This week’s shared topic at Blog Azeroth is about your favorite and least favorite cities.
My favorite is Dalaran. I’m a lazy person at heart and the pure convenience that Dalaran provides is unequaled. I can log on some times and never leave the city, just get involved with trade chat or pick up items needed the next time I venture out.
My favorite capital city to visit is Exodar via a portal in Dal. I used to hate this place, but it really shines now for a quick run to the Auction house because there is no one there. Exodar is like a ghost town on my server, so easy in- easy out. Just make sure your hearth is ready or you’re going to spend a long time on boats to get back to Northrend.
My least favorite place to mistakenly happen through is Goldshire. There are always a gazillion people there dueling and just generally getting in the way. I can’t even ride through without someone popping a duel request on me, and believe me, I suck at duels.
Honorable mentions in the favorite Category would be:
- Honor Hold ( wonderful quest hub to get you started in Outland)
- Valliance Keep ( again, a nice starter quest hub)
Dishonorable Mentions go to:
- Shattrah ( even before WotLk, I hated trying to navigate lower city)
- Lights Hope, EP ( Huge quest hub, but I hated the plagueland quest)
I’m sure there are others that could be added but these are my most (and least) Favorites, which is the topic anyway.
Hey, I like the new layout.
I like Dalaran for the convenience, even though I bitch about lag.
Exodar is so far out of the way that I just hate going there. Same for Darnassus, even though aesthetically it’s one of my favourites.
I also find Stormwind incredibly convenient, especially since they added the harbour. If my Hearth is down, it’s just a quick boat ride to get to Darnassus or Northrend, or I can hop on the tram to get to IF.
The one I really, REALLY hate is Undercity, though. Whenever I’m playing any of my Horde toons I avoid that place like the goddamn plague. It’s a fucking big-ass circle. Should be easy to navigate, right? But no. Inexplicably, I get lost. Every. Time. It usually takes me about three times around the Upper Ring to find the blasted Flightmaster to escape the place. And you’d think that finding things in the Lower Ring would be easy, what with the quarters all named and separated on the map. Nuh uh. Not me. I can take pains to start at the bank and go down the ramp in the proper direction to end up in the quarter I want, and somehow still end up on the opposite side of the map from where I ought to be. Then, while I try to wind my way around the circle in the proper direction I inevitably end up on the wrong side of the sludge river and need to suck it up and swim across or risk getting lost again while I try to find a bridge.
Gah! See? I got all worked up just THINKING about it.
Undercity needs to DIAF.
Wow, you got me all pissed off at undercity and I dont even play Horde..HaHa
IT’S REALLY THAT BAD. I swear to you.
A wise jedi once called a place a ‘wretched hive of scum and villainy’. He might not have known it, but I think he was really referring to UC.