So, how is Pagos?

[Solarra]

I decided to go back in and see how it was after the changes.
I got two levels in a couple of sessions (4hrs approx) despite dying once trying to get to my group and losing xp.

It's still frustrating and the penalty on having people of different levels in your group is a pain. Trying to spawn Snow Queen I realised that I wasn't getting any credit for the challenge log, we had one level 34 in the group while the rest were between 27 and 31. Oh well I thought, at least they're helping to spawn, then I noticed they were hugging the Aetheryte afk. A little while later they left and somebody else joined, they were level 21... So, despite killing plenty of mobs, my challenge log is still incomplete.
I'm not blaming the group leader because I've tried forming groups myself and the alternative is to wait out a sizeable portion of your time trying to get enough people of the right level together. Are the people saying chaining is more efficient taking the time it takes to form a group into account? Or have I just been very unlucky?

The atmosphere in there is still pretty bad compared to Anemos. Getting a raise is still hard if my experience and all the shouts going out is anything to go by. As somebody said earlier, it's not snow in there, it's salt.

After I came out I asked myself the question, 'Was that fun?' and to be honest, no, I cannot say I enjoyed it at all. It passed the time, I did feel I got something out of it but it wasn't fun.