Let's be honest, once you've finished Elwynn, Westfall, Redridge and Duskwood, you've seen almost everything that WoW has to offer.

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I only saw these zones around level 40 when I was murdering alliance younglings. Back when the game was based and you could do shit like that

>>712583970 (OP)
you niggas will hype up the most mid dogshit content ever made

It was definitely the best put together experience and probably the entire reason the game got big.
I remember Night Elves used to make a run through the Wetlands because their starting area was so shit.

>>712584236
>mid

Why do you zoomies out yourselves like this?

>>712583970 (OP)
>stranglethorn vale vietnam
>felwood
>ashenvale
>the entirety of the dwraven areas
i hate wow and even i know thats a retarded take anon

>>712583970 (OP)
Horde areas flowed better. TBC Dustvallow is extremely underrated questing zone as horde

>>712584259
Nah, Nelf areas were good, the problem was Blizzard just never finished Darnassus and the whole nelf area was just so physically isolated from the rest of the Alliance that nobody would want to make the reverse journey to go to the nelf areas. OG Darn didn't even have a blacksmithing, engineering, or warlock trainer at all, and the only auction house was in IF.

>>712583970 (OP)
Bloodelf starting zone is perfection.

>>712585372
thats because it was literally in a giant tree anon
you arent gonna find metal ore in a tree. and nighte lves couldnt be warlocks

>>712583970 (OP)
>Elwynn
>Westfall
>Redridge
>Duskwood
>Stranglethorn Vale
>That one area with the portal
>Like 2 or 3 areas of Outland
>Straight into Northrend
I could never forget my WotLK journey.

>>712585491
i understand the lore but that doesn't change the fact that the city was straight-up missing key features that every other city had. Darnassus had a human NPC hanging out to be the portal trainer, but they couldn't justify a second one to be the mage trainer? the capital city of the night elves can't import ore from the mainland, even when the huntresses patrolling the area are wearing metal armor and wielding metal weapons? the warlocks couldn't have holed up in some basement to avoid drawing attention? all the lore justifications for why Darn didn't have these things are flimsy at best. the fact is that Darnassus was just an unfinished city.

>westfall
>level 10
>when there's only like 5 quests there you can actually do at level 10/11

>redridge
>level 15
>when there's only like 3 quests you can even do at 15 and the majority of the zone is 20-25

why are youtubers so prone to being lying niggerfaggots

>>712585765
You "could never forget" it, yet apparently you forgot the entirety of level 35-58 since your zone listing makes that large of a jump.

>>712583970 (OP)
>not going to Kharanos to do all the dwarf/gnome quests before going to Westfall

I liked Darkshore and Ashenvale more, but I do like Westfall and Duskwood.

>>712583970 (OP)
On the flip side late game zones for alliance suck cock and are unfinished, if you do all the quests you'll have a gaping hole between 44-48 or so where you would want ideally to grind while horde has perfectly done zones such as Feralas, Swamp, 1k needles, felwood, dustwallow, desolace and so on. It's like blizz gave up halfway for alliance

>>712585982
Maybe it's based on this.

>>712583970 (OP)
true sadly

>>712586116
this is what outs the OP video as being a tbc/wrath baby that played with heavily nerfed exp requirements
In actual vanilla, doing your race's starter zone would only get you to level 10, maybe level 11 if you grinded a lot of mobs. Trying to go to westfall at level 11, there's only a couple of quests you can even do before they get too high level; you're forced to pingpong back and forth between other zones unless you want to mindlessly mob grind.

>>712586310
What makes those "Horde zones"? I did quests in Feralas and Theramore as Alliance. Does Horde have better quests there?

bros...

>>712586065
I stayed in each area as much as possible. I remember entering Stranglethorn around 30 and the area with the portal up until level 50, which I think is the required level for the quest that lets you enter the portal. Only places I didn't do completely were the Outland ones because you used to reach the required level for Northrend wich is 60 or so way before finishing them.

Though don't blame me if I do, that stuff was literally over 10 years ago.

>>712583970 (OP)
I'll be honest here, I've been playing wow on and off since wotlk and have never played through the human starting zones.
They're too generic for me to try and roleplay with my character class and race.

>>712586347
>unless you want to mindlessly mob grind.
This was faster than doing quests in another area because of travel time, so yes.

>>712586431
Teldrassil... Home...

>>712583970 (OP)
The levelling went to shit after STV
You were lucky to get more than 1 level from the zones after STV and you started running into the same enemy types as the level 10-20 zones, but slightly bigger

>>712586347
in fact i'm pretty sure loch modan's initial quests are easier to do at that level than westfall's

>>712583970 (OP)
I'm not an ally sissy thoughbeit

>>712586447
I played it over 10 years ago and I know that shit took level 58, retard.

