Talk:Mistburned Barrens

Feedback 2025/7/27

It looks like the Zone Portal From Janthir Syntri has an account or character based story requirement. It's not even visible, if this requirement (whatever it is) isn't met.

I find this locking map/poi/... access behind "you have to do X before" extremely annoying and it shows that Anet doesn't care anymore about what they once said in their famous **MMO Manifesto**. It's no longer the players who decide how and where they spend their (precious) time in game ...the developers decide or at least massively control (through rewards). Necropola (talk) 10:47, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

Would you mind clarifying whether the required story progress is per character or account? icedtea02 (talk • contrib) 14:26, 27 July 2025 (UTC)

I've addded "Requires completion of Into the Valley of Shadow which unlocks the portal for all characters on your account" to the wiki page. Necropola (talk) 14:15, 12 October 2025 (UTC).

For the second paragraph, I would like to mention Anet has been doing this practice since Living World Season 3, which every map is locked behind the story. I know maps locked behind stories is sometimes annoying, especially if someone doesn’t have much time. But I think this feeling is mostly because the content afterwards doesn’t meet someone’s expectations, causing it to magnify. icedtea02 (talk • contrib) 14:26, 27 July 2025 (UTC)