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Comment by 6934

I absolutely love the job Blizzard did here. The architecture feels very Elf-like and of course looks great. Dual banks and auction houses(one of each in the bazaar and royal exchange) cut down quite a bit on time wasted running around, especially prior to owning a mount. Quite easily my favorite Horde city!

Comment by Mikezila

The place really is beautiful. It's got a grand, open feel to it, much like walking around an actual city (as opposed to the fortress-like Org, or the sewer-like Undercity). The entire place is full of bright, warm light that makes the entire city glow.

It's really a cool looking place. My favorite Horde city as well!

Comment by 8691

This is the ancient city of Silvermoon that is featured in previous Warcraft games. It was formed by the High Elves, and later in Warcraft 3: Reign of Chaos, was destroyed by Arthas. It's queen Sylvanas Windrunner (a high elf at the time) was made into a Banshee to serve Arthas. The destroyed half is the remnants of the war. A group of High Elves led by Kael'Thas left to go to Outland. They have of late, severed contact with the remaining Blood Elves.

Comment by Teer

The name is similar to a city in the D&D world Forgotten Realms that's called "Silverymoon". Maybe not a total ripoff by Blizzard, but I can't stop thinking of it whenever I see the name.

Comment by 25523

This is one of the two places you can find the Orb of Translocation. The Orb ports you from SMC to UC and back. This is one way out that does not involve the panic of a lvl 20 (or less ;-) going thru EP). Now for the locations:

In Silvermoon City it's at 49.5, 14.8 (in Sunfury Spire - just go up the ramp then up into the Inner Sanctum; the Orb is in the center and a little up).

In Undercity it's at 54.9, 11.2 (take the stairs on the right as you enter the Ruins of Lordaeron from Tirisfal Glades; the Orb is straight ahead).

The coords are for the city maps (SMC and UC).

Comment by 47964

I wished that they included more quests in this city : /

Comment by Aowolf

One of the more fun parts of silver moon is locating the reagent vender.

She can be found here: http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=16612

Comment by 72954

Silvermoon city hase alot of bosses in it maybe about like 4-5 i think but i guess it would be REALLY HARD to take down silvermoon city and + the guards there every and arcane guards patroling -.-

Comment by calophi

No warrior trainer here, though they do have a druid trainer. Weird.

Comment by 141449

The Flight Point is outside the city, at 54, 57.

Comment by 106615

In my opinion second easiest Horde city to navigate :D
Favourite city overall though.

Comment by Ayline

In my opinion this is the best of the horde cities. Everything is close together, not much walking needed to get anywhere, and there are 2 banks, mailboxes and AHs.

It is also very easy to get to Orgrimmar and UC from SMC. Horde city connections are much better than alliance connections. Alliance has SW and IF connected and Darn and Exo connected while Horde have SMC, UC, and Org all easily connected with TB a short flight away. Very nice design for easy transportation.

Comment by 74126

Cybermoon city

Comment by 64407

Silvermoon is my favourite place in all WoW. It is just like the Blood Elfs: Elegant, butiful, somehow selfish but you can trust them if you truelly need their help.
Silvermoon is a compact city, where Blizzard combined utility with beauty. When I first entered it, I just visited it 3 times and then I remembered why I came there.
So, in few words, best capital of the Horde, if not the coolest capital in WoW.

Comment by 174766

My only complaint is the fact that the flight master is not located inside the city like the other capital cities. Other than that, the city is beautiful and really reflects the Blood Elves.

Comment by 97405

I love the magical feeling you have when you walk around in this blood-elven city full of bright lights, beautiful plants and interesting arcane creatures. This is indeed the most successful capital city in the World of Warcraft. It combines dark and bright, pain and harmony, and sometimes even good and evil (I'm not saying Horde is evil and Alliance is good). Lead by Lor'themar Theron, this mighty city is a perfect place for the bitter elves to regain their magical powers to use them in a fight against the powers which had some time ago nearly brought them to a brink of destruction...

