World of Warcraft: Worst Zones

I saw a thread on the World of Warcraft forums discussing the top 5 worst zones. I am going to list out my worst zones here but this is more for leveling than anything else:

• Badlands – When they re-did this zone, I was somewhat excited because there wasn’t a lot of quests here originally. Also, they had one of the funniest quest hubs in the game with the three storytellers. However, that couldn’t make up for 3-4 worst quests of the game, namely missile command, the two puzzles and the mini army. I think they ended up going overboard in trying to spruce up this zone.
• Dread Wastes – I think it’s unanimous when it comes to people hating this zone. It’s just horrible. The quests are boring, tedious and they cock block your way to the entire dailies. Also, mobs are tightly clustered, some of which have fairly high health or damage output. But the worst parts are all the underwater quests. Yes, you get a small buff to help but when are underwater quests any fun (at least in this game)?
• Redridge Mountains – I haven’t made it very far on my alliance toons but I did give this area a try. It’s boring and there’s a few very annoying Black Ops type of quests (which I absolutely hate). I suppose the only decent thing is the fox poo.
• Uldum – The first time I leveled through this area, I thought it was great because of the Indiana Jones jokes. However, in taking 10 toons total through this zone, I just found the whole place to be a giant bore. Someone complained about the numerous cut scenes, but there’s a couple of show stopper quests where once I hit that point, I would just go straight to Twilight Highlands.
• Hellfire Peninsula – One word: Felreaver. I used to be excited in hitting this zone. I thought it was one of those areas that had a unique feeling. But truthfully this zone is painful. Another area where you just have too many clustered mobs and the stupid oversized, OP monster ready to knock you out. The minute I hit 58/59, I simply queue up until I hit 62 so I can go to Zangarmarsh. There really isn’t any good reason to level in this area anymore.
• Townlonge Steppes – This is where Mist of Pandaria starts to really dive down hill. By this point, you’re so sick of all the stupid quests that you want to try something different. But prior to patch 5.3, you really were jammed in being forced to complete most of this zone to hit 90 (unless you went directly to Dread Wastes). Too many tedious quests and the zone itself just is dreary. Dread Wastes still tops this area, but all you can think about while questing in this zone is “how much more until 90?”
• Krasarand Wilds – This zone makes no sense. Is this supposed to be Thailand? Vietnam? Some south Asian country? What is a jungle doing here? Whatever it’s doing the one certain thing is that it sucks! Again, more tedious, boring quests and an ugly landscape to look at. You feel enclosed with way too many mobs. The only halfway decent quests is when you get sent back to Valley of the Four Winds to fight the big insect but that’s because you’re essentially finishing the quest chain to this zone.

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