Thanks for all the responses, interesting read that's for sure. And I guess that makes sense that it's sort of a bubble cause for me, living through all the events almost 3 times now it just felt normal to say that 3 years have passed since then. But that's a good thing as RP wise it'll make things a bit easier as things aren't too restricted timewise. I might just take the easy approach to say that 1 year = 1 expansion so my character won't turn 40 and still looking like a teen haha.

And now I'm excited to see if there will be changes to the timeline with 4.0 since the WoL obviously changed a lot!