Its two fold I must admit. I did really like the idea of the area, with all the elementals seemingly being opposed to eachother. It gave a picture in my mind of how the elements are opposed to eachother. The battle of the elements and stuff like that. I would have liked a small change in the layout, but the essence of the area is what I liked. Hope that makes somewhat sense.

Yup. That was a stock area, though, and we wanted more connectivity among the areas around Eastern Road- our old layout made it too difficult to get from A to B without using Eastern in many cases. Nowadays, I don't think the crafty player has to use it for much of anything. It's often the fastest route, but not the only or the best.

The theme has its merits though- see the Confluence in Kteng's Laboratory for my mini-version of it, or (*censored*) in one of our exploration areas for a larger one.

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