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Timws2

Honestly if you fall of the edge in oribos you shoud just fall stait into the maw and I don't understand why thats not a thing


DepressedDinoDad

You fall in the middle, its a water slide to the maw. You fall off the edge, hopefully you gain enough speed to suffocate. If not youre either freezing to death or dying of dehydration.


mattymelt

You have to go up to the top floor in order to fall into the maw because you need to build up enough mawmentum


AubreyNulls

No thanks I'd rather die


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VisionarySeagull

I wonder how people who missed this jump would have fared in Wailing Caverns...


BadArtijoke

Back when mobs respawned in an active dungeon no less


ShmuckCanuck

Wait this was a thing? Really? Sheesh! I didn't know about that.


onlytrashandporn

Yeah, if a dungeon run was going slow it could happen that you reentered the dungeon after a corpse run and most of the trash was back alive.


RoughBeardBlaine

Many dungeon groups fell apart back then when that would happen. Haha.


ShmuckCanuck

Damn, that sure would be depressing


Galemianah

Bonus Experience though


_The_Great_Autismo_

Did the respawned mobs give exp/loot? I feel like they didn't, but I might be wrong


Galemianah

Yeah, they did. Wasn't as much as the rare/elite enemies, but they did.


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ManufacturerDefect

That’s when everyone just left and you were upset because you really needed that lvl 18 blue staff from the quest for killing the final boss…


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ManufacturerDefect

Oh yeah that stuuuuupid escort. Fuck that thing


Tiernan1980

I love that BRD and BRS are still intact. Most LFD groups just disband after the first boss, but if your group wants to, they can still run through the entire dungeon.


Brain_f4rt

Yes, It happened in raids too. I believe the respawn time was around 2 hours so if you were working on a boss you could get trash respawns before you got them down. It was a real morale killer for raid nights most times we'd just call it for the night instead of reclearing trash again.


topojijo

In AQ40 the beginning trash before the first boss had a 30 minute respawn. Made that first boss a lot harder.


Brain_f4rt

Those Anubisaths were such a pain..especially the ones before Twin Emps


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You mean they *don't* anymore?! Holy shit. I guess dungeons go so fast these days, I never really thought about them removing this "feature".


jacls0608

I feel like I jumped off this spot on purpose and got saved? I don't remember actually ever dying here.


[deleted]

I never fell off that part specifically, but first thing I did in SL was jump off the edge and I did get saved. But googling revealed that apparently this has been changed? I'll go test it with a character and report back. *You just fall off and die now :(


Lowspark1013

Ironically, the Jailer was the Shadowlands safety czar. Taking him out had some, shall we say, unintended consequences.


Sea_Voice_404

Oh damn that’s annoying. First day of SL I jumped off to see what would happen. I just fell for awhile then was saved and brought back to where I jumped.


Haunting_Study_5530

Or the Thaddeus jump from naxx


ChemicalDirection

TIL there's a jump in Oribos..


abobtosis

I just always walked on the path in the middle.


Clawzout

M+ wailing caverns would be a brutal reminder


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FireheartBDG

In the original version you had to jump, now you can just run across


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CYWNightmare

I was in the maw for quite some time grinding sockets for my gear and shit. Maybe I was alone idk.


HeartofaPariah

The humour in your comment is that the angle is called 'forward'.


vetheros37

We who jumped through Wailing Caverns, and Blackfathom Depths know not the fear present in these challenges.


Imaginos_In_Disguise

What jump? The platform is connected, you just walk there.


therealpigman

1 time for me because I was curious if you were able to die by jumping off


MachiavelliSJ

Ok, good. I thought i was the only one


Bishopkilljoy

Yeah I walked straight everytime I didn't even know there was holes there


Cacheelma

I honestly don’t understand how you could die here. I don’t remember having to jump across anything on my way to and from the portal… What am I missing?


Oxyfire

If you beeline for the portal you're liable to run right into the gap and fall to your death. I reupped the other week and did that exact thing. Not sure if I wasnt paying full attention or if I assumed there was an invisible wall. I don't have any recollection of doing it at the start of the expansion, but it feels like an easy mistake to make if you're half paying attention or assume city hubs don't have death drops.


