Timewalking Campaigns

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Timewalking Campaigns (aka Chromie Time) allow players to level any characters in a different expansion. While a Timewalking Campaign is active, all zones will scale up to level 70 instead of their usual level caps. Players can pick a campaign from Chromie near the Stormwind Embassy or Orgrimmar Embassy and get adventuring.

When a character reaches level 71, they will be removed from Timewalking Campaigns and teleported back to Stormwind or Orgrimmar. At level 70 characters are meant to progress into Khaz Algar.

Campaigns

Chromie atop her hourglass in Orgrimmar.

Chromie offers nine campaign choices, each corresponding to a specific expansion:

Dragonflight

The Dragon Isles are the ancestral home of the dragonflights of Azeroth. When the world broke apart in the Great Sundering, magic drained away and the land went dormant. As it awakens, so too do old feuds and long-dormant threats.

Take to the skies and help each flight reclaim their homeland!

Dragons, dragons, dragons! I'm definitely not biased...
Starts B [10-70] The Dragon Isles Await

Shadowlands

Sylvanas Windrunner has shattered the Helm of Domination, sundering the veil into the Shadowlands. Dark forces gather, seeking to claim the soul of Azeroth.

Rebuild the strength of the covenants and unite the afterlives to push back against the Jailer's onslaught!

Death it is! And you know what they say... what doesn't kill you makes you stronger.
Starts N [10-60] Shadowlands: A Chilling Summons

Battle for Azeroth

The drums of war thunder once again, pitting heroes of the Horde against the Alliance. Sail to the wilds of Zandalar to convince the mighty troll empire to side with the Horde.

Harness the power of Azerite against your foes... and confront an ancient enemy rising from the ocean's depths!

Starts A [10-50] Battle for Azeroth: Tides of War / H [10-60] Battle for Azeroth: Mission Statement

The Legion Invasion

The Burning Legion has launched a full scale invasion of Azeroth, landing upon the Broken Isles with endless numbers and an ultimatum: surrender or be destroyed.

Wield the most powerful weapons on Azeroth and fight to free our world from the Legion's grasp!

If you find a powerful weapon, just make sure it isn't corrupted by the Burning Legion or Old Gods, okay?
Starts B [10-45] Legion: The Legion Returns

Draenor

Garrosh Hellscream has escaped through the Dark Portal to Draenor's past. There, he amasses an Iron Horde with the intent to invade and conquer all of Azeroth.

Tame a savage land, raise your armies, and join legendary heroes in the defense of both worlds!

If a scary orc offers you something to drink, you probably want to say no.
Starts N [10-40] Warlords of Draenor: The Dark Portal

Wilds of Pandaria

For ten thousand years, Pandaria and its people have remained hidden in the mists. As the Alliance and Horde wage war upon its shores, they awaken an ancient evil that once terrorized the land.

Set out on adventure as you explore the wonders--and the dangers--of Pandaria!

Whatever you do, do not get between a pandaren and their brew. It'll be unbearably painful if you do!
Starts B [10-35] Mists of Pandaria: To Pandaria!

The Cataclysm

Disaster engulfs the world as the black dragon Deathwing erupts from his earthen lair. With the elements raging across Azeroth, doomsday cultists seek to usher in the end times.

Quell the fury of the elements and defeat Deathwing to prevent Azeroth's destruction!

Who would have thought someone named Deathwing would bring about so much destruction?
Starts A [10-59] Cataclysm: Onward to Adventure in the Eastern Kingdoms / H [10-59] Cataclysm: Onward to Adventure in Kalimdor

Fall of the Lich King

From atop his Frozen Throne in the icy wastes of Northrend, the Lich King prepares his undead Scourge for a war that will extinguish all life on Azeroth.

Answer the call of the Argent Crusade and end the Lich King's reign!

Do not exercise restraint when showing your great power to the Scourge!
Starts B [10-59] Wrath of the Lich King: To Northrend!

Portal to Outland

Dormant since the end of the Second War, the Dark Portal to Outland has opened once again. A demonic army gathers in force on the other side, and bold heroes are needed to strike them down.

Journey to a shattered world and stop the Burning Legion from invading Azeroth!

You look quite prepared!
Starts B [10-59] Burning Crusade: To Outland!

