Seems very CONFINED and small. Very small… Odd… No bad shots being taken at the devs, but… Why are the zones getting smaller? ._.
Also I am VERY bored. I’ve never gotten bored this fast in an xpac before… Golly I remember all the stuff I could do in DF, MOP, NORTHREND…
I… I feel like theres nothing to do at all… ._. No vivacious quests, or some cool saving event. Everything is so bland…
Remember this expansion is 3 in 1 so your getting the 1st 2-3 zones of a regular expansion instead of 6 or more then they can charge you another $49 for the 2nd part and again the 3rd part so your paying triple what you did for past expansions that is how they are hiding the price increase. Creating the illusion of 3 expansions LOL People have fallen for it too!
Yep… I’ve read that… This xpac is going to dwindle very fast… It’s already losing my attention and my vast guilds attention…
We’re all maxxed leveled, did the dailies, the echoe events are just trash… Not impressed.
zones are still bigger than the last 5 expansions before DF
DF was just special cause dragonriding was new
we dont need huge zones
No we don’t, but we also don’t need bland zones. Sorry, but Isle of dorn is SUPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPPER bland.
yeah isle of dorn is bad i dont like it
but hallowfall though
i mean cmon. best zone since stormheim
Ill give you that. Hallowfall is cute.
yeah its tiny… and fast… a bit light even.
i hope its a timegate thing and some cool zone(s) will attach soon™
They’re getting larger. DF and TWW zones are the largest in game.
yeah but TWW skyriding speed is old world speed not DF speed
cuz they are smaller
DF sure. TWW? No. It’s not larger than Northrend, it’s not larger than the Outlands, it’s not larger than Azeroth or the other side, it’s not larger than WoD, it’s not any bigger than Kul tiras up top and below.
Time it. Do it. I timed it.
Until you time Flying around Isle of dorn. 4 minutes and 2 seconds. (Northrend 17 minutes and 15 seconds.)
Hallowfall? 2 minutes.
Ringing deeps 2 minutes 5 seconds.
Az 4 minuts.
Thats roughly 12 minutes. No. They’ve gotten smaller.
DF? 20 minutes+
I assume we will get at least 2 more zones. One will be a normal type of zone and the other will be a timeless isle like zone.
Although, I wouldn’t object if this was all we got either since I remember someone saying that they are planning on releasing the next few expansions in rapid succession.
Nope. Not until the 2nd part of the xpac releases for another 50$.
its a 3in1
Dragonflight added a minizone, a whole underground zone, a section of the Emerald Dream, and a realized night elf island.
Wait till we expand, should be pretty lorge.
Major patches almost always release new zones, TWW will grow over the next year. This is just the release.
OP, what did you expect? Did you expect this expansion to reinvent the wheel? We got new quests, dailies, renown, world quests, dungeons, professions etc. What else did you expect to grab and hold your attention?
And one of those zones you out as melee if you get too close.
TWW launched with 4 zones, not “2-3.” And all the new zones are roughly the same size as Dragonflight’s, especially when you account for all the effectively “dead” space in the Dragon Isles. 3/4 of Khaz Algar’s zones also utilize their vertical space a lot more than just about any other zones ever made.
And, yeah, we’re going to pay for each expansion in the trilogy. Just like when, for example, a trilogy of movies is announced, we still have to pay for tickets to see each of them. One could validly criticize the extra cost associated with shorter expansions over X years. If we assume the expansions are now going to be closer to 1.5 years in length instead of 2 years, we can do some basic math using recent expansion prices and end up at paying an extra $8.33 per year.
What we are being lead to believe we’re getting in return for that extra $8.33/year is a content structure that aligns with Dragonflight’s except with less content droughts either between major patches or expansions, which appears to be Blizzard’s goal by their own admission. This would mean, over the course of the saga, we actually end up with more of everything we’ve come to expect (plus whatever else they decide to surprise us with and add, such as new features, battlegrounds, modes, etc).
In fact, it’s even more than some might think because they’re only looking at it within the scope of the saga. If you look at things hypothetically and extend this beyond just the saga by adding a 13th expansion, the old release model and the new release model would line up for the first time in 4.5 years. At this point, we would have effectively gained an entire expansion’s worth of new content in the same amount of time. This is all assuming Blizzard can stay on track and deliver, which is a separate conversation.
Of course, we don’t actually know what their content rollout will actually look like. For all we know, we could get 2 regular seasons and 3rd Fated/Awakened season. If that ends up being the case, then there’s probably cause for concern. But if it’s 3 regular seasons then a new expansion, that’s perfectly acceptable in my view.
As for the content we have right now, am I mistaken in believing we actually have more of it now than we did in past launches? In addition to every zone having an event, vastly expanded sojourner achievements, and literally all the usual seasonal content being refreshed, we now also have delves, a new battleground, daily m0 lockouts, and solo-queue rated BGs.
Finally, art is subjective. I agree Hallowfall is gorgeous, but I also personally really enjoy zones like Isle of Dorn (and other similar biomes like Stormsong Valley and Mulgore) because of how peaceful they tend to be compared to the busyness and clutter of the more broad approach to modern zone design.
Are we playing the same game? The zones are humongous!
Try walking through them.
going from past experience theres gonna be a new land mass somewhere
i tried to go behind nerub-ar and got sent back
also whats up with the crystal in hallow