WoWs Cities List

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Rank your favorite cities from least to greatest base on the music, atheistic, zone, history, and such. Whatever your preferences are and what you like about it. Dont explain why it is where they’re at on the list.

16 - Oribos -

Home to probably the worse expansion ever created, Oribos is also showing how blizzard took a step back from cities. The only city to not have any Auction Houses at all maybe it’s due to lore reasons but then again, there’s banks so it doesn’t make any sense.

15 - Ashran -

Home to the second worse expansion imo. Or maybe the worse we’ll see after 9.2. But this one is slightly better because it has an AH, and it has Ashran which I really liked that battleground at the time it was out. The city is too small and its an island on its own. And we didn’t really need it at the time because of the Garrisons.

14 - Dazar’alor -

No doubt Dazar’alor is very beautiful and I truly do love the jungle/Aztec theme of the city. If this was a beauty list, Dazar’alor would be at the top. But its too big of a city and most of it doesn’t really matter. Its just one part and that’s compared to what we got in other cities.

13 -Boralus -

I really loved the pirate themed and it was cool seeing as this city is full of gangs and such. The music is truly amazing and one of the best out of the cities. But the same as Dazar’alor, it’s too big with one part being important and you get lost easily trying to get out of the city. But i do like the theme better than the jungle theme in Dazar’alor.

12 - Shrine of the Seven Stars/Two Moons

No doubt this city is home to one of the top three or top five expansions in WoW. The city is beautiful and the music is great. But its very small compared to other cities.

11 - Booty Bay

Booty Bay is a really cool city home to STV, Vietnam of WarCraft. It has a AH which comes in handy to those in STV not wanting to go back to their major city and waste time back in Classic. But it was just important for those leveling, once maxed, its replaced by Org or SW.

10 - Stormwind

It’s human themed which is pretty boring to me. Its very important and will forever bring back the memories I’ve made in this city. The music is great and home to a great dungeon which I absolutely loved.

9- Orgrimmar

Its Orc theme which is a one up to the Human theme. Bunch of spikes, drums, and grunts. However, very important just like SW, and the music isn’t that bad.

8 - Undercity

I’m not big on the Undead theme here but the city is creepy which makes it cool. The music also makes it better since it’s creepy as well. However, its pretty easy to get lost. I suck at reading maps don’t judge me. But i do like the one area where there’s human body parts being inserted into an Abomination!

7 - Shattrath

Pretty good looking city but the music is very relaxing. You could get lost easily but I remember back in the day, everybody in my group wanted to go to Shattrath even if we were too low of a level. Always bought a portal from a mage there and made it my hearth.

6 - Silvermoon city

Despite me not like the Blood Elves. Silvermoon city is a great city. It looks great, the music, best for the RPers. Its kind of relaxing a bit but it looks like an outside mall in our world to me.

5 - Exodar

The city is very beautiful, in a very beautiful zone. The music is soothing and relaxing, which now I see why Draenei were a popular race. Its a beautiful start for a race and would love to visit it often.

4 - Ironforge

Ironforge is the coolest city to date. I have seen nothing like it yet which its giant forge which makes it the best spot to work on blacksmithing. Its very easy to get around it, and also, its home to the Deeprun Tram. Don’t forget, it’s in the zone which has one of the best music imo, Dun Morogh.

3 - Dalaran

Dalaran is a great city. It may not be the most beautiful but the music is great and relaxing. Its also home to arguably, the best expansion in WoW. Also, it’s a floating city. Cant get any better than that. (Yes, I know Oribos is floating, but that makes sense. Dalaran floating doesnt really make sense unless it involves magic.)

2 - Darnassus

Darnassus is imo, the greatest looking city in WoW. Easy to get through, and very relaxing. Nature theme is my favorite theme and being on tree is another reason why it’s so high up on the list for me. But now its just burnt down…

1 - Thunderbluff

Thunderbluff is no surprise here. Being very cozy of a city with amazing music, fishing in a city has never been better. Its relaxing and a great spot for vacation. If we lived on Azeroth, Thunderbluff would’ve been my home for sure!

Ok this was a pretty long list and didn’t mean for all of this lol. But let me know which is your favorite and explain if you want to! Happy Sunday!

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Gadgetzan wins!

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Nice nostalgic run down - but too many “buts.” Lol

Boralus, Silvermoon, and Stormwind will remain my favorites.

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I’m going to be lazy and only do the top two. I can’t rank the rest anyways because I more or less like every city.

Favorite - Ironforge. I love that place. Dwarves know how to build things. The aesthetic is cool, it feels spacious and yet still cozy and comfortable. Music is nice. It’s often been my default city.

Least favorite - Boralus. It’s definitely a beautifully made city, no question there. But for our headquarters we were kind of shoved into a small corner of it. There wasn’t really much else in the rest. And I’m not super big on the shackety watery sea-life style there. It always looks like the place just got flooded by a tidal wave. I’m a land creature! And the music was not my favorite thing either.

I do still think it’s a good city, but it’s not my preferred kind of city. Oribos is an airport, I’m not counting that. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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Best: Dalaran
Worst: Oribos (seriously, screw this hub and this expansion)

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I’m only including neutral and Alliance cities, as my experience on Horde is too limited (and biased) to fairly rank their cities. I also left off Shattrath because I didn’t play endgame until Cata, so my experience with that place is flying in to take the portal to IoQD or buy Transmog from the currency vendors.

