Guild Wars 2

I got pretty close, looks interesting.

Here’s some screenshots I took. Anyone get any better shots?

This island looked nice too, but probably just for decoration.
Got another view from the other side and spotted a pretty epic looking island in the background (That’s looking east towards BWE1 area). It also had some dragons flying nearby.

Unreachable to us in the lower levels maybe. People in the canopy might be able to glide to them easily. (Since we are in an instance, the canopy above might not be rendering. I don’t think you can see things that are outside the instance boundaries.)

Oh, maybe. I kind of assumed we were in a canopy map, since there was nothing above. :P
You could be right though.
Or they might be just used for some sort of instance/mission/raid thing.

With enough gliding mastery I bet you could make it to islands like that.

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Oh, maybe. I kind of assumed we were in a canopy map, since there was nothing above. :P
You could be right though.
Or they might be just used for some sort of instance/mission/raid thing.

If I understand the beta announcement properly, we were in the mid to lower levels of the map (with an option to go lower if you don’t mind the instant death thing). I think we were in the canopy area with the first beta.

“For our second beta weekend test, you’ll be landing in a different part of the map than the one we showed in our first beta weekend, and you’ll be able to explore a new area: the jungle-floor biome”

The designs under the second screenshot remind me of white mantle

Yeah, there’s a lot of floating stuff up there that shouldn’t be floating. My guess is they ripped the canopy off the map because anet is super concerned about spoilers. They did some similar tricks in the GW1 betas, leaving certain things out.

I also have a theory that rytlock’s speech when he appears in the first mission will be different in release/more plot related which is why it’s muted in the cinematic.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

Unreachable to us in the lower levels maybe. People in the canopy might be able to glide to them easily. (Since we are in an instance, the canopy above might not be rendering. I don’t think you can see things that are outside the instance boundaries.)

You can fly around with tyria-3d and you can see that there are even jumping-mushrooms placed on some of this high above flying islands.

I am sure we will be able to fly to some of this islands. At least after October 23rd.

They are awesome! Can’t imagine how cool it will be to fly to those remote super high places!

Do we know if the biomes are in different instances? This would take away a lot of immersion… It already bugs me that we have zoned areas instead of one huge instance.

Here’s your answer (though might be spoiler).

They are the canopy. In BWE3 you can get there during the night with the help of a copter.

Those unreachable islands were in Avatar too.

You can access the canopy part of the map in 2 ways.

1. Updraft use. Once you unlock updrafts you can fly your way to the top of the map.

2. Night Choppers. At night, about 10 minutes in, all controlled rally points gain a chopper. These chopper’s can be interacted with to take you to the canopy. There are a number of fun bosses in the canopy at night.

Good luck!

Darn, beta ended and I never got up there.
I only just remembered to check it out again a few minutes before it ended and noticed there was also a bouncy mushroom on the wreckage below the island probably as a 3rd way to get up there. But I didn’t get mushroom mastery this time.

Anyone get any screenshots?
I guess I’ll have to wait for release to see it for myself.

Huh, I didn’t know you could get up there via chopper, I just jumped up there. You can reach the circled one by traveling from the Magelleon (but you need bouncing shrooms and glide), and then glide over to the one to the east of it, but I didn’t have enough to glide from there to the one over the starting WP.

I went up during the daytime though and nothing was going on there, didn’t realize there was anything different at night.