Guild Wars 2

Who is interested in fighting the Mursaat? With the Fractals addition, more specifically the Giant map, it gives me the feeling of fighting the White Mantle or Mursaat followers. It also has the scenery of Janthir Bay (even though it was never opened for players, based off the map)

What do you mean the scenery of Janthir Bay? From what we can tell on the map the Isle of Janthir is a barren volcanic rock much like the ring of fire islands.

He probably means the mainland coast of Janthir Bay. But I disagree and say that the foliage is reminiscent of Pongmei Valley.

’Sides, even the mainland coast of Janthir Bay… no one knows what kind of foliage is there.

Exactly, it just has a Mursaat feeling though

I fail to see such a “mursaat feeling” to it.

I’m with Konig on this one. All the times I’ve done this fractal I’ve never seen anything that points to the mursaat or the White Mantle. To me it’s more of a giant colossus held captive by generic human cultists. POSSIBLY in the Maguuma Jungle or somewhere in Cantha. It could just as easily have been an event in the distant past or future that we do not have any knowledge of and could be something that took place on a continent that we do not know about.

endeavor.7530:

Who is interested in fighting the Mursaat? With the Fractals addition, more specifically the Giant map, it gives me the feeling of fighting the White Mantle or Mursaat followers. It also has the scenery of Janthir Bay (even though it was never opened for players, based off the map)

I got a similar feeling at first, but now I’ve come over to Konig’s view. At first I thought the Archdiviner’s looked a lot like the White Mantle Ritualists and the scenary reminded me of the Northern coast of Kryta from GW1.

After running through the dungeon a few more times I’m much more convinced we’re looking at a Shing Jea/Pong Mei Valley setting. The Archdiviners and Novices seem to resemble Am Fah fairly closely and they count as “Bandits” in your Slayer achievment tabs. The foliage + presence of bamboo-like flora is very reminiscent of east asia/Cantha and the seals all possess Asian-style symbols which are similar to the Canthan alphabet from GW1