Is it just me or does Ardenwaeld remind me of something really spectacular like Ori and the wild forest?
I have never played a more awesome expansion (except Dragonflight & Tww) <3
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Visually, Ardenweald is a banger. SAme holds for Bastion and Revendreth, but Ardenweald tops them both.
But the Npcs that live there make me think Sylvanas burned down the wrong tree 
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SL did do a great job in terms of art design for the zones. I especially liked ZM.
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From what i remember, the art team was the only one that got praised consistently throughout SL. Visually everything look great, even the Maw had that eery feeling youd expect from well… hell.
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Ardenweald is definitely very inspired by Ori and the Blind Forest. Moon Studios who made Ori, was founded by Thomas Mahler, who is an ex-Blizzard artist. So the similarities are perhaps not super surprising.
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Noway!! What!
I don’t remember when I made this post but thanks for commenting all.
I have been revisiting shadowlands lately because the raids are now soloable, and while the expansion was not great in terms of story and systems, the artstyles and architechtures are outstanding all arround. It did a great job of giving you the feeling of no longer being on Azeroth, but in this Strange otherworldly place. Zereth Mortis especially stands out, love that place.
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I will die on this hill: Shadowlands had some very good stuff going on, and some of the bad wasn’t nearly as bad as people said. Even the story had its moments. But the zones in particular were spectacular.
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Shadowlands had some very good qualities, but also a lot of irredeemably bad ones.
When there are things that are so unbelievably bad, the good parts really cant save it anymore.
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Zerith Mortis should have been it’s own expansion. but wasted it on a we’re all robots storyline. Shadowlands would have been a good trilogy story. There’s so much they could have done.
Chapter 1: shadowlands factions zones
Chapter 2: the maw
Chapter 3: Zerith Mortis
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what did you have that night? i want it
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I know I’m probably the only person holding this opinion, but for me Shadowlands was the last good WoW expansion.
- great zone design
- good raids, and some of the best designed dungeons in the game
- horde vs alliance was still a thing
- relevant things to do outside of m+ and raid
- seasonal and weekly affixes keeping m+ fresh and interesting
Most people are enjoying the war within/dragonflight approach though, so I understand why the game went in this direction.
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I totally agree
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I have. Plenty.
In fact only TBC disappointed me more than Shadowlands. All the other expansions were better, as far as I am concerned.
For me Shadowlands had arguably the worst zones in the game. How can we go from BFA, where we had Tiragarde, Drustvar and Nazmir to what Shadowlands delivered. BFA was an average expansion, but the zones felt like World of Warcraft. Shadowlands, for me, felt like Blizzard trying to be something else because the wheels were falling off the game.
Shadowlands’ zones are the underpants of WOW and Maldraxxus is the skid mark.
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I feel Bfa zones in the whole were a let down.
Tah my great Panda friend, how can you hurt me with saying TBC being such a disappointment 
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An entire expansion in WoW’s hell? No thanks.
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You’re not. I really enjoyed Shadowlands – I didn’t mind the systems and absolutely loved the zones, cosmetics, and raids. It was miles better than both TWW and DF.
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It’s how I feel about it. I stopped raiding after vanilla and TBC really didn’t offer much to do at endgame for people who didn’t raid or constantly ran dungeons. Except for a few rep grinds, there was literally nothing to do.
Also I’m just not a fan of Outland and its different aesthetics. Only Nagrand appealed to me, in terms of looks, but that zone was ruined for me because back then I played on a PvP server and there was that horrible PvP event there.
I was also immensely disappointed what they did with Rexxar and the Mok’nathal. What supposed to be their town was just a handful of little huts. It was such a let-down for me (Rexxar is one of my favorite Warcraft characters).
I don’t like depressing zones to play around in. That was one of my big gripes with Shadowlands as well, but Shadowlands had the upside that it was released many years later and overal the quality of lots of models, textures and whatnot are now much better.
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