Fair… that’s probably why Atlanta’s airport seems more interesting… it at least has food.
It’s an airport. And that’s not a bad thing. It’s literally what it is supposed to be. Your Covenant hall is your home base. Oribos is basically the “Gateway to Adventure”.
Want my theory on where Blizzard screwed up? They should have had your one-way portal to Oribos in the Covenant hall installed for free. That way, players would put their Hearth in their Covenant hall and associate that to their main base, and the Covenant hall is more welcoming by far and by intention compared to Oribos. I think people would feel more at home that way, rather than the Covenant hall being some place they visit periodically. Your Legion Order Hall didn’t have that problem because you had a Dalaran hearthstone, so your legion order hall was possibly where you set your hearth.
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This meme needs to die. It doesn’t even make sense.
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It’s no more removed then Draenor was. And I’d say it’s even more connected to Azeroth then Draenor was. As Draenor was different timeline shenanigans.
Heavily disagree on that. Burning Crusade, I can agree with due to Illidan and it being our former Draenor. But AU Draenor… No. 
Honestly, I agree. I hope we go back to a changed Azeroth after Shadowlands. At least a few decades having passed would be my hope… 
Also it’d make sense for something as big as 10.0 should be IMHO.
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only gonna be worse when you go back home in 10.0, and realize no one cared or there are no remnants of your time in the afterlife, except for a lousy title and some funky looking mounts.
Mark my words, their attempt to tie it back to Azeroth, this will be another retread of WoD. A bad guy from this one, (Tyrande or dark horse Anduin), will portal hop at the end to become the bad guy to be killed in 10.1.
What else do all of these have in common? The story sucked.
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Funny, I was thinking the opposite
It is too azerothian to be the afterlife: mailboxes, brokers/ethereals, mining, critters, flight masters, etc
Lol. Okay, I see your point. I really enjoyed MIsts of Pandaria myself, but it was somewhat of a break from the norm.
I feel like a bit of a alien in shadowlands which honestly I don’t mind. I’m happy we get some cool new zones and not just mountains 18.0. However the zones not being connected is a bit annoying. There should just be a teleportation network to each zone. like what the engineers have.
Oribos is definitely not shattrath or dalaran.
Feels like a small lame hub with a bunch of rooms. Not a big fan of the music or singing in oribos, seems too much in your face, whereas shattrath was open, peaceful, and profession trainers had 1 big area.
It feels a bit claustrophobic
I agree with you but my concern is what land masses are left on Azeroth? Besides maybe the Dragon Isles. Unless they retcon new landmasses.
I ran into a similar issue playing Planescape and other planar Dungeons and Dragons campaigns (In DnD your soul goes to the outer planes when you die… so basically it’s this.)
The biggest issue is… things get wierd. Really wierd. Like REALLY wierd.
This disconnect from the standard fantasy genre is a major failing of planescape, and IMO the same for World of Warcraft.
In planescape there’s this circular city floating in the air in the middle of the afterlife ruled over by the Lady of Pain (the arbiter), with portals leading to the other planes of the afterlife where you go back and forth to on adventures to stop the evil machinations of some deadly cosmic force or another.
Google “Lady of Pain” and you’ll see quite a few similarities to the Arbiter, IMO.
SL is fine, imo. I wanna see more worlds. More afterlives. Azeroth is boring and played way the hell out. “Oh another new land mass! It’s not on the map, we’ve never seen before, and is totally unexplored, but it’s right over there off the coast!”
Meh…
Bro, I have been feeling the EXACT same way. I made this shaman and going through Azshara, riding the goblin rockets looking at the scenery I usually never pay attention to, I felt home. And I don’t want to leave Azeroth anymore. SL is beautiful, but the separation sucks. I was wondering how flying will work unless we pull all the zones together and literally “unite” the after life as a whole continent.
For me personally, I don’t think it’s about being far away from Azeroth so much as just plain crappy writing and game design in SL. I am perfectly capable of stepping into a new game world and being induced to care about the characters and story there. But in Shadowlands the writers leaned hard on lore characters who disappear for long stretches of game-play and often failed to give players reasons to care during those stretches. Also they depended far too much on cinematics (they are very good) to tell the story. Yay a cool little movie, but now I am just doing somewhat disconnected chores and biding my time.
Also I would be fine with big changes to Azeroth next expac, but what we really need is a big retcon/change at Blizzard because the folks in charge don’t have the right stuff anymore.
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I have to agree with you here. I like a lot of the new shadowlands characters but we are forced to spend time with the lore characters all the time.
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Yeah… shadowlands feels very much on rails, like it belongs in a theme park and not a game.
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I really really wish at the very least that they could add portals in between the zones somehow, so we don’t have to fly through Oribos, waaaay out of our path, just to get to the adjacent zone.
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Very true. All are opinions whether like or dislike.
What isn’t is the overall reaction to the Expansion…and its not good. That, coupled with that failure of a Blizzcon is suggesting an out of touch Dev team and their efforts are being phoned in now.
I cant comment on the maw aside from the intro to SL but I disliked that as well and was interested as much as watching grass grow. Hopefully, I will be wrong when I get to that content and like it.
Bro, I don’t feel the same. As a UDK, I feel at home in Maldraxxus.
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