Guild Wars 2

I’ve been looking at the various creatures that warp in/out of the Thaumanova reactor and other regions. The Toxal Bog and Chaos Crystal Caverns also have these type of rifts that warp creatures in and out. Lastly, the Ulta Metamagicals Lab in Brisban Wildlands runs experiments with various portals that unintentionally warp in various creatures. However, the wiki doesn’t have much information on areas other than the reactor, so I wanted to document them here for anyone to use as reference.

Toxal Bog (“Disoriented”)
Armadillo (Ambient)
Bull (ambient)
Cat (ambient)
Chicken (ambient)
Cow (ambient)
Crab (ambient)
Dog (ambient; Krytan hound appearance)
Earth Elemental
Fire Imp
Freshwater Crab
Giant
Hawkeye Griffon
Hound (ambient; fernhound appearance)
Hyena
Ice Drake
Ice Imp
Minotaur
Osprey (ambient)
Polar Bear
Rabbit (ambient)
Racoon (ambient)
Rock Dog
Rock Drake
Rooster (ambient)
Salamander Drake
Scaled Drake
Spider (Ambient)
Tar Elemental
Wolf

Chaos Crystal Cavern (“Disoriented”)
Bandit Scout
Basilisk
Cave Troll
Dredge Ratnik
Ettin
Fire Imp
Harpy Hunter
Hylek Nahualli
Icebrood Hunter
Krait Nymross
Modniir Hunter
Nightmare Courtier
Risen Preserver
Spark
Whiptail Devourer

Ulta Metamagicals (No disorientation noted)
Branded Devourer
Eagle Griffon
Icebrood Norn
Murellow
Ridgeback Skale
Risen Gorilla
Steam Mechataur
Warthog

It’s a nice list, I’ll give you that! It should go on the wiki!

But there is nothing to conclude from it, the creatures are randomly from all over Tyria…

yeah, it feels very random.

I tried to see which creatures might fall on possible magic leylines, but things like the Risen Preserver really make things odd.

However, there is something. The Thaumanova reactor generally has animals and elementals warping in. The caverns have mostly humanoid creatures warping in. The bog has mostly ambient creatures warping in.

I don’t actually think this reflects anything special. This is probably because Anet didn’t want to confuse new players by warping in a bunch of branded and Icebrood minions, etc. It’s much easier for a new player to digest Inquest + angry animals as the bad guys.

Once you reach the Cavern, you know who the bad guys are, so you can understand that the mishmash warping into the Cavern is fairly random.