So, how is Pagos?

[Rufalus]

Yes the terrain at low level is not interesting and we are stuck there for days because slow exp. It's pretty much just a flat snow field and 3 NMs for the first 40 hours or however long it will take to climb higher. Anemos has a nicer start with squib sands beach and two other paths out from the starting sanctuary with more varied terrain and aesthetics.

The magia board and elements still does not feel like a successful gameplay system. As somebody mentioned there are enemies with many different elements packed into a small space and you'll be doing very low dps unless you rotate to the correct ones, but then your switching is on cooldown. It seems like it would be less annoying if it just automatically rotated to the optimal element, which removes the need for a magia board altogether. The only real decision comes if you are tanking, then you may switch from offensive element into defensive. I don't know of anyone who is spreading their magicite to many elements instead of stacking all into a single element, since this will make you much less effective than maxing a single element and just rotating every time you switch to fighting a different enemy species.