Also the shadowlands video you watched isn’t actually the annoucement cinematic, just another promotional one they did! The actual cinematic looks amazing.

Warlords of Draenor takes place in an alternate timeline Garosh travels to stop his father from drinking the blood of Mannoroth

I get emotional watching wow cinematics too, ive had some of the best times of my life playing this game so thats why it happens to me

Go look for this one: World of Warcraft: Legion To War Within - All Cinematics in ORDER | WoW Lore Catchup by Athelarius. It's 2 hours but its' ALL the cinematics from Legion to the newest one. You will get a lot of the story you missed. It's really, really good. You'll see both the Horde and the Alliance. I've been playing since 2008, the start of Burning Crusade and I play to this very day. I play mainly Alliance (my very first two characters were mages, one gnome and one Blood Elf Horde.) I play for the story, mainly. So many are into the dungeons and raids, I am more playing the storylines and exploring. But now I have a ton of alts since I want to see everything from all the sides (sometimes more than once). My adult kids got me into the game and while they all stopped playing years ago, I still play. Warlords of Draenor is set on the Orc home world, alternate timeline. Remember that huge portal with the two men on either side that they were building in the Blasted Lands? We went through it to stop Garrosh Helscream from tearing up the timelines. We meet up with Thrall's dad, Durotan and a bunch of other famous orcs. It's a fight between the two sides. Garrosh gets past us and gets into our world and that is where Legion comes in. The Burning Legion is back on Azeroth and the Horde and Alliance sort of join forces to rid us of them...again. Thrall isn't there, he's retired with a wife and children to Draenor. He made Vol'gin the Troll the Warchief after we had to deal with Garrosh in Pandaria. Vol'gen gives Warchief to Sylvanas, which is the start of all the bad stuff from her. She's working with someone, she's got a lot more power than we knew (that purple smoke is the indication) and she goes on to finish Legion as Warchief. Anduin Wrynn, prince of Stormwind and son of King Varian Wrynn (the guy who is commanding when the ship falls into the sea) ends up stepping up in his father's place in Legion (no spoilers, it's in the cinematic I've told you about). He's about 18 or 19 at that time, and about 21-22 when that Battle for Azeroth trailer with him and King Genn Greymane of Gilneas are at the gates of Orgrimmar. Now King Anduin is a priest but was trained as a paladin and is one of the best users of The Light. He pulled that bubble of resurrection as easy as Sylvanas pulls that bow. After we finish the war, we end up going to the Shadowlands to stop Sylvanas from wrecking the entire world. Shadowlands are the place you go after you die, but there's something wrong, everyone who dies is going straight into the Maw, which is the place of torment. That whole thing had a good story but it went off the rails somewhere in the ending. Then we hit the current expansion: Dragonflight. It was a great palate cleanser after spending so much time in the Shadowlands and with that weird, weird storyline. We go to the Dragon Isles and restart the different flights (blue, red, bronze, green, red, and black). We run into some Incarnates, or the old dragons who have some pretty nasty plans. And, for the first time ever, you'll get a dragon mount that YOU control, not just flying like we did with the other mounts, but actually dive and whirl, race, and everything. That type of flying is coming into the next expansion for almost all the mounts in the game that fly. Dragonflight is still finishing up right now. The War Within, which is the first expansion in a 3-part series called The World Soul Saga comes out the end of August. That's a quick outline. The cinematics in that 2 hour video will give you most of the story from Legion to now. I highly recommend it as a watch and react, it's going to impress you with the things they've accomplished. And, just for fun, since the two guys in the Pandaria trailer (the orc and human) were so great when they started to team up with each other against that "bear", you REALLY need to see a very short video from Blizz called Bottoms Up and it's on KZfaq by World of Warcraft. It's a minute long but it's great. Really. I look forward to seeing you do more reactions and maybe we'll drag you back to Azeroth.

Also do Shadowlands cinematics, Dragonflight and the War Within. Epic vids.

You're missing the Shadowlands and Drgaonflight cinematics. Also as someone who knows a bit of the lore already you'd probably appreciate the animated shorts they did. Warbringers and Afterlives.

best game ever made and im still into it since 2004 so if u want ure soo welcome back into the family of wow!!

Battle for Azeroth has 5 cinematics. I'm sure you'd absolutely love watching the others in successive order.

If you come back to wow with a new toon, you can level up in any of the expansions. Highly recommend Legion as it's heaven on a stick for old players. Class halls are great and the legendary weapsons!!! Also if you are a LIch King fan, his full story arc is in Shadowlands. Oh and Dragaonlands, is incredible too epic world missions and design... plus the full story arc of Deathwing from Cataclysm too. Can't wait to return for the pre-patch for The War Within, with our guild "The Old Timers" for old players of the game. RP US Server Wyrmwrest Accord.

Treat yourself ot the Battle of Azeroth full cinematics and the warbringer stories too. And also the Diablo 4 cinematics too for fun of the best of Blizzards' team of cinematics.

Dwarf Rogue for the win!