  1. Boralus
    • By far the best hub city Blizzard has ever made. It goes above and beyond what’s just needed for the usual hub amenities and just has so much detail to explore in general. It would be absolutely PERFECT for RP if sharding wasn’t weird and people weren’t so hesitant to leave Stormwind (which I understand – why leave where people already are?). The relevant NPCs are all more or less in one section of the city as well, so no deductions there for practical use. Well, I guess having to use the SW Port to use an AH counts, but it’s not enough for me to drop it’s spot on the list.
  2. Stormwind
    • As my list might make clear, I’m a sucker for Human and Human-like architecture. It feels more familiar and therefore I like spending my time there more. If Boralus didn’t exist, the obvious example of that is Stormwind. It’s huge. It has a lot of small details, especially since its been updated over the years, even in minor ways. Lots of solid places to hang out or RP. The only relevant NPCs that aren’t in the same area are Transmog/etc and it’s not exactly a pain to fly for 3 second to get to it – unlike say Dazar’alor before Flight unlocked.
  3. Dalaran
    • Again, basically just going down the list of Human-like structures. This one has a magical flair but it works for me. If Ironforge wasn’t underground and in a constant haze it might be in this spot, but it is, so here’s Dalaran. Not my favorite place in the world, it’s a bit TOO clean, if anything, but it’s solid. The “sewer” bits are neat too. Deduction for Engi-only AH.
  4. Ironforge
    • Dwarves! Anyway, I don’t mind the stone buildings. They still look normal. And the layout of the city isn’t bad aesthetically of functionally. But as much sense as it makes, I’m just not a fan of it being inside a mountain and full of a constant smoky haze. Not my thing, that’s why it’s #4.
  5. Darnassus
    • I’m not usually a nature guy, when it comes to cities anyway. The layout is solid, nice districts without being blatantly separated, nothing looks bad, it’s just not something that gets me excited thematically. I think it’d be cool if more people spent time there for RP instead of just sitting in SW, but that has never really been the case, so it’s just kind of this decent, but empty city that I feel nothing for. I was not emotionally impacted by Teldrassil burning down. Fight me.
  6. Booty Bay
    • I’m not big on Goblins, but I can get behind what is essentially the PotC Tortuga-esque aesthetic. It’s a solid slapped together pirate bay thing. It’s more of a quest hub than a city by design, so I don’t really have much reason to go there (especially since the Neutral AH is irrelevant now). Unfortunately, as much as I can acknowledge Booty Bay as being a decent interpretation of it, I’m not much of a pirate guy most of the time either. So… Goblins I don’t care for, Theme I’m mostly indifferent on, lack of amenities due to not being a “normal” city… puts it a bit low even if I think it does what it’s trying to do pretty well.
  7. Shrine of the Seven Stars
    • I don’t feel like this was a bad hub. But it was very small, and as the name implies, it’s not really a town or city. It’s just a structure. And as pretty as most of Pandaria was, I can take or leave the Asian aesthetic, so Shrine didn’t do anything for me in the same way Booty Bay and Darnassus don’t really do anything for me. It also did the Engi-only AH thing.
  8. [Tie] Oribos and Stormshield
    • Stormshield has a typical Alliance aesthetic, but it was just so barebones. It felt like an alternate version of the Garrison tossed over there to use as a hub. It was also almost entirely dirt. Nothing aesthetically pleasing about it beyond the buildings themselves being passable. I didn’t have any reason to just hang out there. The Garrison looked better. I gets a few points for having a non-Engi AH, but… you could get that in the Garrison too. At the end of the day, Stormshield felt like a PvP Staging area more than a City, because that’s what it was, so it’s low on my list. Might be slightly biased by WoD being the first time I took a real break from the game though.
    • Oribos never came across as bad or lazy to me like it does for some people. I think it’s perfectly fitting for what it is. It’s functionally the Soul Sorter machine. Then some entities built up some stuff around it. It’s clean and a bit soulless (hah) by design and that doesn’t make it bad. But… it’s still boring. Something like Tazavesh would be neat, but that’s not what Oribos is, so it’s ranked low just for being boring in my book (even if I don’t equate that to ‘bad’). It’s SW/Org Portal position is also obnoxious, as is the way flightpoints have to path through it. Also, I guess it’s similar to Shrine, it that it’s not really a City, it’s a structure. Engi AH.
  9. Exodar
    • Exodar is trash. It’s in the middle of nowhere. Does it even have an AH? I have no idea. But most importantly, it’s like the embodiment of everything I don’t like about Draenei. I love the race’s model. I loved the stories told for the most part on Azuremyst Isle and to some extent Bloodmyst. But All roads lead to fanatical light worship for Draenei, and the Exodar fits that perfectly, and I hate it. On Azuremyst, the Draenei JUST crashed and are trying to put the pieces of everything back together and survive. A very kind of… Natural / Survivalist feel despite the tech gadgets left over from the crash. I always felt like based on that, Draenei could have been an Alliance analogue to the Tauren, but instead, after what is essentially the “intro”, they go straight back to overzealous light worship and space garbage, and it frustrates me, and so the Exodar also frustrates me.

PS: Suramar City would rate highly for me despite not appearing “Human” if it were an actual neutral city hub. Probably 3rd behind Stormwind. But since that’s not what it is, it’s not on the list.