Perhaps they’ll be a boat from Amirdrassil to Gilneas.
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My dream idea would be for a boat for Gilneas, another for Auberdine, and a third for Feathermoon Stronghold.
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I thought for sure the portal to Feathermoon would just be a placeholder considering it’s right next to the docks, but Feathermoon’s port back to Bel’ameth is under a fancy building and has Highborne NPCs channeling it which makes it look permanent. A shame.
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Having both a boat and a portal would be a good idea. Such is the case for Boralus, after all.
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I’d hope for a ship, too. I like the night elf ship models and I want to see them some more - after losing Auberdine and then Ru’theran, there aren’t many left in use.
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And even that animosity is really just being upset over being disrespected. Not “kill all our cousins!” Thalyssra was never comfortable with the fourth war never.
Bit off-topic but running through SoD just reminded me of how iconic Auberdine was pre-Cata. The super long dock out into the sea, the atmosphere of the zone itself, so cool. I didn’t play Classic so running through the old world really does highlight how damaging Cataclysm was to the overall ‘vibe’ of the world and all the zones. Not just night elf stuff, but Loch Modan and the dam, Durotar in general, the Barrens, Westfall… even Duskwood, though almost identical quest-wise, has a different air to it.
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Azshara was one of the zones that got hit hardest by that imo. In Classic Azshara you feel like you’re at the abandoned, melancholy edge of the world. Cata Azshara is wacky goblin land with bad jokes every other quest.
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So true. It didn’t bother me that much when the Horde claimed Azshara, but what they did to the land…probably the biggest zone downgrade in the game imo.
Classic Azshara felt like I’m in an unfinished zone that Blizzard didn’t know what to do with.
Cata Azshara is the same, just with Goblin stuff thrown around in it.
And like, actual quests.
I have no idea how anyone can look at Classic Azshara and think that it’s a good zone.
The gate to Timbermaw Hold leads into the side of the mountain.
There’s a bunch of random stuff thrown out and about that’s meant to have NPCs but it’s just empty.
Like, I’m not alone here in thinking Azshara has always been a terrible unfinished zone am I!?
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We’re talking about the zones’ vibes/atmosphere, not the quality of the quests. Because yeah Classic Azshara was totally empty.
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I mean, even the vibes/aesthetic was unfinished and largely unintentional.
They threw all kinds of things there because they had no idea what to do with it.
Naga, a Demon Hunter, Wizard’s Tower, Blood Elves… the entire zone has all kinds of unfinished pieces laying about with no overall direction or set idea.
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Old Azshara had a certain mystique to it because it was pre-flying mounts and you almost never had any reason to go there, so the one or two times you ever did decide to go anywhere other than directly to the Molten Core water guy and explore a little you’d see something you never saw before. It’s an interesting study in intrinsic vs extrinsic motivation: people have uniquely fond memories of the places they were never rewarded for going, but instead sought out on their own.
The moment that they put actual content in the zone it was always going to ruin the mystique. It doesn’t matter what the content was.
I think Aszuna in the Broken Isles is almost exactly what a non-Goblin Azshara would have been. Lots of old Nelf ruins, lots of Naga, Blue Dragon stuff, a magic school, etc. It’s all right there.
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Yesterday i got to do lFr fyrakk which allowed me to see amirdrassil coming to the world and the founding of bel’ameth.
I’m so excited for this zone to come out, this questline has been so awesome.
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