There's basically nothing more honorable in online (or any other...) discourse than the ability to say that you were mistaken or have changed your mind based upon new information and experiences.

I haven't participated in the event but I think that you have made a noble post.

@Recent, kudos to you, and a big agree from me. I feel very much the same way about my own reactions to Phase 3.

At first I wasn't enjoying Phase 3 at all due to every instance of the Writhing Fortress being bugged in one way or another, plus I had no idea what I should be doing and couldn't make sense of what the NPCs were telling us to do. I started to feel rather negatively about Phase 3.

But once I started to find working instances and was able to experience different sides of each stage-- i.e., east wing versus west wing, as well as the places where one group can go one way and another group can go a different way to work together at solving a given problem-- then everything started clicking into place, and now I'm having a lot of fun running through the Writhing Fortress on different characters.

The first two phases were bad, and nothing has happened to update my assessment on that.

Phase 3, the Writhing Fortress, once I finally got into a working instance, was pretty great.

I just hope interest in it stays high enough that it's still completable at the end of the event. I imagine it, like the Camps, doesn't scale to the number of players present (the Camps are more of a disaster than ever now), and I'd hate to think of people trying to slog through the Fortress while undermanned.

Thank you @Recent for bringing this positive thread.

I was pretty negative about the first phases. Not so much what the quests were but how it was the same every day and only a very short quest to transition from Phase 1 to Phase 2. And the progress felt so slow that it broke my desire to participate.

So I was pleasantly surprised by how much I am enjoying Phase 3. At first I only planned to do the Writhing Fortress on a couple of my characters but ended up doing it on all 7. It feels much better to have more positive things to say now.