Oh lets face it, Blizzard has a tendency to be overly poetic. Why not end BFA exactly where it started. Both factions having to rush to Tedrassil to see both the utter destruction(and dead bodies) and the return of the black empire. Hell, the ruins of Tedrassil would be large enough for a new questing zone for the end of the expansion.
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Undercity.
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The reason why I dont think it would be undercity anymore is simply because it just would seem more poetic in nature. Plus if we players are forces to see charged night elven bodies everywhere and Old God minions trying to desecrated said bodies it would probably evoke a large amount of horror.
Plus the surounding area of Lordearon doesnt seem like a good place for a new zone(why, if we fly too close to Undercity we suddenly lose our ability to fly?)
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Sylvanas is the enemy of the Horde and the Alliance.
Undercity.
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Assuming Sylvanas does end up the final raid boss of this expansion(you know me Treng, I hate her just as much if not more than you) which only is 50-50 chance at this point, why not have raid be located at the site of her greatest crime to all of Azeroth? Add to that, due to the destruction of Tedrassil, the devs have carte blanche to redesign the zone from scratch.
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Sylvannas is in Org now, not UC. It makes sense that she would go to Teldrassil to be a raid boss, rather than back to her ruins.
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Why would she find purchase in Teldrassil when Malfurion and Tyrande are spoiling to kill her?
Forsaken have gas masks to survive the blight.
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Because N’zoth or his forces are in Teldrassil’s ruins?
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To go kill them.
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UC was caved in with bombs.
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You can currently go down there right now. The only caved in section is the flight path tunnel.
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You’re not supposed to be able to get that far. The surface seems to exist but there’s not all that much there.
It reeks of them wanting to put something else there but needing a placeholder covered in green fog in the meantime.
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Though in another post ( Alliance, would you forgive the Horde? - #20 by Akston-bloodhoof ) they’re saying that they won’t redo that storyline, so.
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Check out Cannibal’s thread on the compiled lies Blizzard has told over the years.
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I think the intent is that its caved in but blizz is too lazy to actually do so.
We’ve already done UC twice. Time for another city. Ruins of Teldrassil sounds fun.
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I’m inclined to agree.
It seems like Teldrassil has been reduced to a background asset in the Darkshore Warfront. The Warfront in the Eastern Kingdoms, however, is nowhere near Undercity and is set instead in Arathi.
Since the Undercity is shrouded in Blight it’s likely that neither the Horde nor the Alliance are keeping too close of a watch on it right now. It would be easy for Naga, or some other Old God forces to slip in unnoticed from the sea or… Well burrow up from under the ground.
We know that there is something buried beneath Tirisfel, and we’ve caught a glimpse of the Old God and Void forces that lurk there in a few of the Artifact intro quests. Likewise, where else but Undercity might Sylvanas slip off to with an Old God blade to secretly conduct a ritual to wipe out the Alliance?
And Zerde, your point about Blizzard being overly poetic does stand. Where was the opening cinematic for this expansion set? Undercity. Where was the intro questline for both factions? Undercity. What pyrrhic victory have many members of the Alliance been griping about all expansion? The one at Undercity.
We weren’t at a place where the Horde and Alliance would unite to invade the Undercity at the start of the expansion, but we may well be by its end. What better fist pump moment for the Alliance than killing Sylvanas once and for all and officially cleansing the ruins of Lordaeron of all taint?
Of course, since this is a MoP rehash I imagine there will be a mythic only fight or two set in Stormwind, but Undercity does make for a more logical starting point than the World Stump.
A raid set in the burned out husk of Teldrassil sounds like a good idea. With connections to both Sylvanas (because she burned it) and the Old Gods (because they tried to corrupt it), there’s lot of ways it could be played.
If they want to go with a more optimistic ending, then they could end with the revelation that Teldrassil has started to regrow, now completely free of Old God taint.
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While your own points stands, Undercity was not the start of the war either. And the fact Tedrassil can be in its own “zone bubble” as oppose to Capital City for me makes a more logical choice.
As Falrinn mentioned, retaking Tedrassil and cleansing it seems just as much a fist pump moment for the Alliance as anything else.