Guild Wars 2

For any GW1 fans .. in case you haven’t been to the Blazeridge Steppes region yet you’ll find two areas from GW1… Pockmark Rough which is almost identical to the crater-like basin with the giant crystal formation in Pockmark Flats. I remember killing quite a few elementals and wind riders there. The info at the site says it’s still the original crystal formation from the time of the Searing. The other great find is the ruins of Serenity Temple. You can even find Priestess Rashenna’s grave there. It was quite exciting to find these two areas and recall the quests I did back then.

Thank you ANET for including these areas from GW1. It’s always exciting to come across such finds in the game. =)

Did you fight the boss there? I dont know what spawns him, but a very angry redstaff shows up sometimes.

Dunno if it’s Redstaff, but I think that’s the ghost tied to touching the seven odd and perfectly similar stones in order.

I wouldn’t mind seeing an over lay map of GW and Gw2 maps to see where the locations from GW. I loved finding ToA. Seeing Nebo terrace and the Ascalon settlement. The Grenth temple in lomers pass. Not forgetting Grendich courthouse. Not found anywhere else from GW yet. But would love a list of places I can revisit in GW2.

Pockmark Rough seems quite a bit smaller in this game, i remembered the crystals to be alot bigger in GW1.

Konig Des Todes.2086:

Dunno if it’s Redstaff, but I think that’s the ghost tied to touching the seven odd and perfectly similar stones in order.

that’s just a veteran ghost.

I also had several problems with the stones resetting even though I was totally in the right order…

for those curious
rising sun is the far east stone.
The pagan is melandru
the oldest law is gravity (the dwyana statue used to be composed of floating rocks)
splitting down the middle is the staircase near melandru, as it cuts into the middle of the area
ascending and descending are the stairs to the west
the pillars one is the stone between 4 pillars
and the final stone is to the north by the crumbled pillar

Not sure if theres some kind of time limit to this, because even doing it correctly, I had to restart about 4 times before it worked.

BrotherBelial.3094:

I wouldn’t mind seeing an over lay map of GW and Gw2 maps to see where the locations from GW. I loved finding ToA. Seeing Nebo terrace and the Ascalon settlement. The Grenth temple in lomers pass. Not forgetting Grendich courthouse. Not found anywhere else from GW yet. But would love a list of places I can revisit in GW2.

there is an overlay map with all the missions and towns from gw1 shown on the gw2 map. i’ve seen it pop up a few times here on the forums already.

sorry i dont have the link, but i’m sure if you googled “guild wars map” it would turn up somewhere near th top of the search

Don’t you mean pockmark flats?

jebidiah ubershiet.2580:

BrotherBelial.3094:

I wouldn’t mind seeing an over lay map of GW and Gw2 maps to see where the locations from GW. I loved finding ToA. Seeing Nebo terrace and the Ascalon settlement. The Grenth temple in lomers pass. Not forgetting Grendich courthouse. Not found anywhere else from GW yet. But would love a list of places I can revisit in GW2.

there is an overlay map with all the missions and towns from gw1 shown on the gw2 map. i’ve seen it pop up a few times here on the forums already.

sorry i dont have the link, but i’m sure if you googled “guild wars map” it would turn up somewhere near th top of the search

Here’s one. Things don’t line up perfectly in every case, but they’re close enough to give you an idea.

So I’m not alone! I get so many little thrills from things like this, and finding that old crystal again was a big one. My character was standing there looking down on it from roughly the same spot that her namesake had, 250 years before. I just thought that was cool.

Zenyatoo.4059:

I also had several problems with the stones resetting even though I was totally in the right order…

for those curious
rising sun is the far east stone.
The pagan is melandru
the oldest law is gravity (the dwyana statue used to be composed of floating rocks)
splitting down the middle is the staircase near melandru, as it cuts into the middle of the area
ascending and descending are the stairs to the west
the pillars one is the stone between 4 pillars
and the final stone is to the north by the crumbled pillar

Not sure if theres some kind of time limit to this, because even doing it correctly, I had to restart about 4 times before it worked.

Dwayna’s is fourth, not third; splitting down the middle (the stone wall – not a staircase, I think) that’s third.

There is a timelimit, though first time I did it, the stone wall one was counted as wrong.

I loved seeing the “worn out” lighthouse in Lions Arch (GW2), I remember traveling there in GW1 – also the fact that ancient Lions Arch is underwater now is just really cool. Just for nostalgic reasons i started swimming in the areas I’d walk in GW1, like “merchants row” and where “First watch Sergio” is. Just some real awesome games with some fun quirks.

Since this has been brought back, a couple things that have yet to be mentioned:

Kendrick spawns at the end of a short event chain- a collector event, and then an escort. Supposedly Rashenna can also spawn, but I’ve been looking on and off for months and haven’t been able to trigger her. An NPC in the Priory camp also mentions a member of Ascalon’s Chosen- possibly referring to the vet enchanter that the stones spawn.

Sir Constantine.5714:

I loved seeing the “worn out” lighthouse in Lions Arch (GW2), I remember traveling there in GW1 – also the fact that ancient Lions Arch is underwater now is just really cool. Just for nostalgic reasons i started swimming in the areas I’d walk in GW1, like “merchants row” and where “First watch Sergio” is. Just some real awesome games with some fun quirks.

FYI That lighthouse in Lion’s Arch used to be still standing. I even have a beta picture of my character next to it, but it was destroyed in the Lost Shores event. Oh how things have changed.

Is it me or has anyone else noticed that the landscapes are spatially smaller in GW2? Visiting the Pockmark Flats area nowadays I was struck by just how small an area it was. In GW1 it seemed almost 3 times bigger. /shrug