Guild Wars 2

Have they always looked like this or were they just recently completed? I always remember them being worked on and just empty shells. hints towards this patch maybe? Right now every one of them is active on my screen, but others don’t see it. It’s pretty cool though.

I believe that they have been there since beta but I am not 100% certain.

as far as i remember there were always workes at them but no active portal yet ..
so maybe it has something to do with upcoming things

In my experience, I wouldn’t read too much into yet……mainly because, once in a while I would go in there, and 1 or 2 of them would be a portal turned on with the cross out symbol, but then I would warp back and check again and it would be gone. It was usually a bug of some sort.

But! It very well could be something they are using for the next update. I mean, it’s been sitting there useless till now.

The portals were never filled in with the purple hazy-thingy…they have always just been empty. Pretty sure it’s to do with the update.

Except they were. Many times. Just with the red sign. I have a few screencaps from a few months ago, I thought I was on to something then. The portals being “on” is not a new thing.

Again, though, I am willing to be hopeful that Anet might finally have a use for this area.

Ive never seen them active before. it’s possible that they have been working on the them, and that explains why appear active to some, but not others.

They’re not active here (Gate of Madness)

Activating and deactivating may have to do with the power requirements needed for these gates (the cross out because we’re not allowed to use them).

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Asura_gate

Most prominently, gates cannot be instantly tuned to any location, and larger jumps often require a greater amount of energy and time to prepare. For instance, one of the asura gates at Divinity’s Reach leads to Ebonhawke, but only after noon, and a traveler in Lion’s Arch would not find a gate leading to Ebonhawke at all.

The portals being active or inactive most likely has to do with the person’s graphic settings. I remember being asked by a guild member whether those portals have always been active (he even sent me a screenshot from his PC to prove they were) but when I stood next to them on the same server they appeared inactive for me.

Mine have never been active, and I’m on top graphics settings. Weird.

I was just running around in there yesterday and had speculation they’d be used for the escape. They were still incomplete, some not even fully built and was just a single Krewe there. He spoke that “the Queen and Commodore had these built for standby” but he said he was secrecy and couldn’t say anymore.