| PoP is basically a great project and a piss poor implementation. The designers created beautiful zones and the guys responsible for the contend totally messed it up because they put the raid-aspect over the regular gameplay instead of mixing it. The only exception seems to be Plane of Valor as the Aerin'Dar script fits in nicely.
Take a look at the other zones. HoH B has no other purpose than killing MM. Nobody is hunting in Plane of Torment. CoD B is just the Bert script. Air is a pure raid zone. Earth is mostly raid zone. Tower of Sol Ro is a raid zone. Most of HoH A is locked with mobs casting feeblemind - gratz for wasting a zone whoever came up with that. PoJ, PoI, Nightmare and Disease are not worth the time since the exp on those light blue mobs sucks hardcore.
So what is left? PoV, PoS, Tactics, BoT, a bit of Water and Fire if you got the flags for it. A pretty well designed exp-zone named Plane of War never made it to the live servers.
Basically PoP could have been great, but it turned out to be boring because the nicely designed zones got totally wasted to support nothing but flag contend. |