ArenaNet has just made many changes to Orr, such as reducing mob density there, reducing the number of crowd control skills enemies have, and so on. The idea was to make the zone better. In my opinion, that goal was achieved, Orr is better now.
It’s simply still not good.
The changes to Orr have not made the zone more interesting, in my opinion; they have only made it easier to ignore the enemies there as it’s now simpler to just run past them. The zone still has the same problems it used to have:
- Very few kinds of enemies. Risen everywhere, a few tar elementals (which aren’t the most exciting enemies in the game), very once in a while slightly different enemies in small parts of the map when a temple has been taken. This lack of enemy variety is different than everything found outside of Orr.
- Few dynamic events that change the zone. The temples change a few enemies spawn, remove some environmental effects that people mostly avoid when they are up, and nothing else. The other events are either “kill this group of risen before they do X”, or “the Risen have done X, kill the group of Risen in the area”. Events have little to no impact on the world.
The changes ArenaNet did to Orr have made it less irritating, but those zones are still far from being interesting. I have my own suggestions to improve the area, but more important than listening to a player’s suggestion, IMO, is letting ArenaNet know that the current changes have been nice, but they’re just a band-aid, not a full fix.
“I think that players are starting to mature past the point of wanting to be on that
treadmill, of being in that obvious pattern of every time I catch up you are going to
put another carrot in front of me” – Mike O’Brien right before Ascended weapons