Notes and trivia

  • Timewalking Campaigns can be swapped at any time, and you can even pause experience gains if you want to finish an entire expansion's storyline without the level 60 interruption.
  • After choosing a Timewalking Campaign, you are able to use dungeon and raid finders of that expansion's instances.
  • Chromie appears as an hourglass on both the map and minimap for Timewalking Campaigns.
  • According to former lead designer Greg Street, fixing the leveling timeline using Chromie is "something we wanted to do for years".[1]
  • Enabling Chromie Time previously required players to have already experienced Battle for Azeroth and reached level 60 on at least one character, but this restriction was removed in Dragonflight.
  • The Portal to Outland description states that the Dark Portal was dormant since the end of the Second War, though technically its brief reopening during Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal occurred two years after the Second War ended.
  • The Draenor description states that Garrosh Hellscream escaped through the Dark Portal to Draenor's past; he actually used the  [Vision of Time] artifact to travel to the past, and the Dark Portal to invade the present.

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The Cataclysm

The people of the Eastern Kingdoms and Kalimdor are fighting to survive after the events of the Cataclysm that occurred after Deathwing's reemergence.

Aid Azeroth's many civilizations in the wake of the aftermath of the Shattering.

Portal to Outland

The Dark Portal to Outland has opened once again, and heroes are needed to answer the call and step bravely onto the shattered world of the orcs.

Conquery[sic] this ancient and dying world and stop the Burning Legion from invading Azeroth!

Fall of the Lich King

The frozen wastes of Northrend is where the Lich King, previously known as Arthas Menethil, resides, sending his undead forces to destroy all life on Azeroth.

Answer the Argent Crusade's call to disrupt Arthas's plans, and put his undead scourge on ice!

Wilds of Pandaria

Untouched by war for over 10,000 years, the Horde and Alliance are at war after the disappearance of the White Pawn, but a dark secret lives within the earth. The factions of Azeroth ignored the pandaren's warnings that emotions manifest in dangerous ways in their mystic land.

Pierce the mists and explore the beauty of Pandaria!

The Iron Horde

Garrosh Hellscream has opened the Dark Portal yet again, allowing the Iron Horde to pour forth from Draenor and march against our world.

Establish your garrison and fight alongside the great orcs and draenei of lore!

The Legion Invasion

Powerful Artifact weapons and a foothold to launch strategic strikes in the Broken Isles with your order will be required to stop the Burning Legion's invasion on Azeroth.

Claim your weapon, establish your order hall, and stop the demonic assault on our world!

Gallery

Patch changes

  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Patch 11.0.2 (2024-08-13): Timewalking now goes up to level 71 (was 61).
  • TheWarWithin-Icon-Inline.png Patch 11.0.0 (2024-07-23): Dragonflight campaign added.
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.1.5 (2023-07-11):
    • Timewalking now ends upon reaching level 61 (was 60).
    • Expansion restrictions have been removed.
    • Chromie now has dialogue options where she'll explain what Timewalking Campaigns are, offer timeline suggestions, and share the opening cinematics.
    • The tutorial can now be ended by speaking to Chromie, so characters are no longer temporarily locked out of timewalking if they complete A [7-10] Welcome to Stormwind or H [7-10] Welcome to Orgrimmar.
    • Battle for Azeroth campaign added.
    • Shadowlands campaign has been renamed from "The Realms of Death".
  • Dragonflight-Icon-Inline.png Patch 10.0.2 (2022-11-15): Timewalking now goes up to level 60 (was 50). Shadowlands campaign added.
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02): The prompt to enter into the Timewalking Campaign random dungeon queue for all expansions will now occur after 5 minutes in the queue (was 15 minutes).
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.2 (2020-11-17): Campaign descriptions updated.
  • Shadowlands-Icon-Inline.png Patch 9.0.1 (2020-10-13): Added.

References

 
  1. ^ Greg Street on Twitter (2020-10-23). Archived from the original on 2020-10-23.​ “More WoW: Made a warrior to relive Pandaria. Some thoughts for those interested: 1) Fixing the weird time streams with Chromie is something we wanted to do for years. Glad the team finally tackled it and using that for alternate leveling experiences was clever.