What is the visually most attractive placeFollow

I always love running from the port in point in Dranik's Scar down the Valley towards the Noble's Causeway zoneline. And strange (or old school) as it may sound, when I was a newbie running around Blackburrow several years ago, the first time I ran out of the tunnel leading to Everfrost and saw the veiw down that first canyon is something that I'll always remember.

Danelon Longreach
Level 68 Ranger
Fennin Ro

I've only visited it a couple of times wandering around (never attacked anything), but I like Plane of Growth. It just seems like a peaceful place to me. Better have a way out though, no exit, hehe.

I think the old Twilight Sea was the most beautiful zone of its time.

OOT and TD are both beautiful but I also have to give a nod to the Oasis of Marr which nobody seems to have mentioned. You get the beautiful sunsets (or sunrises or moonrises), the sound of waves crashing and a safe place to appreciate both while recovering from battle.

Likewise, I really enjoy Katta Castellum - it reminds me of New Orleans (beautiful old buildings, built for night) while Sanctus Seru always reminds me of Salt Lake City (orderly design, religious overtones). I am surprised nobody has mentioned Shar Vahl at a beautiful zone. The whole Turkish theme with cat people just seems to work. This next to Shadeweaver's Thicket which has the sky that the Twilight sea once had. I still can't fathom why they changed Twilight Sea so...

I have always loved the dungeon zones. My favorite are Befallen and Crystal Caverns. I have spent so much time in Befallen with my characters when they were low lvl I love the place. Many details that people don't notice such as the chains and crumbled walls you need to crawl over.

My other favorite, Crystal Caverns is jsut so interesting with some many distict areas. Different types of caves with a different type of mob in each and a city on the bottom. Again I bring all my characters there to lvl when they get to that point.

Well those are my favorite visually.


Huulk Smash
70 Warrior of Innoruuk Server

Twilight Sea, Plane of Tranquility, The Broodlands, The Ascent, Scarlet Desert, Nedaria's Landing.

Edited, Mon Nov 28 01:21:05 2005 by Lenchantress

The Western part of Dreadlands (where the Nexus Spires are) has always seemed a great area visually, what with the red and yellow leaves on the trees surrounding the Combine outpost with its little squat pyramids.

The mountain paths on the east part of East Karana, the ones leading to Highpass, wowed me as a newbie a long long time ago. They just seemed so impossibly tall.

I think out of the original cities, Ak'Anon was the best one visually. There were just so many details, from the ticking mechanisms to the wandering clockworks to the presence of an actual NPC king you could go see.

Greater Faydark, what with Kelethin in the middle, was damn impressive as a newb.

I liked the visual motif of NRo LDoNs. The whole sand castle thing just appeals to me.


I think a lot of what visually struck you has to do with what are some of the first things you saw playing the game. Being a newb, I would be really impressed with certain zones visually, now, I just go "that's nice" and don't pay much attention.

My favorite dungeon atmosphere was ToV, running through caverns, up and down hills going down unknown tunnels to find a new dragon slumbering.

I really enjoyed SSRA temple, the old nektulos forest (minus the fugly sky), I liked the old planes Sky, Fear, Hate before maps were introduced - the circle boarder of Fear made it quite confusing!

all n all I like LoY and before, pop I didn't like that they did away with Druid / Wizard porting, cutting back on needing to run through many zones - i never had a wiz / druid but felt the game was turning into a babysat version. give everyoen 200 sense heading. newbies now get a charm which was as good as end game items back in the day.

I wouldn't mind armor that was 'smart' so you could go to a zone and yoru armor would revamp to make that zone more dangerous, skill over brawn.

Stillmoon Temple and the Cherry Blossoms

Actually, Neriak is a great looking place but there is a reason I did not mention it.

1999. Pentium II. Necromancer.

Having to zone 6 times from Nektulous Forest to the Guild Master and back every level on my first character was frustrating beyond explanation. I stopped looking at the zone and just dreaded having to go back in.

We might need a new thread for this but one of the worst looking zones has to be the new Nektulous Forest. Forests that act like walls that you can't enter? It is like the old "3D" games like Eye of the Beholder that let you walk N S E and W on a defined grid.

Grab a levitate and a port to Dreadlands. Then head to KC. You can float all the way to the zone from the end of the tunnel. At night it is a very beautiful trip. First star to the right and straight on till morning!