Guild Wars 2

Anyone else miss the map scraping of GW1? Where you had to uncover every area for the title of Legendary Cartographer.

It was great.

No not in the slightest. Having to run right on the edge of every single wall just to get that 0.01% extra needed was annoying. I’m very glad they made it the way they have to get map completion in 2

No, I hated it and it made me want to hurt small animals in extreme rage.
~in fact, every ambient critter I murder in GW2 is my way of gaining revenge upon Cartographer title.

Absolutely not, I think they got it right with GW2

Definitely not. Hunting for pixels was tedious and annoying. Don’t see how anyone would miss that.

I completely blocked it out, thanks for reminding me of that pain.

No. I don’t miss it. And no, it wasn’t great.

Map scraping was, and always will be, one of the most annoying, senseless, useless ideas ever conceived by man. In the history of the world, the universe, and everything.

i wouldn’t know, i was stuck at 98.7%

What was really fun (not) was figuring out how to get into glitched areas to get extra amount uncovered. Like the ones where you had to send a pet through a portal using a particular skill then jump to it when it had reached as far as it could go. You could sometimes get in between two portals doing that and explore.

Got 100% map multiple times and DEFINITELY DON’T miss scraping.

Sorry OP, but the Cartographer title in GW1 was horribly designed to the point that most relied on a mod to help them reach it and I doubt many will miss having to scrape every little bit of the map to reach map completion. I much x1000 prefer the new system; it’s just better in every single way.

I agree with the others here, map scraping was tedious, glitchy, and a extreme pain in the rectum. The new system is far superior in every way.

Flamenco.3894:

Anyone else miss the map scraping of GW1? Where you had to uncover every area for the title of Legendary Cartographer.

It was great.

HELL NOOOOOOO!

2 things that I am glad are missing from this game that were in GW1:

1 – Map scraping.
2 – “You have been playing for 1 hour please take a break” another hour goes by “You have been playing for two hours please take a break” 10 hours later “You have been playing for 12 hours please take a break”.

SHUT UP I was taking breaks I was just afk sheeesh!

Texmod ftw haha
But with vanquish you pretty much had to run trough the whole map already so just had to do those 2 together.

Sorry OP, but it was far from “great”. Legendary Cartographer was the single worst thing I ever stooped to doing in GW1 (and I had a Survivor). Deliberately scraping map boundaries is very immersion breaking, not to mention tedious.

The “Points of Interest” are exactly how I always imagined exploration should have been implemented, and I’m very happy that’s the system we have in GW2.

Yea, do not miss that at all. Worst thing in GW1 was the map scraping for the title. My friend did it for Prophecies and got nothing but a title while i played the game and got drops (and had fun!). Like it waaay better now.

There are some things that I miss from GW1 (Capturing Elites.. o my god, I miss that) but no, map scraping isn’t one of them.

I like the new system, but I think they should have also included the areas you uncover in world completion (because sometimes you can complete a map now and still have fog on an uncovered area because there’s no heart/waypoint/vista/poi there). I know there’s a separate achievement for that (pretty sure) but it’s a minor one. Imo if you get world cartography, you should have actually uncovered all the areas not just little dots on the map. Don’t get me wrong though, wall scraping is something I hope i never have to do again lol.