Secret uncharted area...?

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Posted by: Onionknight.7186

Onionknight.7186

Hello fellow players!
I wasn’t sure where to place this thread, so I posted it here, in general discussion. Hope I don’t make too much trouble.
So, coming back on topic, I was exploring Rata Sum and came down to the depths. There I noticed branches growing from the ceiling hanging over a huge crevasse, and in those branches some cubes were stuck (the ones serving as materials for all these cubic buildings). As they were relatively closeby, and there isn’t really a harm in dying from a fall, I decided to leap onto them, and to my surprise, I did actually manage to do that. And so, I tried descending the cavern by jumping on lower branches and cubes – which turned out to be fairly easy. Then, as I jumped down on the last cube, I looked for a way to go even lower, as I’d only climbed halfway down to the bottom. So I spotted a small piece of land to jump on, but since the jump was a bit too far away, I hit my Ride the Lightning skill, and reached it safely. Then I began to make my way to the bottom (it was easy from there). Unfortunately, there was nothing to do there once I reached it, so I teleported back.
What do you guys think?

TL;DR

http://i.imgur.com/EkAFL.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/LqmVD.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xHpxq.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/eExw0.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/dPjWA.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/L8EhU.jpg

Has anyone been there before?

Edit:

Thank you all for your replies. They’ve been informative.

(edited by Onionknight.7186)

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Posted by: Treeline.3865

Treeline.3865

Yes, people has been there. Actually this same place was on Reddit (again) this morning. There are other places too, and it can be done with revive orbs.

Edit: You might be the first one to not die though

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Posted by: Danikat.8537

Danikat.8537

Yeah there’s a few places like that dotted around the world. I’m not sure if it’s because they were building maps at the same time as designing things like jump puzzles, vistas and rare/hidden resources so they just put in a whole bunch of hard to reach spots and only some of them got used, or if it’s something they did deliberately.

Either way I like it because without bits like that jump puzzles would be too easy to spot – as soon as you see something that looks like it could form a path you’d know you were on your way to a chest.

Danielle Aurorel, Dear Dragon We Got Your Cookies [Nom], Desolation (EU).

“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”

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Posted by: cargan.5689

cargan.5689

Either way I like it because without bits like that jump puzzles would be too easy to spot – as soon as you see something that looks like it could form a path you’d know you were on your way to a chest.

I do like that there are little chests in out of the way places.

I like just wandering and its a plesant suprise to follow the path less traveled and get a little present at the end.

That way i can pretend im actually exploring rather than just “lost again”

Ulfar SOR