I've had some thoughts on AC as a whole lately i'd like to share and get some feedback on.
Currently there is a huge portion of the landscape that is being wasted, and that would be the entire mainland.
Back in the day it was awesome to have a huge world to explore and find things in, hunting/looting along the way. Now?
Not so much. After 150 the places you go to hunt/quest/loot dwindles dramatically and it leads to visiting the same areas, over and over and over. Even before then there isn't much reason to wander around enjoying scenery as quests reward such high xp as opposed to hunting on the landscape.
While some places have awesome design like neftet, to me its sad to let all the other architecture and landscape go vastly unused outside of a couple of monthly quests that get run. Think back to when you'd be running across dereth finding a building along the road with some monsters in it, or a tower surrounded by limestone golems. Why not make them golems that are relevant to the majority of your playerbase? (just an example)
I'm not proposing to slash all content for low levels but at this point I think it would be fine to start them on the Halaetan Isles for instance, and have the next area of progression be tusker isle, veysayen isles etc there are plenty of quests on these 3 islands to get them to 130+ and ready for viss, then from there to DI.
The method really doesn't matter but to me the fact is that having such a huge landscape go unused is IMO ridiculous.
Why not have the obsidian plains and the mainland of dereth become one entire top tier area? or the OP be T8+ and mainland similar to T7+? Make it a tough place to be outside of towns and a small perimeter. Heck even put barriers around housing settlements so lower levels can still get to them without having to worry about being killed.
With the town network nobody runs between towns anymore.
I'm not asking for all new quests etc but let's be honest the landscape is stagnant for the most part and I think a change is in order.
I probably haven't articulated this well but my main agenda is to see the vast majority of this wonderful landscape actually be used and seen, not the other way around. It's really my hope that I can travel across dereth on foot, finding things i've never seen while hunting/looting alot the way because thats what this game has always been about.
And i'm not asking that this be done in 1 patch, do it incrementally thats fine, but lets get the ball rolling.
Currently there is a huge portion of the landscape that is being wasted, and that would be the entire mainland.
Back in the day it was awesome to have a huge world to explore and find things in, hunting/looting along the way. Now?
Not so much. After 150 the places you go to hunt/quest/loot dwindles dramatically and it leads to visiting the same areas, over and over and over. Even before then there isn't much reason to wander around enjoying scenery as quests reward such high xp as opposed to hunting on the landscape.
While some places have awesome design like neftet, to me its sad to let all the other architecture and landscape go vastly unused outside of a couple of monthly quests that get run. Think back to when you'd be running across dereth finding a building along the road with some monsters in it, or a tower surrounded by limestone golems. Why not make them golems that are relevant to the majority of your playerbase? (just an example)
I'm not proposing to slash all content for low levels but at this point I think it would be fine to start them on the Halaetan Isles for instance, and have the next area of progression be tusker isle, veysayen isles etc there are plenty of quests on these 3 islands to get them to 130+ and ready for viss, then from there to DI.
The method really doesn't matter but to me the fact is that having such a huge landscape go unused is IMO ridiculous.
Why not have the obsidian plains and the mainland of dereth become one entire top tier area? or the OP be T8+ and mainland similar to T7+? Make it a tough place to be outside of towns and a small perimeter. Heck even put barriers around housing settlements so lower levels can still get to them without having to worry about being killed.
With the town network nobody runs between towns anymore.
I'm not asking for all new quests etc but let's be honest the landscape is stagnant for the most part and I think a change is in order.
I probably haven't articulated this well but my main agenda is to see the vast majority of this wonderful landscape actually be used and seen, not the other way around. It's really my hope that I can travel across dereth on foot, finding things i've never seen while hunting/looting alot the way because thats what this game has always been about.
And i'm not asking that this be done in 1 patch, do it incrementally thats fine, but lets get the ball rolling.