My biggest hope with this, is that they hollow out a part of Gnomeregan and have it ‘reclaimed’. With a robot auctioneer and bank, and all that sort of thing.
Maybe not the whole city of Gnomeregan, but part of it would be progress. I know not all the gnomes have moved into Mechagon.
Give it a visual rework too, also with the dungeon.
And ofc, a portal to Stormwind that goes there.
Gilneas is getting reclaimed, too, next patch or so.
This is the lore reason for burning the tree?? I hate it! Now I have to play through the SL…
I think it looks great. If it does become the NE starting area, I’ll make an alt just to experience it.
Looks interesting but it doesn’t seem to be a replacement for Darnassus yet. Is there even a bear shaped bank carved out of a tree?
Then the Alliance wouldn’t be allowed either. They have done some evil things as well. Please, drop the Alliance good Horde bad idea. Its more of one bad and one slightly less bad.
Sylvannas burned it to send souls to the maw.
Elune let it burn because she thought the night elf souls would go to Ardenwealde to cure the anima drought.
No one told Elune the Jailor was hijacking all souls into the maw.
So even if Sylvannas hadn’t burned the tree, Elune’s answer was kill a bunch of night elves.
Not as bright and sunny as I’d like. 6/10.
Now can they update the night elf model? It’s low res DOG 
While I have been very (and onerously) vocal about my profound disappointment in the decision to put the new Night Elf capitol nowhere near the Night Elf ancestral lands, that is independent of the amazing art and zone design from what I have seen to date. It is a very lovely location, and Blizzard is taking the opportunity to “clean up loose ends” on smaller plot beats (for instance including Night Elf death knights, demon hunters and Shandralar mage NPCs).
My peccadilloes? I am not fond of the name. Darnassus, Suramar? Names like that have a better mouth feel. Bel’ameth sounds like one of those ubiquitous towns you either visit or explore because it doesn’t exist anymore. But like I said, this is a trivial complaint.
Narratively speaking, though, while it may be the new Night Elf home, it will not be home for mine. But this is in keeping with what happened to many soldiers in WWI - where the trauma of war caused a fair amount of “expatriation” and a generation being labeled as “lost.” And while I get the Night Elves, in general, would not have been so shocked, there are individual experiences, and it would be “in character” for my toon to not have her issues resolved, and especially not respond well to being “told” how to believe or feel.
And from a narrative perspective, unless something else changes in the narrative as we wrap up the expansion, having the Night Elves genocided then exiled from their lands and then getting chummy with the people who did it for what could easily be self-serving reasons. The Horde did not defend the World Tree out if the goodness of their hearts - which would have been the case if they had literally nothing to gain (compared with the Alliance helping the Horde reclaim Brill and Undercity, in which the Alliance gained nothing but an NPC’s gratitude and the Night Elves softly got some of their undead kin back, and would not have fared any worse for Brill and Undercity remaining in ruins…um…bigger ruins). If the World Tree fell to Fyrakk, then the Horde would have been equally screwed. The Horde had no choice but to come assist in protecting the World Tree, for their own self-preservation. So there is no satisfying narrative conclusion here, either.
Again, the peaceful resolution between the Night Elves and the Horde was not earned. Not at this time. And I don’t think there ever will be, because the only “earned” resolution I can think of would require the complete re-design and repurpose of one to two zones, if not more - and that isn’t in the works for the next decade.
So it is what it is. I wish I could enjoy Bel’ameth. It really is a beautiful zone and I know that Blizzard’s design teams are going full thrusters. For me it will always be a constant reminder of how Blizzard so thoroughly whiffed the narrative, and reinforces my belief that the only reason Bel’ameth is in the Dragon Isles is because Blizzard wouldn’t or couldn’t devote the resources to put Amirdrassil someplace that had more narrative connectivity to the history of the Night Elves.
I can’t believe it’s not butter!
In all truth, it doesn’t matter. The city will be treated the same way after the initial rollout just like every other new city after it’s introduced. Shatt? Predominantly empty. Do you realize before Sylvanus destroyed Darnassus it was very beautiful? But no one really went there. Here and there and for some events that involved Darnassus. But with each expansion these cities become irrelevant. Love Ironforge…but not important because there is no relevance there. Thunderbluff…nope. Steamwheedle Port…again nope. Just destroyed and overlooked. But hey…the caverns of time which is mostly a tunnel is jumping…
They literally aided Sylvanus to burn down a world tree.
No horde should be allowed in the new NE capital.
Well, I hope the night elves don’t continue worshiping Elune after that. That would make 0 sense unless they’re just cool with their lives being meaningless.
Imagine letting the savages that destroyed the other tree anywhere near the second.
The mere notion reads as if it were written by literal aliens.
I don’t think they had much of a choice, what with Sylvanas trying to murder Baine and all. If Baine wasn’t safe, they certainly weren’t.
Overall, the Tauren culture is one of living in harmony with nature. They worship the Earth Mother.
Man, it’s amazing how many rabid replies I’m getting even with the 
emote to indicate it’s a lighthearted post.
ya I saw it a few days back, really nice work on it Blizz 
I mean… I’m a Pandaren Death Knight so sacrifice all the Night Elves you want lol
The Dalaran Crater? I agree. It will serve the Draenei well. It even has built in crash support for flying cities.
No, you are a person sitting at a computer arguing that one half of the playerbase should be ostracized from content for actions they weren’t in control of (the devs wrote the storyline, much to the chagrin of many horde players) and then trying to further penalize them despite doing the same content (helping rebuild and save Amirdrassil) despite again having no real say over if they want to or not.
goblins should be allowed in because i am bias
They can get their own city. Stop trying so hard to own someone on the forums and have a little fun. Life and this game are not that serious.