Firstly, because the entry location is dumb. The only entrance is in deep NToV, behind dragons and raid mobs. Meaning, while current, only a very small fraction of players will have access.
This is bad design. A group zone where only the top 1% can access it and only the casters who bind there can do so reliably... That's dumb. So they fixed it and added the GD zone in.
People look at it with their rose tinted glasses and recall how much of a special little snowflake they were for being able to access the zone. Their experience is going to be extremely different here when there are 5+ Torpor Shamans in the zone on day one, and 50+ Torpor Shamans/Enchanters/Necros soloing after the first month trying to farm cards and gouge the prices.
Secondly, the armor design was poor. They didn't keep the clickies standard through the sets so you ended up needing another set for clickies and PoM for marginally better stats in a few slots. Plus the descriptions on how to combine these things was even worse, there was almost no explanation for any of it.
Really, it wasn't that awesome of a zone in my opinion. Had the combinations been quests similar to the PoSky quests and had the zone in been in a more accessible location for groupers like the bottom of Cobalt Scar ocean or back of Kael, it would've been much better.
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