What do you miss from ARR?

[Enla]

I'm in the minority, in that I actually don't have much care or nostalgia for the old areas from ARR. For every Eastern La Noscea there would be a Coerthas Central Highlands mucking up your leveling experience and generally driving you to maddening distraction. Though I will fully admit my utter hatred of the latter is borne from copious hours spent FATE grinding back in ARR and having to deal with the sheer inane tedium of trying to run to FATES on that particular map - on top of trying to do levequest turn ins. Spend enough hours making the run from Camp Dragonhead to Whitebrim and you'll slowly go insane.

That said one thing I did love about ARR maps were the unintended 'secret' areas that were left behind. Like being able to jump to the top of that giant crystal formation in one of the maps or the hidden path in the East Shroud that led you under the Temple Lake and literally past the Castrum walls long before it was even considered for Dungeon status. SE has been slowly patching out those fun little areas over the past few years, with the East Shroud being made inaccessible a few months ago. I really, honestly wish they had kept them in and/or made them into a dedicated secret area that you could get an achievement for finding. Just embrace it - and patch the 'you step here you fall through the world' pieces of floor on the East Shroud riverbed.

That said even if I'm not overly fond of the old ARR areas, I do desperately miss how alive they felt. Even towards the end of ARR, right before HW dropped, pretty much every area had some kind of FATE train going. Or crafters/gatherers running about. The world felt so alive back then, and now the only time the world even comes close to being that populated is when a new expansion drops - and even then only for two weeks and only in the new areas. I miss being around people.