WoW MOP Reviews - Mists of Pandaria,The Emerald Dream Expansion
Even though the world of Azeroth was admittedly massive, there were still areas players couldn't get to -- tantalizing areas that were made inaccessible either by steep mountain faces

The Emerald Dream
What is the Emerald Dream? It's been called a haven of druids, that mysterious place they go to when they sleep. It's Ysera's domain, it's Cenarius' domain, it's now also the domain of at least some of the Loa spirits of the trolls and Wow gold. And from a more technical standpoint, the Emerald Dream is a backup copy of Azeroth. It's what Azeroth was before the influence of mortals. Before the uprising of the trolls, before the Sundering that split the world, likely before the Aspects were even a twinkle in a Titan's eye.
An Emerald Dream expansion
Part of the ongoing story in vanilla was the fact that Malfurion Stormrage was missing, and that the peculiar dream portals scattered around Azeroth seemed to be spawning corrupt dragons. As time went on, it became clear that the Emerald Dream was infested with something called the Nightmare, and Ysera and Malfurion were working to clear it out. This Nightmare wasn't just a normal, run of the mill terrible thing -- it was an Old God that had somehow found its way into that backup copy of Azeroth.
And it was all just an Emerald Dream
Keeping all of that in mind, it is entirely unlikely we'll ever see an Emerald Dream expansion. Not because it wouldn't be cool -- because it wouldn't be cool enough. And while all of those map files may have existed at one point in time, it's unlikely we'll ever seem them as areas to explore in game. The area is compelling, the few exploration videos we've seen are beautiful, but there's just not enough content there to carry an expansion. And at this point in Mists, the themes the Emerald Dream could offer would be entirely redundant.
While we don't have the Emerald Dream, we have the essence of what the Emerald Dream might have been. The potential storylines and themes that the Emerald Dream offered are playing out right now, in Mists of Pandaria. Having said that, I do hope that eventually we'll see something done with those old files, perhaps in a quest specifically for druids -- they deserve to visit their long-lost, often mentioned but never visited haven. And I have a few alts that would enjoy checking it out.
Mists of the Emerald Dream
You give it some of the same roots, like the tie to the Old Gods. After all, the Nightmare was a creepy enough concept. If the Nightmare was an Old God for making Safe wow gold, then it makes sense that the other Old Gods would have that same kind of effect. Only this time, we have a dead Old God to content with, instead of a living one. But an expansion based purely on self-reflection and the idea that our biggest enemies are, in fact, ourselves, isn't quite enough to carry.
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