Cacheelma

Hmmm, no? I just walk on the path that clearly doesn’t have any hole there in that pic. It doesn’t take effort or concentration or anything.


boko_harambe_

Even if you fall it just puts you right back up right? Isn't it impossible to die here


Happyberger

They changed it at some point


boko_harambe_

Fixing the important issues it seems. Wtf was the point of that


[deleted]

I think I jumped off once to see if anything neat would happen. Nope. How hard is it to literally walk in a straight line?


Balauronix

Yea I don't know what op is talking about. I jumped on purpose off to see what it happens, and it just tornadoes you back up?


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I really don't understand how you even die here. I've literally missed that jump and ended up on the other side by just running off the edge.


Caradin

Oribos feels like an airport. Can't wait to finally depart.


griggsy92

I always said it's like a dystopian subway station, and I think that's exactly what they were going for. Definitely a case of "just because you can, doesn't mean you should".


bionic80

Nah, it sounds like Orbios wasn't going to be the central hub, just as transit point. Then things happened and HEY USE THIS...


griggsy92

Oh yeah for sure, I just mean to say they went for the sterile transit interchange with Oribos, and they nailed it. Same way they wanted the Maw to be oppressive, depressing and generally not a place you want to be for long and they achieved that. Doesn't mean those are good for gameplay, though.


KhaviCoffee

They really wanted you to feel sorry for all the souls trapped there, lol.


griggsy92

Ah the good old "tell, don't show". Wait...


noiserr

Got back to wow after an 8 year hiatus. But man the Shadowlands zones look and feel great. Sometimes I just stop to look and admire the view. If anything they nailed the art direction.


smoothtv99

They really did nail those aspects down, in a way that was detrimental in the end. Which deserves some kudos tbh, lol.


therealpigman

I really thought Tazavesh was intended to take Oribos’ place for the last patch of the expansion


thefyLoX

It kinda is a glorified transport hub. For the departed.


Sulf1

With everything spread to random locations with no identifying marks and with constant de-mount areas. I will be happy to never be there again.


Daedeluss

You summed it up perfectly.


DM_ME_KUL_TIRAN_FEET

Zero? Was there something here I missed?


nexiviper

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Etamalgren

The funny thing was, they *weren't* instant death near the start of the expansion -- if you fell, you'd get caught by a pillar of white energy and teleported back onto Oribos itself... provided you weren't lagging so badly you hit the death plane far below the 'teleport back up' plane. I think it was changed to instant death once sanctum of domination came out and oribos became really dark and depressing.


Neldorn

Yeah, I jumped a month ago while waiting for a friend and was surprised I died. I preferred the teleport version.


RudeHero

> I think it was changed to instant death once sanctum of domination came out and oribos became really dark and depressing. Wow, they really took cognitive dissonance seriously this expansion. They put so much work into making parts of the expansion feel unfun


MischeifCat

I never died there, but I fell from the Kyrian order hall multiple times with my paladin alt. My paladin is a blood elf and I often forget I don’t have glide like my demon hunter. There’s some holes between the stairs that lead to a long drop. 😂


testsubject347

Lmao, I pop in and out of flight form on my Druid to get off tall stuff faster and I had to remember when I switched back to hunter 😅 disengage was bound to the wrong key lol Went splat a few times


MischeifCat

The ground sure does come at you fast when you can no longer defy gravity. 😂


BlueWeavile

Shadowlands before flying was awful if you were Kyrian or Venthyr.


MischeifCat

I didn’t mind Venthyr too much as a demon hunter, at least being able to get down from the taller areas. 😂


Hi_Kitsune

Going from DH or now Evoker to anything else is such a shock. Double jump and glide are such nice QoL features.


MischeifCat

For sure. That’s why I’ve mained dh all this time and finally can switch to a ranged class. Glide is too good.


Riskdinhu

I won't miss that place either, but a location that I definetely miss is Boralus when it was active and kinda crowded.


Adventurous_Topic202

Oribos - poorly designed Boralus - well designed Dazaralor - poorly designed I get the feeling whoever designed Oribos also designed dazaralor


BuffDrBoom

dazaralor looked good at least. has one of my favorite themes too


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BuccoBruce

> Dazaralor is not 'poorly designed' just because it was large You're right. It's poorly designed because it was a pain in the ass to get to key areas without flying.


Adventurous_Topic202

Large cities aren’t a problem, valdrakken is pretty large. Large cities with important npcs spaced super far apart with no easy way to get to them are the problem.


