Agreed - the Norn starter area is my favourite - though I'm biased, being tall, blond and blue eyed.
Unfortunately after my initial charge, the kids are starting to catch up. Prime example being some idiot in Sparkfly Fen (or whatever) last night demanding to know where all the group events are, spamming locations, demanding participants, while simultaneously whining about being under-levelled, whining about dying, whining about everyone on a map not rushing to help him and trying to sell terrible loot.
Finished the zone (55-65) 2 levels under cap though. nerf Guardians.
(Admittedly, having a full set of top-tier armour waiting at each 5 level point, plus weapons probably helps).
I'm loving the flavour of each zone though. If you take a bit of time to talk to scouts, locals etc there is a lot of lore and information about what's going on, what dynamic events are happening, how you affect them and such like.
And finally, i was part of my second 'end of zone' dragon event yesterday. Took possibly 30 minutes of belting aroudn killign adds, knocking down walls, manning siege weapons, dodging aoe's, killing adds, charging dragons ressing people buffing healing and generally having fun. Didn't get any screenshots unfortunately - however here's a few of the first one - Shatterer, who's in Blazeridge Steppes and seems to land every couple of hours, if people do all the little events around him.
Hitting them with siege weapons really helps.....
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