Was meant to be a tongue-in-cheek comment tbh. In my mind the naga should obviously be pompous as hell given their origins. But then that doesn’t seem to be the case.
Maybe after 10,000 years under the sea () they changed their habits, Azshara excluded. We don’t really know much about what they do down there other than hang out and mess about with the other ocean races.
It is however absolute ridiculous that Azshara seems so proud to show off Nazjatar when it’s a pile of ruins and corals. Like please.
Now I’m imagining the first boss as a sort of underwater bossfight, her crawling around on the ceiling, stealthed, ready to ambush someone with a quick poison sting to the spine.
I thought Nazjatar was going to be really kinda nonsensical. Like Suramar underwater, with a bunch of delusional highborne hosting balls in Azshara’s honour. Theatres and really grandiose architecture, that sorta thing. I can only assume that’s behind the gate and Azshara is really indifferent to the immediate world outside her palace.
Until we see the raid, we can only speculate. There’s no proof that there is any grandiose city at the palace as of right now. Few naga buildings here and there aren’t really any proof or indication of this.
Yeah, I get it. I think the problem is player hype regarding what we assumed Nazjatar was going to look like in-game compared to what was delivered. That’s as much a fault of ours as it is theirs.
If it’s right that we have been dropped on the doorstep, then that’s a bit of a lame delivery for the zone tbh. I get that Blizzard don’t have the resources to put a whole city in the game, but maybe some of it? If you put us on the doorstep, let us get our foot in the door. Seems like we go straight from the doorstep into the master bedroom without passing through any of the living areas.
We go straight to the palace without seeing this supposed grand naga civilization.
If we’re on the doorstop then why is Azshara so proud when we arrive to show us what’s there? “Behold, Nazjatar!” Behold what? A couple of naga buildings among ruins?
For clarification I’m not saying I don’t like how the zone looks, because I do. It looks beautiful as hell, the art team knocking it out of the park again, it just doesn’t strike me as anymore of a naga empire than Vashj’ir did in Cataclysm.
Perhaps another issue is that Nazjatar could have been a better setting for an expansion as opposed to one of two zones introduced in a patch. It could have been fleshed out a lot more.
EDIT: Again, just so I’m making myself clear here I’m not refuting that this could be the edge of the city as opposed to the interior. But the point I’m trying to make is that, if that’s the case, then we’re not really going to see Nazjatar and that’s a shame. If this is actually what Nazjatar looks like, then that’s also a shame.
People say this a lot without understanding what an entire expansion entails. What more depth do we need? The factions we encounter live in the deep ocean - we’ll likely never encounter them again. We already know a great deal about the Naga and their attitudes from the past 15 years of WoW, and we have expansion on their culture with the description of the Shirakess who explicitly worship the Void.
The one thing I can think of would be expanding on the Coilskar (the Illidari naga) and their attitude to Azshara, but that’s a minor point. What else do we need that would require 3-5 more zones?
You could say it for most expansions, but that’s par for the course. I’m not saying it should have been an expansion, just that maybe it could have been. It’s not unlike Blizzard to take something small and flesh it out.
I mean look at the Broken Isles, as far as we knew there wasn’t really anything there outside of the Tomb of Sargeras and some elven ruins. But in Legion there was also a whole culture of Tauren, the city of Suramar above the waves and the heartland of druidism that we didn’t know about previously for some reason.
I’m not saying Nazjatar should have been an expansion set, tbh I probably wouldn’t want to play an under the sea expansion, but as I said in my previous reply, it just seems a shame whichever way it falls, interior of Nazjatar or exterior, that this is what it is.
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) they changed their habits, Azshara excluded. We don’t really know much about what they do down there other than hang out and mess about with the other ocean races.