansion, they changed a lot of the zones in eastern kingdoms/kalimdor cuz deathwing came through and destroyed a lot of stuff. So a lot of the quests are different from what they used to be. But still the best place to start for that original 1-60 story
The Cataclsym chromie time is the one based in those continents so I'd start there then afterwards do Burning Crusade, then wrath
Then Cataclysm itself comes after wrath and theres specific zones in eastern kingdoms/kalimdor that actually tell the Cataclysm story (Mount Hyjal, Vashj'ir, Deepholm, Uldum and Twilight Highlands)
I know that's probably a lot of info haha but I hope it makes sense.
There's a TON of zones in eastern kingdoms/kalimdor. It might be hard to know where to start, what I'd personally do is go to this site to see the "original" zone levels from back in the day to get an idea of what zones are meant to be low level and which ones are mid/high level. And you can kinda form your route by that.
wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Zones_by_level_(Classic)
@@LadySurvivalWoW
Thanks, that helps. Still, it's a bit confusing. The Cataclysm is the third expansion, so the game throws us three expansions ahead, with the map being altered to adequate that expansion. So, if I start the Chromie quest and go back in time, the base/vanilla map changes too?
@marcosmoraes8654 well the base/vanilla game doesn't exist anymore in retail. Basically once cataclsym came out, a lot of stuff changed. The zones and quests are pretty similar to what they used to be, some even the exact same. So it's the closest you'll get, unless you want to actually play Classic WoW to fully experience it as it used to be you can do that. You can play classic as long as you have a subscription.
But yea, i know it sounds confusing but Cataclysm chromie time just means Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor. They essentially blended vanilla WoW with cata.
But the only actual Cataclysm part is those few Cataclysm specific zones I mentioned
mind when WoW was good.
I watched one vid on the classes and then got recommended this vid. Dont know who this is and sadly it wont pertain to me (i forgot wow is sub based and im not a fan of that in 2023 lol) but theres one large take away i got from this vid. This lady might like sylvanus. Maybe. Idk it was just a feeling
haha i love this comment XD thanks
Your information has a major error, Chronormu is a MALE bronze Dragon. There was a short clip produced by Blizzard about how Nozdormu got his visage form (can't locate now).
that's hardly a major error, doesn't really matter in the context of the video
HAWT.
I dislike BFA so much i will delete my new hunter and go back to my old BC characters. I have to get out of BFA.
@colnagocowboy you don't have to do bfa at all! This chromie time video is a bit outdated now.
As soon as you hit level 10 you can just go to chromie and pick/do whatever xpac you want
So I'm not sure what level your hunter is now but go ahead and leave bfa, go back to SW/Org and talk to chromie
I hate bfa too so I totally feel you!
@@LadySurvivalWoW thanks i clicked a quest in ogrimar and after an annoying cinematic where i felt like i was just along for ride i found myself in Zanadlar.
@colnagocowboy oh god I know exactly what you're talking about I hate that they just make it seem like you "have" to go somewhere ugh so annoying haha
BEGGING for attention eh?
im not sure what you mean by this? because i made a youtube video to help WoW players? how does that correlate?