Bioluminescent plants, artistic magic, and elegant architecture combine to create a haunting, ethereal beauty that’s just stunning. It’s probably the most realistic and detailed city I’ve ever seen in a video game.Īnd of course it’s incredibly beautiful. I’ve heard a lot of praise for the detail and realism of Black Desert’s cities and towns, but I have to say Suramar surpasses anything I saw during my (admittedly brief) stint in that game. There are couriers running messages to and fro, and there are parents walking with their children.

There are bookstores and jewelry shops and restaurants and parks. WoW has had cities before, of course, but they weren’t hostile territory, and they didn’t have anywhere near the scale or level of detail Suramar boasts.Įven with all its fantasism, Suramar feels incredibly real. The outer reaches are beautiful, but the city proper is where it really gets interesting. The zone itself is incredibly well-designed. It’s a place we’ve known about in the lore for years but haven’t seen firsthand, which is exactly the experience I desire from WoW. And like many things in WoW, I have very mixed feelings on it. In both breadth and depth it could have been an entire game unto itself. Suramar is vast, in every sense of the word. I don’t think it would be an exaggeration to say that Suramar may well be the most ambitious piece of content in World of Warcraft’s history. Yes, we’ve had max-level zones before, but none of them have even come close to the scale of Suramar.

Suramar is something pretty unprecedented in World of Warcraft, and I’m a little surprised I haven’t seen more discussion around that. Maigraith has been my “main” for endgame purposes so far, but for lore reasons, I’m doing Suramar on my warlock. For my final installment of Under the Burning Skies, I turn my eyes to the max level zone of Suramar, and to Legion’s take on endgame. I’ve now completed the new leveling content in Legion, and I’ve gotten two classes, warlock and rogue, to level-cap.

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