New LA... New jump puzzles, poi, vistas?
I like new content, new things to do. The Vistas changed with this iteration of LA were easier than the ones before. Even though I had done them on several characters in their previous iteration, I did them, again, on a few characters.
Why not? It’s something new to do!
Still, if it bothers you to finish a map again, you don’t need to. It won’t give you any reward, or change anything you have already accomplished. And if it bothers you to have a map with less than full completion, I guess you have to decide which bothers you more….non-completed map, or doing new (different) content that replaced old content.
Good luck.
So far the jumping puzzles have been completely unaffected. There was a slight change to how you reach the start of Trolls End, but no changes to the actual puzzle.
I don’t remember them adding any new POIs or vistas to LA, or changing the locations, before now either. That usually only happens when they add a completely new area, like when Cragstead was created in a previously empty part of Wayfarer Foothills.
Having said all that unless I’ve missed an announcement we don’t know much about the new LA but we do know that some areas are being re-named and the concept art looks very different to anything that was there before. So it’s possible things like vistas, jumping puzzles etc. will be changed. But we don’t know.
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You didn’t see the Vista on the sand barge? Or the one on the small rubble pile? Those are new (different). I am not positive about any others changing, though, but I think, at least, some of the avenues to completion of the Vistas has changed.
Yeah, they added at least a couple of new POIs since launch (The Breachmaker POI, for example). And pretty much all of the vistas were moved/had their paths moved after LA was destroyed last year. So, yes, I’d expect things to get moved a bit. We already know some areas/POIs are going to be renamed since they let us vote on what they’d be changed to.
Hopefully it’s not just pretty to look at but there is something new to do in the new LA.
I wouldn’t say new JPs, but maybe they’ll change the two in LA around a bit to fit the coming update. Maybe some karka invaded the sewers, or maybe some Consortium workers curiously wandered into the caves near the waterfalls?
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You didn’t see the Vista on the sand barge? Or the one on the small rubble pile? Those are new (different). I am not positive about any others changing, though, but I think, at least, some of the avenues to completion of the Vistas has changed.
Those aren’t new. I haven’t done them since before the Battle for LA and my map still says I’ve completed all the vistas. They also haven’t changed position. What’s around them has changed but they’re still in the same place.
Obviously what’s shown in a lot of the vistas has changed, but that’s because they’re ‘live’, they show what’s going on in the map right now, not a pre-recorded video. Which makes some of them currently kind of pointless, like the one on Diver’s Ledge which used to show where people would drop down from the diving board before the board was moved. Now it just shows the cliff.
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Just wondering if everything is gonna get completely moved around again… More so, are things getting added? I’m bothered every time I have to revisit maps to recomplete them…
I was wondering this same thing, though I feel the opposite. I’m HOPING there are new vistas, POI and the like with the New LA.
It’s like anything else that is destroyed and rebuilt, things change. Think about it for a second: would you NEVER re-visit a city you’d enjoyed simply because they did some roadwork and made things different?
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Fyi I like new content, and want it.
I just don’t like the idea of my world completion % continually dropping. It’s just a pain in the butt.
“I only have 2 maps left!” Patch. “…4 maps”
Still, if it bothers you to finish a map again, you don’t need to. It won’t give you any reward, or change anything you have already accomplished.
As long as map complete for legendary consideration isn’t affected I’m cool with it & encourage it. In the past it’s been a mixed bag with these things.
@Danikat
You didn’t see the Vista on the sand barge? Or the one on the small rubble pile? Those are new (different). I am not positive about any others changing, though, but I think, at least, some of the avenues to completion of the Vistas has changed.
Those aren’t new. I haven’t done them since before the Battle for LA and my map still says I’ve completed all the vistas. They also haven’t changed position. What’s around them has changed but they’re still in the same place.
Obviously what’s shown in a lot of the vistas has changed, but that’s because they’re ‘live’, they show what’s going on in the map right now, not a pre-recorded video. Which makes some of them currently kind of pointless, like the one on Diver’s Ledge which used to show where people would drop down from the diving board before the board was moved. Now it just shows the cliff.
The location may not be new (different), but the Vistas and how they are completed certainly are. There was no sand pile (an extremely easy climb) there before. There was no 3-foot high pile of rubble there before (again, extremely easy climb, or should I say walk up?).
Just because they are in the same location does not make them the same as they were before. It matters little, though, as those 2 Vistas won’t be there long; something different will replace them (again), I am sure. =)
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Just wondering if everything is gonna get completely moved around again… More so, are things getting added? I’m bothered every time I have to revisit maps to recomplete them…
One of the compelling features of GW2 is that things don’t remain the same. I’m sorry you’re bothered by it, since it’s one of my favorite selling points — I only wish it happened more often.
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New diving and vista can be in Lion Arch’ Areodrome I would imagine one airship circling above and you need jump at perft time when it is above water.
Already existing vista on Commodore’Manor will be on top of that building probably (now it is on sand where they build it).
Next new vista imo can be in Macha’Landing that place can be really a thing full of ships docking there.
Waypoints – I would say one for Areodrome and one for Pheonix’ Roost, but don’t really need them.
Jumping puzzles – Areodrome and Coriolis Plaza and Shadows Inn – one long puzzle that contain those 3.
Events – one with karka port near Macha’Landing, one with rats in sewers and one with moa somewhere in Postern Ward.
My thoughts.