The WORST Zone Of EVERY WoW Expansion | World of Warcraft

[@WillEmmo]

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[@HadamacikTheProphet]

No.

[@zylle1993]

How can you advocate so much for classic and promote this garbage?

[@Mihaisuta]

Or you can play to enjoy and explore and go through the story. You know, play as much of the game as possible, not as little as possible. Doesn't it make sense?

[@inthendwealldie]

@@zylle1993 I think it's being a sellout, placed money before any solid values and principles, and so the $25-$50 USD speedrun min max leveling guide ad...

[@wallswork5329]

@@Mihaisutamakes sense to me. He’s prolly gettin paid.

[@V0r4xiz]

Gundrak is a dungeon. Zuldrak is the zone.

[@Zugcityx]

🤓☝

[@singingpipes]

gottim

[@Boredonthejob]

Ok thanks, I was so confused.

[@Adam9496]

@@Zugcityxhe’s correcting him? How does that make him a nerd nerd?

[@StainderFin]

@@Zugcityx true

[@Xtazieyo]

Desolace, while being ugly as fuck, has a decent amount of quests, lore and one of the most interesting dungeons in WoW Classic. The obvious choice for vanilla is Blasted Lands: Ugly, dogshit quests, annoying mobs, annoying elites - only plus is the Worldboss and the huge mine-complex up north.

[@Norrieification]

Agreed, though I think Azshara is worse than blasted lands. At least Blasted Lands has lore relevance and has The Dark Portal and Nethergard Keep.

[@Bukluka]

Nah, i mean it sucks yes, but id rather go to blasted lands than say azshara or felwood or if we count deadwin pass

[@khatack]

Cope all you want, Desolace is dogshit supreme. Not even blasted lands is as bad.

[@0rcd0c]

I thought for sure it would be Deadwind Pass. This zone has literally nothing of interest

[@khatack]

@@0rcd0c It has lore and it has Medivh's tower. Sure there's not much to actually DO in the zone, but there's plenty of interest in there.

[@mogullll]

vashjir lover here, it's insane that people can't conceptualize that an underwater area is functionally the same as an area where you can fly, only difference is the environment is actually suited for it, the aesthetics and music make it maybe my favourite zone in wow (although I've only played alongside the classic re releases and am no further than cata)

[@mattphoenix4702]

It’s just one of those things you know you’ll find in almost every rpg, and they’re all almost the same, very little is innovative or new about the theme. Like how most RPGs have to have sewer level at some point. They aren’t bad, they’re just par for the course

[@stpvtrick5943]

People hated it because having to be forced to fight underwater the entire time felt awful, because combat in WoW is just not designed well for being underwater (for example, not being able to use any movement speed abilities to escape, or not being able to use any AoE abilities because your circle gets dropped on the ocean floor 300 feet below you). I did Vashj'ir once and that was enough, lol. I went to Hyjal instead after that every time I leveled a new character.

[@LURKTec]

@@stpvtrick5943I loved it back when cata was current

[@JABoyle3875]

It’s a fish tank. Pure garbage.

[@GracideaJo]

I like the kelp forest zone, coral reef area and the abyssal zone. It was great. Hate they removed its raid and combat was meh.

[@patrickb1303]

It’s a shame the pandas were so poorly received. Because MoP was one of the best looking expansions ever. Each zone is visually excellent. They really Ooked it in the Dooker with that one.

[@kayokango]

Pandaren hate has always been one of the most edgelord, hypocritical and embarrassing things in the WOW fandom. It's especially pathetic now.

[@tyrnip7868]

@@kayokangothe timing of the expansion really fueled the hate to be fair. If Kung Fu Panda never came out then MoP would have been looked at differently

[@bobdole7451]

Ya, I liked MOP. I remember people complaining about adding pandas, but the pandas were around BEFORE wow even started...

[@Mihaisuta]

Play World of Warcraft to fight or befriend panda bears? Really? Is this kindergarten?

[@xercespriest]

​@@Mihaisuta You mean the same Pandas that were around during Warcraft times? Tell me you don't know the lore without telling me

[@ffarkasm]

I really liked Zul'drak. Boring Tundra on the other hand...

[@KrisBruus]

@@ffarkasm Nothing boring about Borean

[@avukovic84]

I might be the only person that enjoys Borean Tundra

[@Kiobao]

I was fine with Borean tundra, I think my issue with it is that since it's the intro zone, I just often wanted to blaze through it. That said, It is still my least favorite of the zones. Zul'drak was better.

[@DoAGoldeneye]

I only disliked navigating around Warsong Hold. The pits around it make it a maze.

[@khatack]

Boring Tundra is one of the worst zones in wow ever.

[@Infernoblade1010]

Crystalsong Forest is so bad everyone forgot about it...

[@Dimi.Petrov]

There’s literally nothing there, except for Dalaran. I often wonder what’s the point of this zone anyway

[@JustaSmilingHedgehog]

Crystalsong ist just a giant interactive loading screen.

[@Greatlakessailing]

Crystalsong was supposed to have more, with two quest hubs, but all the players in dalaran was a problem. It lagged the zone to lethal levels.

[@Infernoblade1010]

@Greatlakessailing yea I remember hearing that from the dev interview they did years ago.

[@notNajimi]

It’s not even a questing zone, it’s basically just dalaran’s backyard. The only questing that you do there is a couple steps of certain dailies

[@theviper6684]

hellfire peninsula is frickin awesome. Blades edge takes the cake by far

[@budjuh]

I always hated Netherstorm because of the weird lore and ugly purple…

[@1shogunate696]

HP will always be what pops up in my head when I think of TBC. I love it a lot

[@ProfessorHanger]

Eh, there's some cool enemy groups in Blades Edge like the Ogres, the Dragon Cult, and the Burning Legion base. Zangarmarsh is mostly the same few animal types throughout and Naga, with lots of water around to swim through or run around, it's one of the most dreadfully boring zones and leveling through it is an absolute drag.

