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Scout30 · Aug 23, 2006, 08:40 PM // 20:40

Thank you Dougal

Lafayette · Aug 24, 2006, 02:37 AM // 02:37

Analysing the map helped a lot.

Yay!

BPhoenix · Aug 24, 2006, 06:03 PM // 18:03

Hi Dougal!! Can you help me please?

I'm at 99.5 and i dont know where to explore

Roc · Aug 24, 2006, 06:31 PM // 18:31

Hey, hoping you can check my areas, and sense its only like 67% im sure there will be plenty of places i havnt gone, but you know how it is...

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mantxi · Aug 24, 2006, 06:36 PM // 18:36

I did it myself thx

Dougal Kronik · Aug 24, 2006, 07:37 PM // 19:37

Congratulations Lafayette!

Messy · Aug 24, 2006, 08:30 PM // 20:30

Hi Dougal, I'm sincerely hoping you can help. Well, I thought I had a good understanding of photo programs, and for my life, I can't even resize my map to the right proportions. I use Photo Impact, and the only option it gives me after I resize the height, is to expand the canvas..... which I actually need to shrink, ugh.

I'm not even sure you can work with this image, but I sure hope so. I'm at 96.7 I think. Thanks in advance!!

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Dougal Kronik · Aug 24, 2006, 10:49 PM // 22:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dont Mess WithMe

Hi Dougal, I'm sincerely hoping you can help. Well, I thought I had a good understanding of photo programs, and for my life, I can't even resize my map to the right proportions. I use Photo Impact, and the only option it gives me after I resize the height, is to expand the canvas..... which I actually need to shrink, ugh.

I'm not even sure you can work with this image, but I sure hope so. I'm at 96.7 I think. Thanks in advance!!

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Don't resize your screenshots. Change your game resolution to 1280x1024 or 1024x768 (preferred).

Ensure your in fullscreen mode and not windowed mode.

ladysnikers · Aug 25, 2006, 01:36 AM // 01:36

Could you please take a look at my map and tell me what I'm missing.

Thanks

Leighwyn · Aug 25, 2006, 02:41 AM // 02:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Roc

Hey, hoping you can check my areas, and sense its only like 67% im sure there will be plenty of places i havnt gone, but you know how it is...

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Serious? This is why I vacated this thread lol

dan_g78 · Aug 25, 2006, 03:53 AM // 03:53

Hi..

Any help would be grand!

Stuck on 98.9% atm

Cheers!

Dan

Daian Namgnik · Aug 25, 2006, 04:33 AM // 04:33

Hello. I joined this site for the sole purpose of addressing this topic of mapping here on this great site which for some time now I have been merely a lurker.

My second but primary character is a 14 month old, Tyrian PvE Monk. While I am a long-time “guild of one,” having mostly soloed the entire game, I have enjoyed most of the hundreds of PUGs I joined all across GW. As it turns out, my Monk is a top shelf character, if I do say so myself.

Being a solo player, and having done just about everything in GW with hench, I have to say I can write a book on how a monk can manage and succeed with hench. But more to the point, however, as a solo player I did not at first realize the importance of accomplishing things outside the story line….I didn’t get the memo, so to speak, that other things can also be accomplished. Thus, when I completed all the Tyrian missions and most of the bonuses, I had no reason to be motivated in playing, other than to just help other players and accumulate unnecessary wealth.

Then I got the chance to hop on a boat to Cantha. Cool beans!! Shortly after setting off to see what that was all about, I started to notice everyone having titles. Ooooo! So, I looked up mine and noticed that I had finished Tyria with something over 80% of the map completed, and thus I had earned a title. Who knew?!? Anyway, since I had just started the Cantha journey, I decided to “map as I go” and thereby get 100% of this new foreign map about the same time I completed all the missions.

In this manner, my humble Tyrian healer with a title of “Tyrian Trailblazer” got “Canthan Grandmaster Cartographer (100%)” and “Protector of Cantha” (or some such). I thought getting 100% in Cantha was easy in this manner, by the way….very little extra effort. Then again, I am much more experienced now then when I was first "earning" my way around Tyria (don't even get me started on runners and leveling).

