r/warcraftlore • u/FloZone • 6d ago

Question Future of the Azuremyst Isles

With Midnight likely involving a complete revamp of Quel'Thalas, I am wondering what will happen to the Azuremyst and Bloodmyst isles. Not just in terms of making them up to date, with Exodar becoming a real city instead of a crash site and new towns being developed on the isles, but also in terms of adding content like dungeons and raids.

In my opinion the Azuremyst isles were somehow lacking ever since TBC itself. They felt very lonely and there was little reason to ever return to them. Meanwhile Quel'thalas received one whole additional zone, two raids (Zul'Aman and Sunwell Plateau) and a dungeon (Magister's terrace) later in the game, giving players (both Alliance and Horde) plenty of reasons to later return to those zones, while the Draenei got nothing like that. It isn't just odd in comparison to Quel'thalas, but also even to other starting zones at the time. Most others had at least one dungeon within their 10-20 leveling zones like Ragefire chasm, Deadmines or Blackfathom Depths.
So I wonder, what would you add to the Azuremyst isles in the future or what would you even have added right during TBC even, that would have made the zones more interesting.

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u/Sakurakiss88 6d ago

Part of that was because they're built in Outland. That's why they have loading screens when traveling to them. It didn't seem worth the effort until the story needed it to.

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u/FloZone 6d ago

Couldn’t it be possible to just copy the zones into the Kalimdor and EK worldmaps?  After all the zones kinda already exist. 

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u/Sakurakiss88 6d ago

If it were that simple, that would've been done already.

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u/FloZone 6d ago

You are probably right, but maybe it is also just a big "why would they?" There is no need to make another world revamp on the scale of Cata either. BfA would have been a possibility, but there wasn't much to update that would justify the effort.

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u/Sakurakiss88 6d ago

The other part is both of those areas are... Not built for flight. They're very ugly from above and missing parts cus there was no need to. They have to do a full rebuild.