Unlock the Barriers

[aecyia]

Unlock / open the areas that are locked behind barriers.

Locked areas prevent players from revisiting areas after quest completion and denies replayability, assisting friends, and collecting lore documents.

Lore pages can be easily missed during early low-level quests, which can frustrate completionists. Continuing the discussion from Notes from an achievement hunter:

@aecyia

A few suggestions for areas that have pages locked behind quests that may require a specific entrance key item . . .

1. Have the locked area be open to the player once the quest is complete
2. Make reading the lore page a part of the quest so it can’t be missed
3. Move the lore page out of the locked area and into the open world
4. Move the lore page to a more visible location within the locked area

A few barriers that need to be unlocked

• Amrine Temple, Windsward
  • Lore – Tales of Windsward – Grenville and the Temple – Page 1, Circle of Dead
• Octans, Windsward
  • Lore – Tales of Windsward – Ichabod’s Journal – Page 7, What Dreams May Come
• The Motherwell, Edengrove
  • Lore – Tales of Aeternum – A Prayer to the Motherwell – Page 1, Bless Us
  • Quest – A Selfless Nature

Other barriers and some notes

• Skyview Repose, Reekwater
  • Lore – Tales of Reekwater – Journal of Dominic Johnson – Page 1, Impassable Barrier
    • This is an example of #3 that was done nicely. Lore fits too.
• Arcturus, Everfall
  • Lore documents are mostly outside of the barrier.
  • An example of #1, players are able to pass through the Ancient Door barrier and reach the top / end, making this lore document accessible
    • Lore – Tales of the Soulwardens – Go On Without Me – Page 2, Final Entry

TDLR – open barriers to make my completionist brain happy, thank you

[ilandriel]

Yes, or move the notes to outside the barriers.