Is Ardenweald the most lazy new zone?

[Starter]

Looks like a thematic repeat of Shadowmoon valley from WoD. I mean I love shadowmoon valley but come on.

[How dare you]

Yeah I thought the same. Shadowmoon Valley + Emerald Dream

[Nomads]

Looks like a thematic repeat of Shadowmoon valley from WoD. I mean I love shadowmoon valley but come on.

Aren't you banned yet? How does someone with a troll avatar get away with making so many troll posts?

[Redzonetode]

i love shadowmoon valley so im okay with this

[Varolyn]

I imagine that there will be some snowy areas akin to an updated crystalsong forest given that the “Queen of Winter” lives there.

[Bazull]

How is it the laziest when we haven't even experienced it fully. Wait till beta is out at least

[Zyky]

Looks like a thematic repeat of Shadowmoon valley from WoD. I mean I love shadowmoon valley but come on.

While what we've seen(very little at that) does look like Shadowmoon, you need to wait until you see the entire zone before you start wasting time with posts like this.

[Mirishka]

Looks like a thematic repeat of Shadowmoon valley from WoD. I mean I love shadowmoon valley but come on.

Is the word lazy the most lazy form of game criticism? Why yes, I think it is.

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How is it the laziest when we haven't even experienced it fully. Wait till beta is out at least

Exactly, but the OP seems to have a gift for making useless topics, so...

[froschhure]

I dont mind if they reuse maps to create new ones. But i am hoping for a larger map scale. I am not a fan pf this shrink sized „new“ continents. I get the feeling that there is not a single place in newer xpacs, that just exist for its existance will. Imo thats a nasty thing.

[McCulloch]

We haven't seen the full zone yet, but there are already screenshots of Drust related areas in the zone and it'll be the zone that contains The Other Side with Bwonsamdi, so I would expect some other loa related areas, as loa are just Wild Gods worshipped by trolls. Gonk had access to the Emerald Dream, so it would make sense to maybe see Rezan and Hir'eek as they rest before rebirth, like Cenarius did.

[Volatilis]

I wouldnt know as I havent played it yet.

[Lochton]

Looks like a thematic repeat of Shadowmoon valley from WoD. I mean I love shadowmoon valley but come on.

It is meant to look like a shadow/dark side version of the Emerald Dream. Yes, might not look 100% new but hard to re-envision a nature zone that is meant to look like an untouched forest zone which haven't been used before. Even so, it is as lazy as your thread, for we have not seen all of Ardenweald yet.

[Mysterymask]

*looks at Nazjatar which is almost copy pasted from Aszuna*
*looks at Dragon Soul which is literally just Wyrmrest Temple*
*looks at Sithilus which has pretty much nothing but sand throughout the entire zone*
*looks at Uldum which is an Indiana Jones Rip Off*
*looks at WoD Nagrand which looks almost Identical to BC Nagrand*

*looks at Ardenweald of which we've seen maybe...2 yards of and already has a somewhat unique story and visuals*

yep laziest zone ever...

[Zmagoslav]

To me it's quite ok.

The fauna at least seems rather new.
The denizens on the other hand show me that Blizzard employees watched the Dark Crystal show. (Those mini fae look exactly like the main characters from the show/movie)

[ErrandRunner]

WOW has so many different zones that it is probably impossible to introduce something that is completely unique each new expansion. I am more interested in the quality of the content of the zone than its aesthetics alone.

[zlygork]

Besides the fact that it has trees and a similar color palette, i don't really see it, and what little we saw looked like it had the potential to be visually stunning, ao i lean towards no.
If we want to complain about "lazy", we should at least look at Maldraxxus or whatever it's called, that really dos look like EP + Nagrand. It will still be cool nonetheless, though

[Kathranis]

To me it's quite ok.

The fauna at least seems rather new.
The denizens on the other hand show me that Blizzard employees watched the Dark Crystal show. (Those mini fae look exactly like the main characters from the show/movie)

Of course they watched Dark Crystal, don't you remember the arakkoa and Skettis?

[dojichan]

no
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[Beet]

I dont mind if they reuse maps to create new ones. But i am hoping for a larger map scale. I am not a fan pf this shrink sized „new“ continents. I get the feeling that there is not a single place in newer xpacs, that just exist for its existance will. Imo thats a nasty thing.

Yeah I noticed that myself too. I was talking to a buddy about how it's like we've gotten less dungeons as well as smaller zones every expansion. It gets progressively worse. TBC and WotLK zones were epic and felt epic. Grizzly Hills was totally opposite of ZulDrak and yet they were both massive. And dungeons is another story. I will admit of course in TBC so many dungeons were just similar versions of others, but it felt fun because it was still a unique place. So it didnt matter that Steamvaults, Underbog, and Slave pens were similar. But now it's like the more WoW has gotten "pristine" its became less epic and IMO, less fun in many ways. I dont think I've ever gotten to have the excitement I did with WotLK zones ever since it ended. I remember the first time it dropped, choosing between Borean Tundra and Fjord was hard as both looked so great. In the end we did Tundra, and man it was fun. I want that feeling again.

[Shinrael]

Looks like a thematic repeat of Shadowmoon valley from WoD. I mean I love shadowmoon valley but come on.

Is having a certain theme appear in multiple zones across a SHARED WORLD wrong? Let us not be lazy and try harder to appreciate things rather then mow them down ^_^