Where do the orcs of orgrimmar live?

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because as i walk around the city and actually look at it, there are only a handful of two story dwellings in the drag and thats about it. maybe a few tauren huts and whatever those troll bridges that just seem to lead into bare rock are in the valley of spirits, but there doesnt actually seem to be anywhere for the orcs and various other races to live in orgrimmar, everything is just a point of interest big round room with a vendor in it

you go to stormwind or ironforge and the entire cities stem to stern are filled with 2nd story appartments, inns and taverns with rooms for guests, there seems to be ample housing, but orgrimmar, and i think probably thunder bluff and undercity too, just kind of feel like a ring of vendor huts and not actual cities. silvermoon does a better job, you can see all sorts of un-openable doors and second or third story windows that you can imagine to be some elfs house. newer cities like boralus and zuldazar actually have residential districts.

i dont know, maybe its just me and this is a non issue. just feels like the main horde capitol into which everyone is huddled due to poorly dispersed portal and vendor access (like transmog) is little more than a sandlot everyone stands around in with loops of vendors but no actual citizens.

maybe all the orcs just commute

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They’re just chilling in the Barrens somewhere. Huts and sand.

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Most of the cities are “representative” of a larger area.

The population is in the thousands there.

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/wowpedia/images/8/80/Orgrimmar_construction.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20181001143126

Look at the size of it in this image, lol.

Basically everything in WoW is a smaller representation of what it really is in the lore.

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Orcs are a hardy race, born for conquest and such.
When they’re not smashing or bashing, they’re eating rocks.
Got no time for sleep.

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Yeah? Then explain all the sleeping peons I’ve kicked and thrown stuff at over the years.

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If I laid back in the Durotar sun and closed my eyes, I’d likely fall asleep too lol

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They live in the field and sleep standing up under the stars like the mighty buffalo.

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Peons sleep under trees.

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Not til they finish workin, otherwise they gonna get a taste of the ol trusty

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We just stand anywhere and sleep. We know how to rough it.

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Many go on a quest to find Mankirk’s wife never to be seen again.

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What we see in game is just a representation of what the cities feel like. They are not meant to be realistic. Even the bigger cities like Boralus or Dazar’alor or the upcoming Undermine are really small and barely have room for actual houses.

Orgrimmar is supposed to been built over a vast network of canyons, caverns and valleys. The orcs and other residents live in that complex, but we don’t see all of it in-game.

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Straight to the front lines. At least what I understand about the RTS. :world_map::robot:

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i mean i get it, i do. westfall is supposed to be the breadbasket for the entire alliance and there are like 4 farms and the whole zone is only a few football fields wide.

but in a lot of cities it looks like there is at least an attempt to make them look lived in, and i just dont see that in orgrimmar, thunder bluff, or undercity.

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You would be surprised how many orcs you can stack on top of one another in a hut.

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Of the vanilla cities, Stormwind is the only one that looks like it could be habitable/sustainable. But even then, it’s absolutely nothing compared to what a city that size would actually look like: https://i.imgur.com/vQ2oDkO.png

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isnt there an inn in orgimmar?

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There’s a nightly cuddle puddle in the big house.

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I think Ironforge also has a lot of ‘housing’ or rather buildings that don’t serve a purpose for the player.

I would be really easy to do housing there lol, just put an instance portal on one of the doors and let players rent apartments in Ironforge.

They won’t be large apartments, no, but at least they’re close to transit. :stuck_out_tongue:

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You might be right. IF does also benefit from being able to imagine that there’s more stuff built into the mountain that we just can’t see.

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