Keep in mind that even IF the Kirin Tor does return to the Alliance that doesn't mean blizzard is going to make an alliance only dalaran city.
Hey, alliance lost southshore and now Theramore. Theramore was lore wise, a pretty massive city and a major portal location for the alliance. As for moving it back to hillsbrad. I don't think so. I think if anything, it would move back over old Theramore so the alliance can keep our portal there. Theramore was a major flight point in kalimdor for us. Just like horde need stonard to get to southern eastern kingdoms quickly past all the alliance zones. So it would make more sense, to put Dalaran back over the ruins of Theramore since it was Garrosh who started the war with her, and thereby, war with the Kirin Tor, for the Kirin Tor to be in a strategic location to bring the fight to Garrosh.
Well they can´t remove the city from Northrend since you need the dailies and the crafting trainers there to level your profession from 400 to 425. So even lv 85 or 90s have to go to Dalaran if they haven´t leveled up their professions or decided to learn another one.
Aside from that there are several unique traders in dalaran, several achievements, unique pets that can be found, fishing opportunities, a dungeon, etc so it´s not just a city for the lv 70-80s.
I don´t think they could move all of that to the camps. The achievements and the dungeon are pretty much impossible to move, as are the pets. And even the cooking dailies would have to be recreated from scratch there.
And there are several quests in Silverpine that send you to the Dalaran crater so if Dalaran returns they´d have to be remade, too.
And that all for a city that has no gameplay value at all in MOP ?
I´d be surprised if they do that. I think the Alliance would deserve Dalaran for all the stuff in Cata but i really don´t see it happening.
there was naxx at eastern plaguelands in the vanilla timeline. it was removed when they decided to add naxx in dragonblight in wrath's timeline. why? because 2 versions of the same place in different places in different timelines at the same time makes things confusing to players.
dalaran will remain neutral.
Warlorcs of Draenorc made me quit. You can't have my stuff.
Horde players then lose, lorewise, the connection they had to dalaran. and since the horde came to dalarans call in wrath, dealt with the blue dragonflight for them, answered the call they gave to go to ulduar, it takes the piss that because of the actions of one bad apple killing all Jaina's people, that this could tie to dalaran and have the horde lose the standing with it.
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Garrosh didn't start a war with the kirin tor, Theramore and Dalaran have not had any connections since the grand alliance fell apart and dalaran closed itself off from the world.
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There are 3 options here, all of which suck.
Option 1: Move Dalaran
This would require a major redo of Northrend questing, and Eastern Kingdoms as a whole. Blizz would never put two opposing capitals a lake away, so Undercity would be doomed. That requires the forsaken to be moved, and another major quest redo. This is essentially my old "blue EK, red Kalimdor" scenario.
Option 2: Horde lose Dalaran.
Again, major Northrend quest revamp. Horde need a new capital and quests to replace the Kirin'tor ones.
Option 3: Break the timeline.
This avoids the Northrend revamp, but would still need the EK revamp.
But there is a gold standard where Blizz won't need to redo things.
Option 4: Keep Dalaran Neutral
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During the Cataclysm, she single handedly kept the swelling ocean from destroying Theramore with constant tidal waves by keeping up a gigantic Dragon's Breath spell, several times more powerful than anything normal mages can maintain. I'm pretty sure she was able to do this for over a day, possibly longer.
She also received some teaching (and maybe some power? I'm not sure on this part) from Aegywynn, the former Guardian of Tirisfal, and is acknowledged as the most powerful mortal sorcer(ess) in all of Azeroth.
Actually he did start it with Theramore. And who was Theramore's leader? And who is now the Kirin Tor's leader? Look you wont need to worry though. I will lay it out for your:
- Northrend Dalaran is not moving
- Northrend Dalaran will be the Dalaran of the past. You will be able to retain your portals there. Still do the dailies. It is part of Northrend's story. They can't move it because people to this day, still do the Ulduar quest to send the signal out.
- New Dalaran will appear somewhere in Cataclysm content. Since Theramore is a world changing land in Cataclysm content, and Alliance used it as a major portal and flight point hub, I am going to venture a guess a copy of Dalaran will appear over the Theramore ruins to replace the lost Theramore. Theramore was a major city lore wise. And Dalaran is about the same size as Theramore.
- New Dalaran will be Alliance only. Since it was the Sunreavers who dropped the manabomb on Theramore, they get kicked out of New Dalaran and Theramore story wise, becomes a replacement quest hub for the Alliance players.
Now think about this. Dustwallow Marsh is a 35-40 leveling zone, shared by both horde and alliance. There's only 2 other 35-40 zones, Feralas and Western Plaguelands. That level bracket is the smallest options for leveling than the other leveling zones which usually offer 4-6 alternative zones. That would give horde 1 extra 35-40 zone to quest in, and alliance would be reduced down to 2 options, feralas or western plaguelands. And given that southern barrens quests lead to dustwallow marsh, there HAS to be a replacement for Theramore. And with this confirmed information that Dalaran will no longer be neutral, and given that in game there are 4 versions of Garrosh, 1 in outland, 2 in northrend and now the warchief one in kalimdor. It is very plausable to say that Dalaran in Northrend, wont be moving. But a copy of modern Dalaran could appear and be alliance only.
Blizzard's lore. They may of said in the past they have no plans to move Dalaran. And they would still be holding that true. Dalaran in Northrend wont move. Just a new one would appear in current content. Dustwallow Marsh also in cataclysm, had no updated story. They were still playing off vanilla questlines. So I am going to venture a guess that that zone will get its much needed update in MoP, especially since we now see Theramore in ruins currently. Of course if you want us to outright lose a major portal hub to southern kalimdor, then I will go and demand horde lose stonard. Horde should lose the swamp of sorrows as a major quest hub and reduce horde down 1 hub just like they did alliance. So which would you rather have. Horde lose a major quest leveling bracket hub, or a copy of Dalaran as an alliance city replaces Theramore.
she will take over for rhonin, but she wont kick horde out of dalaran for the simple fact that they just announced that in Each faction's capital city in Vale of the Eternal Blossoms instead of auction houses they have portals to all cities including DALARAN and shattrath. So if there were no horde in dalaran there would be no need for them to implement a portal there.