Palace of the Dead (PAX)

[Nalien]

Diadem basically had potential, but it was just a lot of empty space with nothing to do besides killing mobs and gathering. This could have been an excellent way to get another use out of treasure maps.

Sorry to get off topic, but I think Treasure Maps would be better served making standard dungeons slightly more entertaining. You go in, "Hey, I've got a map for here" and that acts as sort of an optional objective to do in the dungeon, and everyone damn well wants to do it because its easy extra tomestones. You wouldn't always have a run of Neverreap where someone breaks up the monotony with a map, but you might occasionally... This would also have the added benefit of putting more people back into various dungeons, if I get a map that points me to Sohm Al, I'll queue Sohm Al, where as right now my only reason to do that is leveling (which I'll eventually be done with) or the Anima quest (same thing), maps would provide a constant reason to jump back into such dungeons. Furthermore, they could put maps in the dungeons... Rather than opening a chest to the fanfare of Blank Prisms, you might obtain something that has your group going "Wait, lets go back and do this!". Could even slap Hunts in there for that matter, open a chest, it contains something to spawn a Hunt enemy so you go do that for the rewards, though as far as open world Hunts go, I'd much rather see them turned into "endgame" Levequests.

Would be interesting if the apply something like that to this Palace, actually... This game needs more horizontal progression, would be quite nice if you reach a point in the Palace where the path is blocked and you need <Item#42>, so you ask around, find out <Item#42> drops in Aurum Vale (because I'm literally Satan), so you have new reason to do Aurum Vale (or you can just buy the item off the Market Board). I'd enjoy that, since it would make it even more of a quest to reach the end of this place, though I can totally understand others not wanting anything remotely like that...