The whole portal room needs a revamp and being located somewhere else. Silvermoon at best than we can make that city the new capital for the entire Horde too.
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Mr. Snrub, is that you?
Yeah I really wish they had made the portal room either in the Cleft of Shadows using one of the Shadowmoon assets with the moon crystals we see in Shadowmoon Valley, since Orcish magic users were primarily Shadowmoon Clan orcs in the Cleft of Shadows and thatâs where our portals were in the first place, and it makes more sense to have all the portals together in a giant circle, or using Belf aesthetics since Belves are the main horde magic users.
Like imagine they revamped the Cleft of Shadows like they did the Mage Tower Portal Room with these assets, and all the portals in a circle around the giant moon crystal.
(thatâs my Alliance Kultiran Druid alt)
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Hopefully they donât that so way they can finally update silvermoon & exodar; and make those 2 the last major stronghold on those continents for their factions.
They can just extend the exodar to have an outside area as a night elf city while the left part of silvermoon can be rebuilt as the forsaken section of the city.
this would be so much better for the game than all the portal rooms
That was one reason many people felt that Undercity wasnât really a âtradeâ for Teldrassil, because objectively speaking, one was covered with Blight but otherwise almost entirely intact other than the throne room, while the other is⊠well, you canât even get to it in current time, itâs just a burnt out image in the distance. And Iâve been saying for over a year now that Blizzard 100% has a Blight cure Macguffin waiting to pop up at some point.
It was sort of like one group burning an entire neighbourhood down, and then the other group showing up to beat them up, so in response said first group closed down the biggest house in their own neighbourhood down for fumigation, and we were told the two were the same.
Iâm not opposed to Undercity coming back, of course, that was an inevitability when they left the infrastructure entirely intact. Itâs one of the more unique locations in Warcraft and Iâd prefer Blizzard try and rekindle their older themes as opposed to diving headlong into new ones over and over.
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Teldrassil is also intact.
The scenario just had Red Bad on the ground, and afterwards removed flightpaths.
Night Elves are also getting a âMcGuffinâ via Ysera now being basically both the Dragon Aspect of the Dream and Ardenweald, ie Life and Rebirth. Youâre getting Teldrassil back same time we get Undercity back via our respective âzoneâ-parallels.
Reminder Winter Queen and Primus are âdear friendsâ. Thereâs going to be a kumbaya lesson later.
We have a very different idea of intact infrastructure, I think⊠and regrowing an entire world tree is a bit different than vacuuming up clouds of Blight. I do hope youâre correct and both will be returning.
I also hope that itâs not just glossed over if/when both are restored.
Staghelm did it in a year without dragon blessings.
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Youâre right as per lore growing a world tree is easier than cleaning up blight 
Unless Malfurion & Friends is weaker than Staghelm, itâs actually kinda dumb yall ainât just grow another damn tree.
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Undercity un-blighted might be saved for the Forsakenâs heritage armor along with who will be their new leader.
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Actually no. growing a world tree is done in way less than 4 years and it is also known since WC3 that world trees are able to regrow even after exploding (Nordrasil) which took also around less than 4 years to regrow completely.
With the blight stuff seems to be a bit more complicated as there is yet no real ingame implication that it is anywhere easy. It took years to be able to clean up at least a bit of the stuff in the plaguelands.
Also it is pretty much a lot easier to plant a forest than to remove radioactive contamination from a certain area.
my statement stands 
It is certainly a possibility yes.
I guess we will get the new Capital within the Heritage questline for NEs and Forsaken.
Question is when.
I would guess either 9.3 or prepatch of 10.0 as it would probably suite well with the outcoming of shadowlands.
What I however am certain is, both races will be the last ones to recieve their armor since we allready got a whole set of armor and weapons from the warfront.
This may seem like a weird tangent, but absolutely love the art design of the Portal Room.
I wish the placement was less haphazard, but generally it feels like a natural progression of the traditional Orcish design. The deep warm lighting, dark wood floors, and actually pretty decent use of the bone decor just makes the place feel really homey and comfortable. Its hard to explain beyond it feels very âOrcâ, but also kind of like a quiet Cabin and Fireplace feel.
TBH, its the first take on Warcraft Orcish Aesthetics I would love to see the entirety of Orgrimmar designed around. Its Orc, but with just the right edges sanded down to a fine polish.
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You mean actual open burning furnace in the floor?
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I mean, yeah. But its still got a really nice ambiance to it. Its got a good feel, where it still very culturally the Orcs of Durotar, but you can tell their culture is starting to come into its own. With the aid of its allies. And yes, big giant furnaces are an orc thing ⊠they like their sweat chambers.
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Itâs a progression of Warsong/Nagrand Clan orcish design, when the magic users of the Orc Clans were primarily Shadowmoon Clan.
Having a random Orc aesthetic portal room is much less cool than a Clef of Shadow Shadowmoon Clan portal room and less âequivalentâ to the cool factor of Human Mage Tower
We can go with the Shadowmoon portal room and just use the old portal room as it was always meant to be used - as a giant stovetop.
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Hereâs the thing though, the Orcs that designed Orgrimmar had lost alot of their cultural history; and it was built by Goblin Engineers. In fact Iâm pretty sure the construction of the Org portal room was overseen by the Nightborne.
Even beyond that, there isnât really any representation of the Shadowmoon Clan within the current Horde. âMaybeâ some AU representation within the Magâhar, but that Clan is largely extinct for all respects and purposes within the MU. Hell, if you look at their named character roster, not only are they all dead ⊠but they have no prior affiliations with âThe Hordeâ. So many of their few survivors became either Fel Orcs or joined the Illidari (or both) by BC.
Nah Cleft of Shadow was always a part of Orgrimmar
Narrative choice of Blizzard but Cleft of Shadow has literally always been there though
Minority, but not extinct. Canonically thatâs why Orc Warlocks exist after all.