There’s also a portal near a broken bridge, this would be a more likely candidate to open up since the image of the portal that anet released was more natural, although it doesn’t fit completely. It would be stupid if Anet opens an entire new portal when there are these two portals lying around since launch.
There’s also a portal near a broken bridge, this would be a more likely candidate to open up since the image of the portal that anet released was more natural, although it doesn’t fit completely. It would be stupid if Anet opens an entire new portal when there are these two portals lying around since launch.
Actually… that appears to be exactly what they mean to do. Datamining shows a new section of Brisban in the south-west corner, and while I’m usually skeptical of such things, our map has already been changed accordingly- compare your current map to the one on the wiki, and you’ll see some structures that weren’t shown before, which are the north-east edge of the new part. Nothing actually changed in the zone yet, so we can’t sneak back there to peak, but I can’t believe that they would bother to add in such a small area to the edge of the map if they intended to use a portal somewhere else for the travel.
R.I.P., Old Man of Auld Red Wharf. Gone but never forgotten.
Those two portals were there since release. As Aaron said, a new one seems to be getting made in SW Brisban – we have the map for it, but the area in the game world is not in. The map unfogged (viewable via datdiving) appears to hold vines.
The Fort Vandal portal is likely a future planned dungeon. Each dungeon holds this kind of portal to it and is leading into some kind of structure. The one going north was likely for the planned and scrapped “western Kryta” map that was intended to be part of release but scrapped for time and plot relevance. It would have included Loamhurst and the Majest’s Rest. Likely revealing the fate and nature of Rotscale too.
It wouldn’t be stupid to make a new portal, btw, if we presume the area of the new zone is not the same as where the portals touch. Meaning this new zone will be close to Dry Top rather than Majesty’s Rest and Aurora Glade/Ettin’s Back.
Dear ANet writers,
Stop treating GW2 as a single story. Each Season and expansion should be their own story.
The area in the southwest of Brisban is not just datamined you can physically go there. Reaching outside the zone you can see the empty space that hasn’t been filled in yet. Most likely a placeholder for the future content.
The shown portal in the promotion is a very common one. I haven’t checked it exactly, but it looks very familiar like the portal between Metrica and Caledon Forest (the northern over Wychmire Swamp) from Caledon side.
Nothing tells that Fort Vandal or the other portal in the north of Brisban are opened and there are tons of portals or destroyed passes on the border of nearly every map.
