It’s a waste to have so many big cities completely empty.
How hard can it be to add portals, auction houses and transmog NPCs to every city?
Also, some love for Gilneas and Suramar would be appreciated.
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I think, part of the problem, especially when it comes to Silvermoon and Exodar, is that they are so underused, that it’s not even funny. I mean, yes, you could throw in a transmog etheral in the Bazaar or in the Vault of Lights; or indeed, a barber shop, but why bother at this point, when everything one needs is in Orgrimmar and Stormwind respectively.
I would say, that perhaps ThunderBluff needs a barber shop now as well, due to Undercity’s loss.
Regarding Gilneas and Suramar - I agree 100% with the former. I would like a story extension for Gilneas as we can see a lot of work went into building that place and it’s a shame that it is has just been left in the realms of the forgotten.
Suramar, even as a Nightborne fan, as much as I’d love to see it as a sprawling Horde-friendly city and it could be done, via the Bronze Dragons taking us back in time, I just don’t see it.
At this stage, I’d rather they perhaps open the Nighthold out for Horde players and insert banks, barbers and transmog vendors in the Nighthold Gardens.
i agree that every big city should get more attention and be equally worth visiting but like leia already mentioned, now with orgrimmar and stormwind existing, what would you need other cities for?
i dont think a mog/ah/portal/barber would cut it at this point.
cities need a major overhaul with exciting, new features which are unique to respective cities and thus make them worth visiting.
but honestly, knowing blizzard, i highly doubt they will do anything about it as it requires effort, money and time and just build a “new” expansion city upon the corpses of the old ones.
Why not? They built Cataclysm’s final raid upon the corpses of previously existing maps.
But that was regarding a raid, not an actual city.
Also, Silvermoon and Exodar - barring RP for the former, if we’re being honest, what possible reason do you have for going to the city’s?
Could they make them relevant? Yes.
Would it be hard to do so? Also, yes.
You see, the problem we’ve got is that the QT story which was, for the most part, all sorted in TBC. Yes, we had 4.1 in Cataclysm with ZA. Same goes for the Draenei Isles.
These two cities are so far, out of the way, that the average player holds no reason to go there, at all. Like I said, Argent Dawn EU does see a populated Silvermoon, but that’s simply due to the Blood Elf RP (as well as other forms of RP) that takes place.
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hah
If Suramar were to become a hub, I’d jump through the ceiling xD
devs: Creates Suramar
everybody liked that
but then again Dalaran is a stones throw away 
I have often thought this. If all cities were interconnected properly with equal services then people would use them all and spread the load.
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I don’t like Dalaran. The idea of a floating city is cool but I don’t like the colors, the graphics. It doesn’t look good to me.
well dalaran could go back to the crater now, considering the forsaken kind of got kicked out from hillsbrad to some extent.
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Possibly, but I have a feeling that people will still be drawn to Stormwind and Orgrimmar, because they have the cosmetic services already.
Plus, the Transmog Yak as well as the other mounts that provide services (albeit with a heavy cost), have only caused more reason why Blizzard needn’t bother with the other cities and adding the additional services.
If you give all cities the same features, people will pick the most geographically convenient one and the result will be the same. Only way imo is to spread those features among all cities.
Why would anyone go to SM/Exodar for example when you can’t even fly in there ? Same goes for portal rooms, which only contributed to further deepen the gap.
When Dalaran didn’t have an AH (except for engineers) that forced people to go to other capital cities. The same must be done with the rest if we want all of them to be equally relevant.
Suramar ?
Oh God , please no …
I still have this , tripping my brain since Legion.
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xD
It’s aesthetically pleasing in Suramar though xD but yeah i get you, that line goes on repeat in my head.
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Here , its me .
After getting my stealth exposed from 5 elites , meanwhile 20 more dash to 1 shot me all together in that bloody quest …
Hope Suramar has the same fate as Teldrassil.
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They will make all cities equally relevant to Darnassus/Undercity~ only capitals will remain 
I agree that each city could have something unique, like way back then when the jewelcraft trainer was found only in Silvermoon (for Horde). I actually do go to each main city depending on the race I am using, for example with a Forsaken if I need to go to the AH, bank, etc I go to UC instead of Orgri, but Orgri is the only one with the portals so if I need to use them I am forced to go to Orgri…
Not hard at all.
But that would mean blizzard has to put effort into cities they prefer remain dead.
As far blizzard has shown to care: Only stormwind and ogrimar mather.
Silvermoon and exodar are protected by tbc loading screens.
The rest are just quest hubs.
Think about it:
More cities means more work, more bugs to fix(and bfa is still very buggy), more npc to place, more flags to update, more gaurds dialog to add, etc.
And for what?
Old content?
Blizzard only care’s for new content.
The one they charge money for because expensions + monthy fee is something on wow can get away with.
We got a communist in our ranks everyone