I loved bfa despite the constant joking about it. Had a good time with my buddy playing it.
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I only played Horde in BfA. Sounds like I missed out.
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Theres a few little secret spots in BFA i still go to on my alliance rogue to just sketch. like the little hidden garden in stormsong or the “stranded” campfire victims in drustvar’s ice mountains
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I went to shadowlands today then bfa and legion verdict more people in legion then both
There are so many little things going on in Boralus that I still go and explore to this day, the whole city is a work of art.
One neat place is at 55, 66 (Upton Borough), a square with a few shops in. Tucker’s Toys has a kul tiran noble that will walk in, pick up some bears and purchase them from gnome shopkeeper, then walk out holding them, a small extra detail that never needed to exist, but does, and I love it.
Follow that noble across the way to Dock 1 Exports, she takes the bears upstairs and places them on the bed, where you can see them being placed, its also one of the few houses that has an open upstairs so you can see the living room and bedroom. Downstairs is an active shop with a bunch of stocked shelves, there are so many details in this city that make it feel very lived in and old.
I absolutely love Boralus, I want some tourist souvenirs!
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Eh.
Boralus felt like a huge city that you never touched for any reason except for the very northern tip of it. I mean, maybe once in awhile a quest sent you through the other 75% of the city, but usually you only cared about the harbor and all the stuff right next to it.
Meanwhile, Dazar’alor is probably one of the worst designed “cities” ever devised. It was evil from day one, made to annoy Horde players who had to wait almost a year before they could finally fly and make it tolerable.
I mean, look at the fact that they decided to put the cooking trainer at the very top of the pyramid, but the only guy who sells the ingredients that can ONLY be found on the vendor at the very bottom of the pyramid, for example.
Just terrible game design all the way around. Alliance players could get from the portal room to their trainers in 10 seconds. Horde players had to go down several flights of stairs in this ridiculously large pyramid that was also mazy.
Also, how Horde players had to go from the top of the pyramid down to the harbor for the mission table was also LOL. Alliance players did this in 10 seconds. Horde players took a couple minutes to fly down there and then ride from the flying point to the boat with the mission table on it.
I’m glad we have Oribos now, though I wish they would enable mounts in the Hall of Shapes and the Hall of Holding. I really don’t understand why you can’t mount in those two rooms, as large as they are. I hate how long it takes you to get from the bank to the area with the crafting trainers.
Oh yeah. A LOT of people use Dalaran as their hub/hearth spot. The fact it gets its own hearthstone helps a lot.
Fun Fact: Set your hearth at your covenant, anytime you need to get to Oribos, use the pink stone to hearth to Dalaran, then hop in the portal to SW/Org, and then hop into the portal to Oribos. Takes like 10-15 seconds if you’re playing on an SSD, rather than waiting almost 3 minutes on the flight path.
I found it had more personality that the “Airport Hub” atmosphere of Oribos as I’d rather play an RPG that has a seaside shantytown feel over a layover at LAX.
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Just as long as it isn’t that awful pyramid, lol.
Boralus was okay.
I like Oribos because it’s efficient and after BfA, I’ll gladly take efficiency over flavor for awhile.
Legion is on Legacy loot and not soloable – so thats fair for a drought.
I hated BFA because of Visions and Corruption. Looks like ShadowLands is moving that way now. They just made Torghast like Visions, Timers and Talent trees. I’m guessing it will not be too much longer for Corruption making a comeback and Call it Shadowforged.
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I hated it at first but while you’re doing story quests you get a choice to have increased speed or extra flight point totems places in the city. The flight path totems helped but a proper designed city wouldn’t have required it.
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I didn’t feel like doing Zuldazar quests on every single horde character of mine, so several characters didn’t have it unlocked. Zuldazar in general is one of those zones you probably only feel like doing once or twice because of all the #$@)(@)ing cliffs everywhere.
Most of my Horde characters were levelled either with Pet Battles or Archaeology in Pandaria, or, I took them through Vol’dun and even a little Nazmir.
Yes, that’s right.
I’d rather level in Nazmir than Zuldazar.
Pre-Flying, anyhow. Post-Flying, anywhere is good. That’s how much of a difference flying makes.
Zuldazar feels like a Disney movie that is awesome the first time but you can’t bring yourself to ever watch it again.
BfA, alongside Draenor, and Legion, have been the most aesthetically, and story pleasing expacs yet, the areas, settlements, and zones feel both alive and rich in detail. Contrary to popular opinion, while I loved early WoW, up till cataclysm (minus lich king, that was fuego) the game played more like a glorified more interesting runescape, as in, there were cool stories but the gameplay was… well, just grind to next grind to next grind. One could say that’s WoW in general,
But then the difference between players really starts to show. You have your players who love sprawling cities, areas, ect. That make you really look and search to discover all that is has to offer.
And then you have your grinders, people who while likely appreciating the aesthetic to a degree, value efficiency and time far more, which I can respect that. But everytime something ends up being designed “efficiently” it’s enjoyability almost always suffers.
Some people love BfA, some people Love shadowlands. My three personal favorites in this order are: Warlords, Legion, BfA, Lich King. I’m curious if shadowlands can hold a torch to them but overall consensus I’m not keeping my hopes up.
Sadly Blizzard will never and cannot design the perfect xpac, people will always be dissatisfied, always a group upset because when you have millions of players, the differences in opinion means someone gets bugged.
I like my exploration, my sprawling hard to navigate cities, me and my ex started WoW together and one of our favorite past times when we were bored with the grind was to just fly and explore every map.
To some players that is the most boring time ever. Just is what it is.
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I honestly never spent that much time in Boralus but I did spend alot of time in Zuldazar. Even if the layout wasn’t as good as Boralus the Color scheme was something that I never grew tired of. The Whole place from the top throne room to the harbors below was Vivid and bright. 
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Biggest issue with SL is Oribos. Too late now but considering how much time we spend their, the “city” is probably the most boring place in Wow. Literally a NCP holding pen.
The best part, the awesome sky box, is hidden behind walls so you never see it.
Art teams first fail in a while.
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I for one loved Snug Harbor. For reasons I can’t say exactly, but it was happy memories.
Honestly the end of BFA felt like this. Once done with visions I stopped doing the two updated zones and horrific vision encounters. I could unlock xmog or a mount but… why? All my gear was about the best I could get it (or wanted to get it), and there we sat for 3-4 months doing pretty much what I’m doing now and thats just progressing Heroic CN with some guild friends. I did that and pretty much only that for Nzoth.