I have to say coming back from a bit of a break and going into the siren isle, it has to be the most boring zone they have made. Once you clear all the quests etc. there’s literally just 3 events that rotate and that’s it. I’m not talking about rares to kill or treasures to find. The whole zone just feels so boring with nothing really happening. Feels like they just made it to get your weekly ring upgrade then peace out the rest of the week. I just wish there was more activity.
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Most boring zone ever is Hrothgar’s Landing, an island with a single quest and nothing else.
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Desolace has arrived
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Desolace still sucks. Moreso than Vanilla Azshara.
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Keep in mind this is a micropatch.
It’s the equivilent of introducing Time Rifts or the Dreamsurges in Dragonflight.
It has its own zone but it’s not a “new zone” in the same sense as like… Zaralek Caverns of Korthia or something.
It’s a buffer patch and expectations should not be too high.
It is very much intended to be a mild power boost via the freebie ring + a small rare rotation to grab some cosmetics. That’s it.
Dragonflight got away with a slightly larger micropatch when they added in the Forbidden Reach because they were able to re-use the starter zone that only Dracthyr used otherwise. TWW doesn’t have a zone like that to double dip on.
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Yeah, the island feels really small too, and it’s boring getting mobbed by some hostiles every 12 steps. Speaking of boring, I’m not a fan of the underground zones. Feels too closed-in, too small, ans claustrophobic. Especially the Running Deeps or whatever it’s called (I literally can’t even remember because it’s so uninteresting), it’s just a straight-line essentially. Hallowfall feels “outdoors”-ish so it’s passable. The spider place sucks, it’s just dark, spiders/bugs/webs everywhere, it’s unappealing, same-y, and full of enemies with no value, so literally no point.
Overall, I like the expansion and mostly just stick to Isle of Dorn, doing dungeons, delves, or something else. I avoid the underground areas unless there’s a some quest-related task or quest with an item reward for something I need.
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It’s a double dip of bad IMO.
It’s a blatant cave zone (unlike Hallowfall), AND it follows a trivial mob race for half of its questline. I’m sorry, but Kobolds are not interesting enough to get such a large focus. I like the Darkness thing as a lore tidbit but it should have very much been some sidequests and the dungeon with the main story focus being elsewhere.
I also feel like having a big cave being considered “outside” for the purposes of mounting is awfully awkward when you also have smaller caves inside the bigger cave that are considered “inside”. The amount of times I’ve flown directly to a quest objective and not realized I’m now “inside” until I get forcibly dismounted is not negligible.
Agreed on this in terms of aesthetic. It looks how it’s supposed to look. I’m not gonna say they did a bad job with it or anything. I just don’t want to be there. It’s gross and sad. I’m very glad rep grinds have become vanity-only in recent expansions or I’d be upset about being “forced” to do dailies there.
RIP next patch, probably.
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Keep in mind, it’s not even a dot or point release. It is a double dot release. .0.7 which in most large software products is mostly just maintenance updates.
Season 2 comes in a couple months with Underworld.
What Siren Isle has going for it is that it’s small.
However, once you have done your daily, there really isn’t much to do if you’re not into farming its currency.
Even with farming for the storm-crow mount, I’ve almost been convinced that you can only currently farm one Torrential Fragment per day!
I dunno.
I think Shimmering Flats in Vanilla still has it beat, with a lot of quests to kill a lot of things for items with very low drop rates, but you did it anyway because it’s XP.
At least once you do the weekly, upgrade the ring and feed the world’s laziest Snapdragon you can safely leave unless you want to either grind a ton of Iron or bash your face against the extremely low runekey droprates.
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Here’s one I think most forgot about:
The Alterac Mountains
No, not the battleground. The zone where you find the old entrances to it… and even then, I think they more or less feel like they’re in Hillsbrad Foothills.
The zone itself, there’s hardly any quests there - and they’re likely linked to other zones. Aside from that, there’s just some old ruins… and the Old Dalaran Crater. But yeah, I think most don’t even realize it’s an actual zone.
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Argus anyone?
The new Thousand Needles is pretty bad.
Not even meming but I think TWW is the worst and most mediocre expansion they have ever done. Shadowlands comes close but TWW was the first one I never even leveled to max during launch for.
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It’s 10x better than dreamsurges. → “Here go kill green colored rares.”
Dreamsurge’s only saving grace is when the orbs were in Valdrakken to fly around and collect while you’re chilling in Discord.
The Siren Isles serve as a great alt catchup mechanic. It offers a power gain for guilds trying to get CE. I’ve played a ton of alts lately testing hero trees I hadn’t tried in Beta, it’s quite good.
What else would you like it to have? Let’s start there.
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I thought this was gonna be about the Barrens.
The Barrens will always be my most boring zone.
Nothing will top how much I hated Korthia.
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It doesn’t matter if it’s a micro patch or not, that doesn’t make it immune to criticism and it is indeed, a pretty boring zones
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More diverse events. It’s not even an event as it is: It’s wait 3 minutes, kill a boss.
Something else to mix it up would at least make farming Iron interesting.
I’m kinda relieved we don’t have a reputation. 
…still, i’m happy to see so many familiar faces again and a simple achievement mount. 
This is offset by Barrens Chat, which made it a kinda interesting zone.
Of course, we’re talking about the difference between observing just how bad Chuck Norris jokes could get compared to watching the Barrens-grass grow… it was growing, right? Slowly?
Or did my memory just get meme’d out of existence? Maybe it never was there to begin with? Well, I suppose you could say Barrens was interesting for all the wrong reasons.