| The layout is what I was more inspired by. Strath/Scholo both got revamped gear/mob density wise and turned into pure awesome. BRD didn't get retuned until well after people stopped giving a shit about it.
Barrow Downs is great because it's very atmospheric, very spidery. The problem is that the rest of LOTRO sucks so what's the fucking point? Plus with only two real bosses in there you could quite easily skip most of the content it had to offer. There's a 'hidden' passage near the entrance iirc that leads to nowhere. If they had done a lyceum style event where spiders constnatly waved over you until you fought your way up that tunnel and killed some sort of spider queen? Fucking epic. Instead it's just wasted space.
So yeah...
Someone briefly mentioned it in another thread. It's not like we can't have the best of all worlds though. Having your quick modular Scarlet Monastary instances are fine if done in moderation. When 90% of your dungeons are that way though...fail.
Old Hillsbrad is my favorite TBC 5-man. Followed by Hellfire Ramparts. All the others are pretty bland and boring. They could have done so much more with Black Morass too.
Anyways...
I cannot wait for the CoT:Strath instance. I've spent so much fucking time in there. All I have to say is there better be a dropped epic mount off the end boss for me to spend months not getting all over again. |