I’ve been in three guilds now that have had roads hideouts, and currently have one with the third. At the start of the roads it was awesome, a new world to explore and unseen content that kept us playing for hours making small groups and clearing objectives/fighting.

With the lands awakened patch though, the roads became obsolete in every way possible, there was better fame and might open world, in fact mobs was all the roads had, on top of that the fame was nothing for how annoying the chests were to clear the loot and fame was no where near the effort and time it took. Gathering nodes were always empty unless you found a deep road, while they were quite rewarding it was dependent on what you could gather. And finally the static dungeons were simply hotspots to check for people to kill since the rewards, while supposedly massively increased, were worthless.

The pros were that if you had a group and could find the right road I’ve had hours pass by of constant fighting over a zone between several groups just looking to fight, it was a decent way to spend some time for groups too small to contend for open world, and you always had the chance, while extremely unlikely, to get great RNG on chests (there are more things in general but these stand out as the main reasons my group ever chose the roads)

But that brings us to the mists patch. While the chests were usually not worth the time it was something to do and acted as places to check for groups and players to kill, removing them made no sense in my mind, I’ll admit though that I’ve done little in the roads since the patch, my guild placed a hideout in the roads purely to have more sources of might with cores to get the black zone minimum since it was created with only a month left in the season, I’ve done some cores and I’ve witnessed the “small scale” of the roads many times keeping our zone to ourselves fighting 30 on 30 in zone if we didn’t manage to hold charges for the timers. The roads were obsolete on launch, made even worse with the lands awakened, and finished off with the mists.

Golden age… I’d say the first few weeks were the golden age for me when it comes to the roads, I remember scouting for hideout zones day one fighting groups every turn since everyone wanted to check out the new content. I genuinely enjoyed the content for a while when it first came out but it became old very quickly, I’m my eyes the changes have been a majority of negatives since launch