For the Love of GOD FIX Gridania!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Reika]

It's a huge, boring mess of odd hills, crevices, repeating features, and tunnels filled with moles. Kind of like every other zone.

Idk. I look at the map and I see Each the area around each camp and Aetherial node look very much different from each other, including areas off to various directions. Especially South Bloodshore, The Isles of Umbra, and Moraby Bay. It is the only starting area that has a unique look to each different area. Plus the music is the best of the 3 starting areas. Nevermind the few caves with moles.

The only place slightly unique about The black shroud is where the sylphs live, northeast of Nine Ives. Thanalan is pretty much the same everywhere you go.

[Demacia]

Idk. I look at the map and I see Each the area around each camp and Aetherial node look very much different from each other, including areas off to various directions. Especially South Bloodshore and Moraby Bay. It is the only starting area that has a unique look to each different area. Plus the music is the best of the 3 starting areas. Nevermind the few caves with moles.

It is one of the few zones in the game with fitting music, I'll give you that, but it still suffers like every other zone in the game. Not really hating on it in particular just the world design in general. I bash XIV a lot but many of its problems are fixable while the world design one probably isn't.

[Reika]

Well take another good look at La Noscea map and you will see that it is really way better than the other two, music and shapewise. It doesn't need to be bothered too much more than placing dungeons wherever they feel like placing them.

[Demacia]

Well take another good look at La Noscea map and you will see that it is really way better than the other two, music and shapewise. It doesn't need to be bothered too much more than placing dungeons wherever they feel like placing them.

It's the best starting area, yeah, but it's still not that great. More variety, less caves with moles/fireflies. At the very least it isn't nearly as bad as Thanalan/Black Shroud. I'd just like to see maps that make me WANT to explore. I covered every area in the game when I was playing and was left with bitter disappointment.

[whoopeeragon]

Perhaps they should add more landmarks into the areas specifically, like random shrines throughout the Black Shroud, or blowholes near the coastline of La Noscea, or even dancing tornadoes off the each of the walkable regions. La Noscea has one good thing; the sub-areas are stunning. Cassi Hollows is just beautiful, and Mistbeard Cove, while not spectacular, is definitely unique. In terms of the actual landmass, it doesn't really need to be touched upon; it's definitely more unique than the Black Shroud.

[Seif]

I don't I need to talk about what's wrong with Gridania just FIX it SE!!!!!!!!

HEAR HEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Evangela]

even the twelve hate the black shroud

[VydarrTyr]

The only place slightly unique about The black shroud is where the sylphs live, northeast of Nine Ives.

I think this is interesting. I think the Black Shroud has the most unique areas. There are the white trees, the glowing tree, trees with birdhouses, cliffs, ponds, lakes, streams, bridges, etc. The problem is that it's so hard to get around in the Black Shroud that no one explores enough to find those areas.

I'd like to see the maze-like qualities cleared, and the Black Shroud become more open. I just always assumed it was intentional, to recreate the feeling of getting turned around and lost in a forest. I'm just not sure that benefit is enough to justify the inconvenience.

[Randis]

The only thing unique about the Black Shroud is that it is the Black Shroud.
If you were to explain your position to a friend on the phone without using coordinates you would be helpless at best.
There are no landmarks and you cannot even see the path (the one you see on the map)
It is as generic as it gets, periode.
Even after so many years I still could discribe various locations of the surrounding area of San d'Oria. I remember the charm walking around and all the little landmarks....
Gridania is just a bunch of X, Y, L shapes, flipped and rotated all over.

[Chezen]

*Sticks finger in ear and winces* "What?!!!"