Rest State

[Bolty]

Ironforge is already the most convenient alliance city as a travel hub, and the fastest to navigate, and it is a ghost town.  Stormwind is this game's signature city, and I'm convinced that alliance players will congregate there no matter what.

Blizzard's said time and again however that Stormwind and the human lands are what get developed first. The design of everything there, from quests to NPCs, etc, is all focused. New things are added each push. This one has the guards that give directions - you won't find that anywhere else.

You'll notice the addition of Gnomeregon - quests and areas like this will make Ironforge more attractive, and similar things will be added to other cities over time. The Horde lands get the least attention, which is why things are so...unfinished there. My Night Elf and Gnome characters all wound up coming to the human lands, because it has the most quests and the most finished material. My gnome especially ran out of content in Dun Morogh at an early age and was forced to move to a new area.

As the other areas of the game are brought up to snuff vs. the likes of Elwynn Forest, you'll see more activity, I think. On the general forums, Blizzard's asked for ideas to make Darnassus more interesting and useable.

-Bolty