Guild Wars 2

We were in Jade Maw and while running through, lost one to the mobs… because we couldn’t go back, we decided to suicide to reanimate him. After jumping off, I hit a floating rock, dropped dead instantly and my corpse continued to drop down through the dark clouds…
then through white clouds… then I dropped out of the clouds and saw below me a grassy area with strange mountains and the words “Jade Kraken” written in dirt textures across it in giant letters (only got a part of “JA” in one screenshot). And once I hit the ground… I started regenerating health O.o

So yeah, why the others 3-manned the Jade Maw (one had a reanimation orb), I walked around this giant area. It had what looked like a giant castle built from Ascalonian architexture. And an area with Dredge drills and whatnot. And a snowy area. Weather etc. changed as I walked around it. Eventually, I came to a lake I could actually jump into (invisible walls around the other bodies of water) and down there I could peek through textures into underwater tunnels with luminous plants. And there was a giant temple structure down there as well, so I can only assume this was the dolphin and jelly beast fractal… so I climbed back out of the water…
and was eaten by Piranhas (or at least a debuff that said something about piranhas and creatures of the dark) when I was back on dry land.

Of course a bug, doesn’t look like it was meant to be accessible but the healing effect down there only made this possible so that effect should probably be removed though I can’t see how anyone could abuse it…
well, here are some screens. Enjoy.

More screenshots at:
http://s1294.beta.photobucket.com/user/rofltehcat/library/

Does this explain why the Jade Maw kills FPS?

Maybe… I really wouldn’t know. It was massive down there it felt like 2-3 outdoor zones combined.
I think they actually have all the fractals in one zone to reduce loading times between the different fractals (of course only spawning mobs etc. as needed). The underwater part looks like a part of the dolphin fractal and the castle/town might be a part of the ascalon fractal (which is also a framerate killer, even for me…).

ive been there n the real word there is ‘JADE KRAKEN’.. im not dead there but i cant go back to the dungeon..uhuhuhu

We also accessed this area through falling oddly in Cliffside.

as far as I can tell every fractal exists in the same “map” for lack of a better word.

If you jump from dessa’s lab you die. But if you jump off while disconnected/lagging, you can fall through the mist before it downs you, and see what is below. (Spoiler: the swamp fractal) below that is another fractal and so on.

You simply found a way down to an area that holds a majority of the texture resources for the fractals. o.o

The Jade Kraken was a boss in GW1, though not by that name, possibly a reference to that? Doesn’t explain why it would be on the floor in a random instance though.

That’s creepy… lol

I once fell down to a similar area in the dungeon with the giant. Only I didn’t survive the fall. There was huge flat area, surrounded by hilly landscape. There was a big dead tree, and some sort of building.

Fell down there today. Super annoying since it meant i wasn’t able to get the chest.

I remember something similar happen to me with Metrica Province jumping puzzle I think during the beta where I kept falling through the clouds and landed on top of some mountains in Metrica Province O.o