I know a lot of people don’t really care about old zones and most of them hate vashj’ir but as somebody who really likes this zone it pains me to see the problems or the “degredation” that its going through.
Each time I’ve gone through this zone there have been more and more things wrong with it from quests not working, to massive visual bugs, to the last quest being changed about three different times.
So wtih that said, here is a list of all of the things that have pretty much degraded this zone as a questing experience.
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Literally right off the bat, the quest scenario where you ride the mercenary ship into vashj’ir has been comepletely removed. No cool kraken things and no world building in the quest. You just talk to a random npcs on the SW docks and you get ported to the sunken ship.
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Captain taylor was invisible until you completely the quest where you save the soldiers with the quest pay it forward
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I think the quest to get the chests in the starting zone were moved from a chest you clicked outside of the boat to just admiral taylor.
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Items that aren’t your specialization won’t appear in quests they were rewards for, removing possible gold you can earn. (this may be in general not just vashj’ir)
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The quest Ain’t Too proud to Beg was a little buggy, had to tlak to Samir twice to get it completed.
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Quest markers are bugged on map. They’re appearing at future positions of npcs instead of where they currently are. (ex: Oh the Insanity!)
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This one is strange. Gnaws has been changed from being a really big shark to a very small average sized shark.
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The sound effects for the shark eating the naga in the quest Wake of Destruction are buggy. Out of the 12 naga I killed, only two of them played the chomp sound.
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In the quest The Warden’s Time, Warden Azjakir is phased into the floor, elevation is not correct.
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During the quest Backed Into a Corner, The npc that spawns when you pvp around the quest npcs spawn and oneshots Fathom-Lord Zin’jatar and most of the naga making the quest feel like its broken
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Quests that are supposed to only be available when you get to that point int he quest chain are available regardless of where you are during the quest chain because of your level. You should have to go through the whole zone and learn the full story to get to these. (Ex: Defending the Rift (end quest) and Reoccupation (battlemaiden quest).
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This is one i’m unsure of but I think around the Ruins of Thelserai Temple, there was a grouper looking fish which gave one of the many single quest starting items around vashj’ir and the grouper is nowhere to be found.
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At the Ruins of Thelserai Temple, all of the naga npcs are phased halfway through the ground.
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The naga at Ruins of vashj’ir are all phased halfway through the ground also.
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At the ruins of vashj’ir the quest markers on the map are all over the place. They’re all at random and future or past npc spots.
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Npcs are super bugged to and most of them don’t match their quest objective area.
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When the battlemaiden gets the Spinning Trident ability, it was changed from a longer channel to two second small aoe, (actually nerfing npcs lol)
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The Battlemaiden’s animations for idle attack don’t work.
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This one covers a large area. The caves that you enter into in the last area have a very big area outside of the cave that considers you as not swimming and therefore will dismount you from your underwater mount. The area around the horde and alliance caves is huge and even if you get on a regular mount, it still considers you as swimming where as if you get on a water mount it says you need to be in water.
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The mobs for the quest Bio-Fuel whether it was through scaling or some other means do a very high amount of damage than what they’re supposed to. The skill sea slam hits you for anywhere from 3.5k to 5k health which can pretty much two shot you at your level.
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During the quest Put it on, (The one where you get a vision after putting one of the head guys on) Either its bugged or they removed the text from your character and they also removed the beam effect.
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In the quest …It Will Come. Ick’thys the Unfathomable has become really small also. He used to be bigger and it looks like he was shrunk like gnaws.
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And here we come to the big finale. A really cool quest sequence at the end of vashj’ir. The quest Defending the rift, or so it used to be. This quest originally had you start in the cave and board back up on whatever water sub you had which took you around the abyssal breach while there was a debuff where it was talking about how you were tensing before the battle to come. Really cool situation and the scope of the quest was awsome. Then you were ambushed by Lady Naz’jar and here naga and had to crash near the outer rim of the breach. You fought your way through the naga you have been following through the whole quest chain in vashj’ir and it ended whith a battle against the tidelord where erunak gets taken into the throne of the tides and you have to go in and get him back.
The first thing that happened was the quest became bugged and you couldn’t finish it in general, it wouldn’t start. Then it was slightly fixes and bugged again when you crashed and couldn’t get up from the ship. The next variation completely took out the sub ride and just placed you at the edge of the breach. and now guess what. This huge big finale was just replaced with kill 15 naga. No scenario no cool quest, just ride out of the cave and kill 15 naga. This got even worse for a time where you were phased out of the quest chain and were just killing random naga around the breach while the emotion elementals at 90 for firelands were visible. Its set back to the battle but all you’re doing is killing naga. The elementals do spawn immediately after completing the quest though so it takes you out of the immersion instantly. You run in the throne and its the same, the instance hasn’t really changed or bugged out at all.
And thats about it. One of the most neglected zones in the game, All of the cool scenarios are gone, bugs are everywhere, and random changes are made which makes the questing worse. I’d been meaning to make this list for a while but I always just continued leveling after I finished vashj’ir and not got to it. So this is my list of going through the zone literally just now and documenting the problems with it.
Does anyone care? I don’t know. I just really like this zone and it seems to get worse with each character I run through it.
), and it’s so scenic. I love it.