Oh right the zeppelin towers got replaced with portals, I forgot that.
You sir have made this thread challenging. I was going to say all but seeing as how I have to pick one.
Well let’s see…
Ok so One Zone per Expansion.
Vanilla: Update Tanaris Gadgetzan into a Huge Tech City kind of like the Mean Streets of Gadgetzan and make it a actually huger city like in Hearthstone. Bring us the Star Wars Version of Nar Shaddaa.
TBC: Azuremyst Isle along with the Exodar as the Beacon of a Rebuilded Draenei Civilization with the Buildings of the Draenei from Warlords, with Native Draenei Creatures like the Elekks, Talbuks, Nether Rays, and Faerie Dragons around the Forest with Crystals growing very Bigger, Alliance Landing turned into a Port, and the Exodar being a Safe Haven for all Draenei.
WOTLK: Update the Crystalsong Forest where there’s actually quests and story behind the Snow Elves fallen nation from the Blue Dragonflight and etc.
Cataclysm: Mount Hyjal as the New Capital for the Night Elves with New Night Elf Buildings, Trees, and a Safe Haven for all of the Night Elves. Plus a Good Starting Zone for the Night Elves too.
MoP: Keep the Vale as 100% Fixed no Sha Corruption or Invasions. Just keep it Gold and Peaceful for the Pandaren.
WoD: Make Telador as the Main Base for the Lightbound by updating Shattrath as a City.
Legion: Fix the Broken Shore by making it huger and have less Fel Green Lava, Fel Corruption, and more of the Warcraft 3 Inspired Landscrape of Ruined Night Elf Ruins, Make the Tomb as Swamply, and Ruined no Clean Highborne Rooms and less fel, More Sea Floor Mass, and of course Sea Creatures instead of Demons, and more Demons. Also Add in the Orc Undead too. Fix it to be like Warcraft 2 and 3.
BFA: Add Underwater Zone or Cave instead of a Small Version of Nazjatar.
Update the BC starting zones so that you can fly in them. I’d love updates to them beyond that, but even keeping them visually the same and making flying possible would make a huge difference. I would probably make Silvermoon my primary bank and auction house stop on my mage if I could fly there. Silvermoon has beautiful enormous spires and I want to be able to fly around them. I will occasionally port over to Quel’Danas from Shattrath, use an Inky Black Potion, and then take the flightpath to Silvermoon just to enjoy the view. I understand why we can’t fly there, but that doesn’t mean I want it any less.
Give Winterspring a graphical overhaul to be up to today’s standards. It’s one of the prettiest zones in the game and deserves it. I think its quests are fine except for how the Crystal of Zin-Malor is just…never resolved. So add a conclusion to that.
There was always such a mystical charm to Winterspring that differentiated it from being just another “snowy zone”, so I fully agree with this. It’s one of the zones that comes to mind for me when I think of Night Elf lands in Kalimdor.
My 2nd bet would be redoing Kezan into all of its Goblin-glory. Goblin towns are the best.