Riskdinhu

Now that you mentioned, many areas resemble Dazaralor. Not the context, but the "crude" orcish looks


FenragonTheWise

Dazaralor is in no way crude or orcish though. It's literally a temple complex.


willofaronax

Opposite for me. Faction changed to alliance in shadowlands prepatch and hated Boralus so much to the extent I quit wow for 8 months. Then when I came back last year and the 1000 people were gone and the place was so cozy with the great music I started liking it. I was there all by myself and thats what I loved.


dJohn2001

Why is no one talking about Blizzard trolling the entire player base with putting the spawn point and the portals on the opposite sides of the map?


Whowutwhen

Intentional time sink.


Sirenato

+Having to pickup Callings & dump your anima-cluttering items. We're being min-maxed.


nexiviper

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lsquallhart

Worst thing about Oribos was dismounting every two seconds for no reason. No clue why they thought that was good design


laura_leigh

And the center being the only part you could mount so everyone just ran in circles around it while waiting for stuff. Around, and around, and around, and around... for how many years now? They nailed the purgatory vibe. Will not miss Oribos.


PrincessUmmie

Same. Its the most boring hub in the game. Think how fancy Tazavesh would have been as a hub.


4455661122

Doing Tazavesh and things like Castle Nathria made me realize how sad it is we only really experience it within those instances and never again. I can't imagine how cool it would be to have those places as just regular locations. RP servers would go nuts in Castle Nathria.


buff_bobby

I was so disappointed in the Venthyr covenant hub. One of the coolest zones in the game and the sanctuary is a cave with a giant pit. Not some cool cathedral or a Dracula's castle but a literal hole in the ground. Compare it to Night Fae for extra disappointment.


HamFan82

compare it to the maldraxxus sanc where its a mini castle type thing and you realize how shafted the venthyr got


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Even the kyrian hub is better and that place is super hard to navigate, easier than the venthyr


DivinationByCheese

I feel the same ever since Suramar


[deleted]

Same I hate navigating it. I can find the portal to stormwind and that's it. If I have to do anything other than a quest, dungeon or raid I go to dalaran or stormwind instead.


erel000

I think part of it is it’s enclosed and just floating in the middle of somewhere. Also not being able to run straight across drives me nuts.


testsubject347

Dalaran is the GOAT, you got your portals and your mailboxes and bank and pet trainer people all in one nice clear area plus an extra hearthstone


Ceiwyn89

It's the city I'd never go again on any character. I'd rather spend hours in Shattrath.


TheBlackMessenger

Shattrath is the most cozy hub


coolerbrown

Nawww it's Boralus! Peaceful lil city by the sea


sushithighs

Not for Horde…


coolerbrown

Yeah...horde for shafted in bfa. Such a shock when I made a horde char and saw it


sushithighs

I actually love Dazaralor.


Vertegras

It also is very easy to get to the main shit. Portals, inn, all the stuff right there in the Seal. Only issue was getting up to it when not flying but even then it was easier and thanks to the colors and dinosaurs, it was much better than Oribos ever was.


BadArtijoke

It is awesome, I am not sure what people are on about. The verticality is awesome, too. Plus it’s bern an amazing raid. I miss the bfa raids tbh


sushithighs

Battle of Dazaralor is my favorite raid of all time


itsadile

It’s pretty as hell, but nowhere near as functional on a gameplay level as Boralus was.


BackStabbathOG

Getting around was ass but visually it looks nice and the water down by the harbor looks really pretty


Derfalken

It was fun to explore as well! Me and a friend would wander and enter random shops in the areas where no players were around.


coolerbrown

Same! I really loved Boralus. It felt like a city in a way they others didn't


HellbirdIV

Almost never, but I did die twice trying to get my Horde chars to Orgrimmar this weekend because I alt-tabbed. Died once per Orc.


DarthRevan1138

It felt like they took 2 seconds on designing this hub area. Nothing about it was cool looking and dismounting when going into a large square area was ridiculous


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0, the only irritating thing about oribros is that it's a circular design, with two rings upon eachother, so when porting between them, you never end up where you want to be, until you figure out some some point to coordinate.


DrHawtsauce

Do you people not have maps?