[@flazzorb]

*[Fel Reaver roar]*

[@christopherburke3821]

I hated Terrorkar forest. Hellfire peninsula was awesome I thought

[@juandeag5194]

Ashenvale is the classic zone i hate the most. Impossible to navigate due to mountains blocking paths everywhere. Despite being a Huge zone, it feels small because you are pushed into small areas where quests happen. The rest is just random animals attacking you everywhere. Also regarding its size - there arent even that many quests to do.

[@ZakhadWOW]

but you HAVE to love it, it's in the OG cinematic!

[@lancourt]

classic desolace is probably my favorite overall zone in classic. Back in the day I used to use this zone to meditate and cool down after leading a raid. Out on the shores near the towers

[@Hundvalpp]

I kind of love big, empty zones with little to no quests, makes the world feel more real.

[@NerevarineKing]

Everquest started off like this although after several expansions it started having more questlines.

[@Michael-kd1ho]

I liked Zul'drak, and the Drakuru chain in particular, it was fun - especially if you do his chain in Grizzly Hills first. Very thematic.

[@Klaital1]

It was fun the first time you do, however by the time your on your 6th alt it has gotten real old real fast. Especially the blow up 60 trolls with abominations part.

[@HAXRLITSXY]

@@Klaital1 the abomination part is annoying, but borean tundra is boring as hell.

[@stpvtrick5943]

I loved the lore of the Drakuru quest line but my GOD, some of those quests were such a pain in gameplay terms. The ghoul costume mechanic was so clunky, and don't even get me started on that damn abomination exploding quest. Also, any quest that requires you to use an item, but then puts a COOLDOWN on that item for no fucking reason, can go straight in the trash as far as I'm concerned.

[@PESHKIRAwee]

Desolace was wonderful in my eyes, it has story, it has size, it has diverse mobs, it has nice dungeon.

[@Psyches7]

Desolace gets a lot of hate yes, i agree with you. Same with Azshara that doesnt have much content but i love the atmosphere and solitude there.

[@PESHKIRAwee]

@@Psyches7 true, azshara is pretty barren on the content side, but the history and charge itself of the place is undisputed. if you have red the books you get an idea of what happened there and having the mobs be in place you can pretty much make your own story, with the giants, wildlife nagas, murlocs and so on

[@kozzArt]

I love deserts and barren zones and loved questing in Desolace.

[@legoarts97]

Southern Kalimdor is my favorite region and Desolace is the epitome of that

[@cabrondemente1]

No thanks; too much walking, too little reward. At least Barrens had it's chat for entertainment.

[@JurdiJD]

No way you’re dissing on Zul Drak and the Drakuru quest chain. Lore wise, especially doing the first part in grizzly hills and going into Drak Tharon Keep, it was awesome!

[@ofelijawow]

Zuldrak is a lil dull overall and I can see wanting to pick it, but I just think Drakuru is one of the best questlines in the game's history

[@troqu]

Gotta disagree, it's easily the worst WotLK zone.

[@goonerw27]

“Tharon’ja is eternal!”

[@Enseria]

Lorewise the Drakuru quest chain is really good. Gameplay wise the Zul'Drak part is absolutely awful. The vehicle-quests, especially the one quest where you have to kill a bunch of trolls with an abomination that you need to explode, is one of the worst quests in the entire game. And it doesn't stop here. In another quest you have to mindcontrol geists to farm some crystals. You can only do one crystal per geist. It takes so long and easily bugs out which makes it take even longer. The whole quest chain consists of around 10 quests and it takes you over an hour to finish it. And its not even fun because you have to wait so long for cooldowns on your quest-items or abilities of your vehicles.

[@ofelijawow]

@ oh yeah the abom troll explosion quest is one of the worst in the game lol

[@soulsharts]

Yea The Maw was the absolute worst. The place was so saturated with mobs and were spread out across the entire area, plus they were higher health and damage as well, you couldn't just walk anywhere, you had to fight through tougher mobs from point A to point B so nothing was as simple as "go do quest and return to questgiver". On top of that, after you clear a path, you'd think "oh thank God, at least I can just run back since the path is cleared", but then respawns. It was the most dreadful and painful area in WoW that I've ever been. It's modeled to be like Hell, and that is accurate. I actually feel bad for Sylvanas being damned there until all the Teldrassil souls are saved, or whatever she's doing.

[@tkengathegrateful4844]

I made up a Blizz programmer named "Dan" who I blamed for the Eye of the Jailer mechanic. Soon, every time there was a horrible mechanic or something badly designed in the game, my guildies would start busting on "Dan". "Great programming Dan - thanks a lot a---ole!" "Jeez, musta been Dan!"

[@darwinxavier3516]

They were clearly trying to ripoff a Souls-like game with the level of drudgery and obvious aesthetic. When you died you dropped half of your new stupid currency that you needed for crafted leggos and so would have to run back to your body to loot. Not as a ghost mind you, but alive and potentially run past a bunch of shit that has respawned so there was a chance you'd die again on the way to your first corpse.

[@ThallanarRabidtooth]

I feel so blessed for being a Druid main and being able to skip all the mobs thanks to cat form stealth. Also I think I remember the Mount restriction not applying to Worgen’s running wild ability so I could mount up unlike everyone else

[@soulsharts]

@@darwinxavier3516 oh yea, I forgot about that part. Just one more reason the place was awful.

