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Wintergrasp is quite large and was quite active in Wrath (revenant farming). Crystalsong is a mess but you could just replace it with Dalaran which was a decent-sized mini zone in itself. Every zone in Dragonflight is about the size of one big and one medium zone from Northrend. Stormpeaks + Zul'Drake or Howling Fjord + Grizzly Hills. As ONE zone. That's massive. Think of how large the zones in WoD were, remember there was 7 of them and that Draenor was still smaller than Northrend or Dragon Isles. And you cannot just imagine the zones combined since a large part of wasted space in zones is zone borders; so those would now be active space.
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You could make the same argument for Northrend too except that it would make Northrend actually worse compared to the Dragon Isles (btw. the mountains you see in DI do get used for story and content), considering just how many mountains it has in Icecrown and Storm Peaks which aren't used for anything or how Dragonblight and Borean Tundra's area are largely unused. Not to mention Crystalsong Forrest and Wintergrasp being largely unused areas besides some a handful of quests and dailies.
Thank you, this is a very informative graphic. Revendreth being the smallest of the Shadowlands zones feels a bit weird to me though, at least I had the impression of it being way bigger with a lot more stuff to do than the other Shadowlands zones. But maybe it's so because the zone is so packed with stuff and feels so vertical.
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if Bastion is indeed the largest then absolutely every Dragonflight zone (not including the Dracthyr intro one) is bigger. Waking Shore was just under double the size of Bastion, length ways anyway and is about the same width, and Waking Shore isn't even the biggest zone in DF
Due to how maps are designed in World of Warcraft they can look the same when scaled but a smaller looking map can actually be bigger.
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They're not gonna take it away they're gonna just enable it everywhere after the expansion is over but probably reduce the speed a bit outside of Dragonflight zones.
How does the playable region/mapsize of DF compare to other expansions? (on release)
Is it true that DF regions are more vertical? Since we all get a dragon to transmog and use in our travels..
Goes for any map, really, which is why maps for navigation and other purposes where distances matter have the scale indicated on them. I could easily make a map of Earth that is smaller than a map of, say, Michigan, but only crazy people would conclude that means Earth is smaller than Michigan.