What is the worst looking zone in WoW?

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And why is it Un’goro crater? :laughing:

I think it has to be the most dated looking zone in the game.

Or is there something worse? What do you think?

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Maldraxxus.

Looks like someone took a steaming piss all over the zone.

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Badlands the just said screw it ms paint bucket it all bright orange

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OG Desolace. (But I think that’s actually a good thing.) It’s a lifeless zone and looks miserable.

Worst level design (layout) is Stonetalon Mountains.

Worse overall everything zone?

  • Vash’jir.
  • Maldraxxus.
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Most of the zones in TWW are bottom tier. Honestly just devoid of any originality. The only thing that gets people’s attention is the giant floating crystal in the sky of Hallowfall, but if you turn your back to it and look at the rest of the zone, there is nothing inspiring going on there.

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For me it’s Borean Tundra, I call it “Boring Tundra”.

Outside of Coldarra area which feels like a whole separate thing, the zone really has nothing going for it. Just a bunch of dead land (probably intentional since it’s WOTLK) but still, it reeks of boring depression. Like when you’re driving and you just see a field of nothing but dead grass, some dirt hills, and maybe leftover furniture here and there.

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I instantly felt depressed when I went to Zaralek Caverns for the first time. Did what I had to do there and GTFO.

(I’m not a big fan of the TWW caves either, wish they wouldnt have gone underground in the expac)

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It’s hard to pick between all the Shadowlands zones. The worst is… all of them!

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Eh Azj’Kahet is pretty good. The overall aesthetic of hallowfall is good, including the cities and airships and such. Ringing depths and dorn are pretty boring yeah.

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Revendreth and Ardenweald are two of the best zones they’ve ever made, so no. The Maw is also aesthetically well done, it’s just the mechanics of the zone that were annoying.

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Yeah, I leveled another toon through Shadowlands this week and all of the zones range from good to amazing.

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I respect that people don’t like Shadowlands for a number of reasons…

But running around Un’goro it looks like a straight-up N64 game. :laughing:

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The trees look like Lego trees. :smile:

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There’s a lot of reasons to dislike shadowlands but the aesthetic isn’t really it. It has a lot of great aesthetics. The content droughts were the main problem.

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Durotar looks like a bunch of huts added to a spray painted desert landscape.

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Maldraxxus.
That zone looks like they saved it for last, ran out of time and then rushed through it so they could say, “well, at least it got done :person_shrugging:” It looks bad enough on its own, but then it looks especially bad when you compare it to Revendreth, Bastion and Ardenweald.

That being said, I REALLY wish the art team could go back over and redo all the older zones, and have them be on par with TWW in terms of

  • making them bigger
  • adding more vertical height/depth
  • more detail
  • graphical updates
  • major capital cities being on a similar scale and level of detail as Suramar
  • etc…
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It might be Antoran Wastes or Krokuun, but they are so dark you can’t see them.

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I would unironically live in maldraxxus. I love that zone…

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you take that back

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Actually I think Hallowfall is one of the best looking zones in the entirety of wow.

I agree with people saying desolate is pretty sad though not sure it’s my ultimate least favorite. I feel I’m forgetting what some zones are atm.

So I may update my opinion on this.

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