Guild Wars 2

Today I was doing Metrica province map completion for at least 7th-8th time (leveling alts) and realized that even after so many completions I still have to take a look at the official wiki to find two missing renown hearts. Even with the help of of wiki it still takes at least a couple of minutes (for some maps even more) to find them but the alternative (going in circles around the map) often takes far more time.

Now I am asking myself, what is the point behind hiding undiscovered renown hearts yet leaving PoIs and vistas completely visible on the map once the fog of war is removed? Imho it doesn’t contribute much to exploration immersion and sometimes finding the missing hearts can be really frustrating.

I would like to recommend showing undiscovered renown hearts once the fog of war is removed in the area where the heart is located (not only after player comes close). Or at least allow this option for players that already completed a map.

If you talk to the scouts (the NPCs with the telescope icons) they will show you the hearts along with telling you some of the story of the zone.

What I do in these cases is find the remaining active scouts on the map. When you talk to them (the telescope icons), they reveal the hearts in their area, and when you complete all hearts of that small portion of the map, the scout icon disappears.

You know what? The first and only time I actually thought about those scouts was during GW2 beta. In the meantime I completely forgot about them and their ability to mark all the hearts o.O I just got used to simply revealing new hearts every time I came closer to them. Thanks, I guess.

I admit I never thought about them either, D’oh!

Thanks Starscream!

Realizing this would have saved me a lot of time the other day. Thanks for the tip!