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Does Azj'Kahet deserve more love?

Does Azj'Kahet deserve more love?

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Solo MMO
February 25, 2025

Happy New patch

Hope everyone is ready for some Goblin fun

In this week’s issue, we have:

11.1 official patch notes
5 things to know about D.R.I.V.E
Changes to professions
And more…

News

11.1 profession changes allow you to purchase enchanted crests from a vendor (Wowhead)
11.1 official patch notes (Wowhead)
11.1 campaign will be time-gated (Wowhead)

Guides

5 things to know about D.R.I.V.E (Wowhead)
Patch 11.1 Twitch drop (Gamerant)

Spotlight

Does Azj kahet deserve more love?

This week I decided to look up from my action bar and see where I was in Azeroth for the first time in a while and wow this expansion is looking good.

The isle of Dorn looks like a high-resolution Loch Modan crossed with beautiful themes from Ireland.

The Ringing deeps feels like the Zaralek Caverns 2.0, with an impressive cavern-like feel.

Hallowfall is absolutely stunning and probably the best zone of the expansion and maybe even the game (maybe), an underground zone that feels like a wide open space with a unique culture explored throughout the zone.

But I am here to talk about the most underrated zone of the expansion: Azj Kahet.

While Hallowfall is objectively more beautiful Azj Kahet is more unique and impressive in my opinion.

There are several different areas in the zone so lets start with the most obvious the Nerubian city and various settlements.

Wow has done cities before (see Boaralus, Dazar’alor or Suramar for examples) but never an underground city that was built by a race so different and alien to the conventional mammalian races.

The city of threads is what you would expect from a city built by sentient spiders but it is still impressive to see. Structures held in place by large webs, multiple levels accessed by scaling walls and a predictable spikey carapace architecture.

The city feels like one of the most unique and interesting cities wow has ever made.

Even the ambient gloom of the zone adds to the unsettling feeling that the citizens here are alien and unusual.

Moving past the city the rest of the zone is influenced by the Nerubian presence. The lower areas of the zone are where all the unwanted and darkest things from the city fall. Being housed by abominations and scavaging invertebrates this part of the zone feels very primeval.

However with all this darkness, gloomy and sinister presence in the zone life tries to fight back. The mysterious Harronir make their first appearance in Azj’Kahet fighting back the darkness of the Nerubians with life magic that seems to champion Azeroth herself. While not much is known (yet) about the Harronir’s origins or intention it is clear they are not fans of the Nerubians, this adds to the mysteriousness of the zone.

Now Azj’Kahet is never going to win any awards for beauty but that is not its purpose. It is a zone that is supposed to feel unsettling and dangerous and like we don’t want to spend much time there. Hallowfall is its antithesis, a zone that feels bright, fertile and filled with allies that are recognisable.

As a denizen of Azeroth one would want to be in Hallowfall and would disdain spending time in Azj’Kahet. Therefore Azj’Kahet is the most effective and best zone implemented in recent years but won’t be many players’ favourite.

Its clear that a lot of thought went into planning this underground expansion on how players would experience the story Blizzard is trying to tell. The zones themselves are more than just spaces to hang out and quest in they are vehicles to experience the world. The four zones of this expansion flow in a specific way: Isle of dorn introduces a strange new island and new allies with a complicated history in the Earthen. The Ringing deeps expands the darker edges of the Earthern and opens our foray into the deep places of the world. Hallowfall gives us hope again and another group of allies as we get closer to the ominous villains of the expansion. Finally Azj’Kahet is the darkest zone that culminates the story and leads us into a dark place.

While we have a few patch zones to go Azj’Kahet is our final main zone before we enter the darkest part of the story midnight.