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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9115932" data-attributes="member: 18">That was once true, long, long ago. Humans haven't been the most popular race in WoW for like, a long time. Maybe 10 years? Or 15? Longer? I think it was in WotLK or Cataclysm that Blood Elves overtook them both as % of their side and literal hard numbers.So that hasn't been true for a very long time. The only really "mundane" starting areas were the human, dwarf (and for a long time gnome), orc (and for a long time troll - though their replacement starting zone was mundane too) and tauren starting zones.All other races with actual starting zones got pretty dramatic ones, albeit some were a lot "quieter" than others. As someone who has played way too much WoW please be aware I can make this case in painful detail but am refraining from doing so lol.And for the last 3 years, by default everyone starts in Exile's Reach, which a pretty dramatic starting zone which fully introduces you to ideas in WoW in a way previous ones didn't (including a dungeon, boss fights, etc.) - experienced players can opt to pick the old zones still though.Indeed, the idea that the Night Elf starting zone is "mundane" is absolutely wild. You're in the branches of a World-Tree, with giant ents walking around, and witness to all sorts of magic. The human starting zone was genuinely mundane, but most were not (at least by the start of TBC, let alone later).The most popular race, the Blood Elves, started in fantastical elven ruins, dealing with scary malfunctioning magic killbots, magic elementals, magic crack addicts (as it were), and so on, and really equally defies any designation as mundane.</blockquote>

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