Designing Areas.

[Raikki]

I'd like the Black Shroud to actually feel like a forest, and not just have a picture that looks like a forest as the backdrop. Narrow rocky corridors with the occasional circular area with 3 or 4 trees does not a forest make. It would be nice if there were some richer colors there also. The same gray and green everywhere gets pretty tiresome. This is a problem that most of the zones have actually. Nearly every zone in the game is done in two dull colors (ironically, Thanalan, which is supposed to be somewhat desolate, has more color than the rest). I'm not looking for the opposite extreme with vibrant colors burning your retinas, but there's lots of room in between!

Additionally, we desperately need to have visual transitions between zones. I'd like it to start looking different as I get close to a different zone so that it's not just a jarring switch between radically different looking areas. Even something simple might work for some transitions like a cave that you go through and emerge somewhere else on the other side.