[@aguyhere7945]

I thought it was fun for about a day or two or with a group of friends, but like all of the no flying allowed zones the charm dried up pretty quickly.

[@martinveres7912]

My take: TWW: Siren Isle (so far) DF: Forbidden Reach SL: The Maw BfA: Mechagon Island Legion: Broken Shore WoD: Tanaan Jungle MoP: Vale of Eternal Blossoms Cataclysm: Vashj'ir WotLK: Crystalsong Forest TBC: Blade's Edge Mountains Vanilla: Azshara

[@oscarmichel9932]

Vanilla Azshara is so beautiful

[@00wkee]

@@oscarmichel9932 vashj'ir and vale of eternal blossoms? wow

[@951001ify]

Boken shore was awesome, in TWW S2's gnomegoblintinkerer zone will be the worst. Like they didnt even touch models since the early years, angular a$$ buildings/models

[@Astr4live]

Totally agree except for Vale, Isle of Thunder takes the cake for me lol. Also is Crystalsong a fair choice ? It's not a questing zone at all...I'd say Borean Tundra hands down, otherwise yeah Crystalsong cuz there's just Dalaran there

[@martinveres7912]

@@Astr4live Well... that's exactly why I chose Crystalsong :D No quests, nothing to do there, and it's so bad, because the zone itself looks amazing.

[@Lotuswalker]

Including Tol Barad is kinda cheaty tbh ... I wouldnt call that a real questing zone.

[@KellerKind287]

Yeah, would otherwise be either be twilight highlands or Vashj'ir depending on preferences

[@Viertis]

I agree.

[@General12th]

Uldum for sure. Indiana Jones is just not good enough to warrant wasting half the zone on a pastiche. So much cool lore potential down the drain.

[@andromidius]

If we're going by levelling zones, for me its Mount Hyjal. Despite the fact I mostly do that zone when levelling because its quicker then Vashj'ir. Main issue is so many people also go there that certain quests become a real bottleneck. And yet its still faster then an empty Vashj'ir. Make sense of it, I cannot.

[@brucemckinlay9739]

@@General12th The Goblin Nazi was cool lol.

[@Madocvalanor]

“The maw, not being able to mount.” Me who main worgen: haha running wild goes awoooooo

[@Corvus-gm4bo]

Me, who plays druid: travel form ftw

[@Bobis32]

@@Corvus-gm4bo Arcane mage Shimmer shimmer shimmer

[@ZakhadWOW]

Shaman with GHost Wolf. THey really SHOULD HAVE BLOCKED anything like that in The Maw to make it equal

[@MrCelzeron]

Nightelf paladin and warlock.....use my friggin legs 🙂

[@velkynkarma6804]

I actually enjoyed the Maw initially. Early in the story, it had a really tense dramatic feel--which made sense, because you were in a place nobody was supposed to be. It felt genuinely intimidating with the dense mobs, the things hunting you, and the way you couldn't stay too long because it became progressively more deadly. You only had one ally in one location and the whole place felt unsafe, so you had to be on your toes 100% of the time. And that felt awesome, because it was so easy to get complacent in modern WOW expansions. Even in prior expacs, supposedly forbidden/extremely deadly zones often had friendly npc's or villages or camps you could go to for a rest, but the Maw was almost exclusively you. Buuuut...once it came down to grinding rep for Ve'nari and doing dalies on multiple characters, it started to get old fast. Eventually it just became annoying and lost a lot of its scariness, which was unfortunate.

[@seanduhigg4525]

I am also one of the few who really enjoyed the maw. Got those same sort of anxious feelings which really worked for me.

[@Astr4live]

I liked it on my worgen char at the beginning of the expansion, cuz they were the only ones (with droods) able to mount. But the eye of the jailer was TERRIBLE. It filled too quickly so you couldn't even finish half the quests that were handed to you there, you had to choose between doing the dailies or doing the main quests. Even when you were supposed to get rid of it at the start of 9.1 you couldn't finish the questline in one day because you'd reach the last step of the eye waaaaay before the end, even if you didn't kill any extra mob or rare. It was frustrating. They fixed it several times with patches, but the damage was done. It's now tied to an endless feeling of frustration for me, even though I liked it during the main campaign.

[@nileshchainpuria6383]

One thing that people sometimes miss out, is that the maw was thematically perfect. It was meant to make you feel like like a sadist and what hell could look like. Either way the frame when you look up and see torghast far away in distance was absolutely stunning imo 😅

[@Terestrasz]

The Maw actually gave me the feeling like I was in a hostile zone. Instead of just "Oh I'm in a hostile zone yet I can freely fly around without consequences."

[@dareapermanstormearth1891]

With The Maw's scariness you're talking about: that sort of happens when you're in a place for a long time. With exposure comes comfort, and even the scariest places will become business as usual over time. Blizzard cooked with the Maw's atmosphere. Not anything else about it beyond mobcount sure but they did cook with the atmosphere

[@cxn_r3561]

Why would you not start with Vanilla and go through the expansions that way? This video is so disjointed it's jarring

[@eternalsorsha]

he said at the start that it was least bad to most bad, not expansion order...

[@Kibernizzle]

No, you

[@赴大家惡化不得好死時]

He mixed it up so people don't just watch the first 5 mins of the video (Vanilla TBC and WotLK) and leave

[@emmanuelhoule8070]

Shimmering Flats: -3 full laps and that PvP cockroach is still behind

[@Scyths1]

It's incredible how I disagreed with every single choice in this video, and was tilted right at the start for the fact that it didn't go from BC to war within but went all over the place lmao.

