Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
Yes. We experienced it at Vanaspati and while we got it under control, we're working under the constant threat that there will be more and more outbreaks if we don't get it under control. We experience another one and hear that more are rumbling away elsewhere.

I do agree that there wasn't enough high stakes maintained – at very least we should have seen the burning skies increasingly spread to Sharlayan and any other zones able to display it. (The complete lack of it makes me wonder whether the zones need special programming to support the unique weather, because it seems strange to not have done it to any older zones for what seems like a low-effort tension builder.)

But still, it established that background sense of urgency of what was in store for the planet if we didn't succeed.
I had brought it up a while back, but I'm pretty sure the reason why the older zones never got it is not only because of spaghetti coded weather stuff, but also because the WoL has essentially fixed a lot of things that would have caused the despair in the previous regions. If you consider all previous sidequests to 6.0 canonically already done, we've done so much that it'd have required something super big to cause the doomsday despair weather in the old zones. A lot of the roles quests from 6.0 are us dealing with that remaining bit that could cause the despair, or at least alleviating it enough to buy time to take out Endsinger before things go out of control.