Issues with Map Completion
If you’re looking to get the gold star next to your name for map completion (plus the Gifts of Exploration, and other rewards), then you don’t need to uncover 100% of each area shown in your screenshot. To get it, you need to complete every heart, find every Point of Interest, view every Vista, succeed in every skill point challenge, and locate every waypoint across all PvE and WvsW maps.
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If you’re looking to get the gold star next to your name for map completion (plus the Gifts of Exploration, and other rewards), then you don’t need to uncover 100% of each area shown in your screenshot. To get it, you need to complete every heart, find every Point of Interest, view every Vista, succeed in every skill point challenge, and locate every waypoint across all PvE and WvsW maps.
Got it. Thanks much!
It’s a little confusing because there are 2 different ways map completion is tracked.
One is how many areas of the map you’ve uncovered, which is tracked by the Explorer achievements. The other is how many hearts, skill points, vistas and POI’s you’ve completed, which is tracked by the Been There, Done That achievement and the icon on the character select screen and rewards the title.
Now normally these two go hand in hand, you can’t complete hearts, vistas etc. without uncovering the area of the map they’re in. But there are some (usually small) areas of the map which don’t have any of those things, but still count towards the Explorer achievements.
Like AriaSilverfyre said if you want the start next to your name and/or the title you don’t need to worry about the Explorer achievements. But if you do want to get them what you’ll need to do is find the areas you’ve missed. Luckily you don’t actually need to go there – just open up the map, zoom right in and go over the areas looking for any fuzzy patches like the one in my attachment. Then you just need to go there to uncover it.
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
I’m looking for the “Been There Done That” title. My question is how to complete the WvW maps? I have the PvE maps complete, and that gave me about 92%. That was over a week ago. Since then I have only been able to manage 95% – this was by completing most of my server world’s borderlands since we controlled most of it. But not all. And the other 3 maps we hardly control any areas at all.
I’m on the Yak’s Bend server. And I have to admit that I have not played much WvW prior to needing it for the title, so I don’t really know my way around those maps, or the differences in gameplay from PvE. So any advice on how best to finish this title would be most welcome. :-)
Took me months but for first part of doing it, I really did not pay daily attention to WvW maps so probably could have gotten it sooner. I was done with the main areas before really concentrating on WvW. No need to go into combat unless you want to. Get to the areas you can that your server holds. Sneak into any opposition open areas you can get to or run past guards on and get those (that actually was a LOT of fun, lol) and wait for map rotation to get to the other holds/forts that are held by the opposition. It is doable, check every day for any opportunity and take it if you can. Patience is the key but oh so worth it since you know you earned this achievement.
On the topic of WvW completion, there is no way to fasten the process if your server is not good at it. The release of the new APIs however, allow you to track closely which server owns what on the map, so I guess if you are reactive enough, you might get a chance to get some of those quicker than I did back then.
Website you could use: Live WvW maps
Sometimes you can also ask other people to help with WvW. Either a group of people from your server can all get together and fight your way into areas you need, or sometimes you can get people from the other servers to help you into their areas (as long as you don’t do anything but mapping) in return for you helping them into your areas.
“Life’s a journey, not a destination.”
For WvWvW there are two things you need:
a: patience
b: luck
No matter how good or bad your server is in WvWvW, you will always have parts of the map owned by your enemy’s. The good thing however is that things rotate periodicly.
I checked daily if I could get things that day i couldnt get before. Everytime the new match was been setup and the maps rotated I joined a zerg and slowly uncovered everything.
Arise, opressed of Tyria!
For WvWvW there are two things you need:
a: patience
b: luckNo matter how good or bad your server is in WvWvW, you will always have parts of the map owned by your enemy’s. The good thing however is that things rotate periodicly.
I checked daily if I could get things that day i couldnt get before. Everytime the new match was been setup and the maps rotated I joined a zerg and slowly uncovered everything.
Disagree with the no matter how bad or good your server is comment. The server I am on is bad and I do mean bad and no amount of patience or luck will ever help.
Zero areas taken/owned on 3 out of 4 maps. There has been general discussions in Lions Arch about just how bad our server is. The only chance I will ever have is if map rotation is initiated or pay to transfer. In hindsight I should have done it when transfers were free.
For WvWvW there are two things you need:
a: patience
b: luckNo matter how good or bad your server is in WvWvW, you will always have parts of the map owned by your enemy’s. The good thing however is that things rotate periodicly.
I checked daily if I could get things that day i couldnt get before. Everytime the new match was been setup and the maps rotated I joined a zerg and slowly uncovered everything.
Disagree with the no matter how bad or good your server is comment. The server I am on is bad and I do mean bad and no amount of patience or luck will ever help.
Zero areas taken/owned on 3 out of 4 maps. There has been general discussions in Lions Arch about just how bad our server is. The only chance I will ever have is if map rotation is initiated or pay to transfer. In hindsight I should have done it when transfers were free.
Im not saying it doesnt make a difference. I am saying also a lot of luck comes with it bout how the rotation turns out. So dont expect a perfect situation when you change servers.
Arise, opressed of Tyria!
They are going to change up the way WvW matchups are done this week.
Also, they were talking about changing up the ‘color’ rotation for matchups but I do not know if this will be implemented this week also or not.
Bottom line is, your server will most likely be in a different matchup this week and maybe a different color.
I’d also advise checking the maps during off times to see if anything you need has become accessible.
Oh, and this page is useful in completing the ‘explorer’ achievements. (Which is different from 100% map completion)
Thanks Mad for the info. BTW, even when we are put in a different matchup, we are owned. I do check at different times of the day, at least I use the link mentioned above
and check out last place— at we least own that!!!! LOL
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Thanks Mad for the info. BTW, even when we are put in a different matchup, we are owned. I do check at different times of the day, at least I use the link mentioned above
and check out last place— at least own that!!!! LOL
The thing to do is wait until the server reset time…and as soon as the server resets, when no one has anything at all, just run for one or two points you can get at a time. Because no one owns that stuff.
Particularly with points of interest, iyou can just run into a place and if you die, you die. It’s a cheap enough price for the POI.
It might take a while. You might have to do this many weeks in a row but the in the ed you can probably get it done.
Thanks Mad for the info. BTW, even when we are put in a different matchup, we are owned. I do check at different times of the day, at least I use the link mentioned above
and check out last place— at least own that!!!! LOL
The thing to do is wait until the server reset time…and as soon as the server resets, when no one has anything at all, just run for one or two points you can get at a time. Because no one owns that stuff.
Particularly with points of interest, iyou can just run into a place and if you die, you die. It’s a cheap enough price for the POI.
It might take a while. You might have to do this many weeks in a row but the in the ed you can probably get it done.
Thanks for that. I assume you mean this
“We changed the reset times for WvW matchups. Going forward, the North American WvW matchup will reset Friday at 6:00 PM PDT, which is 01:00 UTC Saturday, and the European matchup will reset at 18:00 UTC.”
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After pulling open the achievements list, however, I noticed that I was only at 98% for Maguuma Explorer and 97% for Shiverpeak Explorer. I hopped to each map for both areas including cities and they all indicate 100%. Is this a glitch? Is there something I may be missing?
It is not a glitch. Some maps have areas not containing POIs or waypoints. Because of this, you will find “uncharted” areas also in map displaying 100% completion. I had the same issue when achieving the “Been there, done that” title. I suggest you to use the wiki checking the list of geographic places in all the maps related to both Maguuma and Shiverpeak; the areas without POIs and WP will be the ones you are missing. Just go there and you will be able to achieve the title.
Good Luck!