[@Daftanemone]

Seriously I have no clue how he decided on the organization of this video. It’s infuriating

[@kierengert6177]

He said at the start he ranked them in order of what sucks the least to what sucks the most. He started with Pandaria/Legion because they had solid zones all around and the worst of them weren't all that bad. Conversely, he ended with the Wrath/Shadowlands entries because those specific zones were completely terrible (in his opinion) and ones he wants to completely avoid and never return to.

[@radicuris]

What's tilting is how people are so incapable of listening that a list tilts them.

[@CadaverJunky8]

I agree that Desolace was a very ugly zone, but for some reason i remember questing there very vividly still. The whole centaur tribe fight was very unique. I certainly enjoyed questing there more than other random ugly places, like Felwood, Blasted Lands or, god forbid, Hellfire Penninsula.

[@tombowombo-]

12:06 is supposed to be "Zul'Drak".

[@Green815]

Krasarang Wilds is annoying because it's not a zone you enter independently, it's a zone you NEED to do in order to complete the Valley of the Four Winds storyline.

[@Hauke-ph5ui]

Technically speaking Krasarang Wilds is not a zone, it is a sub-zone of the Valley of the Four Winds.

[@Mohykan]

I love Zun'Drak my TOP 3 zone of all time (for some reason). The MUSIC was spot on! Love the drums! Quests were great (lore wise too) Shapeshift to undead to spy on scourge and then progress through zone to see troll desperation and in order to avoid being wiped out they kill their own LOA. Lovely stuff but I know I'm in minority. The music thought - goad!

[@TheLivingOdyssey]

Blasted Lands or Thousand Needles gotta be way worse than Desolace for Vanilla. Blasted Lands has some of the worst quests in Vanilla and Thousand Needles is just a straight line filled with hyenas and centaur until you get to the shimmer flats which has got to be by far the worst area of the map in the games entire history. Desolace may be a barren wasteland but the shimmer flats is literally a flat, white X-axis filled with “Kill 200 mobs and collect 40 pieces of trash” and a quest giver who only wants to send you to the opposite side of the entire world ever other quest. I know people hate water zones but TH going from total garbage to a zone that had its own unique ship mount, a floating barge quest hub, a Tauren race war, and so many pirates it’s not even funny was the best glow up in any zones history.

[@rae-neko]

my most hated zone of anything in this game is probably blades edge mountains in BC. mainly just because when BC first came out, it took a long time for people to be able to consistently afford flying but blades edge mountains was designed with flying in mind. it's a nightmare to navigate, the quests are boring, and it looks ugly as hell.

[@cujoedaman]

I dunno, I think Isle of Thunder is pretty high up there for MoP. Mobs literally everywhere, including on the roads, annoying fights and achievments that required some of the most ridiculous mechanics to get. It was never a fun zone. And someone argued that the Maw isn't supposed to be fun, it's supposed to be Hell... to which I replied "yeah, but that doesn't mean you have to literally make people suffer, it's supposed to be a game. It should reflect that". Blizz made the Maw a bad place simply because they could and it backfired.

[@drowsyfantasy]

I had somehow, up until now, completely forgotten that we had to traverse the maw ON FOOT before they allowed riding. This was the expansion that made me quit for over a year, and I *still* don't fully remember how awful it was!

[@Hauke-ph5ui]

Actually that's not really true - the Maw had its own special mount I can't remember the name of right now - these doglike things. And that mount could be aquired a lot sooner than general riding was implemented.

[@aguyhere7945]

@Hauke-ph5ui The robo-skelle dogs. Literally the very first mobs you encounter after leaving Venari's Refuge and I'm pretty sure you could also fight while mounted on them.

[@stpvtrick5943]

​@Hauke-ph5ui except it was a temporary mount that you had to kill a mob to hop onto, and you couldn't remount if you dismounted. Plus, Blizzard had the audacity to time gate the ability to mount behind a quest line they introduced into the 9.1 patch after a LONG content drought. And we also still can't fly there, or in Oribos.

[@Hauke-ph5ui]

@@stpvtrick5943 And, so what. These things where all over the place, you can grab a new one super quick. As for the non-flying - I don't care.

[@georgthesecond]

Personally, I've only played the first patch of SL so I definetely didn't forget that. The Maw deserves it's place on this list for sure :D

[@3StaRRR]

Nazjatar was a nightmare to traverse when it first came out. One of the worst daily zones imo.

[@lytav1717]

I agree did it with one alt for abit and quit it

[@CorporateSycophant]

I remember hating Thousand Needles. That might've been vanilla, though.

[@seanrobertson454]

I love how Desolace becomes almost a completely different zone if you are on the coast. I just did the quest for silver/gold key and enjoyed it though I understand why people wouldn't like the zone.

[@Norrieification]

Fair but Azshara has to be worse than Desolace right?!

[@seanrobertson454]

@@Norrieification stonetalon mountains is the worst imo

[@CharlesMoreau-t4j]

I am so relieved that I am not alone that hated Zaralek Caverns. I avoided that "catch up" area like the plague because it was so bad to navigate.

[@gortex123]

Vashir is honestly one of my favorite zones, sure, it was different regarding traveling and so on in there, but it wasent that bad due to the mount with increased speed. I loved it as it was a very unique zone that stood out, it had a lot of cool places to explore and pretty great lore as well, its one of the zones I actually miss.

[@Tr3yCharlz]

I love Vashjir, one of my favorite zones in WoW I absolutely do not understand anyone saying the opposite

[@IlDuce7111]

Drakuru quest line was real banger leading up to Drak keep, for ultimate plot. It was such niche but interesting experience, opposite to Scholazar's KILL 180 animals.

