🚀 go-pugleaf

On 24 Dec 2014 08:39:32 GMT, Urbin <urbin@invalid.invalid> wrote:

>I've switched to the English client about half way through vanilla, so the
>only excuse for mangling those zone names and forgetting to mention Talador
>is that I haven't played enough yet for the names to stick and that it was
>3am ;-)

Hehe 3am is a good excuse ;-)

>>  near Auchindoun. Watch out for the rare spawn who might remind you of
>>  another game which I know you play... ;-)
>
>Haven't seen that one yet, I'm sure it would have registered ;-)

You'd have remembered it alright - it's somewhere to the north of
Auchindoun (there's another one in that general region which would
also stand out for a different reason, well worth exploring that
area!), don't be put off by the blood elf NPCs nearby if you find it,
they're not hostile to Alliance :-)

>> I very much enjoyed questing in Nagrand, it bring back a lot of memories
>> of Outland's Nagrand, yet different at the same time, really nice zone!
>
>Yes, I generally like how they modelled the zones close enough the the BC
>ones to make the names and the layout recognisable but yet different enough
>so it still feels new. SMW is pretty much the same layout but with a totally
>different look but the main features are already/still there. Talador
>matches Terokkar Forest in rough layout, Arak Peak matches Skettis. I guess
>Gorgrond roughly matches Blade Edge Mountains and Nagrand is obviously still
>Nagrand. Zangarmarshes I figure to be an assembly of the parts where the
>other zones meet, including the bit around Khadgars tower and probably the
>sea to be drained... Hellfire Peninsula is also pretty obviously the lvl 100
>zone we arrived in, the only place I haven't figured out is Netherstorm, but
>I guess that just arrived out of the nether :-)

Netherstorm didn't make it - it would've been an island called
Farahlon (there's the Ruins of Farahlon in the northeast of
Netherstorm as we know it), and was supposed to be added in 6.1, while
Tanaan Jungle (HFP) was meant to be in at release as a lvl 100 zone...
mysteriously Tanaan got put back to probably 6.1, and Farahlon went
silent altogether. I have distinct suspicions that WoD production
overran badly, and a lot of things were left out to get it released on
time, which would explain the unfinished feel of the lvl 100
content...

>Happy Winterveil to all of you.
>Urbin

Same to you and everyone else! :-)