>>712586347
The dwarf/gnome starting area was pretty fine to quick in until like 14 and then you could go to westfall. I mean you probably could have hit 18 there but just go to Westfall anyway.

>>712586426
Dustwallow has lore related quests for horde, identifying the brood for example introduces Onyxia to horde players. Alliance equivalent cant remember the name but it ends on the kings chamber. There are lots of quests as horde, most fun probably stealing or distributing Theramore propaganda letters straight from the ship in Theramore. Its seriously pretty underrated by horde. If you get a chance to do it on private server or are still playing classic go give it a shot

>>712586521
>Immersion shattered by gold farmers spamming chat

>>712583970 (OP)
But I only played Undead.

>>712586332
What the hell is up with the alliance ships having the ports in two random peninsulas?
Why in the name of fuck do they not go between stormwind and the elven city?

>>712586607
>The dwarf/gnome starting area was pretty fine to quick in
pretty fine to quest in*.

>>712586332
>STV
>30-45
my ass, i went there at 32 and got my ass kicked, and this was as a very overgeared warrior

>>712584259
>>712586737
>Having to corpse-run as a level 1 Night Elf throughout the entirely of Wetlands, Loch Modan and Dun Morogh just to be able to play with the rest of the Alliance
Why didn't Blizzard just put a ship from Darkshore to Stormwind, and then had a ship from Theramore to Wetlands.

>>712586964
The Pilgrimage

>>712586964
They did in patch 3.0.0

>>712586964
>Why didn't Blizzard just put a ship from Darkshore to Stormwind, and then had a ship from Theramore to Wetlands.
I'm pretty sure Turtle WoW does exactly this, funny enough

>>712587207
Does it have any changes to Horde Zeppelins?

>>712586426
You just have way more quests that actually use the entire zone instead of having 2-3 quests in the whole area and just skip the rest
Like the same Feralas as horde actually has things to do in the whole location, meanwhile as ally you only have few spots, ogres, yetis and some nagas.
Same applies for other areas like dustwallow. horde has quests in the whole area including dragons in the south

>>712586964
If you wanted that cool jump you had to work for it. At least they let you move faster when you were dead.

>>712587291
I don't know, I only played vanilla as a stupid kid that never got past level 16

>>712583970 (OP)
>after lvl 15, need to switch zones back and forth to complete certain quests
shit design
catacylsm fixed it.

>>712585491
>NO ONE in Elf society can forge metal despite them using swords and having ore deposits on the mainland
>Not one Elf would study technology especially with Gnomish allies
>Not just having a secret warlock guy outside Darnassus at least in Darkshore or just a Nelf who said fuck it and practices dark magic in a hidden place among the city, possibly even a 'friendly' Satyr like we see in Teldrassil

C'mon man. normally this would be based and lorepiled but it's just actually dumb as fuck and makes players mad

>>712586431
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bERUCRJSzTk

>>712585302
horde areas are giant empty nothingness.

>>712587735
A friendly Satyr warlock trainer in a cave right outside the city wouldve been kino.

>>712585302
>Running across the empty ass Barrens flowed better
No, no it didn't. Thousand Needles is also the worst zone by far you go there for like 5 quests and leave.

>>712583970 (OP)
>>712586332
>>712586964
I don't understand the appeal of this game. I was bored the whole way through on my leveling journey, not even the dungeons were all that fun. It was just a chore the whole way through.

why do people play World of Warcraft and find it enjoyable is beyond me

>>712590298
Rose tinted glasses and boomers think peak social interaction is giving people you walk past random buffs and killing random low levels of the other faction you pass by.

>>712586938
there is a difference between can and should, you absolutely can do quest in STV in level 30, but you mostly shouldn't

>>712585491
>>712585898
>NO ONE in Elf society can forge metal despite them using swords and having ore deposits on the mainland
they import finished weapons and armor from the dwarves and humans
>Not one Elf would study technology especially with Gnomish allies
of fucking course they wouldn't look at them, they are all hippies whose culture consists of nature worship, which is the complete tonal opposite of technology
>Not just having a secret warlock guy outside Darnassus at least in Darkshore or just a Nelf who said fuck it and practices dark magic in a hidden place among the city, possibly even a 'friendly' Satyr like we see in Teldrassil
correct, night evles are literally incapable of wielding fel magic; it would be a breach of lore to have NE do it and there would be no point for an allied human/gnome to be there

>>712584396
I'm 35 and I use mid every day