Comment by Slavaa

I can't believe no one mentioned that this is probably a reference to the city of Silverymoon in the Forgotten Realms D&D setting. (Which you can read up about here: http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Silverymoon)

Comment by Vashra

Also contains two books towards "Well Read" -- one on the top floor of the Silvermoon City Inn, and the other near the Wand vendor just north of that inn. The books are "The Betrayer..." and "The Alliance..."

After combing the *entire* city, all of Eversong Woods, and the Ghostlands up to but not including ZA, I found no other books.

Comment by 235468

You know, I've always wondered why the High Elves named this place Silvermoon, when they're all crazy about the sun. The moon is a symbol of Elune, the goddess of the Night Elves, who the high elves were thoroughly disgusted with at the time of the founding of Silvermoon. Perhaps they built this city when they still had the same customs as the Night Elves, before the "oh look at the sun ain't it a beaut" cultural change.

Comment by exowizard

its easy to get to get 2 uc from here that can lead 2 org. first u get to the sunfury spire(i think thats the name) and go behind the 2 bosses of silvermoon. then u will see a orb.its will take u 2 uc. next u can catch the zep from uc 2 org. and if uve got the fp u can fly to tb(takes bout 3 min flying time)

Comment by 243475

You can also find L70ETC here in Silvermoon near the entrance just look up when you find their manager.

Comment by 328293

Just wanted to state this,as of this patch...SMC is the main RP spot on Moon Guard...as of other servers im not sure.

Comment by dreadblood

am I the only one who notices that on the map the part of silvermoon that was destroyed looks the same size but when you go there its smaller that the main bit?

Comment by 287953

Everything about the city is oddly shallow and vacant, much like the blood elves themselves. ;P

Comment by Amourette

I love Silvermoon. I'm an alliance and I raided Silvermoon once. Directly after that I chose another server and made myself a bloodelf, just for the city. It's very sunny, bright and open there. It gives me a warm feeling.
The Exodar is also nice but it's more cold and mystical...and really, space like^^.
More peeps should use cities like The Exodar and Silvermoon. They are very beautiful. It's a shame no1 uses these cities

Comment by 346764

can anyone tell me what the lvl 80 elite stealth detcting guards are?

Comment by Sinfiend

Yeah, Exodar and Silvermoon are really badass cities. People should use them more often.

They look really both look really awesome

Comment by 258919

One of my two favorite cities in the game, alongside Dalaran.

But, despite the amazing amount of aesthetics Blizzard put into it, very few people visit it because it is waaay up in northern Eastern Kingdoms (and the only places in northern EK that are a short flight from Silvermoon than UC are Quel'Danas and the Blood Elf starting zones).

There are two AHs, one near the entrance and one in the middle, kind of closer to the back. Farstrider's Square contains a few proff trainers (mainly crafting) and training dummies.

Sunfury Spire contains the mage portal trainer, so that's where the portals go to. Which makes it tons easier to defend the boss. The boss of the city, Lor'themar Theron, is in the front room of Sunfury Spire. He is the primary leader of the blood elves who are allied with the Horde, not Kael'thas. For city raids, he is a fairly easy kill (much like his counterpart in the Exodar).

An orb in the back of Sunfury Spire will take you to the Ruins of Lordaeron above the Undercity, making transport from Silvermoon to the middle Eastern Kingdoms easy. Though I have not confirmed this, I believe only members of the Horde can use this orb.

No, you can't jump into the endless gap in front of the Spire. I tried.

The kind of architecture here reappears on the Isle of Quel'Danas (the divided hallway-doors, the paths and excess amounts of plantlife) as they are both Blood Elf areas.

In the end, every Horde character should take a while off to explore this city. It's one of Blizzard's best creations aesthetically and it's a shame that no non-blood elves go there except to train Jewelcrafting

Comment by 356910

I love the architecture of this city. It's brilliant! Everything is close by, and with so many inter-connecting paths such as the normal road or going in one entrance of an inn and out the other, getting around is easy!

