Velious instances = Wasted potential

[Cusashorn]

<p>I finally managed to get a group for The Ascent last week, and I was rather impressed by the graphics of what used to be the icy ramps of Velkator's Labyrinth.</p><p>My group went though the zone, and I did what quests that I could while in there. None of them gave any incite to the zone's background. We fought all the names, including Witch Doctor Vuh-Duh (lol nice name. Geddit?) We a few moments after we killed him, we get a cutscene where all the ice melts and the whole zone is suddenly full of gigantic roots and vines and other foliage.</p><p>I asked in the lore channel later just what the heck happened, and was told that the shard was a piece of a scale from Veeshan herself.</p><p>..... HOW DO YOU LEARN THIS!? The zone quests themselves give almost no information about what the zones are or used to be. Why wasn't more exposition put into these instances? It's not just The Ascent either. Tower of Frozen Shadows falls victim to the lack of information too, even though it does have a lot more than The Ascent did. I couldn't learn ANYTHING about the Forgotten Pools. Why is there a forest of two different trees in what used to be Velkator's Labyrinth? Why is there pools of acid? What have the Icepaw kobolds been doing in the past 500 years? I can't do the Sig Quests to learn this stuff or whatever happened to reveal that detail.</p>

[Nebbeny]

Hmm have you done pools yet Cusa? The set of quests for pools includes a hallmark that has you help the lost ones enslave lord bob, as a result of this they give you the shard, which you take back and the coldain tell you to take into ascent. What the hell happens isn't explained, not as far as i noticed anyway. How the dwarfs come into possession of a piece of veeshan claw that broke off when she marked velious, is beyond me, and how thats related to growth? who knows. Just make sure before you do pools, that you go to the area where the mission givers are and pick up the hallmark yourself, it's not sharable.

[SgtPmpkn]

<p>The zone quests mention a little about the shard being a scale of Veeshan, but I agree not much in terms of Lore is delivered in the instances.  Forgotten Pools, I dont think there was much revealed.  The sig quest just asks you to get the Orb of Coelescence from the Rime Fortress, nothing in terms of Pools or Ascent.</p><p>The Coldain Ring HQ line has you go into Pools to get a component for a craft, but thats about it.</p><p>We're due for a Lore reveal session about alot of the players in DoV, but I dont think its a priority for the Team currently, so here's hoping they find time soon(tm).</p>

[Cusashorn]

Ahh. I haven't been able to turn in Doljonijiarnimorinar's spirit yet. Only been able to find a group for the zone once so far.

[Iskandar]

<p>Yep, the bulk of the lore for the claw comes in the Signature questline, but Vuh'Duh's dialogue also gives a bit of insight into it, and it's potential use for both growth and destruction.</p>