Mistlock Observatory breakout & question

Mistlock Observatory breakout & question

in Fractals, Dungeons & Raids

Posted by: Professor Sprout.1560

Professor Sprout.1560

First of all, apologies if this is old news and has already been discovered. These forums are not very searchable so it’s hard to see if this topic has already been created. Also, this post contains minor spoilers for the Shattered Observatory fractal.

Anyhow, I wanted to take some screenshots of my engineer for another thread, and decided I wanted take them in the Mistlock Observatory in a position that would provide some good shots for the background. I played around a bit with different locations and discovered that by turning on Cosmic Energy, climbing a tree and using traited Rocket Boots I could reach the cluster of floating rocks shown in the first two screenshots below.

If that was all I wouldn’t have bothered posting, but I then discovered whilst trying to return that if you use your rocket boots to jump away from the observatory (e.g. in the direction of the floating ruined wall) you’ll be out far enough to escape the effect that teleports you back to the main platform if you fall off the edge of the observatory. You’ll then fall all the way down to the water layer at the bottom of the map, free to explore the void and swim up to the various rock spires that reach that layer. None of these rocks have collision detection, except for the one very tall rock shown in the last two screenshots below. Now although I’m not the best at jumping puzzles I’m pretty sure that this rock is cannot be climbed using conventional jumping, but provided it has collision in theory it could be void jumped.

My question therefore is as follows – does anyone know a way to void jump in the fractal lobby? Returning to character select and then reloading will return you to Lion’s Arch so that doesn’t work, but I was wondering if there was some trick or other that could be done using lobby passes or some exotic form of disconnection.

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