[@dark3rthanshadows]

Pandaria is so hard because is so well tailored , doesn't really have a bad area

[@magesticalmysterium6856]

I personally consider the Dread Wastes to be the worst MoP Zone, it was like entering your own personal hell. lol

[@shaharluxenburg4640]

Always loved Desolace. I liked that I knew exactly what I have to do for the next couple of levels. Everything was in the zone with little back and forth between zones.

[@DarinRWagner]

You must be outta your gd mind! Desolace is an amusement park compared to Silithus! Silithus mobs didn't even have loot.

[@visidenvisidane1155]

The best part of Bladespire mountains is that it’s also home to that faction of smart ogres that you have to grind rep for. Enjoy doing that Simon Says quest over and over again!

[@stpvtrick5943]

My memory is fuzzy, but when I played TBC and would do those dailies every day, I think I got to a point where I would straight up skip that quest, lmao

[@eydis9554]

This is the hill I will die on but for me Grizzly Hills is terrible zone with quest design. The atmosphere and music? 10/10. Sure, its iconic and beautiful. But holy hell there are so many instances where you complete the quests, return to the camp and the quest giver will send you straight back where you come from. Those quests are taking a long time to do and are basically the same. Sure there are exceptions like that one acorn quest but outside of that.....nah. I have leveled a lot of alts in Northrend but Im trying to avoid Grizzly Hills as much as possible.

[@andromidius]

Grizzly Hills can be pretty miserable - but with a flying mount, damn its fast. I avoided it on my main for that reason, but cleared it on my alt. Also the Troll mojo quests when there are other people around is pure torture.

[@Boxkar24]

Dude, I'm no fan of the zone either. I'd never say it's the worst by any stretch but I think it's overrated. Only area of the zone I got a kick out of was the Iron dwarves (really love titan lore). Past that, I don't ever look forward to that place.

[@Kiobao]

I feel that with dragonblight. Long af quest, massive RP quest, group quest , group quest, group quest, massive RP quest that takes forever and you have to wait for the people ahead of you to do it, etc. Really tedious leveling experience in the zone, that said, Borean Tundra was my least favorite, most likely.

[@DannysDome]

Vashj'r is the best zone ever made! Awesome quests and the most beautiful location we've seen!

[@Grosvenor77]

I thought he was going to say Crystalsong forest. that is the most forgettable zone in wrath, despite techically spending a ton of time there.

[@MrLeothedrummer]

Every answer other than this is objectively wrong

[@Vikt0rian]

Good choice as well, even if I would personally pick Borean Tundra, the only redeeming quality of Borean Tundra is the blue dragon flight's place, where as Crystalsong's redeeming quality is being short and a pretty backdrop to Dalaran. I prefer Crystalsong for this by just a tiny margin.

[@Hauke-ph5ui]

@@MrLeothedrummer Wintergrasp is by far the worst zone - not only because it is PvP which in itself is already reason enough to despise everything about it - no, you also got dismounted randomly when flying over the zone unless you where ultra high in the air.

[@hansolowe19]

I like Desolace 😊

[@BasicMaffs]

Incorrect.

[@saalok]

Same. Azshara would have been a better choice. Or Silithus pre-1.9.

[@davidcardinal3654]

You aren’t allowed to like desolace

[@brettprickett4146]

@@saalok I think Azshara is so much worse than Desolace in every tangible category that he just forgot it existed.

[@picklechin3061]

Me too, overhated zone

[@patocontrerasc]

I get that the maw functionally speaking was bad, but i loved the aesthetic of pure hell, the mobs, elites, and huge thorgast in the sky

[@loganlaslo8718]

Vanilla- Winterspring; Reason: Farming for Timbermaw Hold and grabbing Firewater along with a mount quest chain exclusive for Alliance. Half the quests start in Everlook and go somewhere else. If you’re alliance, you come here often but Horde players rarely come here. BC-Blade’s Edge; Reason: The entire map was built for flying players to soar through but you have the quest the ENTIRE zone on foot. Don’t get me started on the Rexxar and Gnome stuff. Wrath- Borean; Reason: It’s a decent zone but when you compare it to Howling Fjord…it’s boring. Cata- Uldum; Reason: Half the quest chain was based off Indiana Jones, I get a few gags here and there but copy paste an entire quest chain around a movie and instead of being original like the fact we have a BIG WIND GOD in the SKY that was the equivalent of RAGNAROS…come on Blizzard. Mists- Krasarang Wilds; Reason: I have to agree with this pick but not for his reason. It’s a jungle zone, it’s supposed to feel claustrophobic…that’s the point. My two reasons is the zone was too small, needed to be twice as big. The second is that quests weren’t even engaging, even the Anduin one. Think about it…Jade Forest you created a war that brought an old enemy back into the limelight, Valley of Four Winds you stopped a preemptive invasion with only the local untrained populace while also creating a new form of beer and then you go to Krasarang…what’s the quest chains you do there? Restore a village by making them happy, Find out the hozen overfish, Mogu vs Ally/Horde, and Chicken Sad so Boy King must make him happy….I know that’s simplified but hopefully you get the point. WoD- we could literally say any zone here because half to more than half of content from WoD was cut due to Blizzard wanting to meet deadlines. Legion- we could say any of the Argus zones here…Legion should’ve been a Part 1 and Part 2 xpac. ToS should’ve been the Capstone raid leading to Part 2, with more time those zones could’ve been better than what they were. BFA- Personally Vol’dun, I don’t know why but I never liked the zone and hated questing in that area on Horde. Shadowlands- The Maw. We don’t need a reason, it’s hell. Literally and figuratively. Dragonflight- Zaralek Caverns; Reason: I actually like all Dragonflight zones but my main gripe is the lack of quests in the area that can be done solo, a lot of the stuff in that REQUIRED a group which was annoying. Also the time gates content was a bit much as well.

