Coerthas: Then and Now

[Andaeron]

It's actually only a perception of loss of scale, likely due to reintroducing zone borders as well as more varying landscape (if its all repetitive, it can seem bigger because there's fewer good landmarks to base your progress on). Based on the map grid itself, the number of yalms is pretty much identical between the two versions. The only way the physical size could truly be different is if they completely adjusted how big a yalm is, and it doesn't seem to me that they did that.

It's not though; look at the overlay again. There were zone lines in 1.0, too. When you got to the very edge of the Shroud, you would zone into Coerthas (loading screen and all), but you would come in all the way at the bottom right, in the Eastern Lowlands. Then you had to follow the road to get to the Central Highlands, which takes you through an area roughly the size of the Central Highlands themselves. Imagine having to run from the Observatory in Coerthas now all the way to Behemoth's Dominion then back again. THAT was how far it was from the edge of the Shroud to Ishgard's gates in 1.0.

[Myranda]

It's not though; look at the overlay again. There were zone lines in 1.0, too. When you got to the very edge of the Shroud, you would zone into Coerthas (loading screen and all), but you would come in all the way at the bottom right, in the Eastern Lowlands. Then you had to follow the road to get to the Central Highlands, which takes you through an area roughly the size of the Central Highlands themselves. Imagine having to run from the Observatory in Coerthas now all the way to Behemoth's Dominion then back again. THAT was how far it was from the edge of the Shroud to Ishgard's gates in 1.0.

That's true and I don't dispute that, because that's a whole different issue of all other areas of Coerthas being removed except the Central Highlands (i.e. the Eastern Lowlands across Griffin Crossing, the Western Highlands where Riversmeet was and which is now blocked by the Snowcloak) as well as them changing where exactly the zone lines are as a result of those removals. But when comparing JUST the central area of 1.0 to what we have in ARR, they are in fact the same. I will note that the total number of grid lines is different, but that's because in 1.0 they represented 100y, but in ARR each grid tile is only 50y.