One of my fave things here is the crowd in The Bazaar. How the magister appears and MCs the protesting people and whatnot... What fun! >:)

The city is quite impressive. The fact that there are two banks and AHes is highly convenient. What if there happens to be a large crowd and someone lays down a train, and you forgot your Train Wrecker? Happened to me >.<

The mailboxes are near the banks, close to the AHes at the same time, and pretty much placed throughout the city! Makes mail and stuff convenient.

Enough with my prattling. It's a beautiful city, and my favorite one, and VERY convenient having no lag, well placed things, trainers and whatnot.

For anyone with confusion or trouble in someplace like Orgrimmar with its crowds of people and organization of structures, don't hesitate to come here instead. I highly reccomend it.

Comment by 432713

Silvermoon looks alot like Paris, France. :)

Comment by mixter

in the next expansion flying mounts will be used in EK and kalimdor

so i cant wait to stroll around silvermoon in a flying mount :D

Comment by 502279

How can i go there ? Which way ?

Comment by 434055

I'm surprised no one's mentioned this yet so I'll reveal the secret... There's a leper gnome sweatshop hidden underneath the tailoring store in Silvermoon. At least 5 gnomes are in there being put to work by a Succubus that belongs to the shop owner and a hefty pile of gold is just sitting on his desk in the middle of the chamber... An alliance raid should come to Silvermoon City and liberate them since they've been there for a while lol.

Comment by Gnoktish

Whats sad about this place, the NPCs dont call out for guards as needed, a lvl 36 gnome runs through the entire inn connecting the Walk of Elders and Bazaar together without a guard killing her.

Comment by Kat3764

Definitely a great city. But notice the closed gate leading to The Dead Scar in between SMC and the ruins? Its guarded but you cannot go through it?

Comment by 614369

Possibly my favorite thing about this whole city is the Blood Knight hall. The main chamber looks grand and impressive and the "secret" chamber underneath it looks awesome too. Even though the street level entrance to the underground area isn't really hidden, it's inconspicuous enough that I've forgotten where it is or run into the hunter's training area by mistake more than once.

Comment by Tyowinn

One of the most easily For the Alliance! raid's you can do and very funny! A lot of guards storming the raid only to be killed by the AoE.. Oh what a mess!

Comment by 622529

The ironic thing is that although blood elves are self-obssesed, the city has no barber shop XD

Comment by themguyman

can ne1 explain why i can't fly over SMC in beta is it like not done yet or can i just not fly there cuz they don't want me to

Comment by 664823

M favorite city :)) Too bad we prbably won'get to fly in there ;( so very sad ;((((

Comment by 650450

It's a great looking city, but I think the thing keeping it the least populated Horde city is that it dosn't let you fly there like it does in the other Horde citys. It looks like a hell of a lotta fun to fly in though.

Comment by 304287

Flying mounts not allowed here for alliance.

Correction, Flying mounts are not usable in Silvermoon City, Period. That means for both Horde & Alliance. This is also not limited to only Silvermoon City, the Draenei Starting zone and its surrounding area are also not flyable zones.

You can however walk around on your flying mount... if you so wish.

For those who wonder why, GM Reply for you:

You are not able to fly in these areas as they are primarily starting areas for low-level characters, as opposed to other race's starting areas which are scattered throughout the world. This helps low-level characters quest and leave their starting areas without undue harassment.

While I do find their reasoning to be completely irrelevant because you can be harassed even without a flying mount, this is still blizzards choice.

Comment by 406368

Confirmed post-Cata and post-patch 4.0.6 that Silvermoon City is still a no-fly zone. They probably don't want dragon droppings on their precious streets or all over their cleaning brooms...just think of the smell those brooms would pick up.

