2. Better visual indicators for mechanics and octovine vulnerability. Octovines should have a more visible change when made vulnerable. Each lane's mechanic (bundle, shroom, bomb x 2) can also be highlighted with an arrow and have a white circle with an arrow near the octovine to indicate where each mechanic should go/hit. The main issue is that it's quite common for people to mistarget mechanics, such as dropping bombs at the base of the octovine at east instead of on the target reticule. The other way to fix this would be reducing general visual clutter to make the mechanics more visible/prominent.

3. Flatten/clean up the terrain for each lane, especially south. There's some spots where triggerblossoms can get stuck in the terrain when pushed/pulled. The only way to workaround this is to pull it out then push it around those spots.

4. Make all octovines untargetable until they are vulnerable. The octovines are currently targetable and can take damage even when not vulnerable, however it's the event bar health that's the real health. The main issue is that most players think they're still able to damage the shielded octovine because they can see the boss hp go down when targeting it; but in reality it will regain all lost health once vulnerable again.

5. Add a bundle in south that has push/pull skills. Picking up this bundle could also give players a notification to use push/pull skills to move the bomb. The main issue is that south's mechanic is not immediately intuitive for people newer to the mechanic. The skill cooldowns could be made long to minimize the ability for people to misuse them. Players who can bring their own push/pull skills will still be able to have greater control where the bomb goes.

Alternatively, give us the missing LWS6 with a mastery that gives us the grapplehooks and rocket boots from Silent Surf.

2. Remove the delay for starting the last north escort. Currently, it only starts after the camp timer reaches 0 even if all camp events are completed. This is the only escort that doesn't start early if you complete all camp events early.

3. Prevent Legendary Mordrem Wyvern from contesting middle lane second camp WP. The wyvern may sometimes fly down to the camp during the flamthrower supply event, which contests the waypoint.

4. Revisit south event scaling or event object/NPC respawn time. South has a lot of time-gated events where you're waiting for things to respawn (ley energy, chak, beetles). Individual contribution decreases significantly when the events are overscaled, so most of the time is spent waiting for things to respawn rather than engaging with anything.

5. Add Mordrem Preserver respawn times to event window and perhaps revival progress bar for Collectors and boss.

6. Disable mounts during Mouth of Mordremoth fight. Already brought up by several people.

7. Add hard-cut phases to the Mouth of Mordremoth and change its defiance bar mechanic. There should be at least two real burn phases guaranteed, especially so people can complete the champion-related achievements. This also makes the vine events more relevant due to more opportunities for the ley energy event bar to increase.

The current defiance bar implementation is counterintuitive where breaking it actually shortens your burn window and doesn't make the boss take increased damage. The defiance bar could be reworked by having the boss (body & head) gain a damage reduction buff at the start of the fight and after each real burn phase. Breaking the defiance bar during the real burn phase removes this buff and applies Exposed & the Kannaxai defiance buff to the boss. The defiance bar continually unlocks again until the burn phase timer ends or when the boss reaches a certain health threshold (40%?), with each break applying a stack of Exposed and the Kannaxai buff. The bombs could also be made more relevant by having them deal high defiance bar damage. Higher-end groups are rewarded with faster relative phasing; lower population maps benefit from the damage boost to compensate for boss health not scaling that well with low numbers.

8. Add Mordrem Wyvern telegraphs to Mouth of Mordremoth fight. There isn't an easy way to preemptively avoid the Wyvern flame lines unless you mount up.

• Make it so using the Pass again returns you to the previous map. This lounge has its own map, so it should be possible, like in Mistlock.
• Remove one layer of dialogue from the portal NPC

This easy fix is the only thing standing between "this is a great JP" and "why bother / skip content with tp2f" for the past 9(!) years.

It'd also be a chance to share Almorra's story with non-Vigil characters, to help set up and explain her story in S4 a little better. It would also help her death in IBS hit harder.

And it would be an excellent way to remember Trahearne in the main story.

Second: Marjory deserves to join us on the final battle and have her confrontation with a Blighted Belinda. Its a letdown that she's carrying this grudge against Mordremoth since early Season 2 and yet when she finally has a chance to avenge her sister's death she stays behind and taking her with you isn't even an option

To be 100% clear, I do not think that the raid-specific rewards should be a part of those dungeons/fractals, and you would just earn normal Fractal/Dungeon loot. It would just be a more accessible way to access the story, and possibly even train on more forgiving versions of the raid bosses mechanics.

Make the raids have a second entrance that leads into a small open world event zone. So that non-raid players can also discover and play the zones.
Make the raids and bosses a meta event zone.

Do the same for guild halls. Make them small meta event areas, with a chest at the end.

These meta events have no time limit, the bosses respawn constantly. Only a boss indicator when you enter the area. You must have killed every boss in the area (order doesn’t matter) and you get a loot chest at the end as a reward.

The faster you kill all the bosses in an area, the higher quality the loot in the chest at the end. The timer starts as soon as you kill the first boss. If it takes longer than an hour to kill all the bosses, the timer disappears and you get normal loot in the chest.
Every time you enter the zone, the boss indicator is reset.

For instance if you are working demios hand kiting let the players pick demois and only have hands happening so they can learn what the mechanic is and then add in soul crush to understand the 1 hit.  Right now if you are learning 5 wipes and people leave and you cant practice at all.

But in general the HoT raid bosses need a rework to match the power creep in the game since their introduction. More health to all bosses even in normal mode.

It's been a while since i've played, so I don't know if janky story instance achievements have had a pass over for tweaking, but thats the one improvement that I can think of as a suggestion. I think this could also be applied to baseline Heart of Thorns Story instances to do a pass over for bugs and improvements (I know a lot of people are clamouring for improvements to the Mordremoth fight in other threads)