[Atmas]

I often wonder what the reaction would have been to Luclin would have been if the same content was just on an island over some previously uncrossed mountains instead of the moon.

Ssra was an awesome zone surrounded by the awesome concept of The Grey. Vex Thal sucked but the loot was good. Honestly the updates with AAs, resists, and other fight scripts added so much more to the mechanics than Velious. Don't get me wrong, I like Velious and it has great content including fights, faction, and zones, but mechanically most classes are just getting stats +X%. Which was fine with Velious, but another expansion like Velious would have been bleh.

Also people will have different opinions on different aspects. I personally don't care much for EC, and if people wanted to haggle that opportunity didn't go away. I also liked mounts because they were a good addition to advance a character without being game breaking, which is what you want from most content. As a wizard who made money from ports I felt in no way threatened by the Nexus, a person using the Nexus ports to get somewhere might spend 30 minutes in transit and not even be at their destination. Really not much different than boats. In fact I probably made a lot more money because on a PvP server the Nexus and Bazaar were a good hangout spot to port people from.