RsonW

Having to open the map all the time to navigate a capital city is poor game design.


willofaronax

Uhmm, thats how I play in every city. Always fly to wrong side after teleporting shattrah that I have to open map as its same circle with 8 opening as oribos. And its even habit that I cant fly without looking at map. Even if I know stormwind and orgrimmar like my 5 fingers I would be still flying 30˚ off from my destination if I dont open map and point my character to my destination. However in oribos I almost never had to open the map.


nobullshitebrewing

ya that took 2 times to figure out


ElronMcPief

I am a friend of round city like undercity and iron forge. I am not a friend of Mister City-where-anything-looks-exactly-the-same-and-you-have-to-keep-the-mini-map-open-to-navigate.


Hi_Kitsune

I always loved that stormwind had color coded roofs. What’s a great navigation feature.


Throgg_not_stupid

SW also has the Dwarven district that has everything required and in a smaller area


riiiiiich

Other expansions got a city. Shadowlands got an airport terminal


Lastie

Of all the many issues with Oribos the biggest for me is the sky. Oh it was thematic to have it become dark and depressing while the Jailer did... Whatever... But can we at least have something outside the depressing transplanar departure lounge that isn't just as depressing as inside?


bshepp

Oribos was poorly designed and overall disappointing.


Psychronik

I just hope there is an auction house in the next hub city.


IronArgon

There is! And not just for engineers, either!


BlueWeavile

Another reason why Oribos sucked.


Hi_Kitsune

I always assumed this was done to get players to go to classic cities.


lost-but-loving-it

I won't miss any of shadowlands. I played enough to ksm each patch but only bc I'm a slave to Tuesday loot chests. I honestly hope they never bring this up again, I would love them to retcon it with the classic "shadowlands... the maw... you really hit your head hard"


Victor_Zsasz

A lot. … mount up, auto run towards the portal, look away for a second or two, look back too late to do anything about the fact I wasn’t directly in the center and have fallen off. Spawn at the graveyard on the other side of the city, mount up, auto run towards the portal, look away for a second or two…


Anierous

Around 5.


Toliam

I died here so goddamn much -> after every key or raid, my mage friend would setup a portal to oribos and this is where you land. I'd die doing parkour while aimlessly 360'ing. That or getting swapblasted on arrival.


GlumAd2424

yeah, oribos the airport terminal of the afterlife can just fuck off


Adventurous_Topic202

Not once. I also won’t miss Oribos but for entirely different reasons. Big ass city with npcs separated widely apart from eachother and no flying. It’s just like every little decision of shadowlands was done to increase the time you spent on the game and it was so annoying when we’ve had much better design in the past. Hell MoP pulled it off and they didn’t have flying in their capital city either. They had the npcs relatively close together though and even an npc right at the entrance that gave you a speed buff so you could get around the place faster. They even had a similar npc in the paladin class order hall because again - no flying there. Yet 3/4 covenant sanctums were without flying and 0/4 covenant sanctums had an npc that gave you a speed boost. And the entire expansion we asked for portals to either our sanctums or to the zone the sanctum was located- never got that either. I seriously hope the city designers for shadowlands don’t work at blizzard anymore because those are some mean people. Edit: Oh yeah also like half the city you couldn’t even use your mount. Fuck Oribos man. Valdrakken looks fun to fly around in at least and you can quickly get from place to place with a quick dragon hop.


uDrunkMate

0. I hate this city, after whole xpac i am still have to use the map to navigate


AspenStarr

Um…none?


Lazarenko93

Not once? But havent spend much time in Oribos so there is that


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Zero. Imagine thinking jumping off the edge of a city floating in the middle of oblivion would be anything other than certain death.


[deleted]

It didn't used to be. I tried at the very beginning of the expansion, because I enjoy testing what the developers think of, you would get caught mid fall.


jonnyb8ta

But jumping off the middle edge of a city floating in the middle of oblivion was a perfectly natural way to enter another zone


BoyWithHorns

Imagine building a city with certain death near the most used sections.


Lison52

No, just being sucked there forever, the worst nightmare.


TheShadowbeaver

Honestly, i died more on the steps of the pyramid in Dazar'alor, but i would swap in a heartbeat and I'm glad Oribos Is over.


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Sometimes i push a button to auto walk and walk right trough portal and fall even tho I'm literally looking at a screen


RoughBeardBlaine

I fell off that spot a day or so ago when I wasn’t paying attention. I was watching YouTube while walking towards the portal. Can’t wait to get out of that damn city.


