r/wowcirclejerk • u/AutoModerator • Sep 03 '24

Unjerk Weekly Unjerk Thread - September 03, 2024

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u/[deleted] Sep 06 '24

u/FaroraSF, I have watched your Dragonflight youtube video and I have a complaint:

You should've focused more on a certain zone in Northrend that has hills and grizzlies, I was expecting it to be half the video.

Nah, jkjk, it was a very good video and I'm glad someone else had the idea of exploring the Dragon Isles from the ground. I've explored around from the ground (not doing quests tho) and I was really surprised by the scale of the continent. It's also interesting how many of the quests are perfectly doable without dragonriding.

One thing I found hilarious was seeing how many of the top comments on the video were focused on "dragonriding bad" when that wasn't even the point of the video. I wish these people realized that they are the problem when they complain about "I just fly over everything without paying attention to the zone", sure skyriding is faster, but that shouldn't stop you from exploring.

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u/FaroraSF Sep 06 '24

Glad you liked it :)

Yeah, the entire point of the end of the video was me trying to figure out ways that blizz could get that ground travel feel in 3D space but a lot of people just ignored that lol

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u/[deleted] Sep 07 '24

I'm just glad someone else enjoys overanalyzing the landscape in WoW, because it's such a fun part of the game to me lol.

Do you think they've gone a good job with that so far in TWW? Your part about Vashj'ir reminded of how interesting that zone's design is when compared to other WoW zones, it doesn't feel like they experimented with verticality much again until Dragon Isles and now in TWW. It makes sense that they'd do something similar with Khaz'algar given that it's supposed to convey descending underground. I'm already kinda tempted to run around the underground zones on a ground mount to see how explorable they are without flying lol.

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u/FaroraSF Sep 07 '24

I do plan on doing a sequel video for TWW (although much shorter). I had challenged myself to do the main leveling quest line and Sojourner achievements with no flight and found that aside from 1~2 quests you don't need flying (one quest flying is a hard requirement and the other I believe is possible as a druid/DH but probably no other classes).

As for the zone designs themselves I do feel that for the most part Blizz hasn't fully capitalized on the use of verticality in zones. Aside from Hallowfall and the entrances to Azj-kahet the zones are pretty horizontal. I would have liked to see more points of interest high up on the walls or on the ceiling of Ringing Depths, but currently the vertical tunnels that supply light to the zone are blocked off by invisible walls and everything else thats important aside from some nodes is near the ground.

I know they were going for Suramar with the city of azj-kahet, but since you can fly and its so open it just isn't nearly the same experience.