Underwater Zone 💦

Moist zones arent that bad, blizz should make and bring out more water zone, and maybe even a underwater soundtrack. moist.mp3 etc.

But it sohuld still be fun

Make it happen devs

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p.s.
im legit serious, the eel fight in BFA was really nice

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but you will be able to walk on water in new zone :open_mouth:
wow such cool zone it will be

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Underwater zones are tricky because of the verticality.

Although World of Warcraft’s graphics were built with verticality in mind and the game features quite a lot of water, the inability to judge distances due to the lack of stereoscopic vision is a major issue and World of Warcraft has not found any way to deal with it.

So far, in the life-span of World of Warcraft, we have had one under-water zone. I think it was a success, but obviously the developers does not agree with me since we never got another one.

Ironically, an under-water zone is effectively a zone with flying enabled - yet those are fine apparently. Makes you wonder. Perhaps the issue is simply jumping.

The zone had stiff competition though, in the form of Mount Hyjal. The hype for exploring Hyjal was real because it had been teased from before the game came out and many major lore moments happened there, yet we couldn’t go there ourselves.

I wouldn’t expect any new under-water zones; not because it’s a bad idea necessarily, although there are certainly some big challenges when making one, but because Blizzard thinks it is.

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Dive in this!

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On one hand, I find deep waters incredibly interesting… on the other hand I have thalassophobia. It doesn’t get more mixed than that I think.

Vashj’ir was a quite challenging zone to get through for me, especially having to dive down to that giant whirlpool and seeing all the giant creatures.

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Whats thalassophobia? at 1st glance it sounds like a fear for nightborne wich i totally understand xD

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Game devs usually can’t make good water levels from my experience. There is so much that can go wrong in development for underwater levels.

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Fear of deep, dark or open bodies of water. For example I could never go on a ship over the ocean. It scares me just thinking about it.

And it also works in games. As I said Vahj’ir scares the hell our of me.

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oh yeah damn that can be scary as hell tbh

It was always difficult to guage distances under water, keep being told that mob needs to be in front of you

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Moving swiming and doing anything under or in water in wow is not very gameplay frinedly. But i have to admit…vashjir is one if not the most beautiful zone in the game. I would recomend to everyone to go there and do the quest line.

On the other hand i cannot imagine bothering myself doing any daily or world quests there…its just not fun to move around there

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Aaah yeah forgot about that one, never played underwater as melee before though but the times i did it was annoying

its also part to get the hivemind mount, to get one of the monocles, was a great experience, take you all over that zone

Did you say water levels?

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Have you played during cata? The underwater zone was the most avoided one by the players.

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nah, but my experience is mostly based of late expansions and the electric eel(cant remember the bosses name atm) fight for eternal palace. was very fun

I really disliked Vashjir. It was very pretty but I can’t cope with the 3D-ness of underwater. I was always too high or too low or facing the wrong way or a load of other things. It all started with quests in, I think, vanilla off the west coast of Stranglethorn. I discovered under water in Wow was not for me.

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Most of the cata zones were rushed the vashjir itself had an unfinished storyline with Neptulon it where he got abducted and then in legion he shows up like nothing happened. Retconning at it’s finest.

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were you on the titanic in a past life?

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Vash’ir was freaking awesome. Still play it from time to time when lvling an alt.

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Vash’jir is one of the best zones aesthetically, game play wise not so much… Wow doesn’t do well with verticality. Distances are difficult to measure under water, aoe spells are uqite wonky and hard to use etc.

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