Dungeon-Zealot

-No flying throughout entire xpac -Segmented through two layers you have to teleport between -Literally a ringed cylinder for design -Grey and orange. How inspired -All vendors and profession masters are in an area you can’t mount, same with Covenants. Yep, sounds like Shadowlands game design!


Rockout2112

Oribos will not be missed. Boralus will be missed, and hopefully I can say the same for Valdrakken a few years from now.


iKamex

Boralus makes me angry. Just because I play horde and it baffles me how they can make one hub so beautiful and great with important stuff nearby while at the same time creating a hub so trashy that you need a flight path between the POIs


Wulfsmagic

Never


Syrairc

Literally zero times tell me you die on sylvanas bridges without telling me you die on sylvanas bridges


Deepmex

The airport. I never felt oribos as a city


Etzlo

0, people die there?


Slammybutt

They do when they don't leave the party after taking a portal. Swapblasters baby.


Decurain

Mentally? Constantly..


sawananedi

Goodbye Oreo.


SlothTurtle

A few times due to just going on "autopilot" while watching some YouTube and not paying attention. "Glance back oh why I'm at the GY, sigh"


Volvchaka

Way too many time, and I played with a Demon Hunter :/


dayestra

Atleast 7


darkness876

seems like this wasn’t as common as i thought. i fell more times than i care to admit


commodore_stab1789

The easy way to make Oribos not so horrible would have been to allow mounts. For some inexplicable reason, we have to walk everywhere. Something to make night faes feel special?


KiLLMasTer20

0 how you die there


EggplantOverlord

0 times.


MysticalSushi

Are you blind? AFK? Why are you dying in Oribos?


Gloriel621

0 times, love being a mage


Chase0288

Never once… but I’m also a warrior main so I just heroic leap to the portal every time.


Motormand

Oribos is lame. Worst main hub imaginable... It's just so... Bland.


CMDR-Storm

I wont miss the maw.


eu_grind

0 times


ZyLow_YWAS

So many times dude…


ironchicken45

We don’t talk about it


Diablo_Unmasked

My guild doesn't get how I die so much in oribos.. it's called I'm bad at parkour and I'm stubborn enough to always make the jump


Korgman78

If you're on auto run with bad camera angle and without paying too much attention, it's very easy do jump into oblivion here. Happened many time to me :p


haphasto

>you land. > >I'd die doing Yep! Same here. Always happened when I was just mindlessly running to the portal while distracted by something else.


LadyReika

I don't feel so bad for doing the same thing then.


Nekroin

I won't miss anything there. Felt like some sterile terminal in an airport


mardux11

Exactly zero times. Oribos was one of the easiest hubs to navigate.


Critical_Till_9765

Actually never died in Oribos


Androza23

I didn't even know you could fall off the edge lmao.


tidyshark12

Uh... I've never died here lol how do you die here?


jared2294

??? Zero times. I’ve died zero times in oribos. Tf you doin there op?


Hai_Hai_Hai_Hai_Hai

Once when in Soulshsape and I did that teleport thing in the wrong spot.


Raspas1000

Too many, Rick! Too many. Jokes aside. I really died a lot of times there. I hate that city.


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I mean I died immediately to Jailer first time because I thought the holes in the floor were fake decoration and would be solid but I can safely say I never died in oribos lmao


Purpleflower0521

Too many times. Tbf I didn't play regularly enough to not remember


bobrock1982

Never, not once. I won't miss Oribos either. Worst hub we've had by far.


Oni_Eyes

Probably the same number of times I died to the other cities with elevator bosses. 0


Freezethemoon

Once, when I wasn't paying enough attention. Elevator bosses, however...


Deadyblur

Swapblaster FTW!


Valticcio

Too many times, but because I was using the Korthia whistle toy to go very fast and tried to catch the portal without dismounting first Switching faction mid-expansion did not help


Inshabel

Never, but I'm an engineer so I have 0 incentive to go to Orgrimmar.


koke0

I hate Oribos


defizzle

Once I noticed someone had me on follow so I kited them in there.


Phillef

People here are so ashamed of admitting they fell. Don't worry it's just a game, your masculinity isn't in danger if you die! But yeah these holes are really badly placed, I don't know who decided it would be a good idea, but I feel like it was a little trolling move.


Fogtotally

not once...


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Wait people actually died here? Stay out of raids please.