they tried to re-create Dalaran, in a cool edgy way.
it’s clearly a Dalaran as seen by the intern.
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Where would the bosses go, though? Surely the side rooms aren’t big enough for them. The one under the inn maybe.
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Not really. You still have to take a flightpath through Oribos to get to a different zone. You can’t just pop over on your mount. I think I played SL for 3 months and spent half the time logged on flightpaths. By far, my least favorite xpac.
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Someone at Blizzard that worked on Shadowlands just loves the bland and boring airport terminal vibe
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Despite it being an airport, you can’t fly here. Ephmereal Airlines is getting a 1 star from me.
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From what I remember hearing, Tazavesh was supposed to be our main city - but it was scrapped - it has the auctioneers and bank, and functional mailboxes.
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That’s crazy. Valdrakken has everything one would need, and it’s not disconnected from everything. It’s also one of the highest points, so you can fly your dragon to any part of the continent.
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Sure, it’s convenient, but it’s a complete nonentity. At no point sitting in Valdrakken have I thought “you know, this place is actually pretty cool”. It ought to be - it should be the city of dragons! - but that hasn’t been my experience with it at all.
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Do you know that movie with tom hanks, where he’s stuck living in an airport because there’s issues with his passport and refugee status or something like that?
That.
That’s Oribos.
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I believe that movie is called The Terminal.
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A wonderful coincidence considering the theme of SL.
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capital*
Sorry, little pet peeve of mine xD
capitol = legislative building
capital = city
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Is no one going to comment on the fact that there is mail service in Oribos? You can send a letter to the literal realm of the dead. Our mail carriers are truly the most extraordinary humanoids in Azeroth.
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dragons dont live in cities, is the problem.
they live in caves in cliffs.
the attempt to make a familiar landscape in a foreign ambient is why it fails.
a dragon city won’t have stairs and doors. it will have a lot more vertical openings and use elevation freely. a creature that can fly, won’t build solid roof buildings ever. they’ll build the door in the ceiling.
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I remember porting to zuldazar instead of using the bank in oribos because getting to the zuldazar bank was way faster. Lmao.
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As a gnome even. You are so brave.
That deserves a…
/boop
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I didn’t like it at all but I did figure it out eventually and I think understood where they were coming from in making it that way.
In SLs most are dead and they’re spirits so they don’t need bodies, food, hubs, etc… so Oribos is what the souls in SLs created for mortals to feel more at home, if that makes sense.
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Where does Oribos stand as a hub city? You know that random hill the Legion Portal in Orgrimmar and Stormwind dumps you on? Yeah, that random hill in the boondocks rates higher than Oribos as a desired designation.
While I admit to glossing over SL’s flaws abit when it first launched mainly because it wasn’t BFA, Oribos sucked from the beginning. Boralus and Dazar’alor had far more personality and actually felt like Azeroth. Hell, if you rundown Oribos’s flaw, you’ll probably end up with quite a few that were heavily linked to why Shadowlands sucke as a whole.
Here’s a few I can think:
It’s boring as hell.
Design is pretty much a circle and it’s annoying to navigate due to random doors suddenly deciding to dismount you.
Going through Oribos to another zone basically requires you to take a flight path because for some godawful reason, even the planes of death were social distancing!
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I would much rather have a cave in a cliff for our expac city.
Actually I was just thinking today how much cooler it would be if Valdrakken’s main spire was taller and the other parts of it were on shelves coming out of the sides, so you could just glide off one and down to another. (And there could be stairs of course, for the boring folk.)
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I didnt mind Oribos from a practical standpoint. Circular. Could easily start to remember where everything was based on a clock.
From an aesthetic stand point? Tired of circular cities.
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