[@loganlaslo8718]

I like to add to both my Wrath and Classic comments that will disagree with his choice. Zul’drak was an amazing zone, hands down. Finding out trolls are at the point of sacrificing their own gods just to have chance against the Scourge, Argent Dawn and Ebon Blade fighting scourge AND trolls…and don’t forget the continuation with its awesome finale of the Drakuru chain. Desolace; while an ugly zone had its lore, quests and an enormous dungeon that I STILL have a soft spot for because…level design wise that thing must’ve been a pain in the ass to make back in 2002-3.

[@jiffah]

Blasted Land

[@Norrieification]

Easily worse than desolace thats for sure! But for me Azshara is the worst of vanilla.

[@haunted5311]

​@@Norrieification I actually like desolace. It'd be a great zone if it had more quests imo

[@skylerlanham8100]

Swamp of sorrows is really bad. There are so few quests no real lore outside of the sunken temple. Its just a boring swamp.

[@Lua64]

I always enjoyed Blasted Lands, at least post Cataclysm.

[@Psyches7]

@@Norrieification Azshara sucks with content, but is my favorite zone in terms of atmosphere and aesthetics

[@camma12]

Call me crazy but a fuckin love vanilla desolace !

[@Norrieification]

Same!!! The centaur story is super cool, the coast is awesome, Maraudon is amazing, the demon stuff is sweet! Azshara would be my pick for vanilla for sure.

[@saalok]

Same. It's a bit refreshing (ironically) since it is one of the few truly destroyed regions of the game. The atmosphere is neat.

[@kipper7142]

It's a great zone with amazing atmosphere. You almost can't hear the BGM with the loud sound of the wind whistling through it. Other desert zones in classic are desolate everywhere, but desolace gets green and beautiful near the coasts and in the high hills. The Dungeon is full of subterranean rivers, lakes and waterfalls.

[@ChaosLastie]

"Let me list my worst zones from each expansion in WoW!" This should be interesting! I wonder what zones he'll pick? Am I part of the problem?!?

[@tkengathegrateful4844]

Vanilla: I just hate Azshara. MoP: Townlong Steppes - PITA to get around, annoying AF mob density, bad quests. I'm on Team Vash'jir - I liked the quests and the storyline there.

[@Chicken-x6q6d]

I personally dislike The Hinterlands in classic a lot more than Desolace because while gloomy it does have some good quests, plus the coastline was great for fishing. Hinterlands on the other hand has: Melee and caster mobs placed in such positions that you cannot aggro one without aggroing another, and there is nothing you can LoS them with. Said mobs all run away pulling additional ones in. Stealthed wolves which also join in when this happens Stealthed wolves all along the roads which dismount you constantly. Stealthed wolves which will aggro on to you from other players pulling them, even though you haven't touched them. Needing a guild who isn't a shower of excrement in order to get the quests there done because so many of them are elite. Annoying variances in creature level on certain quests like Skulk Rock Cleanup where one group of creatures can be green to you and the others red to you despite the fact that they are part of the same quest in the exact same area. Constant, unwanted aggro because everything is placed so close together. The fact that there's, "A" questing hub for each faction and nothing else despite the zones size. Mobs which turn on your PvP mixed in among normal quest mobs.

[@mournwood]

Another point about Azj-Kahet: Not only is it annoying dragonriding down there because of the close quarters, some areas have those damned mines that dismount you.

[@seanylewl]

One thing you missed about Blades Edge Mountains, is that in TBC original there was a bug where if you died in the area in the north west (Raven's Wood), it would spawn you at the closest graveyard, which happens to be Sylvanaar. It's the closest as the crow flies, but to run back to your corpse from there you you had to go all the way around the zone. You ended up running past three other graveyards just to get to your corpse. Infuriating!

[@xTyereNx]

I was VERY surprised to hear gundrak as the pick for wrath because I immediately went "but the drakkuru quests were amazing!" And then you listed that as part of why it was bad and I thought you know.... fair enough. But I personally really enjoyed how it made me feel a tad more connected to the quests I was doing rather then them being random errands.

[@thewalrus45]

The thing with Krasarang is IRC it was initially designed as being part of the Valley of the Four Winds zone, like a giant subzone. Hence why a lot of quest have you go inbetween them and it's own quest outside of the Sha stuff were mostly random stuff.

[@zylle1993]

The Maw was the only interresting zone in a long time because it was a dangerous place, hard to navigate, monsters every where etc, it was a lot better if you grouped and worked as a team, which i usually did, plus the gold making out there was sick. I think it was a really dope zone. Same with the legion zone, these types of zones are just nice, makes the world feel challenging

[@theuselessdrunk]

another con of desolace: you die in maraudon and there's always a chance you will not be able to find the entrance to the dungeon ever again

[@Siendra]

Zul'drak being worse than Borean Tundra is sure an opinion.

[@andromidius]

Borean Tundra is at least quite efficient. And you need to do a fair few quests there for Nexus dungeon quests, whereas the Utgarde Keep quests can be picked up immediately. Its not really a good excuse for it being 'good', but it is effective. Also it has varied scenery, with the beaches, meadows, quarry, hot springs and hills.

[@Direbeetus]

my list Vanilla: Stonetalon mountain TBC: Bladesedge mountains Wrath: Crystalsong Forest Cata: Vashj'ir Pandalands: Karasang Wilds WoD: Talador Legion: Highmountain BFA: Nazmir Shadowlands: the maw Dragonlands: Ohn ahran plains War within: the ringing deeps

[@PrimetimeD]

Agree with most of your choices, except Azj-Kahet. It's my favorite zone in the current xpac, to the point where I got full reputation with the main faction as well as the Vizier, General, and Weaver while lagging FAR behind that on every other zone. Well done video, however, and I would definitely be interested in seeing a favorite zone list. New sub from me!

