Most Depressing or Saddest Zones

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What are in your opinion the most depressing or saddest zones?

My list:

  1. Ghostlands
  2. Eversong Woods
  3. Maldraxxus
  4. Dread Wastes
  5. Hellfire Peninsula
  6. Outland’s Shadowmoon Valley
  7. Argus. All 3 zones in it.
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The story explaining the lost ones made me cry, but I don’t remember the name of the zone(s), unfortunately.

That one was so good! It made me want to give the space goats a hug :hugs:

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That was Swamp of Sorrows. I think it is called that for a reason.

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No offence OP but how is the Maw not on your list? It’s literally Hell.

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Lordaeron for me. Seeing such a beautiful place abandoned is so sad for me

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Abyssal Depths is sad, in the pathetic sense.

Eastern Plaguelands stories always hit my feels.

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More subzones than entire zones

  • Darrowshire in EPL
  • Path of Glory in Hellfire
  • Drustvar, mainly where the little girl’s tea party is, but anywhere the towns are overrun by witches and MCed townsfolk
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Old Silithus and Desolace are probably my least favorite zones.

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Westfall is pretty sad overall with all the homeless people searching for scraps and even wondering if they can make food out of dirt.
I actually played that zone for the first time recently (never leveled an alliance character on that zone before) and seeing the state of the people there was very sad and depressing.

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And when you kill a drifter at that first farm, the vagabonds show up to go through their pockets, or take their shoes.

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And the part where you go around the town giving people food and they’re super thankful, some actually cry.

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Westfall post-Cata as a zone made me irrationally angry at the characters involved.

Stoutmantle is clearly the intelligence and wisdom are dump-stats, and charisma should be just high enough to cast spells type of Paladin, and Vancleef may have a high enough Int stat for advanced Alchemy, but Her wisdom definitely has a negative modifier.

There is so much fallow and unused, but tenable land in Westfall the refugees should have been welcomed and given land grants. They may have been dirt poor but they wouldn’t be hungry. With hard work and the coordination from the established farmsteads who were shown to be thoroughly decent folk who cared about their fellow peoples they could have rebuilt the zone into an agricultural and economic power-house once the War-Economy tooled-down and the Civilian-Economy rebounded.

Instead Stoutmantle shoved the refugees on the farmers and instead of investing them in the land he just swept them under the rug while he focused on building walls around Sentinel Hill to counter a thoroughly devastated Defias that was no longer a real threat until his mismanagement of the entire area lead to their resurgence.

Leaving room for Vancleef to step in and fire the resentment of the refugees and rebuild the Defias thanks to his incompetent management. Instead of actually helping those people She instead used them to further devastate the region in petty revenge for a cancerous hatred planted by Onyxia and fueled by her own stupidity and the incompetence of the Kingdom’s leadership.

Were WoW a 4X I’d have sent the Army in to wipe the Defias out, forced Stoutmantle into retirement, and put a real Governor in charge of the region.

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umm… Teldrassil anyone?

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probably the shimmering flats/tanaris area. not because of their aesthetic, but because of the times i had with some friends i haven’t seen since those days. every time i go to tanaris it’s like a ghost there that reminds me. especially the place with the cactuses…getting farmed there by horde for trash talking will always remain in my memories :joy:

nostalgia :frowning:

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Western + Eastern Plaguelands for sure. One gets the sense that those places were where the bulk of Lordearon’s population (especially the common folk) lived, making them something like the Elwynn and Westfall of the north. Tirisfal, Silverpine, and Ghostlands are sad too but in WPL+EPL the signs of struggle against the Scourge are more visible, making their tragedy more tangible.

I’d never thought of it that way but you’re right. It makes it all that much worse that Stoutmantle definitely would’ve had whatever resources Stormwind could spare to help with the project had he spoken directly with Varian. It might not’ve been much with everybody being strapped thanks to fighting the Scourge but if handled appropriately it could’ve made a big difference.

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