This has bugged me from the time I realized that the coordinates system in WoW is really screwed up. They repeat themselves … why???
“Under the longitude and latitude system , the Earth is divided into a grid of horizontal and vertical lines. The horizontal lines are called latitude lines; because they run parallel to the equator, they are also called parallels of latitude . … The starting point for lines of longitude is called the prime meridian.”
And that is how it should be ingame. Coordinates should never repeat. Latitude and longitude (which is essentially what coordinates are in WoW) refer to SPECIFIC locations… There are no two locations on the globe with the same coordinates and there shouldn’t be in WoW. It makes it confusing and annoying as ))%^&. The map of the Warcraft world is flat. There is no reason it cannot be divided into 4 quadrants that cover the entire expanse and go from there.
/rant off. 
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- There is more than one planet in the game so that alone destroys your argument.
- Some places seem to be more like planes of existence rather than on a planet. So yeah…
- I guarantee the game designers don’t want to be locked into a coordinate system that would preclude them from adding additional zones and areas. Imagine a new expansion adds a new continent or island where the coordinate system has been altered to accommodate the change and then potentially having every, or at least most, coordinate references change. Who would go and update every blog post and video that references coords that are no longer accurate? Similarly making a planet wide lat/long coordinate system now would also make EVERY existing reference to specific coordinates COMPLETELY WORTHLESS.
That said if there were a prime meridian in WOW id vote for it to be UC.
Bring back UC as a hub of activity!
And welcome the new leader of the Forsaken…Meridius Prime!
The coordinates start over from zone to zone on the same planet. And there are TONS of posts now with totally inaccurate coordinates, so SOMEONE has changed SOMETHING SOMEWHERE.
I really hope you are mistaken because that would be just jaw droppingly inane.
Like dumpster fire meets redneck family reunion stupid.
I’d like to see examples before i get bent out of shape. I checked two random NPCs in Zuldazar and found that old posts still have the correct coordinates for both. Not that other zones couldn’t have had their coordinates altered but I’m wondering if its possibly an addon bug that Slaynne discovered.