Comment by Reedus

I suspect one main reason why flying is not permitted is because of the way the new zones were implemented when Burning Crusade released. There's still that portal from Eastern Plaguelands into Ghostlands. Unless you use the translocation orb from Undercity, you'll have to go through that portal. They didn't want players who hadn't purchased Burning Crusade to be able to access the lands. This was changed in Cataclysm, thus abandoning portals for all new zones in Azeroth.

Also, another reason why: I believe Ghostlands and Eversong Woods are technically not part of the same map as the rest of Eastern Kalimdor. Going through the portal has the same effect as taking a boat/zep across continents; It transports you to a different map. I really wish Blizzard would have fixed this, but it was perhaps too much work, not only to redesign the map, but to also revise vanilla accounts to allow access to the zones.

Comment by 812029

As Night Elf druid, how can I discover Silvemoon City so that I can get the Exploration achieve? This is the only part of the zone I can not figure out how to access.

Comment by Lostelf

I hate how blizzard are too lazy to revamp this its not abandoned in RP servers i want to see this majestic city from the skys cant they keep it instenced but make flying posable as soon as you get normal flying (outland flying and not need flight masters lisence ect..).

Its a beutiful city but its so barren and everyone talks about how kael'thas abandoned them witch happend...what ? several years ago? and how the sunwell is supposedly still destroyed by arthas.

They gave quel'danas a small revamp for the quel'dalar chain (I know it was phased) even if they dont add flying at least change all this outland stuff and make it more modern (Add new quests and lore so it takes place in the present cata ect...).

Comment by 784446

I nominate this post for the longest sentence award.

Edit: This is meant as a reply to Lostelfs post but it won't let me reply.

Comment by Geoffgore

I bet if Blizz made it so we can fly here, and put portals here just like there was in Dal, people would come here!

Just a thought.. ;)

Same with the Exodar !

Comment by 140835

Beautiful, clean zone. Definitely good for role-playing (if you're into that sort of thing)..The serene music matches the zone, and can definitely have alot of fun here..alliance or horde.

Comment by Takata

At lvl 85 I still aggroed the guards running in the city with my mount, but you can run away pretty fast from them if you have a fast ground mount. They also fixed that thing where we used to be able to discover it by going around back and walking up to that crack in the wall.

Comment by Deathfrog93

ya know what I noticed about sunfury spire (where the boss is for raids) is that from the outside, that place is MASSIVE! but on the inside, it is 4 rooms only. go and look at it. its like a full on castle on the outside. I wish that it was explorable, and you can go anywhere in there. roleplayers dream!

Comment by Saucery

Pro Tip, if you want to level a druid, but dont want to level in durotar or mulgar, silvermoon city has a druid trainer.

Comment by 1058668

I'll take this city being a horde over Orgrimmar anyday. I blame Org for me not leveling a horde. I understand it has to be rustic and barbaric cuz of orcs, but it's still a confusing shamble of a city. Silvermoon is elegant and pristine; away with the portal and in with the flying! We are past that nonsense already.

Comment by 1206020

Remember Quel'Thalas!

Comment by Adamsm

Hopefully at some point we'll see the city restored to it's full majestic beauty....and if we're really lucky, if the war between the Alliance and Horde ramps up again, we'll get to see the High Elves invade Silvermoon and Eversong to attempt to take their homeland back from the Blood Elves.

Comment by biggleman

An interesting fact is that most of the citizens have mana-bars.

Comment by Eido

The daily fishing quest-givers in each major city from Vanilla:
NOTE: You can only complete ONE of the following NPCs dailies per character per day!
For a complete list of all fishing dailies from Vanilla for both Horde and Alliance, see this page.

ALLIANCE

Astaia (Darnassus)
Grimnur Stonebrand (Ironforge)
Catherine Leland (Stormwind City)
There is no fishing daily for The Exodar.

HORDE

Razgar (Orgrimmar)
Kah Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff)
Armand Cromwell (Undercity)
There is no fishing daily for Silvermoon City (Burning Crusade).

