Guild Wars 2

Why do Tarnished Coast and Steamspur Mountains count for a “Maguuma Jungle” explorer achievement? Steamspur is across the frigging continent! Technically there is no jungle anyway, only the wastes and Magus Falls, SOMETIMES known as the heart of maguuma. I would be eternally grateful if someone could take a moment to delete Maguuma Jungle Explorer and create Tarnished Coast Explorer and Steamspur Mountains Explorer. Also plz add Maguuma Wastes and maybe Magus Falls? And don’t say they won’t because the regions aren’t complete. We have Orr, and we can go to less that half of the actual continent! I know this isn’t priority, but I don’t see why it can’t be accomplished quickly…

Tarnished Coast is part of the Maguuma Jungle. Always has been in lore.

Mechanically, the Steamspur Mountains count to the Maguuma Jungle stuff because of two reasons:

1. They needed to even out the number of zones-to-region with release. Only Orr zones were fewer than 5 upon release.
2. The themes of those two zones (Sparkfly and Mount Maelstrom) match that of the Tarnished Coast+Brisban zones, in regards to textures and models used for the environment.

Magus Falls has its own explorer achievements, which are per map.

Also, Orr is a complete region – it’s just that there’s room for more (and it’s more than half of the peninsula – note: Orr is not a continent – but what brings it over that half is the dungeon Arah which doesn’t count to explorer because it’s a jungle).

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Tarnished Coast is part of the Maguuma Jungle. Always has been in lore.

Mechanically, the Steamspur Mountains count to the Maguuma Jungle stuff because of two reasons:

1. They needed to even out the number of zones-to-region with release. Only Orr zones were fewer than 5 upon release.
2. The themes of those two zones (Sparkfly and Mount Maelstrom) match that of the Tarnished Coast+Brisban zones, in regards to textures and models used for the environment.

Magus Falls has its own explorer achievements, which are per map.

Also, Orr is a complete region – it’s just that there’s room for more (and it’s more than half of the peninsula – note: Orr is not a continent – but what brings it over that half is the dungeon Arah which doesn’t count to explorer because it’s a jungle).

I understand the mechanical reasons, I just wish they’d change it. But if Tarnished Coast is part of Maguuma, why name is Tarnished Coast? Why does it get a specific name? I know about the HoT explorer achieves, but I’d rather have one Magus Falls one. Not so much because of now, but if every map gets it’s own from now on, imagine 5 xpacs later with lik another 25-30 zones! Also I wasn’t counting the dungeon since it doesn’t show on world map and we can’t go there, but I do see your point.