Guild Wars 2

So there has been a dragon, or two, a giant tidal wave and some flooding. Every where I look the closest to GW I get is the ruins in LA, they are the most preserved ruins of the old game I can find……

its been 250 years, there has to be more that survived no?

You want ruins of stuff from GW1?
Go to the Ascalon areas. Loads of remnants

The Eye of the North is probably the most intact piece of the old game. Aside from that, you can find a lot of dwarven ruins that are more intact than Lion’s Arch, and as Starfish said, there’s a lot of old Ascalonian stuff.

*Some of Serenity temple and the giant searing crystal remain
*The Great Northern Wall
*Post-Searing Ascalon City is in a lake now (which is what the area was in pre-searing)
*Grendich Courthouse
*Henge of Denravi
*Fort Koga
*Temple of Ages
*Granite Citadel
*Droknar’s Forge
*Camp Rankor

Shall I continue? That’s exhausted what I can think of at the moment, but I am certain that there is more that I have missed.

hall of monuments
Yak’s bend
bloodstone caves (possibly)
Beetletun
Ascalonian settlement
Storm caller’s horn
Nolani
Griffon’s Mouth

list can go on forever…..

There are ruins throughout the game. A heck of a lot more than Lion’s Arch. I think you’ll be hard pressed to not find a single returning structure in most of the zones/cities.

Lornar’s Pass has the corpse of Maw the Mountain Heart as well as the Dwayna statue that was in Dreadnaught’s Drift.

Dredgehaunt Cliffs has the Granite Citadel and Sorrow’s Furnace.

Mount Maelstrom has Droknar’s Forge (incorrectly and often misspelled as Droknah’s – must be slang) and Port Sledge (though completely changed thanks to sylvari).

Timberline Falls has Camp Rankor ruins.

Frostgorge Sound has Iron Horse Mines (sunken) and Yak’s Bend.

Plains of Ashford have Ashford Abbey (and the old Catacombs entrance), Great Northern Wall, Balthazar’s statue, and Ascalon City. Black Citadel has Rin.

Diessa Plateau has Nolani, Grendich, Oldgate (though never named in GW1), part of Dragon’s Gullent (other part is in Fireheart Rise), and of course there’s the Great Northern Wall.

Blazeridge Steppes has Serenity Temple and the Pockmark Flats crystal (and yes, part of the Great Northern Wall).

Iron Marches has Piken Square, the entire Great Northern Wall GW1 mission area, the Searing Cauldron from GW1, and yes, the Great Northern Wall.

Queensdale as Temple of the Ages and Shaemoor.

Gendarran Fields has Nebo Terrace (formerly Nebo Village) and the Ascalon Settlement (and, arguably, Melandru’s Cenote might be Bergen Hot Springs).

Kessex Hills has the Wizard’s Tower (moved).

Caledon Forest has the Temple of the Unseen (renamed to Ruins of the Unseen).

Brisban Wildlands has Aurora Glade, Henge of Denravi, and Fort Koga.

Metrica Province has the Golem Foundry (aka G.O.L.E.M. site).

There’s probably some I’m forgetting.

I think Droknah’s is named so because of the quaggan nearby

There’s nearby quaggans? I only remember Inquest, sylvari, and hylek.

Someone pointed me toward this map recently, which has major landmarks from the GW1 map overlaid on the GW2 map. It might give you some places to start looking, because there are actually a large number of ruins and references, great and small. Konig’s list is pretty good (more than I could remember off the top of my head). As well as major sites like the remnants of the Henge of Denravi and Droknar’s Forge, there are oddly specific sites like the excavated tomb of Kilnn Testibrie, who you may remember from the bonus for the very first mission in Prophecies (just looked that up and it’s in Iron Marches).

Do some exploring and note the names of points of interest, there’s a lot out there.

Isn’t Sorrow’s Embrace also what’s left of Sorrow’s Furnace?

Yeah, Konig, there is a village of Quaggan living inside of the ruins just southwest of the Infinity Coil.

Thanks for the map Curuniel, holy heck I forgot how much the Charr took back.
I hope we get a few expansions that let us see the Blood Legion’s old home. I liked that place in EoTN.

That reminds me: the Eye of the North confuses me. Wasn’t it already countless years old by the time the humans found it in GW1? If so, why is it falling apart after another 250 years when it looked as-new back then?

Jormag?
I mean, having a giant blizzard would surely shake up a building, at the very least.

Sirius.4510:

That reminds me: the Eye of the North confuses me. Wasn’t it already countless years old by the time the humans found it in GW1? If so, why is it falling apart after another 250 years when it looked as-new back then?

Yes it was presumably pretty old when we first found it. But it had never been attacked (either directly or indirectly) so it was in good condition (although I think it was mentioned that it might have once been taller but the spire had been broken off? – I could have imagined reading that though). I suppose the idea now is that Jormag has caused some damage to it what with him rampaging around up there.

It seems plausible that the Eye of the North was under some kind of magical protection that preserved it before we got there in GW1, but that protection has been broken at some point in the intervening time (Jormag, indeed, being the most likely candidate). That would make the decaying of the Eye extra significant, if it was previously impervious to the elements. Who knows?

I would be cautious of making that assumption. There was nothing to suggest it had any kind of magical protection from weathering. It was simply built to withstand the Shiverpeaks conditions. Only with Jormag rising the Far Shiverpeaks have since been subjected to catastrophic blizzards and Icebrood, which it probably wasn’t designed to withstand.

It is however possible it has some kind of protection on it. I feel like if the Icebrood found it they would turn it into a lair as we see the Sons of Svanir do with caverns and houses. So either it’s remained unseen (a little bit funny considering we call it the “Eye of the North”) or it’s protected against those it deems dangerous/dragons. But we really can’t say for sure.

It is definitely the most well preserved part of GW1 though. Most other landmarks feel just a bit too changed, especially concerning Ascalon.
I did love going back into Sorrow’s Furnace and finding the fountain from the Henge of Denravi though.

Maybe the Ebon Vanguard had refurbished while they were there. I mean, they were there for roughly 6 or so years before we showed up.