Guild Wars 2

Recently got my 100% world without bugs, which was nice, however ‘Explorer’ seems to have some issues.

Ascalon, Krytan, Maguuma, Orr, Shiverpeak Explorer tracks exist and there are first a few questions. Which zones are which areas? Really just a question in the borders between them, and there is no helpful text on the maps themselves to help you know.

The main issue however is the same issue that existed in GW1. In GW1 to get the same type of explorer title track you had to carefully look for undiscovered areas, scrub the edges of each and every map, and even with a map plugin tool, this was near impossible.

I thought Anet learned from that horrid experience, however it seems the Explorer tracks in GW2 suffer the same issues. How can we tell which maps we missed something? You can’t. They’re all lumped into general categories, and now the problem seems to be waypoint costs (something GW1 lacked) because from Anet conditioning me to not care about scrubbing every map in the game, I’m used to it.. however waypoint costs are limiting.

Bottom line this is extreme (both GW1 and GW2) in methods, to have to scrub maps and look for little parts you haven’t gotten, having no clue which map holds the piece of undiscovered area you need.. no level of player can deduce this and get it unless by dumb luck.

I’m filing this under ‘bug’ because something needs to be done. I understand it’s too late to roll ‘discovery’ into the 100% map completion but it really should have been there in the first place so you can handle explorer while doing the other things map by map. So something to be able to tell which map to blindly walk around perhaps? Maybe that’s not even enough, but it’s a start.

TL;DR – There is no way to tell which map is missing an explorer map piece and no way to tell visually where the final small ones are (much like GW1).

White location names on map count towards those achievements excluding dungeons/cities and WvW as those are open by default. You can try to use wiki for each region and compare list of locations 1 by 1 with your map to find missing piece.

Good luck.

It can actually be very simple to find any areas you may have missed using the wiki albeit a bit of work is involved.

I’ll include a list of each ‘track’ and their corresponding maps.

Ascalon Explorer:
Blazeridge Steppes
Diessa Plateau
Fields of Ruin
Fireheart Rise
Plains of Ashford
Iron Marches

Krytan Explorer:
Bloodtide Coast
Claw Island
Gendarran Fields
Harathi Hinterlands
Kessex Hills
Queensdale

Maguuma Explorer:
Brisban Wildlands
Caledon Forest
Metrica Province
Mount Maelstrom
Sparkfly Fen

Shiverpeak Explorer:
Dredgehaunt Cliffs
Frostgorge Sound
Lornar’s Pass
Snowden Drifts
Timberline Falls
Wayfarer Foothills

Orr Explorer:
Cursed Shore
Malchor’s Leap
Straits of Devastation

Using the wiki you can bring up the list of discoverable areas for each map and compare them to your own.

http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Tyria

I’m a little confused on the “explorer” achievements. I found that I was close to maxing the “Maguuma” achievement, so I went and just cleared Caledon, which should have been my final point, but I’m only at 161 out of 165. I did clear all the zones listed, got the map completion bonuses for each, is it a matter of them adding new points since I’d cleared Metrica and Brisban or something?

The explorer achievement does not count these things (it actually says ingame that it counts areas, so the things on the map with the white names). There list for areas for all maps on the wiki or here in the forum (in the wiki you can look which area’s dont have PoIs/vistas since these are the only ones you can actually miss)

Finished the world map exploration to 100% and i did not get my gifts of exploration. just 3 trans stones and 25k xp…. is this normal?