Quote Originally Posted by Beckett View Post
This is my biggest disappointment from the Live Letter. Everything else was expected, but I was really hoping they would learn from Heavensward and not fill Stormblood with the same huge, uninteresting areas, and instead focus on more smaller, different looking areas.

Maybe the large areas will be better broken up into distinct locales within the zone. At the very least, having parts of the zones be under water should break up the monotony.
Variation will be good if they have it, but I hope they never go back to smaller zones. I felt utterly claustrophobic in ARR because of the small areas and some of the corridor/labyrinth map designs from 1.0.

HW has been amazing map wise. And to be honest, while the areas in ARR were different, most were grouped into either The Shroud, La Noscea or Thanalans aesthetic. Every map in HW was vastly different from the others.

Within-map variation would be nice too, of course. However it shouldn't be overlooked that on a macro level, HW brought much different themed lanscape as all of ARR.

I was actually hoping for bigger maps. Especially since they're increasing mount speed.