Is Agartha really worth exploring?

[Nor]

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All resources at Agartha worth about 25 gold in a large map. And it literally takes a decade to find one. If you have an army that is strong enough to take over the Citadel of Granite, use it to conquer the Inferno instead would defintently gives you more gold. So why even make it exists?

[Althaea]

Agartha is often poor in resources and a bit boring to explore, but from the looks of that screenshot you've been particularly unlucky.

I suspect further alterations to Agartha are planned at some point, but I couldn't really say whether that would happen in a patch or a sequel. Currently I find it useful mainly because it is hard for most classes to access, so a class that can access it can use it to secure resources that enemy classes can't really raid. In theory you can also dig tunnels straight into enemy territory, but this is not as useful against the AI as it would be against another player, and I'm not sure most PVP games last long enough for that to be a serious option. It can be used to create fast and secure paths to travel along (since there is no terrain in Agartha), but the setup time for that is long indeed.

[HSmasher]

I find Agartha most useful as the quickest way to reach the elemental plane in a lot of cases, find that earth citadel down there and bam, you're good to go. That and it's a bit safer than unleashing a plague of demons upon the world.

[Xelos]

Agartha usually has some deep silver/gold but also some deep sea gems. From the Enchanter's perspective there's alot of Crystal Golems down there.

[Alugere]

I enjoy it with the pale ones. It's fun to Dig an entrance to hell, flood the agartha cave (Making sure the overworld entrance and hell are far enough apart that the demons can't leave in one turn), watch the flood of demons from Hell drown, then conquer Hell. Thanks to mines down below, your summoners can provide you with troops so long as you keep them safe in a captured citadel, thus allowing you a position most factions can't reach that you can survive in.

[Red Bat]

No... The planes are not worth messing with at all in most cases. You can dig to Inferno if you just want to screw over the whole world, or take a citidel in Hades if you want the game to never end, but other than that the risk/reward ratio of dealing the planes simply never makes it worth it.

[Aquillion]

Agartha is worth exploring if you're an Earth Elementalist who wants to reach the elemental planes (I believe the Earth Citadel is guaranteed, and is the only guaranteed elemental plane access point.)

Whether that is itself worth your time is another question (probably not.)

No... The planes are not worth messing with at all in most cases.

There are a few cases where they are, though. Most notably, an elementalist lucky enough to find an elemental plane gate that they can capture can then upgrade all their apprentices to masters of that element at half price, which is a very big advantage.

Of course, you're barely messing with it at that point, since you just dip in and dash back out.

[Menkerot]

it's worth it. Just a bit difficult to explore.