Like the title says, every thread i go into i hear someone else talking about how the next xpac will be the emerald dream xpac. By this i assume they are referring (as many do) that we will fight our whole next expansion in the emerald dream.
For convenience i'm gonna post
http://www.wowwiki.com/Emerald_Dream
As many know the emerald dream has been in the game since it's launch and there are plenty of videos about people running around in it and it's different zones. I can only assume this has led tons of people to assume that at least one point we will use all this content in an xpac. However there are several problems with this:
1. The zone for those of you who have seen it in videos, doesn't look finished in the least. It's a skeleton of a zone and that in no way implies future use for it. It was probably created almost 6 years ago by now and hasn't been altered with sense then. Some ideas do get scrapped, and it happens very often. I understand why people would believe they would want to use the zone, but because of the next few points you'll see why i think otherwise.
2. Yes the zone is huge, but there is a problem with the zone inherently. It's essentially a blueprint of azeroth if no intelligent beings had ever done anything to it. Meaning there are no inns to put your hearth at, there are repair vendors, no buildings period, no real intelligent life other than the occasional druid and dragon. And to make buildings in the emerald dream would essentially be a lore massacre like something that has never been done in WoW. It'd be like if deathwing walked up to alexstraza in their final fight gave her a huge hug and cookies and then said i surrender.
3. There's only real 1 enemy: The nightmare. The dream is void of all intelligent life other than, the nightmare, druids, and the dragons. That would make a pretty boring expansion that focused solely on one boss especially when there is more than one way to get to him. Yes they could make random bosses, but that seems highly unnecessary when we could do it another way. Unless I'm mistaken blizzard has said that the old god behind the emerald dream is connected to the malestrom. Meaning that there's probably more than one way to get to this old god. So i purpose some other idea...
Emerald dream should be a raid. Something along the lines of we go into it and kill the Old God connected to it all. It'd make a lot more sense i feel like and would keep us away from having to spend a year or so in a world with no real cities or intelligent life.
If anyone has any real good opinions on why this should be an expansion then i'm more than willing to hear them.