Hello,

now after almost 2 months it is time to give personal feedback about the new region. It is an complete subjective opinion that reflects my own taste.

When the region was there,  i started a new char there. In the beginning i liked the taste of this region and the folcloristic stroryline. But it did not need long until i started to miss the classic grinding. No chance of fast leveling but only way to grow up is to follow the strongly scripted questlines. 

I have a secondary account where I started a shai in this region - only to realize a few hours later that it was such a bad decision as there are no mining spots for ore or stones except Bari Woods. I travelled to the old country to level until 50 in a couple of hours, then returned. I am so disappointed I have to play the whole story line with this char. Have a few pearl items, in the other case I would have deleted the char.

With my first char, that played through I finished yesterday - yes it needed almost 2 months because it was hard to be motivated enough.

I will go to Mediah, but there is not much in the Land of the morning light that can hold me there. maybe the idea was nice, but without mob zones and complete lifeskilling infrastructure (ore&stone) it is somehow - sorry - boring for me.

Worst is, as I described the reasons - it is no valid starting region for me, what means it again falls back to only the ancient chamber. For sure I will no other character start there, as there are no faster ways to complete the main storyline than to go through the endless scripted story.

Under that aspect, it hurts even more that we did not get the Winter region, that would have been a valid alternative starting region. I am so frustrated, as instead of having exciting new possitibilities it feels so boring....

Yes, I totally agree with you.

So, to append here.

After the main story is finished, you get the option to start the main storyline in Velia - so at least you have the option to play through here.

When you arrive in Mediah, the Bartali women tells you you can visit the Bartali Farm and use the portal there - looks like the content from Magnus but of course if you go there it is nothing with fast travel - without the Magnus questline. We only got the neccessary parts of this line to make LotmL work & got the pen as a carrot but it is totally half hearted implemented.

Once more, as I had to find out , the mansions from the final scene (we have the paper in the pocket) are not even implemented yet on console.....wow 

And still no other mining areas then Bari woods....

Somehow it becomes more & more frustratiing, the gap between console & PC grows even faster, while updates are slower & slower. Still all this small glitches that seems to become never fixed (f.I. the merchant questline in Velia with the missing wine that you do not need to finish the first quest but is needed to take the second (as it is the content of the second quest to bring this vine to another place resp. the wole questline it is needed). 

or the marketplace guy from shakatu - since year and day the marketplace option is in korean letters. How often was this mentioned in known bugs, but never got fixed. 

I am playing since almost 2 years and love this game, but things like this shows too little love for us console players.