Am I the only one who feels this way?

[Cialbi]

In WoW dark water or just deep water freak me out, though Vash'jir isn't too creepy for me, just very confusing because it's 3D, with mobs on the seafloor, above you and to the sides.

That's funny, I feel pretty comfortable swimming in the dark fatigue zones but out of place swimming around vashj'ir

I think it has to do with the sense of being unable to discern between up and down, forwards and backwards, which usually mean that you're horribly lost.

[Evets]

Youve probeley tried this already but just think of it as flying instead of swimming

[Lisaara]

Youve probeley tried this already but just think of it as flying instead of swimming

Not the same. Not even close.

[12gunner]

I loved Vashj'ir as ive always wanted to swim in places like the great Barrier Reef and places like that the only thing that creeped me out the most were the narrow abysses.

[Sherbe]

I love Vash'jir. My favourite Disney movie growing up was The Little Mermaid and I loved going on cruiseships etc. So that doesn't bother me at all.

I have a slight fear of dark, and most dark zones creep me out somewhat or just depress me. It depends though.... Darkshore is depressing, Duskwood is not, but a bit creepy. Hated Icecrown and Zul'drak, far too dark and creepy.
Icecrown and Dragonblight also suffer from my pet hate in WoW; snowy areas. I think it's because I'm from a dark, snowy country, really. Winterspring is bleh, unless it's daytime and extra sunny, Storm peaks is snowy, but I like the titan structures and quests.
I LOVE tropical areas in this game, give me palm trees and turquoise water and I'm fine, STV, Tanaris, Uldum, Un'goro, Sholazar Basin.... LOVE them.

Also, I dislike apes and don't like them in WoW either.

[Bulletdance]

I don't mind Vash'ir,but I didn't discover you could run on the ground or ride your mount there until after I finished questing in it.
The only thing in game that really bothers me is swimming in the water with crocolisks. I have a healthy fear/respect of real life gators and such and on occasion I'll get that "I realllly don't like this" feeling when I see one while swimming. Though the new skins don't bother me as much because they're not as realistic.

That and some of the more disgusting undead creatures I can't eat and play around them at the same time.

[Miyon]

Fear of water.. Yup, that's me. As OP said, pools are ok, but anything else just creeps me out. If I am to touch water, I need to be able to stand in it with my head over the surface, and see what's in the water and lakes and oceans are just scary.

Vashj-whatever it is written, is ok with me. Might be because I can see everything, but the giant whale shark scared me. However, one thing that made me panic was when doing some quests in Un'goro where you had to loot something in the black tar pit thingies. I couldn't for the life of me get up there as fast as I wanted to. :p

[Galahandra]

I didn't mind Vashj'ir too much, only bit that freaked me out was my first time there, swimming by the first giant turtle demi-god thing and noticing it's eye move, lol.

Also can't abide falling long distances, my stomach does a mini flip (ToC raid, after the twins - eek!)

[Samarachan]

Skipped Vashj'ir on all 5 chars so far, why didn't you D: Hyjal is a perfect zone, I only ever go to Vashj'ir to get something from ER qm, or to get Ghostcrawler. Never going there, ever. (and even when I do, I just fly above it)

What scares me irl is HUGE objects. Buildings especially, idk. So, the whale shark, and the neutral shark attacked by tentacles (idk it's name) were enough to get me out of Vashj'ir for good.


Any particular zone no, but just seeing something extraordinary large ingame (old gods example) really makes me feel uneasy, so my zoom is always usualy maxed out so that they look as small as they can.
Example quest comes to mind: riding and hopping from one drake to another inm the Storm peaks around that huge..terrace was it?
Another place is Deathwing's scar in the Badlands. Just seeing it makes me imagine it and how it went, and ugh, horrible.


My fear, postz0red.

[Rhapture]

There are a few things in wow that really weird me out but glass floors are the worst. I can't remember the instance right now but it is one of the ones in Netherstorm where you have to run over a glass floor with a seemingly bottomless pit below it. I got it in my head one day "what would happen if the glass broke?" and was freaked out from that point on. I also do not like Algalon in Ulduar as it gives me the same feeling. Being in high spots in wow does not normally bother me but for some reason those two really get to me.

I also dislike things that eat you. C'thun and Yogg-Saron really really bother me. Having to fight your way out of their bellies *shudder*

[Tyuriwen]

I had this same feeling with a game called Primal waaaaaaaaaaay back on the Playstation 2 (really cool game, girl turns demon with an awesome glowy tattoo on her back, and her gargoyle companion named Scree =3). One of her demonforms was aquatic, and the entire tone of the game is very dark anyway, but underwater...with things attacking you...absolute nightmare. Saying that, Vash'jir was a little better for me, I think we, as humans, all have a slight fear of drowning/water.

Not necessarily linked but, I have severe mycophobia (irrational fear of mushrooms). When I saw Zangarmarsh, because of the low res they made the mushrooms (and the fact that they're too big for me to see on a normal screen), I was okay. If anyone remembers the mushroom boss in Old Kingdom...first time I went there, I had a panic attack. The better graphics, the dew hanging from each of them...just thinking about it is making my skin crawl. My boyfriend's sister was in the group and told me to do the fight looking down at the floor. I'm glad it was an optional boss; every time I went back, I made sure I would never do it.

[VelkynKarma]

I don't have a problem with Vashj'ir...in fact I love the zone, for the most part. Questing there was pretty epic. Although I do hate fighting under water a lot, mostly because the depth perception is terrible there. I frequently have trouble telling how close I am to things, especially when everything operates in 3 dimensions there. THAT took some getting used to, and is still pretty irritating to this day.

