Up side - spire events are back up! Down side - they're still picking up around 3% progress per hour on Everfrost. That'll mean that the Dragon Ring (the SLOWER of the two events) should be up to 60% by 10:30 tomorrow morning and done tomorrow night or Sunday morning at the latest. So much for it lasting 2 to 3 weeks.

I had three major issues with this event, which I did submit in a /feedback post to the Devs, though I'm not sure if they'll see it or care.

1 - The event was not announced or promoted as other events are. It was just there one day and, if you were lucky, you got to hear about it from a friend or guildie before it expired. The event progression itself was WAY too fast. For many people who work during the week or who selfishly choose to sleep every once in a while, by the time they were able to spend some time in the game the event had already reached 99%, leaving the majority of players on a server unable to participate at all. I would much rather have seen progression mirror past spire type events that lasted for 3-6 weeks regardless of the number of people participating. At least that way EVERYONE would have the opportunity. Currently, the plan is to reset all spires past 50% back to 50%, but no word on if the event will actually be slowed down or not. So, super busy servers like Antonia Bayle will likely reach completion in a couple hours after the event goes live - once again leaving a LOT of players cut out of the loop because they have to, you know, go to work and sleep and stuff.

2 - Once again, this event is HEAVILY geared for level 90 players. Everyone else pretty much gets left out in the cold unless they're lucky enough to still have a freebie griffon they can use to get to the spire point. And, when they get there, they have to be super careful not to get nailed by a rogue mob while they're talking to the errand quest giver or looking at the stuff the merchant is selling - thus destroying their griffon and whatever time they had left to use it. Level 90's are the ONLY ones able to participate in the fighting quest, which rewards 25 tokes every 30 minutes at the druid ring. Everyone else gets 3 tokens per boring errand quest. Yes, tokens are heirloom, but not all rewards are. So, thanks to Sony for the F-U to everyone who doesn't have a 90 toon yet. Like usual, those characters and players just don't count. I would have really liked to have seen a portal to the spire points OR a griffon you could take without first having to discover where it is in order to get there so little toons could actually GET to the event, and then I would have liked to have seen a comprable option for those who couldn't participate in the level-90-only fight quest - maybe a scaled instance as in past ring event quests? Or a higher token reward quest that could be done in addition to the 3-token errand quest?? Really, SOMETHING should have been done to make this event more accessable for toons and players who aren't at 90.

3 - (this one is pretty trivial compared to my first two, but still irks me to no end) GROUND MOUNTS for level 90's ONLY?? Really? How stupid was that?? Level 90's have access to FLYING mounts by questing in the Great Divide OR through the Station Marketplace. Why on earth would they want to collect another GROUND mount? The ground mounts should have been made available to EVERYONE.

Just my 2 cents on the whole thing.