Revendreth has some amazing music and atmosphere though. It had been at the bottom of my list of what I thought I’d like before playing Shadowlands, but I absolutely fell in love with it. The Sinfall/Castle Nathria music constantly gets stuck in my head, in a good way.
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What rock have you been living under?
The areas (art) is still gorgeous.
The music hasn’t been the same since Brower left. He truly was a musical genius and his team was amazing.
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OP this is exactly why WOTLK was my top xpac. The feel of the zones were amazing.
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Storm Peaks actually assist players navigating within that zone. Can’t say the same for High Mountain.
Also Blade’s Edge is just a terraced design like a maze. If you fly over it is straight forward. Try flying over the mountains in Zuldazar and you quickly see the difference.
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I guess we have to agree to disagree, not flying balde’s edge and storm peaks are the worst imo.
flying storm peaks and high mountain are the worst, but that’s not the point at all because those are subjective the point is that there were plenty of maps like what you describe in past xpacs
But realistically, how can Blizzard make what, 30 maps like in Azeroth, for every expansion? I kind of feel like that is what you are getting at here. WoW would need a 250gb hard drive just for the download lol. Azeroth is the mainland, every expansion after was/is a threat to Azeroth that we need to handle before we lose Azeroth to that said threat.
Yes, old content was pretty, but so is new content. I feel like BfA and SL surpassed old content attractiveness by far (and I was not a fan of BfA really, definitely the least played despite being subbed through the expansion for collections that were time gated). On top of that, the theme of the expansion for SL is this souless, corrupt dark world in between life and death. The expansion that failed was Cataclysm because they gave us a rendition of 5 maps in Azeroth that weren’t much more appealing than their previous layouts, besides Mount Hyjal.
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It cracks me up to see the meme actually come to life. I guess it wouldn’t be a meme in the first place if there weren’t folk who unironically obsess over Nordic aesthetics.
Or maybe flying is actually just bad?
It would be nice to see blizzard have 2 variants of zones designed. One before you cleared a dungeon/raid and one for after. In all of this things you’ve done as a champion of azeroth would change how the world appears.
This is a sentiment that a lot of players feel and it’s not necessarily Blizzards fault, but limitations of the game design. We’re getting there with the time keepers showing us how zones looked in the past and it being a personal choice to view specific places as they were at a point in time, but we’re a long way from active world changing events where if some enemy force was setting an area on fire that after we took care of their leader that the landscape turned into a recovering area where you find a few straggler camps of the enemies to show their presence has diminished, but not disappeared.
Ya the flavor sucks but the expects actually fun to play so I guess we take what we get
No expansion ever topped wotlk. Shadowlands isn’t the only one that didn’t.
But I wish we could get more zones per expansion again at launch.
Video gives me the chills its so good. They need to get back to these basics
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It would probably help if I understood a word you were saying. It must be a boomer thing and you are perhaps communicating in a weird generational tongue.
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Sorry but that is your opinion. I like Grizzly Hills and the music but the other zones imo were meh. I know I am not the only one but seems like people would rush through BC/Wrath content asap because of how boring it was. I have seen people post this as well. I thought BfA zones were all way better than any Wrath zones. Howling Fjord is okay but not even close to my tops of fav zones. Also Wrath had one of the worst zones made imo in Zul’Drak.
For me, nothing beats OG Ashenvale. The music, the look, everything about it. WotLK had a few close ones for me, but it never really hit that exact spot Ashenvale did, ya know? And I am talking pre-Cata Ashenvale here
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You can also turn your music up in SL while looking FP at a tree. These zones for Revendreth, Maldraxxus, and Maw are not designed to be like Howling Fjord, they are more like Icecrown.
You can peacefully stroll through plenty of SL zones, Bastion for the most part is peaceful save for some cats and Mawsworn attack points.
But I do wish there were a few more areas where nothing is really going on. Like a few more empty buildings or more than 4 neutral mob areas in Maldraxxus.
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I wholeheartedly agree the new zones just are not the same being designed for the world quests… it took away from our ability to explore and soak it in like we used to be able too. The zones look so beautiful however, they are amazing. The music is great but it isn’t AS good in shadowlands. Wrath of the Lich king expansion still holds my favorite music pieces, warlords of Draenor actually second to it!
Tiragarde sound has some spots, like the hunter lodge you get these shots with the icy covered mountains in the distance and it literally just stops me in my tracks. It was the same in Nazmir when I saw the blood moon over Bwonsamdi’s temple. Incredible 
Yet not within those rare moments I wouldn’t notice much beyond shaking off the trail of mobs behind me.
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To me Terokkar Forest was among the most atmospheric (and underrated) zones in WoW.
The ambient music is still amazing.
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I’m a Wrath baby so I am definitely feel nostalgic for those old days. Even though I do think the Shadowlands look good conceptually, I really think where Blizz failed is the lack of content and the need to rely on timegating to ensure players don’t run out of things to do. I never ran out of stuff to do during Wrath. I miss those days before scaling too. Back when there was a feeling of progression.
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