I have been thinking about the current progress in the lore since the fall of Zhaitan and I think it's coming short. Most of the characters remain the same and they are starting to age their stay. Not to mention their stories are mainly irrelevant and forgettable in my opinion. Marjory and Kasmeer are overused; Braham is a dumb nord stereotype; Rox is normal but she is barely mentioned and mainly ignored; Taimi does not have enough backstory and that bothers me given she has so many lines and annoys the crap out of me; I had started to like Gorrik and his story but the recent events just makes him annoying and he comes off again as a unethical living experiment addict; Snargle Goldclaw's entire existence is to be a disgusting porn addict joke and it's not even funny; at least they got rid of Faren (don't jinx it he is useless and not funny); and everyone else is dead. My point is that its time to either kill off the entire cast again and replace them or time to archive them to the old asset files (ironically the mists). The Cantha region looks Great and I applaud the enviroment artists, but the old outdated lore seeps through and it doesn't help that most mobs are just re-skins of old assets. Same old vandals vs. acolytes... AGAIN (This is an overused and tiring ideology in A LOT of modern videogames). Arborstone... another ruin like Sun's refuge? Really? It's like the only default Guild Hall and meeting hub just HAS to be a dusty old ruin or cave (It's true!), with exemption from the the new mayor cities Keineng and Amnoon and Cement's Arch (I mean Lion's Arch). The villains are not creative and they are not given any personality unlike in other videogames where their motives are actually reflected upon or mourned, in fact the Dragon's Watch 'heroes' have more potential as villains than heroes especially with their respective racial lore everyone already haves(this is debatable).
I have been thinking about the current progress in the lore since the fall of Zhaitan and I think it's coming short. Most of the characters remain the same and they are starting to age their stay. Not to mention their stories are mainly irrelevant and forgettable in my opinion. Marjory and Kasmeer are overused; Braham is a dumb nord stereotype; Rox is normal but she is barely mentioned and mainly ignored; Taimi does not have enough backstory and that bothers me given she has so many lines and annoys the crap out of me; I had started to like Gorrik and his story but the recent events just makes him annoying and he comes off again as a unethical living experiment addict; Snargle Goldclaw's entire existence is to be a disgusting porn addict joke and it's not even funny; at least they got rid of Faren (don't jinx it he is useless and not funny); and everyone else is dead. My point is that its time to either kill off the entire cast again and replace them or time to archive them to the old asset files (ironically the mists). The Cantha region looks Great and I applaud the enviroment artists, but the old outdated lore seeps through and it doesn't help that most mobs are just re-skins of old assets. Same old vandals vs. acolytes... AGAIN (This is an overused and tiring ideology in A LOT of modern videogames). Arborstone... another ruin like Sun's refuge? Really? It's like the only default Guild Hall and meeting hub just HAS to be a dusty old ruin or cave (It's true!), with exemption from the the new mayor cities Keineng and Amnoon and Cement's Arch (I mean Lion's Arch). The villains are not creative and they are not given any personality unlike in other videogames where their motives are actually reflected upon or mourned, in fact the Dragon's Watch 'heroes' have more potential as villains than heroes especially with their respective racial lore everyone already haves(this is debatable).
