noamineo wrote on Mar 23
rd, 2015 at 5:30pm:
Yeah running through the explorer area every damn time was irritating as hell. Having to do a second explorer area kind of counted as part of the raid, but at the same time was just even more annoying. Worst still, with MOST raids you can start and let other people join late, with those ones they'd have to run through two explorer areas.
Von5&6 may be the single best raid in the game, with very close competition from Shroud.
MA and LoB could actually be amazing if they'd cut out the damn explorer areas.
And despite all the feedback, they never did change it.
Even now that it is no longer front line content, they still leave that explorer run in when a simple teleport to start of quest/raid option would make it easier to access.
Same applies to the Cannith raid zone.
Throughout the game there are so many options for little fixes that might make a tangible difference. Make the pointless artificial hurdles in older content optional for those that want to explore. Once you've done it a few times, it is no longer "fun".
If the time required to do it were onerous, then I would understand. But seriously, a simple NPC with dialogue to teleport? Use an existing one and change the name. Surely not that hard?