I was nostalgic the other night about pre-merge Istaria and the one thing that my mind always comes back to is the edge of fear/nervousness you had in many areas in old Istaria.

I speak mostly of the attunements to Harro and Morning Light.

Back then, these were accomplishments. Anytime you had to run out to wolf's paw you risked getting ambushed by Fang and his buddies.

It used to be spooky to run on the road with the trees hanging overhead, the road all shady and never know if you were going to be surprised by werewolves.

It just added something very special to that area.

Now I run past there and there's nothing, no excitement, no anxiety, it's just a road like most of the others in Istaria.

Consider putting some of these types of things back in game. Istaria now is far too tamed and the roads mostly too civilized.

Attuning to Harro/ML can be done by level 1 characters now. Those used to be the high end areas and the last places that you could attune to.