It has been quite some time now since FotM has been introduced and although it did shine some light on new dungeon ideas, which I hope have been taken into account, I’m now wondering what’s next?
Will there be a new dungeon in the next Flame&Frost patch or will we have to wait 2 months from now to finally see some new PvE content?
Just to add my personal opinion to the new AC changes, this doesn’t count as content. This counts as fixing things that didn’t need to be fixed. I’ve already run AC 100’s of times and the though of “slightly changed mechanics” adds nothing to lure me back in there. It’s still the same 3 paths, the same bosses, the same outcome.
I really hope that Anet gets rid of the Path 1/2/3 gimmick and produces one big, truly explorable dungeon. Think how great Arah could have been if it was something like Black Temple or Stratholme. I like the objectives of an adventure panning out but the overall lasting effect of them shares no intrest to the overall objective of re-taking Arah. It doesn’t feel like out characters really accomplished much.
One thing that I feel shines about WoWs dungeon approach is that it follows a story line of lore really well. I want to continue with Arah! [spoiler]Maybe Zhaitan was only temporarily weakened and we now get to go back and finish the job the way it should have been finished! A really intricate and memorable fight, not just press 2 and let the guns do the work. I want to use MY build, MY characters weapons and feel like I have accomplished something. [/spoiler](Story mode spoiler)
Give us a dungeon the size of Arah, with 8 – 10 bosses linked to lore, with difficulty and mechanics on par with lupus and we have one hell of a dungeon. Also no blue drops.