In addition to one of the Vanilla fishing dailies, you can also complete fishing dailies from the following expansions, all on the same day:

Expansion	Quest Giver(s)	Zone	Complete List of Dailies
The Burning Crusade	Old Man Barlo	Shattrath City	List
Wrath of the Lich King	Marcia Chase	Dalaran	List
Mists of Pandaria	List	Krasarang Wilds	List
Warlords of Draenor	Fishing Trainer (A,H)	Garrison (A,H)	List

Please feel free to add anything I may have missed!

Comment by Croffiles

I would like to see a polish on Silvermoon and Exodar cities, to get them up to the new graphic standards.

Updated textures, smooth out the models etc. I would also like to see signs of Blood Elves slowly taking back the other part of their city, and started to re-build it with their magical powers.
(By no means like Orgrimmar and all their machines and construction junk, it was horrible)

I can only hope in the future Silvermoon and Exodar alike, will be getting some maintenance.

Comment by Eido

ALLIANCE

Astaia (Darnassus)
Grimnur Stonebrand (Ironforge)
Catherine Leland (Stormwind City)
There is no fishing daily for The Exodar.

HORDE

Razgar (Orgrimmar)
Kah Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff)
Armand Cromwell (Undercity)
There is no fishing daily for Silvermoon City (Burning Crusade).

In addition to one of the Vanilla fishing dailies, you can also complete fishing dailies from the following expansions, all on the same day:

Expansion	Quest Giver(s)	Zone	Complete List of Dailies
The Burning Crusade	Old Man Barlo	Shattrath City	List
Wrath of the Lich King	Marcia Chase	Dalaran	List
Mists of Pandaria	List	Krasarang Wilds	List
Warlords of Draenor	Fishing Trainer (A,H)	Garrison (A,H)	List

Please feel free to add anything I may have missed!

Comment by Eido

The daily cooking quest-givers in each major city from Vanilla:
NOTE: You can only complete ONE of the following NPCs dailies per character per day!
For a complete list of all cooking dailies from Vanilla for both Horde and Alliance, see this page.

ALLIANCE

Alegorn (Darnassus)
Daryl Riknussun (Ironforge)
Robby Flay (Stormwind City)
There is no cooking daily for The Exodar.

HORDE

Marogg (Orgrimmar)
Aska Mistrunner (Thunder Bluff)
Eunice Burch (Undercity)
There is no cooking daily for Silvermoon City (Burning Crusade).

In addition to one of the Vanilla cooking dailies, you can also complete cooking dailies from the following expansions, all on the same day:

Expansion	Quest Giver(s)	Zone	Complete List of Dailies
The Burning Crusade	The Rokk	Shattrath City	List
Wrath of the Lich King	Cooking Trainer (A,H)	Dalaran	List
Mists of Pandaria	Halfhill Market Masters	Valley of the Four Winds	List
Warlords of Draenor	None	None	None

Please feel free to add anything I may have missed!

Comment by Taurnok

With Elves seemingly being the focus in Midnight, I really hope Silvermoon gets a makeover. It's the best city in the game, and they should give us a reason to visit it.. not to mention Undercity as well...

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Silvermoon City (Burning Crusade)

Silvermoon CityAreas of Interest:

The Bazaar: Auction House, political sequence among NPCs, open-air market, tailoring trainer, Bank of Silvermoon.

Walk of Elders: Skinning, leatherworking, first aid, fishing, druid trainers, Wayfarer's Rest Tavern, guild vendors.

The Royal Exchange: Jewelcrafting and archaeology trainers, Royal Exchange Bank, magister's lounge.

Farstrider's Square: Center of Farstriders and Blood Knights--hunter and paladin trainers, also battlemasters, engineering and blacksmith trainers.

Murder Row: rogue and warlock trainers, Silvermoon City Inn.

Court of the Sun: Many profession trainers, connects rest of the city to the royal palace to the north.

Sunfury Spire: Royal palace, home of Lor'themar Theron, portals, mage and priest trainers.

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