Suggestion: Burn Gridania and the Black Shroud Down and Start Over

[viion]

So my request has been accepted.


Mission Accomplished.

Good job captain

[Cairdeas]

I'm not confused about Twelves wood. I was really just hoping for something more like Sanctuary of Zi'Tah then Yhoator.

[Ilethius]

No need to remove Grid/BS completely, just expand the routes slightly to give space for extra mobs and a bit of variation etc. I find Limsa more frustrating to navigate, does it really have to be so up and down,? If all the shops/guilds/tavern were all on one level with just the docks being on the level below it might make for a better layout to traverse howver I do like the music in LL to any other city, sticks in my head more. Because of the up and down of LL I decided on U'ldah on release, glad I did, much easier to get around with all the little shortcuts and seems to be the hub of the game atm.

[Seif]

This. XIV has the most boring and poorly designed world I've ever seen in an MMO.

I completely agree. XI zones are magical put that art director to work! Akihiko Yoshida does wonderful characters but these zones have NOTHING special in them. I can literally walk 3 meters to a grassy field that looks like Limsa in real life and that grassy field looks just as boring.

[BruceyBruceyBangBang]

As extreme as this request is, I'd have to agree. The Shroud is more like a dungeon in it's design and not an open forest like Zi'Tah was in XI. Not saying I want this game to be a recreation of XI (maybe I kinda do in a way), but mostly to give a reference to something that actually worked as a zone and left an impression.

Actually, The Shroud is more like The Boyada Tree than Zi'Tah. Which I find to be unacceptable.