I spent probably a couple hundred hours, over several long-lived characters, figuring out stuff and or just soaking up the ambiance of the Silent Tower. There was always so much I wanted to do with groups, but it was basically impossible because unless the person already had the same level of knowledge I would have had to ruin the puzzle aspect of the area to get them up to speed enough to not get us killed.

Being the kind of person I am, I really don't like the idea of opening someone else's presents for them, thus spoiling the fun. So, that kind of barred me from doing anything with groups. It was very rare that I had one other person with me.

In a sense, the concept shoots itself in the foot. My suggestion would be to make the solo/puzzlish stuff more plausible for everyone and consistent all the way through (like...if 90% I can do by myself, but that last 10% demands a group presence, then chances are that I have to rush the group through the 90% and basically ruin the experience for them).

I know I'm ignorant of a lot of the finer workings of the place. I've never killed an archmage, but I suspect there are clever ways to dispatch them all (or most of them).

One possible way to balance out the awesome ST gear with my proposed dumb-down of the difficulty is to make everything you get there rot_death. Just an idea. I'm sure you can think of something more cool.



Last thing...I realize I'm rambling like crazy. It was very nice to have this area available as a hero. I don't typically like getting together giant groups, and it was cool to be able to go there and just do things at my own pace, while not having to worry about my groupmates needing to leave or getting killed and leaving me totally up #### creek, etc. And the fact that the rewards were actually relevant to a hero level character was great. I miss it