Place is freaking enormous.

It's pretty, but it doesn't look like Warcraft at all, it just looks like a random fantasy world.

Stutter mutch....

I can't look at this stupid white wind animation without feeling like throwing up or passing out for longer than 5 seconds...

You might have just single-handedly convinced me to come back to WoW. Unlike previous expansions, this looks like a totally unique and exciting new area to explore and get lost in. Cheers mate.

Miss when things were more compact, the scale of this is just too much lol

this looks amazing, i can't wait to not pay blizzard a single dime for it and just play it for free on a private server with my friends

I’m playing the game since 2011 but still don‘t know how to turn off the hud can someone explain??

Give me Shadowlands Classic.

Being able to fly so fast kind of ruins what would otherwise be an incredibly impressive scale, but the zones do look really really cool.

This is a great game w/o a question but why dont they improve graphics? Not talking about style but textures etc like low resolution. For instance, I liked new worlds graphics or baldurs gate 3. Why wow cant have this level of graphics?

I always preferred zoning in beautiful outdoor zones. This is a cave. I could go into one for a bit but for a whole expansion? I couldn't do it. This is a bad idea for all the same reasons making a whole expansion in Silithus would be a bad idea. It's kind of depressing.

I guess it's just me but there is no way I could spend a whole expansion inside a cave.

Seems like less objects, just bigger.

Feels like they took inspiration from elden ring multilayered map design and exploration

Beautiful, I love just flying around looking at stuff. Amazing work.

Im a classic andy and will probably never play retail again. But i gotta say this looks fuckin sick.

Not gonna lie this looks pretty cool. Too bad I massively dislike modern wows gameplay and combat and questing and story telling.

I can't wait to do the quests where you kill 6 spiders for their liver and half have no liver haha jk

Tbh Wow should had a complete overhaul for these new expansions, at least graphically, I mean, the game does evolve expansion after expansion, but the engine looks like it has given all it can give. It would blow the internet out of the water, it would definitely attract new and old players, after all its a game you need to pay the game AND the subscription. They can do better, when og wow came out it had state of the art graphics for an MMO.

the whole thing is underground...? this is gonna feel like the blackreach of skyrim

What Tears of the Kingdom should have been

Remember when you had to walk all that, now its just spraypaint on walls to fly past its so dull.

I recently started and I am level 15, would i be able to experience this with everyone? or am I to late for that?

The environmental design of WoW is top notch - it's just a crying shame that the engine really can't show of it much better than as is. These same environments brought into modern lighting engines like Unreal or even Unity would be mind-blowing.

theres going to be a KZbin video of someone walking all of that

Transitions in Abzu be like

"They call it a mine. A mine!"

That map looks insane. This cave is massiv. Just for that I want to play this game

Soo basically made in abyss in wow? :D I hope we can go up without… side effects :D

God I hate underground anything.

This look terrible... 30 fps without npc or players. And zones under and over itself is epic fail in game with 2d map...

sorry i haven't played WoW since burning crusade, do the flying mounts just go this fast now..? what if u hit a wall.....

I haven’t played World of Warcraft since Cataclysm but these zones look incredible

Looks very boring.

they are all the same, a bit boring

Very cool.

The zones these days seem like more with less detail.

This is amazing, 11/10! Already looks way more interesting than Dragonflight. One minor criticism is that, in my opinion, flying should be unlocked a bit later, maybe at max level? Otherwise, I think the sense of awe at the sheer size of these zones gets diminished by just having access to flying from the get go.

I see this and my only urge is to summon a ground mount and go down those giant stairs the old fashioned way

It's impressive how wow changed over the years.

So everything is in a cave? Lol wtf

And now walk it by foot.

World of warcraft: caves and cliffs update

damn this shit looks so mediocre compared to shadowlands, its just caves and grass.

doesn't even look like wow anymore

beautiful zones! shame everyone will afk in the capital 2 weeks after release

If only they would sequel off this game, it's so hard to immerse myself into this environment with so much bloat from 20+ years. Imagine Classic WoW, remade with this technology, with more raids and dungeons as beautiful as this. Expanded horizontally, ending at 60 forever, each update enriching the current world, rather than throwing it in the garbage for mindless leveling. Meaningful, tiered progression, rather than making all your work pointless every two years. The entire world being worth visiting up till lvl 60, rather than secluding all the endgame content to a distant island while all the levellers are alone. And like... no more of the femboy stuff lol 💀

Why is it so insanely large? I don't get the point at all...

I dont play retail (for like 8 years) but these zones look ❤️‍🔥