nice
We need portals going the other direction.
When you say there is now a portal in the Emerald Dreamway for Druids to use to go to Bel'ameth do they mean alliance only or is the Horde allowed in to new Night Elf city?
This is cool.
This was in the initial build, and people even tagged you (wowhead) on Twitter with pictures, I'm looking at one right now from November 29th lol. G
Woohoo, emerald dreamway update! Druids rejoice 😀
Adding portals to a tiny refugee camp in the corner of the Ohnaran plains is no substitute for Teldrassil, Darnassus, and Darkshore. The absolute incompetence of whoever dev approved this is astounding. The Orcs (direct portal, plus on the same continent) are now more connected to Mount Hyjal and the Night Elven lands, than the Night Elves are. Let thank sink in. The connection that ties the Kaldorei capital to Kalimdor is as flimsy as the connection between Stormwind and Pandaria, or our world and the Shadowlands.All they had to do was to either A) put Amirdrassil on the Dragon Isles BUT not call that the new Night Elf capital; or B) make Amirdrassil the Night Elf capital AND put it on Kalimdor where the NElfs belong. Having a NElf outpost on the Dragon Isles (like the Tauren outpost, or the NElf outpost in Pandaria) is one thing, but putting the capital of a millenia-old race on the other side of the world from where they defended their lands from multiple invasions was absolutely insane. Especially when the devs seem to understand that the Gilneans want Gilneas back rather than settling down in Val'sharah, and that the Forsaken want their lands back no matter how much death and torment they suffered there. Friendly reminder that Stormwind and Silvermoon were destroyed and rebuilt and people still didn't leave their entire continent behind.The devs didn't even save resources with this, as they created a new zone in the Emerald Dream and then pulled a phased version of that into the world - there was only a crater there on the Dragon Isles, so they didn't need to put the Emerald Dream zone there at all if they knew there were going to make that the new NElf capital in the end. We enter the Dream through portals anyway (and previous WoW expansions were able to put new and updated zones where they belong lore-wise rather than having this illogical compulsion for every expac zone to be on the same continuous landmass - from the Isle of Quel'danas to Argus to every single Cata zone, 5 whole patch zones in BfA, and we're literally getting a revamped Gilneas map this very expansion) so Amirdrassil could have been put on Kalimdor just as well.Not to mention that the tree isn't even a home of any kind the way Teldrassil was, so waiting around to make that the new NElf city was pointless. The 'capital' is just five buildings on the ground, so even the narrative makes no sense whatsoever - if that's all it took for them to "finally" have a home, why didn't the NElfs already have a new capital when they have canonically retaken Darkshore and reinforced Ashenvale at the start of BfA and the whole seed plotline was only revealed to Tyrande at the end of SL. I'm sure they had more than five buildings put together, hell, Nordrassil already has five buildings plus a giant Well. This whole Friendshipdrassil thing reeks of developer ego ("I'll put this race on hold in game even though it makes no sense in lore, contradicts the precedent of previous expansion and previous race storylines, contradicts the plot points of these people specifically fighting to reclaim their actual zones at the first opportunity, and I'll shoehorn a storyline for them in the Dragon expansion, and then they will happy about what I wrote them") coming before common sense. Because honestly, there is no other explanation for why anyone could have thought this was the wright move. I'm glad for the sake of my Forsaken characters and our epic undead Heritage quest that they haven't decided to abandon Lordaeron and move us to Zandalar or some other braindead story idea, but that just makes the Night Elf story all that much worse.
Love thissss!
That is cool.
a still no portal back from it. halfassed as usual.