Quote Originally Posted by ChiiSoSeriouz View Post
The weather name was changed in early 2.0 from Hopelessness to Tension, probably cause the latter better describes the presence of some nearby threat, and the feeling people sometimes get when something bad is about to happen. Maybe they could bring back hopelessness for you, but it would have to be visually different somehow, because tension as we know is the indicator for steel reign.
I believe Hopelessness was changed to Tension with the introduction of the Urth's Font trial. The Elementals of the black Shroud are no longer feeling "Hopeless" when Odin appears as the Warrior of Light now knows more of the truth of the being called Odin so now feel Tension as they await the next confrontation between the two.