No spoilers, please, as I literally just crash-landed into the new zone last night! But before I logged off, I zoomed out to get an idea of where in Tyria this new zone was, and to my surprise, there were three blank spaces with “80” over them, each the same size as any other decent map in the world.
Without giving plot spoilers, are these actually three legitimate maps for exploration? Or are one or two of them something else? They seem too large to be some non-PvE map. Or is this something we will find out as we progress through the Season?
Server: Dragonbrand
Guild: Moonlit Renegades (Moon)
Highest-Level Toon: Markus Emmerich, 80 Human Scrapper
Nope just one map. The thing to the left is a guild hall and the one above the new map is the raid.
B-but…those look like the exact same size as Silverwastes or DT… That must be the largest guild hall and raid map ever in the game, if they are the same size as a full-fledged PvE map. ;/
Server: Dragonbrand
Guild: Moonlit Renegades (Moon)
Highest-Level Toon: Markus Emmerich, 80 Human Scrapper
Nope just one map. The thing to the left is a guild hall and the one above the new map is the raid.
B-but…those look like the exact same size as Silverwastes or DT… That must be the largest guild hall and raid map ever in the game, if they are the same size as a full-fledged PvE map. ;/
you mean these zones? it’s a raid zone, and the one in the left is Lost precipice guild hall
Why is a guild hall and a raid on the world map, though? Even dungeons were their own instanced thing, so they don’t actually visibly show up on the map. Since I don’t do raids, I guess that spot will be forever blank for me?
Server: Dragonbrand
Guild: Moonlit Renegades (Moon)
Highest-Level Toon: Markus Emmerich, 80 Human Scrapper
Why is a guild hall and a raid on the world map, though? Even dungeons were their own instanced thing, so they don’t actually visibly show up on the map. Since I don’t do raids, I guess that spot will be forever blank for me?
Guild halls were on the world map (admittedly the Battle Isles) in GW1 so to me it’s something that they’ve done before and not weird. In GW2, you have to go and claim the guild hall from Mordrem nasties so it makes sense to have those locations on a map so you can go and claim them as well as using them as a shortcut to HoT maps.
And yes, if you don’t raid, the areas will remain covered. You can always hop into someone’s completed raid instances if you’re OCD about it though
“Even if we find a way to save the world from the
dragons, I sometimes wonder if we’ll ever find a way to save us from ourselves.”
Nope just one map. The thing to the left is a guild hall and the one above the new map is the raid.
B-but…those look like the exact same size as Silverwastes or DT… That must be the largest guild hall and raid map ever in the game, if they are the same size as a full-fledged PvE map. ;/
you mean these zones? it’s a raid zone, and the one in the left is Lost precipice guild hall
Why is a guild hall and a raid on the world map, though? Even dungeons were their own instanced thing, so they don’t actually visibly show up on the map. Since I don’t do raids, I guess that spot will be forever blank for me?
Raids are actually open world in a weird way I guess
If you want to explore the raid maps, you could find someone who has cleared the raid for the week and open the map for you, you can then run around, interact with NPCs and other stuff that can be found on the map; bosses and events will all be done, though.
I didn’t know that worked! Now I must find someone so I can go explore the maps.
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