the zone itself felt… kind of magical.
the first thing I did was just fly around for a bit and there were lots of loops and circle things that were just begging to be dived through.
I found an area with a lot of elite mobs, which reminded me of the western part of the zone in the underground sniffendiggy zone, or the area with wathion and sabellion. It made me wonder why the developers feel the need to force part of a zone to be an elite area? it doesn’t seem to add anything to the experience, it just takes longer to kill those mobs. it’s not very fun.
the random elites are the worst though. they die in just a few seconds and by the time one pops up on my map and I zoom over there, it’s already dead. this is a huge step back. at least in zerth mortis you would have 1 minute to get there before it became active. this is very sad and bad in my opinion.
the smaller blooms are a fun idea but in practice you just have a bunch of players standing around not contributing because nobody wants to have to spend their own currency if they don’t have to. so it just turns into one big game of chicken until someone breaks down and contributes everything themselves to get the bloom to 100%. I think dewdrops collected near the bloom should result in bonus dewdrops flying through the air in an arc towards the bloom and automatically making the bloom bloom more. these would be extra drops and would be scaled up as time goes on to make it easier for less players to complete these later.
superblooms are fun, it would be great if there could be new powerups each week. also I think some of the threats to the tree are a bit too easy. perhaps we could get a ‘heroic superbloom’ that would actually be difficult and have a chance for us to fail, and require healers to heal the tree as well to keep it alive (sort of like zangarmash event?) as currently healers don’t have much to do.
the zone secrets are nice, not overly difficult to complete.
I’ve never seen a quest that requires you to summon a pet, I guess there’s a first for everything.
the gear is all better item level than my current gear, I am not sure if it is worth it to take a higher item level and lose my 4 piece set bonus, the gearing is confusing, I wish the 4 piece set bonus was just disabled automatically at the start of a new season.
it’s a proper zone with lots of questing to do.
I don’t know what to do with the honey hives. I can collect pollen and there’s a flower I can presumably dump it on but nothing happens no matter what I dump the pollen on it seems.
some of the small nuts are floating and can’t be looted (except by a druid in flight form… hehehehe)
I don’t know where the world boss is? apparently they only spawn every 2+ hours or something and also die fast? why? there was nothing wrong with just having a purple world quest and letting players do the world boss anytime they wanted.
the quests are fun.
the lieutenants of fyrakk are total pushovers, they should be far more of a challenge.
the flying fish world quest was very boring
requiring me to /sleep to loot certain things was a nice touch
Lilian and Shandris Feathermoon working together felt out of place, but when I read the backstory for Shandris I thought Blizzard was writing something really compelling. And then it was cheapened somewhat by a spirit inhabiting her. I think it would have just been a better story for no spirit to have been involved and for them to just be dealing with their feelings without any supernatural interference.
