yeah please… give me some plains…
Also swamps but done in a good way …
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In no particular order, favorites might be
- Ardenweild
- Revendreth
- Zangarmarsh
- Post Cata Tanaris
- Post Cata Feralas
- Vash’jir
- Deepholm
- Frostfire Ridge
- Kun’Lai Summit (the mountains)
- Suramar (the city)
I guess it’s looking overwhelmingly like cataclysm for me, even if the armor sets weren’t as cool as legion.
Armor/ weapons. Legion. Still love all those mogs snd weapons. BFA has good zandalar raid sets I have yet to collect for mythics.
Mounts wise. Shadowlands. Love the moths, death elelementals, vulpines, kyrian mounts, covenant mounts and sets.
Zone design… So far I like BFA and shadowlands. Bastion is like one of my favorite zones visually. Ardenweald looks nice. Revendreth has nice architecture. Surumar is a close second in BFA. I also loved Zandalar zones and Nazjatar was unique.
Race wise, I like the shadowlands races. Kyrian and Venthyr have nice charscter designs, outfits. Vorkals and Fauns looked cool too.
The BFA allied races were also really cool. Legion had fun race design, nightborne, feltotem, eredar/demons, Naga had nice designs.
From the older expansions, draenor had pretty cool zone designs. Leveling felt good, immersion was good. Endgame struggled.
I also liked zones like Borean tundra, dragonblight, stormpeaks, zuldrak in wotlk. The argent tournament had nice racial assets/mounts, racial armor.
Mists probably had the best art in my opinion, WoD would be my next pick.
Every zone in mists was filled with Charm, beautiful imagery, fantastic music, and in general are pretty memorable.
I am a weeb though so asian aesthetics get me really excited.
Id actually argue that these are 2 of the worst jobs the art team has done.
Legion was just green and demons. Anything pretty was immediately corruped into more green and demons. Just kinda boring.
And wotlk? They had 1 good zone, the rest were just awful. Snow and vikings.
But art is subjective, people can probably pick apart my favorites too.
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My top three are -
MoP
Legion
WoD
Pandaland for sure
Yeah, Frostfire Ridge is for sure an amazing visual zone.
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I don’t understand why we can’t have an AI upscale with hand touch up on old textures. I’m not asking for new designs, just less aliasing on my old mounts. I finally stopped using the Argent Hippogryph after years because the feathers were such an eyesore
hard call. The art / modeling folk always do a 5 star job.
I guess my favorite, not really the best, is Pandaria.
Lots of love for the MoP art here, which is refreshing.
To the nay-sayers, consider: many, many of us were not on board with the overtly asian Kung Fu Panda theme. Nonetheless, some of us can set that aside and look at the art. Just the art.
Think of John Updike’s first rule of writing: “1. Try to understand what the author wished to do, and do not blame him for not achieving what he did not attempt.” Same goes for art in contexts like this. If you look at the totality of what they were going for, the detail, the cohesiveness, they nailed it. Whether it necessarily meshed well with the rest of Azeroth may not have been something they were trying to do.