Quote Originally Posted by ReynTime View Post
I'm tired of making suggestions that will be ignored anyway so I won't.

What I'll say though is that ARR has honestly better designed maps, regardless of size.

They don't have necessarily more content to be played. But they do have a LOT of lore you find/get by exploring. There is just a lot of careful detail all over the place.
Pretty much this. ARR zones are tiny compared to the later expansion zones (most likely because there was no flying in ARR) but they are chock-full of "stuff" that makes those zones not only more interesting but also feel more "lived-in". You got several small settlements thoughout the zone that can't just be teleported to, lots of hidden caves, houses you can enter, npcs with small bits of dialogue and just overall "pretty" locations.

Sure the zones aren't massive but they had a lot more attention to detail put into them than any of the huge HW, SB or ShB zones.