Thread: 4.0 Swimming

Originally Posted by AureliusDraconium

This was the worst wow zone ever. A lot of people ended up skipping this area. The zone is huge of course, your player character swims so slow unless you were a druid who could become a orca/seel or had a underwater mount. You always had to use a mount and had to deal with a oxygen bar.

I really enjoyed Vashj'ir so it's really about differing opinions. I was playing when it launched and the server I was on at the time a lot of people seemed to like Vashj'ir so unless you have something somewhere that shows a lot of people skipped it I didn't see it on my server and I even leveled multiple alts through it too (there were always a lot of other players around).

Like another poster said after the first 2-3 quests you unlock a passive ability that works within Vashj'ir and you never had an oxygen bar again and you had increased movement (They also very often gave you a free sea horse mount until you finished up to a certain part of the quests and got the mount permanently). So it seems to me since you didn't know that you didn't actually try Vashj'ir long enough to experience it properly.