I was just wondering what other people thought about this. The only thing I dread when making each new character is clearing out the strongholds and getting all the way points again. I’m not asking for the strongholds and waypoints to be unlocked for free but it sure would be nice if there was some sort of fast mechanic when making additional characters. Basically, where I still have to do something but it’s a little less tedious the second third fourth or fifth time each season.
They need to update strongholds so that they can drop target items. Or have seasonal themes around them. I like the idea of a group of players owning a stronghold and you get the chance to invade them for loot
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What would you propose in place of them being automatically unlocked? Most of them take only a few minutes anyway, and repetition is the name of the game anyway.
I can respect finding them annoying but curious what an example of making them faster would look like.
I skip most of them.
There are a few strongholds I do just for waypoints for hell tides. These I just grab as I am leveling and doing a hell tide in the area. Never seen much point in getting all of them.
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I only do one stronghold because it ‘s close to a world boss… i forget the rest are even there, unless i end up near them due to random slaying across the countryside. Why are you redoing all of them?
I ignore strongholds every season because it’s not necessary to do them
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I suppose the only ones I feel the need to get are the ones with waypoints/dungeons/legions. I’ll have to make a list of those and skip the rest in the future.
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I haven’t done any strong holds in a few seasons. When leveling they can give a nice chunk of XP if you feel like switching things up but I’d rather just run dungeons or do the seasonal quests for XP.
It would be nice they made them more interesting and more rewarding though.
I only do srongholds when forced to, as in when I need the content that is locked away, which isn’t often.
I usually do like 3-4 of them in the leveling phase, they tend to give a nice chunk of XP. Nowhere near as cleaning 'em up though, just as tool for change of content/pace
Tur’Dulra is fun to do though, feels like a temporary throwback to storymode/campaign 
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Last time I did more than 1 or 2 was a season that didn’t have a lot going on before hitting T1. I think it was season 8. No reason to keep doing them except when there’s nothing more interesting going on to pick up the last few levels
I normally do not run alts I do the strongholds and waypoints as soon as the season starts. 
Strongholds are just a remnant of an older world design that doesn’t seem to work well with the current design.
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If a helltide is off and there is no other whisper i like to do, i do a stronghold.
More dungeon options.
I dont mind doing them on the first toon of the season.
That being said, I wish that completed strongholds and discovered waypoints carried over to new toons for that season. I hate losing waypoints, especially the Iron Wolf one during helltides.
It’s not that big a deal, its just a minor inconvenience. After doing it 11xCharactersCreated, it is getting old.
Strongholds are wasted content. Needs an update.
Waypoints should all be unlocked to start if its not inside a stronghold.
Cellars are more wasted content. Needs an update.
Most all quests in the game are wasted content. Needs an update like guaranteed legends, large gold rewards, ect. Nobody cares about these after getting renown once.
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I do quests once and awhile if i get bord but if I look at the map and see the turn in out in bfe it’s an immediate abandon. Lol
I don’t like it, so I don’t do it.
It hasn’t affecting me one bit not having strongholds unlocked.
I usually ignore most of them now. I don’t tend to even unlock all the waypoints any more.
Every Stronghold has at least one of those things.
You can usually skip the ones that only have dungeons unless they’re in the NMD rotation and you care about that. They would be Eriman’s Pyre, the Lighthouse, the Hunting Lodge, the place in the peaks near the Bear Tribe Camp, and the one in Kehjistan right below the PVP zone. Everything else is either a legion spawn point or has a waypoint.
I also ignore all the ones in Nahantu. Sometimes if there’s a season activity going on near the ones with waypoints like there was last season I’ll clear one out. They are long and tedious though compared to the base game strongholds. They were cool the first time I did them. Now they’re not.
I don’t really mind the base game ones though. They’re worth a lot of XP while leveling and don’t take long at all.
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