Guild Wars 2

The Cantankerous Albatrosses [CALB] of HoD are hereby offering the following prizes to anyone who can duplicate all of the attached screenshots (to follow) with their character:
-3 Gold – Edit: now increased to 5 gold, due to certain economic condititions
-1 Bow of the Pale Stag
-1 Yakkington’s Helm

Each winner will be offered their choice of those prizes, until all are taken.

This is to some degree an effort to find additional guild members. The Cantanekrous Albatrosses are not a PVE guild, nor are we a PVP guild (though we do both). We are a messing around and exploring guild. In general, our goal has been to find a way to get to places other people haven’t found or haven’t gotten to yet. Also we make bird noises at each other.

Winners will be offered an opportunity to join, though their is no obligation, and prizes will be handed out regardless. If no one has succeeded in duplicating all of the screenshots in 1 week’s tiem from this post, I’ll add hints to how to find each location displayed. Several of these relate to places that are undocumented in the wiki and are largely unknown by the playerbase. Even if you don’t want the prizes, you might consider these hints on how to reach secret areas.

Rules:
1. You must include your character name in each screenshot. The method used in the first attached screenshot is ideal.

2. No hacking or exploiting. Each location displayed is reachable with nothing but clever jumping, and in some cases the use of in-game items.

Screen shot 1 of 8.

Screen shot 2 of 8.

Screen shot 3 of 8.

Screen shot 4 of 8.

Screen shot 5 of 8.

Screen shot 6 of 8.

Screen shot 7 of 8.

Screen shot 8 of 8.

It was difficult but I did it: http://imgur.com/a/2o4vy

Sparrowsluck.9456:

It was difficult but I did it: http://imgur.com/a/2o4vy

hehe nice one

I believe the first screen it’s an unreacheable point at the very bottom of The Groove…

Some time ago, i reached that place through a glitch in the personal story instance, took a screenshot and reported it. Actually, it seems it can be reached by diving underwater.
There it is

BTW, some of thoses places require a Rezz Orb…not fair since it’s somehow, using a exploit to reach something that you are not suposed to reach.

I suppose we only need to get to those locations, or do we need to replicate everything, including UI and whatever?

Sparrowsluck – nice try, but not falling for that.

Jada Arkadian – There is actually a normal and intended path to reach that spot. It’s entirely reachable, it’s just that the path is hidden. Also, precisely one of those requires a res orb, which has been confirmed in one other thread to not be an exploit. Edit – ok, just saw that you found the normal way to rach it.

Lonami – it’s enough to be standing where my character is and to have your character name visible. It would help if you had the same things in view, as that makes it easier to verify. UI and time of day and such don’t need to be replicated.

Lonami.2987:

I suppose we only need to get to those locations, or do we need to replicate everything, including UI and whatever?

“only” being the key word here ^^

EDIT:

Jada Arkadian – There is actually a normal and intended path to reach that spot. It’s entirely reachable, it’s just that the path is hidden. Also, precisely one of those requires a res orb, which has been confirmed in one other thread to not be an exploit. Edit – ok, just saw that you found the normal way to reach it.

But still it is in a Silvari personal story ? which means you either have to be silvari or need someone to do their personal storyline ? Too bad…

This looks like fun! I think I might give this a shot! Good luck to all the participants!

Ely – you can do it as anyone, and it’s not story related. Note that I play an asura mesmer.

Already have the first 6, but I’m not sure where 7th is, and I’m not willing to waste a revival orb for the 8th until I get 7th :P.

One warning here – I’m out of town starting this evening. I can still confirm winners, but I won’t be able to hand out prizes until the 20th.

greyblue.4962:

Sparrowsluck – nice try, but not falling for that.

What ever could you mean? Are you daring to question my completely legit screenshots? >:3

greyblue.4962:

One warning here – I’m out of town starting this evening. I can still confirm winners, but I won’t be able to hand out prizes until the 20th.

Some hints for all of them could be nice (1 to. Lot of casual people will be like “wtf are those places”.

I expect I’ll give out hints in a couple days, depending on how people are progressing.

Also, if fewer than 3 people get all 8, you can get prizes by being the first person to post N, where N is the highest number less than 8 that anyone posts (particularly since that the last 2 are quite difficult).

In regards to screenshot 3, is that a spot that requires you to use Blink? Also, I noticed you were level 16 in that shot while all other shots show you as level 80. That and it was taken from a previous build since the sPvP icon is missing from the top left corner. If so, then it might be possible that the functionality of Blink may have changed at some point.

Screenshot 3 does not require the use of any skills (except maybe something to give swiftness). One small hint: eating an item that boosts vitality helps.

I’ve encountered very few places that can be reached using blink.

When’s the deadline? I didn’t hide the minimap on my screenshots and I don’t feel like blackening them out, since I’d like people to know where the locations were all along.

Sorry for the slow update – I’ve been out of town, and I really expected people to have an easier time with this. There’s no deadline for this. The contest runs until someone wins.

Also, I figure it’s time I added a few hints:
1. It’s in the Grove
2. Probably obvious, but rthis one’s in Lion’s Arch.
3. Rata Sum, naturally. There’s a way to get to this spot without a revive orb, but eating constitution food helps.
4. Sparkfly Fen – this is the entrance to a small, undocumented jumping puzzle.
5. In the mists.
6. Lost Shores
7. Malchor’s Leap, requires an item from Timberline Falls to reach.
8. Also Rata Sum. the only way I know of to get here requires using a revive orb, which is why this one is optional, although getting all 8 first guarantees a prize (getting all 7 before anyone else and no one getting all 8 is also good enough to win).

The first 6:

http://i.imgur.com/tvPQB.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/6uCD4.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/ivhAP.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/DPgX7.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/OAtoK.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/7dhLT.jpg

Will look at 7, and do 8 if I succeed.