Pandaria and Draenor had way better zones than the Broken Isles, tbh.


Legion is of course a much better expansion than WoD, and in several regards also better than MoP.But Pandaria and Draenor definitely had better zones in my opinion. Apart from pockets of sheer beauty (like in central Highmountain where the little rivers are, and the rugged west coast of Val'Sharah), the Broken Isles is quite unappealing.It's not that it's ugly or anything. Objectively, it looks amazing. But everything is so vertical, there are obstacles and cliffs everywhere and hardly any open landscapes or fields, and every theme is just so overdone and saturated.Suramar is too much Suramar. Val'sharah is too much Emerald Dream, Stormheim is too much Vrykul/stormy cliffs, Azsuna is too much ghostly elven ruins and so on. They lack the diversity and subtlety of past zones, which seemed more natural and realistic in some sense.