Secret Areas Hidden here and there...

This is not a Secret Area, but a Pre-searing Secret Quest:

Go to where Benton's group is, South of Fort Ranik.

Keep talking to them (clicking on them).

Eventually, they will give you a quest: Kill a bear within 3 min.

There's two bears nearby, so it's pretty easy.

Kill the bear and return before the timer runs out, and they hand you Hunter's Ale.

"Drink! Drink! Drink!" If you hang around, they'll even say your name. Pretty cool. oh wow, thanks... I'd often passed those goofy guys and tried talking to them, but couldn't figure out their purpose...

YA i have like 15 screen shots of them they sing 1 2 3 blood 5 6 7 sweet 9 10 11 tears 13 14 15 16 blood 18 19 20 sweet 22 23 24 tears 26 27 28 DRIN DRINK DRINK and "pass the mug also "what was that" i Dunno" Hay (forgot his name) you dead?" ii think its a bear" no need to fear (your name) is here" its cool and funny.
After you complete the quest they eventually sing:
"Pass the mug, and string your bows,
bears beware, where (your name) goes"


Before you complete the quest they sing the same song with the name "Benton" in place of your name - Benton is one of them.

(I spent a ridiculous amount of time in pre searing !!)

One place which interests me is Majesty's Rest, west from ToA. You can find Rotscale (lvl 30 dragon) there. However, I didn't find any quests linked to him. (I killed him but nothing happened) The structure behind him seems to be a door or something. It would be cool if Anet makes a portal there to a place like FoW or UW. I kept thinking of the great time I had there during the world beta event (one year ago)... This used to be choke-full of necrid horses and other nasties, during the beta weekend I led like 3 groups to that spot, and finally we went to that little castle and beat Rotscale after going past the hordes of undead mobs.

Then I bought the game recently and went back there, it was almost empty, there were some stupid trees (Pinesouls? Whatever), and only a few packs of undead wandering about. YAWN !!!

The ashford abbey catacombs are really beautiful 1ce cleared from all the enemies. Same with green hill catacombs. The catacombs are all interconnected. It has three entrances: Ashford, Green Hills, and Wizard's Folly.

I've always wanted to go exploring the area where you go through the academy, but I didn't want to ruin anyone else's party...

Anybody ever gotten so bored that he goes all the way up north in presearing? U have to go alllllllllllllll the way and kill all the charrs over the wall. Impossibly hard and tedious even wit a monk (I did it by luring them all the way back with the npc monk that heals for 100hp) U go past a bridge and see the northern wall but cant go up past it. Actually, when I first started playing (and therefore didnt know anything about Post since I had never gone there), I cleared the North almost daily (summer vacation). I was a Warrior, and I usually did it with another warrior or a ranger to pull, since monks were useless when you are too far out to lure back to the gate, and we ended up just tanking, dying, and running back to keep going forward. It took many hours to do it each time, but it was always fun when I had found a good partner.
The view up North in Pre really is beautiful, but not many will see it because of the Charr hordes, probably specifically the Searing Shrine and the 4 bosses there (a mesmer (Ghast), monk (Blaze), ranger (Red), and necro, if I remember correctly). If you ever get the chance, it is incredible, made even more so because of the time required to get there.

In the Aurora Glade outpost if you walk towards the warp and hug the left wall you'll go down a little dip and walk past the warp. You can walk around outside then without any enemies there. The area is limited though, just like the Granite Citidel glitch before it was fixed. Also in Aurora Glade next to the boat like thing if you walk at the wall there is a certain spot that you can walk right up the wall. Yep, you can indeed walk past the portal Can't find the boat like thing though..

Yep, you can indeed walk past the portal Can't find the boat like thing though.. I'll try to give better instructions.
Go to the SHining BLade Scout in the outpost. Standing next to her, turn and look to the south. TO the right of your screen you should see the path that leads to the portal. Between that path and the left wall of the outpost there is a large wooden house/boat thing. Walk to the left of this figure, between its right wall and the outpost's left wall. If done in the right spot you will walk right up the wall. YOu cant walk around once you get up there though. All you can do is come back down.

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