Me and my guild just cleared the Muursat route of the explorable dungeon of arah. It was fun, difficult and not at all broken in places, so overall a rousing success.
However that covers the most important aspect, the gameplay. After that, I would like to draw serious criticism to the story that is told.
The most exciting moment for me in this game was entering into the dungeons explorable mode entrance; for those avoiding spoilers, avoid here!
You are faced with the line choose which elder race to learn about. Read that again, because thats a key point of this complaint. You are also faced with Ogden! Awesome.
So after 3 hours of awesome play and teamwork, we kill the final boss. Each and every other boss before that had merely promised that revelations would occur later, and nothing interesting was provided on the way. Hopes were high for major reveals at the final boss fight.
Nothing. A massive let down. The route leader tells you before you set off some key new information: the muursat hid from the elder dragons selfishly, in a half-world away from Tyria. After their slumber ended, they would return to rule. All this is given at the start before you encounter any combat, and should be seen as a primer for not so lore savvy players trying to keep up.
What are you given at the end?
“Amazing. These artifacts reveal the full story.” Ho boy you are excited already.
“The races gathered together to fight the dragons, each contributing something.” Ha brilliant.
“Hmm. Yet the mursaat took their knowledge and fled into a half-world, out of phase with our own”. Right. Great, knew that but ok.
“They would have let the rest of the world die just to save themselves. Huh. Just like the Inquest.”
End. Dungeon reward, and a prompt to leave…
Utterly dissappointed; can Ree or Geoff indicate if this is really what they intended for players who care about the history? Is the instance bugged? Am I missing something, perhaps secrets along the route that must be discovered indepently?
Has anyone else experienced something similar or different to my experience. Thanks for reading.
