Myself, Caeni, Meboom, Fanedily, Omegga and our trollqueen Bimbolou went for a little relaxing in Plane of Earth after SONY stole our fun in SolRo Tower this evening.
This zone is like a nice cup of tea after a hectic raid! What a very nice place to grind some AA xp in! Love this place!
The colors in the zone are obviously earthen and neutral, very pleasant and relaxing, almost dull if it wasn't for the cool looking mobs in here that we had no problems what so ever to smite.
The game-music for this zone is also very tranquilizing and soothing.
Don't know what the rest of the group thought about this little tea-party we had up here but myself and Fanedily instantly liked it. Easy kills, 1-3% AA XP per kill and mobs don't even have very many HP so they go down fast. We were the only ones in zone and could keep a nice steady stream of pulls and AA meter ticked on visibly while it was still relaxed and laid back enough to unwind from the hectic raid-tempo and all the lag some of us suffer doing those.
We didn't move deep into zone, just camped right at safe spot by zone in. Omegga pulled whatever trashmobs were roaming aplenty just outside the little platform. Vision is good in this zone and easy to grab a bit of everything and just beat them down for some nice xp while talking about weather and wind or just kick back.
Lootsplit turned out to a couple hundred plats per person for the short time we were here and should a group hunt more aggressively in here, I'm guessing it could be rather profitable.
Very nice place... Looking forward to work Plane of Water next time even if it means I'm gonna have to fight in a mostly submerged zone and I really suck at swim-fighting, but maybe it'll be worth that little inconvenience.
To sum it up, all I can say is this: If you haven't become elemental flaged yet, take any chances to get there that you come across. The zones may not be top of the food chain any more, but they sure make for some easy XP with very little or no competition in them it looks like.