Rest State

[Jarulf]

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.

One reason for this I think is that Stormwind and its areas is in the middle of everything with higher level areas on all sides and you naturally go through and to it for many reasons. Iron Forge and Dun Morogh is a sort of dead end that is on the outskirt of the map (play wise). Once you are done with the area, you move on and really only Loch Modan is a possibility (unless you go to Stormwind) and you really don't come back except when you just quickly really want to travell through it.

As you say, the area is not as finnished though, less quests and with many areas screaming "we will add quests and NPC here later". I like it though, having the area as a more dwarf/gnome one, possibly haveing race specific quests and such there, but having Stormwind as the main alliance hub and social/cultural meeting place. Not all towns has to be the same.