I haven’t listened to the Legion lead-in audiodrama that came out this week, but something in one of the BW posts about it made me wonder just what happened to Cordana Felsong, and why she’s going to be a dungeon boss in Legion. So I hopped over to Wowpedia to read up on her. Because Cordana is so closely associated with Khadgar, the article also provided a nice synopsis of the Legendary Ring questline.
Reading about what “the Commander” did made me feel even more like my characters are not really qualified to be the heads of their class Orders in Legion.
I only progressed in the Ring questline far enough to discover the fate of Kairoz in the Time-Lost Glade. Most of the things that “the Commander” is supposed to have done, I didn’t do.
I didn’t LFR during Warlords, not even running through them once in “tourist mode”. I made a choice not to bother with it at the beginning of the expansion, and I stuck with that decision. The only time I set foot in LFR this whole expansion was to get the Shipyard equipment blueprint for the Gyro-whatsit that drops from the Fel Reaver. On a Real Life basis, I don’t regret not raiding.
Sitting in my Garrison running Follower missions and doing profession CDs and farming old raids for Mog gear, though, I wasn’t “the Commander”, the great Hero of three worlds (counting Outland and Draenor separately)… I was more like the 2nd Lieutenant in charge of Logistics, or something.
And so I feel like my characters don’t quite deserve the accolades with which they will be greeted and treated as they undertake the Artifact questlines in Legion.
Kamalia et alia 
Why, I would advise to run a tourist LFR mode for HFC once. In Highmaul and Blackrock Foundry we’re just striking the Iron Horde ogre allies and their war machine. But HFC is lore-important for Legion and is also a lead-in.
The whole run would take, say, 2 hours at most. Groups are well overgeared, and I observe almost no wipes. The raid is effectively ending all the plot lines started in Draenor, so it’s a perfect farewell.
The ring story is much more connected to the plot than the previous legendary cape in Pandaria. Though the main thing there is the last machinima – the lead into Tanaan, which shows us why Grommash is not the raid boss anymore 🙂 This could be found in YouTube.
I’ve thought, from time to time, about doing one run through of each of the raids just to see the story beats. And I really should check out the cinematics from the Legendary questline, too. Guess I should try to do that before the 30th…
Me? I’ve always felt like a mercenary. Need a quest done or a mob hit? I’m your man.
I think that it was so … odd … to be sent back in time to another world. I wondered if we’d be out of sync with the rest of Azeroth when we returned or changed (strangely changed) from that experience. I hoped for a final patch with a portal that sent us back to Azeroth, having done the job and being received with a parade or medal and we would be carrying strong boxes full of loot and bounty. A finishing and final stamp on Draenor would have been nice.
Indeed.
The whole premise of the expansion was kind of odd, and Draenor is enough different from Outland that I can’t really think of them as the “same” world. I think that as soon as Kairoz brought Garrosh to alternate-Draenor, it became no longer an alternate, parallel timeline version of that world, but a new world that is inextricably woven with and part of our our own.