But was I satisfied? No. Something bothered me about not completing Tyria. So, I went back. And it is back in Tyria that I have been stuck for the past month or so. Hence, this post!

Here is the deal…..I have now completed as much of the Tyrian map as I am currently able to do (98.8%). Since I did not do the PvP thing, or the Guild Hall thing, much of the earlier real estate, like arenas and guild islands, etc., are no longer available for me to uncover. And it seems the new arena islands do not count….I went and got them all uncovered in any event. I have compared my U Map to many of the 100% maps posted here and elsewhere, and I now only find areas that I have uncovered that they have not. In other words, I am starting to believe that if a character did not hit those key arenas and islands early on, then they have no chance to get 100% in Tyria. Based on some of what I have read here on this forum, many of you disagree!! Please explain.

As it stands, I have a little over 1% left to go, with only one little piece (maybe .1%) at the end of Hell’s Precipice to uncover. I’ll get to it, but it is hard to be motivated to do so knowing that 100% may not be possible.

What is the conventional wisdom on this issue around here? Can 100% be achieved in Tyria without the old arenas and old guild island? According to my map, no. I admit, I did not read this entire LONG thread, only parts of it, so I apologize if this has already been addressed.

As a side note: I think we ought to be able to display two titles at once until achieving “Kind of a Big Deal.” I mean, how cool would that be for the double cartographers or double protectors out there, or whatever double thing turns you on, to be able to show their Deity status in such a way!?!?

Anyway, a little insight or assist on the Tyrian mapping issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Dougal Kronik · Aug 25, 2006, 04:53 AM // 04:53

As someone who has GM Cart in Tyria - without the arenas. You can get it!

What you may see as only a little bit left at Hell's, after an analysis - you will see more areas (specifically edges) that you need to uncover.

The standard areas are:

Hell's Precipice
Thunderhead Keep
Frozen Forest
Dunes of Despair
Sanctum Cay
Tangle Root
Bloodstone Fen
D'Alessio Seaboard
Gates of Kryta
Deldrimor Bowl
Anvil Rock
Frost Gate
Borliss Pass
Dragon's Gullet

Some of the main areas I've had to label on nearly every map I've analyzed.

Doom Runehammer · Aug 25, 2006, 02:57 PM // 14:57

Can anyone tell me how to get to the northern part in Borliss pass? I see some fog there on my map, but can't reach it.

SluggyTheZealot · Aug 25, 2006, 09:37 PM // 21:37

run south wall of iron mines, also as soon as you enter borlis mission try turning away from the main path to the north i think that may help out a little bit if the fog is only in that one section. If it runs across basically the entire north wall you definitely do it from iron mines. Wall hug both to be sure though :]

Drirr · Aug 25, 2006, 10:47 PM // 22:47

Hi Dougal Kronik, can you help me with my map ?

I forgot to tell that I have 98.5% of Tyria ;]

firekil · Aug 25, 2006, 11:05 PM // 23:05

Thanks for the last assesment of my map, it got me to 99.6%. unfortunately I didnt keep track of which areas I explored, and which I had left, so I have no idea what to explore now. Can you please analyze my new map. Cheers

BTW the resolution is 1280x1024

Messy · Aug 25, 2006, 11:14 PM // 23:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dougal Kronik

Don't resize your screenshots. Change your game resolution to 1280x1024 or 1024x768 (preferred).

Ensure your in fullscreen mode and not windowed mode.

ok, so I'm a total DUH!!! I am currently at 97.1
I hope you can analize my map. Thanks in advance!!
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I hope you haven't downloaded my map yet, I have found a few more spots. I'm at 98.7 and still see a few spots. Once I'm going crazy, I'll upload it and perhaps you can help!! But thanks for your time!!! I'm removing the file for now!!... ok not sure how to remove it, so just don't look at it !! Thanks!!!

I have great respect for unselfish players like you. If you ever need help in anything, feel free to ask.

prldrummer · Aug 26, 2006, 02:42 AM // 02:42

sup dougal idk if u saw it and are working on it but heres my map again:

thanks

Dougal Kronik · Aug 26, 2006, 06:17 AM // 06:17

Drirr, don't take the screenshot in wondowed mode - you game needs to be in one of the two resolutions: 1024x768 or 1280x1024, and in full screen mode.