Originally Posted by
Koryn123
Yeah, individuals, but right now I don't want any armies in each other's zones hogging the spotlight like the Gilnean village in Val'sharah. One or two questgivers here and there, perhaps.
Now that I think about it, some of the worgen in Lordaeron must also be night elves summoned by Arugal. So I suppose there should be some night elves in Duskwood and Lordaeron in an official capacity. They won't be there because they want to help anyone. The only reason they're there is to help calm the minds of the feral worgen so that any who are night elves can be brought back into the fold to be used as a weapon against the Horde in Kalimdor. That's a good idea.
Blasted Lands could work well. Possibly they could also be assisting the night elves in Felwood too. Hard to think of a place where the Draenei could belong where they could establish their own nation outside of the islands they already have. I suppose giving Desolace to the tauren would be better, giving tauren a new frontier, packaged in with the inevitable conflict they'd have with the centaur living there, giving them an enemy to focus on besides just helping the orcs with their problems.
One idea I have for the Northrend bit is that the Forsaken necromancers are trying to learn how to create banshees so they can return to Lordaeron and sever the Forsaken's spirits from their bodies so they can flee from them if they're about to be killed, then possess a new body if they want to. Mind-controlling the ogres would be a good temporary solution to buy them time, though.
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I only want this because it makes zero sense that nothing important ever happens in old zones, when prior to WoW, EVERYTHING important happened in the old areas.
I would eventually want the story to progress, but this idea is to reset the board which is needed every few years, story-wise. Blood Elves and Draenei are still sitting in 2007.
They could do phasing so people can quest in the old zones in the Cataclysm era via the new Shadowlands Chromie stuff, or quest through modern versions where things are happening again.
I only think this would be a good idea because they're saying there might be a time skip after Shadowlands because time in the physical world passes more quickly than in the Shadowlands or something like that. We can't come out of the Shadowlands and only have Orgrimmar and Stormwind be 20 years older.
I'm not saying the entire world should be updated every expansion. What I am saying with this whole thing is that the zones either need to be updated periodically or be given more evergreen content. Nothing in Vanilla seemed like it couldn't have happened during BC instead, and in fact Onyxia was lorewise killed at the end of BC by Varian when he returned instead of Vanilla by adventurers.
Personally, I care much more when I'm questing through content that matters to me and has groups and characters that are familiar. For example, in BfA, our mission table said the Forsaken had taken Shadowfang Keep and were fighting worgen from Gilneas. Meanwhile, what did WE get to do? Help turtles make it to the water.