Vinyard@Antonia Bayle wrote:
Here's something to look at. For leveling, you have, in essence, removed the freedom of it. Back in the old days, people had the option to grind in heroic overland zones, or quest. Pretty much these days, it's get pl'd or take the "golden path" (which, is off. The golden path does not function as well as it was intended. It just seems to cut you off short every zone in terms of exp).
Maybe for June? Bring back the heroic overlands. Antonica, TS giant groups, Nek forest....these zones are EMPTY. It's WASTED content. Wasted space. And wasted server load. Bring life back into these zones. You guys are putting in so much work revamping the original starting cities, but forgetting the areas around them.
Heroic overland zones were a great place to meet your server community. To know who you are playing with. Some of us enjoy this kind of leveling, instead of packed dungeons full of pl groups (or 1 sk pl'ing a group), and questing is just so boring.
An interesting thing you brought up, as I thought for the Freeport Revamp, we were supposed to NOT go through zones of BBM in order to level, doing all through CL, Nek, etc. Guess that got thrown out with the baby and the bathwater.
And the Golden Path is not what it is cracked up to be. So many places are missed. My main went that route, I was 90 in 3 months. Errrr