Filling the Gaps: following in the footsteps of the Wildwood and the Angle

[TesalionLortus]

The old Carn Dûm is just old and it is showing. Better to update it and get a more interesting place out of it.

Which is not true because it's not showing, I find it very captivating and smartly designed (meaning art style and how it was built), and no, that's not due to rose-tinted glasses. And Dol Guldur assets Scenario used for it now... are just as old! Frankly So there is no truth to any of this at all, that it's somehow better now supposedly.

Unless you mean like the space - as in the instanced space, with boss rooms etc, for the purposes of the instance - that that is showing its age, then sure, maybe, though I believe not everyone would agree with you here. But in that case, there was nothing stopping Scenario from respecting the original concept behind the fortress (with assets that fit) and just making it more interesting/modern for the purposes of the instanced space, so different pathways, stages, modern environmental effects and newer smaller objects for more detail, but basically same assets for all the foundations, towers and whatnot, same look. What he built looks more like a "Tales of Yore - The Witch-king of Angmar Rises" timeframe but achieved with Dol Guldur assets rather than any fitting ones. Not the ruined place of Third Age (of which only the main keep was in relatively good shape, if you pay attention), given in mockery to the corrupted king of Gondor to rule over as a steward, but relatively - one of the worst of Sauron's fortresses that he probably didn't care as much about, which means a bunch of rebel hill-men and rangers were capable of effectively toppling its False King and significantly reducing the threat. It all had meaning, in that way - from the design to assets used to the lore behind it and its main antagonist. You can't tell me that that's "nothing"