[@valecrassus7835]

I have to agree that Zul'Drak was a real slog to get through tier by tier. I think the lower tiers were the worst...early on in the lower level when you're doing that quest chain for the death knights, I didn't realize you could summon the quest giver to you with the horn they gave you, so I kept (land mount) riding all the hell way back to the NPC at the very farthest part of the zone and it took forever. Zul'Drak was supposed to have a big raid and just didn't. I'm not sure why that was. I think so-called Troll raids were love em or hate em, and people were tired of them.

[@blacksunshine9995]

Any time i watch these ranking vids of WoW zones, I'm reminded that the playerbase does not enjoy 2 things : a dull zone and a zone that you can't faceroll. Antoran Wastes and the Maw are perfectly fine zones for what they represent in the lore. Antoran Wastes is the fortress of the Legion and it is NOT supposed to be an easy to navigate area. It is a punishing place that demands you do everything you can to survive the second you leave the comfort of your tiny foothold in enemy controlled land. Same ith the Maw. I enjoyed it once they actually got it up and running properly and I liked having a zone that you had to legitimately fight to traverse. Some zones are just there to stroll through. Some zones lack content. Some zones are beautiful scenery or have one memorable questline. But to me, I like zones that make you have to use potions and cooldowns and think about which mobs you will pull first instead of letting you just avoid them.

[@Wheeljack678]

Until they added an extra graveyard, Blade's Edge also had one of WoWs absolute longest cropseruns. If you died in Ravens Wood (I think it was), you had a good 15+ minute run to traverse as the nearest GY was (by air) just below it, but due to the design of the zone, you basically had to run through almost all of it to get to where you died.

[@saalok]

What are those picks lol Counting Tol Barad is... a choice I guess. And Desolace? Really? When Azshara is straight up almost cut content and largely unfinished? You should redo this video without patch zones too, imo.

[@waderoberts3701]

The thing about Azshara is that it's barely even anything there to be upset at. It's essentially an Alliance flightpath at the end of Ashenvale and a couple of high level quests, not somewhere you'll be spending a lot of time in like a Desolace.

[@989896123]

It is his opinions bro. Why should he remake the video to cater to your or anyones opinion? Lets say you think bread is good and i comment "no rethink your opinion, bread is not good"

[@Hauke-ph5ui]

@@waderoberts3701 There's also a world boss. If there is a reason that just existed and had nothing going on in Vanilla it is actually Deadwind Pass.

[@thomaswilburn6263]

@@waderoberts3701 lots of quests vs no quests. pretty simple really.

[@Orthane]

The story of Azj-Kahet is so lame imo. Like why are they trying to show Nerubians are potentially good or not all evil? This is like what Rings of Power did with the Orcs. Like no, sorry, all Nerubians are evil, that's just how it is.

[@ZakhadWOW]

THIMBLE IS NOT EVIL!!!

[@capribea]

Worst zone in Shadow Lands: All of Them.

[@darylcheshire1618]

On my mage, I found Bladesedge difficult and tedious and depressing so I went to Netherstorm and hit level 70 and THEN did Bladesedge for the quest gold, it was like doing dailies but only once. Flying made things easier. There were dailies in Bladesedge where you teleported from Shattrath and everything was grey and weird.

[@darylcheshire1618]

I remember a guildie still in Hellfire asked what Zangermarsh was like and another guildy said “…I hope you like mushrooms…”.

[@CRH3RO]

Zul’Drak was honestly one of my favorite parts of leveling in WotLK. I thought the storyline they set up was well written, with the native trolls turning to consuming their gods to fight back the scourge. Getting to see that played out as you go up from the lowest tier that’s overrun by scourge, through the zone to Gundrak at the top where the trolls are holding out. Borean Tundra had nothing near as compelling going for it, imo.

[@chloramite567]

Thank you for not mentioning Sholazar or even "Boring" Tundra for Wrath. I have a special love for those zones and people seem to hate them.

[@DrHotep]

Hellfire Peninsula was amazing. It's theme was perfectly fitting for Outland and it had great progression with an interesting story and good quests. It made me feel like I was in an expedition into enemy territory.

[@jerensteinbear]

I like desolace more than I like thousand needles/shimmering flats and the f***ing badlands. I also skipped blade's edge during all of my leveling since TBC was new content and only actually tried it out in TBC classic since I'd never done it before and wanted to know what it was like.

[@tyleradams9845]

Bro, I just hit Badlands in Classic and it blows

[@ChrisFredriksson]

I complete agree with every single one, but not really Tanaan Jungle, I liked that one. I would instead say Shadowmoon Valley for Warlods of Draenor as I didn't like that zone at all. I don't really like the expansions where they remake zones with the same names, that is just stupid. Anyway, awesome video as always, I really enjoy watching your videos! ❤

[@oskardanigsecher9906]

Zul'drak is not the 2nd worst zone in all of wow. It has some of the coolest quest chains and story in the entire expansion. Zul'drak would prolly make it to top 10 if not top 3 of my favorite zones just because of the quests and the storyline in the icetroll place. You get to ride a storm giant a destroy hordes of undead i mean come on how is that so low on the list?

[@xGabaGandalfx]

9:39 how can I have my dots/debuffs on the standard bliz nameplates like he does in classic?

[@951001ify]

In Shadowlands the whole Shadowlands was the worst zone. That travelling system was beyond putrid, felt like Im in a box even tho zones had skies.

