World of Warcraft: Dragonflight puts the players in Valdrakken – the new hub for the expansion – and a resourceful player pieced together a useful map that goes through all the major locations in the city. Throughout World of Warcraft's long history, its expansion packs have always established new hubs for players to use and immerse themselves in. Ironforge and Orgrimmar got replaced by Shattrath with The Burning Crusade, which in turn got replaced by Dalaran in Wrath of the Lich King, and on it went until Shadowlands introduced the airport known as Oribos.
Conceptually speaking, Oribos had plenty of good ideas going for it. A compact, circular hub that took the best of Ironforge and the Shrines in Mists of Pandaria, but it lacked a key ingredient: it had no soul whatsoever. It wasn't a city of the Realm of Death – it was just an airport made for players to ferry them across the five Shadowlands zones. Thankfully, it seems that Blizzard Entertainment took player feedback to heart and made Valdrakken into a proper expansion hub that radiates with atmosphere.
In anticipation of Dragonflight's launch, World of Warcraft player Jojoejoe mapped out all the important spots in Valdrakken, and shared it with the official World of Warcraft community on Reddit. Perhaps the single most crucial change in Valdrakken compared to past expansion hubs is the return of Auction House services for non-engineers. Players no longer need to rely on coming across the Caravan Brutosaur, and can enjoy access to their auctions at their own leisure.
Since Dragonflight is releasing in a few weeks, I thought I'd make this map to show some of the important locations in the new hub, Valdrakken. from wow
Much like its predecessor, Dragonflight's new Great Vault is located in the bank area of Valdrakken, and more importantly – close to both the flightmaster and the auction house. Moreover, the innkeeper and portals to Stormwing and Orgrimmar are also in the vicinity, allowing players to access all the most important amenities with ease.
Players won't be able to access Valdrakken until the expansion launches at the end of the month, but the second stage of Dragonflight's pre-patch will unlock Dracthyr Evokers, as well as introduce the first dungeon of the expansion: the new wing of Uldaman. While it's too early to tell if Dragonflight will course-correct World of Warcraft after the shortcomings of Shadowlands and Battle for Azeroth, but Dragonflight might have a good shot.
World of Warcraft is available on PC. Dragonflight launches on November 28.