As for zones that creep me out...man, pre-Shattering, Azshara used to give me the willies. So bad. Why? Well for starters, since there were so few quests there and only one usable flight path for either faction, it always felt really empty. Sometimes I would wander into Azshara long enough to grind up a level or two so I could move on to other zones, or to do some fishing to level cooking on one of my toons. Whenever I typed /who Azshara it ALWAYS came up with just me. Or maybe me and one other name. Not only that but I always had this bad feeling that I was constantly being watched by something following me, or that something really sinister and demonic was going on there. It probably didn't help that I would frequently stumble across those campsites up in the hills with lit fires and braziers and Horde/Alliance banners and watchtowers and such, but no people EVER. Like they just vanished out of thin air, with no word to anybody. It just really, really, REALLY creeped me out. I was always out of there ASAP.

By contrast I love new Azshara, the redesign was great.

I also tend to avoid certain places in zones, especially when I know they have things I don't want to see. Like giant spiders. Ew. And once I found a dead Whale Shark in Thousand Needles and was outta there like a bat out of hell, it scared me so bad.

~VelkynKarma

[Davarra]

There are a few things in wow that really weird me out but glass floors are the worst. I can't remember the instance right now but it is one of the ones in Netherstorm where you have to run over a glass floor with a seemingly bottomless pit below it. I got it in my head one day "what would happen if the glass broke?" and was freaked out from that point on.

I used to get that in City of Mist in EQ on the middle ramps behind the first hidden door. WoW bothers me less for some reason...not sure why.

[Samarachan]

There are a few things in wow that really weird me out but glass floors are the worst. I can't remember the instance right now but it is one of the ones in Netherstorm where you have to run over a glass floor with a seemingly bottomless pit below it. I got it in my head one day "what would happen if the glass broke?" and was freaked out from that point on.

I used to get that in City of Mist in EQ on the middle ramps behind the first hidden door. WoW bothers me less for some reason...not sure why.

They all have glass floors with bottomless pits Arcatraz would be the worst imo.

Also, the giant jellyfish you ride as an elevator in Throne of the Tides, eeeeeew! D:

[Dexster]

whats so scery i just love vashijar its epic place and its not scerry at all just think how u pop those mobs head with ur bow ( if ur hunter )

[Isaba]

oddly I'm terrified of deep water irl, and get bad spells of vertigo but in wow vash was my all time favrite zone next to unguro and the basin [yay dinosaurs] I have always had a fascination with mer people though, how they would actually work not the little mermaid type stuff, I think vash really let me explore that fascination a bit more so I was able to handle it, plus I somehow have a good sense of 3d environments even though I am terrified of heights and easily get off balance so I'm sure that helped. I do have a problem though with increadibly open flat zones... I always feel so....alone and creeped out, especially at night. The barrens has freaked me out before but it has enough hills I can take it however I had issues in desolace, silithus, tanaris, uldum, mostly....deserty places, mulgor I'm fine with, though, I have nightmares about being eaten alive by lions more often then I would like to admit, very realistic ones that keep me up, so that may be why, the only lion I like in that game is my Sambas

[Comett]

Vash'jir was definitely a big one for me! I was ok in the more populated areas, but when I get deeper and into quieter places (more or less past the quartermaster) I begin to get twitchy. However in regards to a previous post mentioning a skeleton and a sphere off the SW coast of the Abandoned Reef, I got a guildie to come out with me (too scared to go alone LOL!) and we found it. It was awesome, really random, one of those "wtf blizz" sorts of things. We died of fatigue (if you stayed up high enough, you didn't auto-die, you just got fatigue) and we got reasonably close. I took screenies!

I remember years ago Darkshore used to freak me out. Again, mainly just the deserted, dreary places. I quite enjoyed the quests in Zul Drak but the content depressed me so much, once I did it on my main I haven't done those quests since.

[Vephriel]

So, the stories of this giant skeleton thing intrigued me and somehow I got it in me to check it out.

Oddly enough the scariest part wasn't seeing the big skeletons themselves, it was that brief period when I swam over the edge of the Abandoned Reef and got into the deep water. For an instant everything is hazy and you can't see a thing. Freaked me right out, but I managed to focus myself on the shapes of the bones and just kept swimming towards them. Once you lose the seahorse you realize how freaking far away and enormous the skeletons are. You don't seem to be moving forwards at all. Eventually I just used Eagle Eye to snap down to the sea floor where they were and take screenies since I wouldn't make it anywhere near them before fatigue got me.

They were pretty awesome to see, a little creepy, but I think my fascination overpowered my queasiness at giant bones at the depths of the ocean.

It's really hard to judge the magnitude of the bones from screenshots alone, but my character wouldn't even have been the size of one of the teeth in the large skulls.

[Griffley]

With my feet on my couch, was the only possible way to level in Vash'jir.

[tactfullyArtisan]

Wow Veph, kudos to you for going out there and screenshotting the place. That's really interesting - looks like a couple of large dragons (VERY large - they look bigger than the ingame models of Alexstrasza and Deathwing, closer to the actual lore-based size of the two) fighting over that luminescent pearl that's sitting on the ocean floor next to them.

Thank you for the screenshots. I thought that'd be enough to sate my curiosity, but now I want to see it for myself, so my friend has offered to accompany me out there on Skype along with his druid. I shall Eagle Eye down as far as I can go and see what I can see before chickening out/dying of fatigue.