Is understanding the dungeon Key text supposed to be a puzzle that’s hard to figure out?
It doesn’t seem like it should be, but it is. I am level 55, and I never understood what to do with any dungeon keys because I found the tooltips very confusing. I’m only looking into it now because I just failed the Tentacle boss (Logos?) and so I’m backtracking and looking for things to do… and wow, the Lightless Arbor dungeon is only level 22… (that should be in the key tooltip)
After deciphering the cryptic tooltips, here are some recommendations to help users understand these better:
RECOMMENDATION - Change the winged-shoe-path tooltips to:
This very challenging route requires a DUNGEON_NAME Key and leads to DUNGEON_NAME. (Level DUNGEON_LEVEL)
For example… “This alternate route requires a Lightless Arbor Key and leads to the Lightless Arbor Dungeon (level 22).”
The current text ambigiously makes it sound like I’m not allowed to use the winged shoes until I find a different path into the dungeon, and then complete the dungeon, and then I can come back and use the winged shoe shortcut. The only this it requries is the KEY, so why not just say that?
RECOMMENDATION - Change the dungeon key locator text to talk about the clickable ERA not the “AREA NAME” (which is only visible on the zoomed out map a user may never see if they never zoom out), and to list the steps one should take in-order.
For example, change the lightless arbor key locator text to:
THE SHROUDED RIDGE LIES IN THE RUNED ERA. IT CAN BE REACHED BY TRAVELING TO THE SURFACE, THEN HEADING NORTH.
The lightless arbor key currently says:
"THE SHROUDED RIDGE LIES TO THE EAST OF LAST REFUGE, AND CAN BE REACHED BY HEADING NORTH FROM WHERE THE SHELTERED WOOD EXITS ONTO THE SURFACE.
This text is extremely confusing because of (a) the mention of “east of last refuge”, and (b) the this convoluted thing about “north from the surface from the sheltered wood”, and (c) all-caps font obscuring the proper nouns (aka “The Surface” vs “the surface”).
I opened the map many times looking for a node called “last refuge” to click on, and it just doesn’t exist. There is a zone node called “THE LOST REFUGE”, and a zone node called “Last Refuge outskirts”…but neither of them are what it’s talking about.
I finally see at level 55 it’s actually talking about “The last refuge AREA” on the zoomed out map… I NEVER zoomed out, so I never saw this label.
These key tooltips could be made much more clear by just listing the ERA NAME (which is always a big button on the top), and then listing just one *clickable zone name", and then a compass direction… That’s it. Short simple, easy to understand.
Even more epic would be if the zone name was highlighted and clickable… For example, “THE SURFACE” could be a highlighted clicakable link that just took us right to the surface zone teleport node… (though I understand this might be an issue because of console/controller compat)