Map completion quest gated for Auric Basin?

Map completion quest gated for Auric Basin?

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Posted by: Clem.2963

Clem.2963

One of the areas under Tarir, in Auric Basin, requires the completion of a quest.

We had a similar situation, at launch (of the base game), where there was a POI (in Straits of Devastation) only accessible during the final story mission.
An was instance created, so anyone could access this POI at any time.

Why has the same not been done for the area under Tarir? I have a character for each class, I don’t fancy doing the same quests on them all so I can get a POI and Vista.

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Map completion quest gated for Auric Basin?

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Posted by: LunasaPrismriver.4321

LunasaPrismriver.4321

I get your point and while I think you are correct, getting to that point in the story “only” takes about an hour and you get a free weapon skin every time. Still, it should be open to every character once you completed that story step on one of your characters. pls change it anet.

Map completion quest gated for Auric Basin?

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Posted by: mulzi.8273

mulzi.8273

Yep. This is a pet peeve of mine as well. AB is the only map that is gated behind three factors: the story, the meta event, and Tier 4 of the map (eg. pre-events). You need the story (at least through the egg) to get into that POS room (for each !@#$ character too). then you need the meta event to succeed AND have it at tier 4 to access the HP room under the city on the other side.

I guess Anet, in their fruitful quest to alienate all aspects of their player base in some manner, wanted to hit the alt-a-holic folks too, and here ya go.