[@morganleslie]

I have a formative memory of my goblin getting stuck in one of the cracks in the ground on argus, and one of my guildies had to come alone with a 2 person mount to rescue me 😂

[@mariogallego5513]

I agree with this list 100 percent. The worst zones for me that were freakin horrible dog water because of not being able to fly in them at first. Blade's Edge, Nazjatar, and Spires of Arak come to mind.

[@GarroshTV]

Brooooooo, I agree with pretty much everything, but the Drakuru Questline was one of the best parts of WotLK Leveling, especially if you did Grizzly Hills prior to Zul'drak and somewhat care about the story :p

[@Snackolotl]

Mechagon was implied to be a super-advanced island but a scrapyard when you found it because that was the point. You're led to believe you're getting another Suramar situation, a gorgeous city occupied by an advanced race, only for the game to slap you with a cold serving of reality. Mechagon is a dystopian wasteland literally run into the ground by a xenophobic ruler who believes he can undo all organic life on Azeroth. He has become so racist that he buried his city and sealed the front door. I think, for me at least, what kills Mechagon is the fact that it's underdeveloped past this. We don't really get good reasons to be fighting Troggs aside from "well Gnomes fight Troggs," the bosses all boil down to "gnome sentries and failed experiments," and of course it was just a megadungeon instead of a fully-explored zone, something I think Blizz is looking to learn their lesson with in Undermine. Mind you, it could be worse. Blizz made the Brokers seem cool and mysterious in SL, then Tazavesh was ONLY a dungeon.

[@Avatar1977]

I really liked Desolace, it was peaceful as hell when levelling, especially in comparison to the all out warzone that was STV on any PVP server. Searing Gorge deserves to be talked about more in terms of bad vanilla zones, having to navigate all those mining tunnels as well as the basic issue of having a massive great hole in the middle of the zone you have to ride around to get anywhere

[@stpvtrick5943]

No rest areas in Searing Gorge either, with a single flight path. It's also a royal pain in the ass to even get there in the first place.

[@PracixFGC]

Classic = Deadwind Pass, Moonglade, Blasted Lands TBC = Blades Edge Mtn Northrend = Crystalsong Forest Cata = Vashjir MoP = The Veiled Stairs, Isle of Giants WoD = Tanaan Jungle Legion = Eye of Azshara BFA = Mechagon Shadowlands = Maw DF = Forbidden Reach tWW = Siren Isle

[@ethankopiness3915]

I love how pandaria was first. All the zones are masterpeices. Krasarangs lore is SO GOOD

[@Orthane]

I know I'm definitely in the minority here but I actually loved Tanaan Jungle. I routinely spent all day in that zone, I LOVED it. Still have a ton of Apexis Crystals even, have the "of the Jungle" title, I remember constantly using the Crystal to send you to a rare spawn and idk it's nostalgic even now even when considering how much of a flop WoD was in general. Something about it was just fun for me.

[@Vath121]

As a Druid I loved Vash’jir. Swim form I felt like I was flying through the water.

[@troqu]

I know you qualified it as "newly added" in your video, but imo all of the revamped old zones from are also fair game for Cata and I think for me the revamped Thousand needles is definitely where I sit.

[@JordanAndTrazyn]

When SL launched, I actually race changed my druid just to have Running Wild mount speed in the damn Maw.

[@TheYeetusLord]

I was so sure you were going to pick Maldraxxus because I’d totally forgotten about The Maw! That’s how bad it was😂😂😂

[@davidharman3665]

The worst MOP zone is still better than the best Shadowlands zone.

[@darylcheshire1618]

I spent several weeks in Karasung Wilds doing the limited fishing quests so I could get the water walking mount which served me well on water until the water walking ability was made available for all mounts.

[@d.optional3381]

the abomination driving part of the Drakuru chain is just the worst ever.

[@JP-wn1qr]

Krasarang Wilds was my favourite levelling zone I’ve ever had in wow. I absolutely loved the Klaxxi quest line and I still proudly use my scorpion at any opportunity.

[@judasdubois]

I've always thought of Krasarang wilds as an extension of valley of four winds because the zone quest there has you go into it a couple times. My worst zone for Panda would be the daily section outside of throne of thunder, I hated those quests and mobs.

[@MonElOneGOD]

Thousand Needles before the Cataclysm. Today we only see the tops of many small plateau's, but walking through on ground at the base of all those plateaus around every one was a fight for your life. True desolace was very bleak, but Thousand Needles was tourture. Thats my opinion. Thanks for listening. Elshaddai Frost Death Knight, Elune. May your Blades Never Dull.

[@loreenec8045]

I totally forgot Krasarang Wilds even existed until you mentioned it lol

[@maikelphoenix]

I only played until Warlords of Draenor, but my picks in Expansion order: 1. Vanilla wow - Stranglethorn Vale. 2. Burning Crusade - Blades Edge mountains. 3. Wrath of the Lich King - Zul Drak 4. Cataclysm - Tol Barad 5. Mists of Pandaria - was on break for that whole expansion and so quested later in Warlords in the first 2 zones only, so no comment on that. 6. Warlords of Draenor - Tanaan Jungle.

[@Goldabra]

I enjoyed vashjr from cataclysm, because it did try to change up the system and the biome was lovely and distinct at the time. The ending may have been a disappoint mislead, but it was a nice experience.

[@SpikeSlania]

My pick for worst Legion zone is probably one that most people even forgot existed. Helheim or whatever Heyla's zone was called. I was alliance on a PVP server when Legion launched and went to Stormheim first, so when I got to the Helheim part of the quest line there were 100 horde players for every 1 alliance player, I died every two steps. One of the reasons why I ended up transferring to a Normal Realm during Legion. I didn't find out until recently that you get to revisit that zone and do dailies when I finally did my Warrior class hall line. I have no desire to go back to that zone ever again.