109235-am-i-alone-in-my-feelings-for-deradune

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I just freaking HATE IT!
 
I mean using wow zones it has a short of savannah "barrens" vibe and I never much liked the horde zones waste land feeling, but again using a wow reference, the enemy placement makes me think of Stranglethorn Vale.
 
or as I liked to call it  Stinking Tepid Vietnam, which likewise I have horrible flashbacks of, also a giant cluster *cupcake* in zone form.
 
I'm not sure if my problem with this place is jsut the zone or me not liking engineer period, or having heavily out of level gear for my engie, or a combination of those. 	
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			I don't know if you're alone or not, but I LOVE Deradune.	
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			I freaking LOVE Deradune :D	
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I just freaking HATE IT!
 
I mean using wow zones it has a short of savannah "barrens" vibe and I never much liked the horde zones waste land feeling, but again using a wow reference, the enemy placement makes me think of Stranglethorn Vale.
 
or as I liked to call it  Stinking Tepid Vietnam, which likewise I have horrible flashbacks of, also a giant cluster *cupcake*in zone form.
 
I'm not sure if my problem with this place is jsut the zone or me not liking engineer period, or having heavily out of level gear for my engie, or a combination of those. 
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For how Barrens-y it is in a lot of regards, chat is notably devoid of Chuck Norris "jokes" and questions about Mankrik's wife.
 
The quest flow is kinda *cupcake*y compared to Ellevar, but the draken cultural stuff is really solid.	
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			Not my favorite zone but, I don't hate it.  I do level the majority of my Dom Toons in Elivar.  Much preferred leveling experience but, like I have said before Dom zones suffer from streamlining to be on par with the exile starting experience.  The exile side has less jumping around, and quests are given at the appropriate level.  For a totally new person to WS, the dom zones suck in comparison to the exile zone.  Now, I know what I am doing.  I know where to go next even with the lack of "bread crumbs" in the Dom zones.  I know what level to be at before doing "certain quests" in each zone and I level just fine.  I don't think a new person to MMORPGs ( if WS is your first ) should play Dom.  They should stick with exile until they get the hang of the game.	
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			Well... if the Dommies would just share it and stop killing me at the entrance path... maybe I'd have an opinion.  :angry:	
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			Want me to plant a forest in it ?	
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			Deradune is one of the best zones I've ever played in an MMO... and this is coming from an Exile.	
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			OP is not alone. I have yet to get a toon kicking and screaming all the way through. I keep making it to the Falkrin part and then I just kind of ... stop wanting to be there and quit playing.	
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			Ellevar and Deradune are both a little hard to traverse compared to Exile starting zones. One has a giant lake in the middle with cliffs keeping you in the water if you go in, the other has cliffs and plateaus everywhere with a confusing map regarding elevations.	
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Deradune also has sudden ghost birds flying just above your camera range, and they will get pulled down if you dare to use a ranged skill in that moodie area.
 
It is interesting to see that the people who dislike Deradune dislike it for different reasons. Mine is the moodie area to the south, as you might have gathered.	
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For how Barrens-y it is in a lot of regards, chat is notably devoid of Chuck Norris "jokes" and questions about Mankrik's wife.
 
The quest flow is kinda *cupcake*y compared to Ellevar, but the draken cultural stuff is really solid.
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			I've done both Ellevar and Deradune multiple times (gotten characters to 15 at least 10 times over now lol) and find both of them to have parts that make me want to kick puppies. But Deradune can definitely get confusing, especially if you miss a quest, then the breadcrumbs just stop unless you happen to run to the right area to get a call. I had a character that started in Leviathan bay, then moved to Deradune at level 10, and I've had a hard time getting her to the right quests. I just kind of ran to the area that I sort of remembered there being quests, and sometimes picked a few up, but I seem to have lost the entire zone/region quest lines for a while, until I ran to a new part of the map and got a call to send me in the right direction, finally.	
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I also hate Deradune. Other than Whitevale I'd say it's my least favorite zone in the game, but at least I liked the music in Whitevale (and of course I'm leaving out Badlands/Wastes which I dislike just due to repetition).
 
My main complaint with the zone is that it isn't on the same level lore-wise with Ellevar. There's a lot more about the Eldan in Ellevar, and better quest progression. I also dislike Deradune's downtempo, forgettable music, while Ellevar and the zones following the stater areas all have much cooler, interesting music (IMHO, ofc).
 
'Bout the only parts I like about Deradune are taking out the Aurin terraformer and the end with the tar pits/Draken graves.	
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I actually enjoy Deradune quite a bit.
 
I will say though I thought those Falkrin were going to put my eye out with their chins...	
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I don't care much for Deradune. It's meh. I don't hate it, but I don't like it. I also don't like Ellevar, although the landscape is prettier, it has the same issues as Deradune. I feel both zones don't flow properly and you are constantly sent running back and forth across this huge zone. I didn't feel that way in Celestion or Algoroc, I felt both those zones have a nice flow to them. 
 
My one thing about Deradune is it does have a nice quest arch with Agent Lex, who is one of my favorite characters, and the arch is interesting and fun to play. Where Ellevar I just felt like an errand Chua. 
 
I feel engineer gets better as you get higher level. Those early levels with just a couple skills were hard for me as well, but at level 17 I feel like I just bulldoze my way through things.	
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