Problem with the new deep dungeon (Eureka Orthos)

[Iscah]

Is that little area actually instanced? There are other places where we need to get passed a closed gate without being a separate area.

Doesn't seem like it's a separate zone..,
though if one wanted to guess and create its own excuse. it's there to prevent lvl 50 flyers without the quest for CT progressed to enter the area.., or lore wise.., Get Reduced to Aether without the requisite crystal back and forth taken by a mischievous red cat. oh wait that last part doesn't exist like it used to anymore.

I think the practical reason is more specific than simply "keep people away from the tower until they're doing the questline", although that is the basic cause. The real issue is that the Mor Dhona zone is built with the sentinel statues already broken, and they are only seen intact (and then immediately smashed) in the cutscene when you first enter the area.

So that continuity issue seems to be the base reason for not allowing flying in that area, although you can still see them in the distance if you go to the right angle and know what you're looking at.

As for entering the deep dungeon, do we even know that we'll have to go to the tower entrance? I might have missed an announcement since I didn't watch the live letter in detail, but if I was the one setting up something like that, I'd probably put the entry NPC in Revenant's Toll or at least St Coinach's Find.


Also, I'm not sure what you mean about "that part of the questline not existing any more". All that was changed is that you don't need to wait for FATEs to obtain the crystals. The runabout for the aether sand is still intact.