Why is it not even on the map as an Alliance capital city?
Why isn't it utilized in the story anymore?
In all my years of playing, Ironforge was the capital for the Alliance in-game, not Stormwind. Thoughts?
Why is it not even on the map as an Alliance capital city?
Why isn't it utilized in the story anymore?
In all my years of playing, Ironforge was the capital for the Alliance in-game, not Stormwind. Thoughts?
I don't know what map you are looking at, but Ironforge has that alliance icon that the other alliance capitals have on the world map and the eastern kingdoms map. Even Darnassus has one (but it is greyed out, same for Undercity for horde)
I'm not sure. I remember more people populating IF than SW until BC came out.
However, it has gotten its share of store. Between the Dwarf heritage and Dark Iron, they have gotten lore updates. We're buddies with Magni helping gather Azerite for the heart of Azeroth.
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When they added an AH to all cities, people started using the cities they liked most and were most convenient. That same patch, iirc, linked all of the LFG and Trade channels so it didn't matter what capital you were in. Stormwind won out and has been gradually made into the main Alliance hub as the years progress.
Started with Orcs vs Humans it will end with Orcs vs Humans. And only place associated with those 2 factions will remain and rest is irrelevant.
Not enough Human Potential (tm), I'm afraid. It looks like all of the racial capitals will be left to rot aside from Org/SW (which only have receive minor updates since MoP anyway). Btw, only the Loa know when there will be a replacement for those huge holes left at Tirisfal and Teldrassil, not to mention Southshore, Brill, Gilneas, Taurajo, Theramore, Auberdine/Lor'danel, etc.
Blizz has some weird infatuation with Stormwind. Everyone treated Ironforge as the Alliance capital in Vanilla (and will again during Classic, I hope).
The nice thing about Lagforge was the big open area next to bank where everyone could be in one spot but you could still actually see people. people would jump down into the forge channel thing to do secret drug deals. and it was a small city yet there was lots of hidden places to hide.
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It has an heirloom vendor tho. :O
And it's not burned down, so that's a bonus.
Doubt it. Unified trade/LFG and additional auction houses were added in 1.9, which means they'll be in Classic. The only reason people congregated in IF originally was because it had the auction house.
Pretty sure Stormwind to Booty Bay to Ratchet is much better than Ironforge to Menethil to Auberdine.
Last edited by seleri; 2019-04-27 at 03:15 AM.
I think the main reason originally was travel time to where people really wanted to get most often. In vanilla, all the endgame stuff was closer if you started from IF (save for ZG). In TBC it was just tradition, I guess, but it started to fall off because SW was closer to the portal to get back to Outland. Wrath was when it really slowed because the boat was actually in SW and you didn't have to fly and then wait for a boat. The final nail in the coffin for IF was the Cata zone portals. Nothing else can compete when one place has a significant advantage in time spent traveling.
I knew a few other people with engineering who kept their hearth at Shrine until the portals were removed. It had an AH, portals to all capitals & Northrend Dalaran. Then just popping over to SW for the Cata portals if needed.