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Originally Posted by Phat_Paul
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Lost Dungeons of Norrtah was cool, was easy to bang out a few excursions if you had only 2 hours to play.
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One of my least favorite expansions. The only good thing I have to say about it is that it introduced some nice spells to the game. Shamans got a new dot line (curse) that was amazing, and indoor sow was obviously really handy.
But:
This was the first expansion where the game started going down the path of instancing, which I didn't care for.
There was zero solo content, unless you boxed enough characters to request an instance.
It was the most exploitable expansion, because you could keep requesting instances, check MQ2 for nameds, warp to them, kill them, and restart. Considering how broken some of the loot was before it got nerfed, this really benefited people using third party programs.
Almost everyone only did one instance (Miragul's) because they put all the best augs there - Anger proc and HP augs. This was also the most annoying instance because the sheer white of everything made my eyes hurt. I hoped every time that we would get the lab dungeon instead of the "everything is stark white" caves.
The actual design of the dungeons was terrible. None of them were memorable, it was straight up HallwayQuest.
The raids were useless, they were harder and more time consuming than Elemental PoP but with worse loot.
The aug system itself effectively doubled the amount of gear you needed to acquire, and really increased the gap between casuals and hardcore. Augments added a lot of not fun micromanagement. (I should note that LDON was actually supposed to decrease the gap between casual and hardcore players, since the idea is that you run a bunch of LDONs and buy the high end armor and then aug it out and it's equivalent to PoP raid gear. The problem was that took way more time than just joining a raid guild and raiding things).
I'll defend parts of Luclin and PoP, but LDoN was a real stinker of an expansion. Very little was done right. Which is a shame because Takish-Hiz and Rujarkian Hills were part of the lore from the beginning and could have been really cool lguk style dungeons. The other dungeons were just tacked on bullshit; Deepest Guk, really?