Only 5 zones

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And tbh, the covenants are all more or less just skins of the other ones.

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7 zones.

Revendreth, Maldraxxus, ardenfurry, bastion, the maw, oribos “technically”, and Exiles reach.

Outside of the maw, and oribos being a circle, the 5 remaining zones are far more developed, detailed, and well put together then anything we saw in BFA.

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I contest that claim.

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Maybe Revendreth is bigger or about the same size as a couple.

I think once we get flight couple of these zones are going to be nazjatar small.

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although wow is still wildly profitable, it is no longer growing

things that aren’t growing are treated like losers and given budget cuts to maximize margin

agree that this corporate shareholder attitude is ultimately destructive to quality

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Lol what?!

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I mean, Bastion is a few rocks.

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LOLWUT

I just wanted to feel part of the crowd, that’s why I’m posting this.

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Think the smallest is aredenweald. The map makes it look big but you can cover distances really quickly there.

Bastion is just open. Still small but the openness doesn’t hide it’s small size as well as twisty switch backing roads.

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It will probably be like Legion, where the number of zones will open up as the expansion progresses.

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There were long quest lines in each of the opposite faction zones for your faction, that you picked up when you opened the footholds. So, not just three. Six.

Just because you didn’t take advantage of all that content, doesn’t mean it wasn’t there.

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You counting incorrectly? Last expansion we had six zones and that was because each side had 3 zones to level in. Then the other 3 unlocked through the War Campaign. There was no seventh and eight zone.

Additionally, Legion also started out with five zones. Four you leveled through, and one you had as a max level zone (that being Suramar). Your math is off.

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Alright, on what basis? The way it feels for me (obviously subjective I haven’t measured them), the Shadowlands zones feel huge in comparison with zones like Tiragarde and Stormsong.

The only zones I remember feeling big were Vol’dun and Zuldazar.

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I think the zones are all the same size, tbh.

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The zones are getting smaller. That’s my bigger concern/issue.

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Oh please, nothing was a bigger drop than from Vanilla’s 38ish zones to TBCs 7 zones. 31 fewer zones! Talk about laaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaazy

EDIT: Well, actually TBC had 11 zones but I’m keeping it at 7 for dramatic effect.

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6 zones

Tiragrade Sound
Drustvar
Stormsong Valley
Zul’dazar
Nazmir
Vol’dun

We later got Mechagon and Nazjatar (if you can even call it Nazjatar) as zones. Uldum and Vale (patch 8.3), along with Darkshore (patch 8.1) and Arathri Highlands (launch) were already existing zones that got a new coat of paint that you can toggle on or off.

So really, BFA had 6 zones to start with, 7 if you count Arathri Highlands.

The maw is the end game zone, so it is. Sorry.

Besides, Legion had 5 usable zones at launch (Stormheilm, Highmountain, Val’sharah, Azsuna and Suramar), 1 zone being used for scenarios + the start and end of a secret (broken shore) until patch 7.2 and one zone that was an uninstanced version of a dungeon used solely for 1-2 WQ’s at a time (one of those is a secret, don’t tell Homer Simpson). That zone being Eye of Azshara.

For SL, you should also count Exiles Reach even if it is a 1-10 zone designed for new characters. It was released during SL, so it is SL content. So really, SL has 6 zones (7 if you include the capital).

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This is 100% not true and I can say that with 100% certainty.

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Ok, well, Im uncertain so Ill take your word for it. As a nercrolord, I can run though Maldraxus pretty quickly. It doesnt feel any larger than even WOTLK zones, tbh.

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frankly i don’t care that they’re not connected and i like all of them except for ardenweald really