I have fond memories of playing vanilla back in the day. I especially liked Darn because it my favorite city in terms of aesthetics. Now, on my level 70 Human Rogue, I can’t access it anymore. But if I start a level 1 Night Elf, I still can. At what point does a Night Elf lose access to Darnassus? Was it removed because it wasn’t very populated? Will Night Elves get a new homeland? And why doesn’t the Alliance get to take over a Horde city? I have so many questions!
I hope one day we will get fire Nelves, and then they can live in fire Darnassus.
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They’ve all been answered.
You have a new city.
Why would the Alliance take over a Horde city? The Horde didnt take over Darnassus.
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You still can. Go and talk with the bronze dragon to turn back time before BFA. Right now in the storyline, Teldrassil has burnt down.
BFA.
More or less.
Bel’ameth.
Why would they want to…?
At this point in time the Horde has helped them re-establish themselves. Sure, vengeance do be a thing but then it’d be more likely that they’d burn down a city … and it is kinda difficult to burn down a city run by Sylvanas when she no longer runs any Horde cities.
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it’s not gone, there’s a little left in the ashtray.
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4th War, Battle For Azeroth.
Sylvannas Burned it.
Already Have. Bel’ameth.
The Burning of Darnassus was a plot that happened in BFA and was concluded in Shadowlands. The war is over, and the factions are at peace.
You can’t just walk into a city and “yoink” it from another faction, lol.
All these questions are answered if you play while paying attention to the quests and lore, not blindly rushing into the max-level.
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I could see how this would be confusing if you didn’t play through the end of Legion and BfA. There was a storyline where Sylvanas attacked and burned down Teldrassil, which included Darnassus. Since then, the city has been considered destroyed and our characters can’t access it according to the lore (however, you can access it by flipping the switch with an NPC, I think Zidormi, which will ‘take you back in time’. It is technically still there!).
In Dragonflight, the area in the Emerald Dream is supposed to be a new home for Night Elves. However, the characters there also mentioned that they plan on regrowing Teldrassil someday. No idea if this will ever happen in the game, but I appreciated that they did mention it in the cinematic.
Gameplay wise it still exists and you can still go there, you either have to take a mage portal to Darnassus or go to Darkshore and talk to the Bronze Dragon NPC to see Darkshore as it was during Cataclysm, which also restores Darnassus.
Lore wise it’s a toasted stump.
Then Blizzard would burn that down with Super-Fire™ because they are creativity bankrupt, love using elves as punching bags, and think fire is the only classical element.
Man I guess the Metzen speech worked if people are having to play catch up from 3 expansions ago.
GG Metzen
The technical reason for its removal likely is due to managing a database, file sizes, and things to keep track of in the game. So it probably helps the devs when there are far fewer sanctuaries to keep track of I suppose.
Lore wise its being deliberately ignored so they can use it as a base for something evil.
Either a patch zone or expansion start.
Not really, because technically Darnassus is still in the game. All you have to do is talk to the time travel NPC and it shows up.
The real reason is that people loved Darnassus as an idea but it wasn’t heavily used by the Playerbase because we have Stormwind, so destroying Darnassus would cause an emotional reaction from the Playerbase without inconveniencing gameplay.
And ultimately, emotional impact is what most fiction wants.
You may be correct as well, and that is a most logical assumption I would surmise.
In TWW you can also use the portals to get back to Dalaran (Legion) or even Dalaran (WotLK) despite that Dalaran was lore-wise destroyed in the TWW intro.
This time it will be a void tree. Blessed by void gods.
We can call it Darn-it-looks-Sus
Then the Alliance will have to burn it down because it will be home to the Forest Orcs.
Then Tyrande will get mind controlled by the Jaintor who needs their souls to help fuel his armies of mops and brooms to clean up all the messes we’ve left behind
Like seriously have you seen the mess yall leave in a raid. Empty soul stones. Food tables. Unfinished mage portals allowing invasive spiders into Orgrimmar. Broken goblin gliders.
Who’s been clearing all that? You guessed it
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Unfortunately, as compensation, one ends up with a neutral village on the edge of the Dragon Isles, which has to be shared with Gilneas and Telogrus with the Horde. Because, of course, it makes absolute sense after Teldrassil, Ashenvale, Darkshore, Stonetalon Mountains, Arathi, Brennadam, Gilneas, the Gathering, etc. Just make several Alliance locations neutral while everything remains exclusive for the Horde, even though the Alliance has already had to save the Horde twice from itself, helped to save Suramar, and the Blood Elves can still use their Sunwell thanks to Velen.
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I’m still pissed about darnassus.
It was a nice, quiet, city. I used to like to sit by the lake and just hang out. is till keep a low level nelf so I can keep doing it.
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The Alliance should have tried not being raging racists. They might have had more support in defending Darnassus from Mary Sylvanas.
Sorry? What does racism have to do with this whole thing? If you want to be a moral crusader, maybe you shouldn’t be playing a game that literally uses racial segregation as the foundation for both factions. Good grief… what’s wrong with you?
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Lol, here’s a guy who thinks the Alliance are the good guys.