1.0 instanced dungeons in ARR, no hard modes = suspicious...

[Chewy2nd]

I've always had this quiet fantasy that, someday, the Darkhold would become an open-world cave zone that was entry-gated to completing certain 3.0 content. Ishgard will have reclaimed and completed chunks of the interior, finally succeeding in linking several areas of the Coerthas region together via the cave system and creating camps within. Adventurers could come in via different zones (Central Highlands, Western Highlands, etc.) and either do content at the inner camps, or help clear the "more cave than keep" areas of mobs that have wandered in (or broken in from the Void). Hell, the FATEs write themselves and you could even build it up over time like Revenant's Toll if you wanted to. There's a depressing, almost nonsensical lack of open-world cave zones in this game and its always made me sad.

Wasn't it said in 2.4 that explorers in the Snowcloak tunnels had found their way through to the other side? I wonder if we'll be able to pass through there in 3.0? I would love to see an open world Darkhold though.

[Antonius2004]

Wasn't it said in 2.4 that explorers in the Snowcloak tunnels had found their way through to the other side? I wonder if we'll be able to pass through there in 3.0? I would love to see an open world Darkhold though.

I remember that! I remember thinking "huh, the perfect suggestion for the re-introduction of the Western Highlands becoming a playable zone."