Livingston's Guide to becoming a Grandmaster Canthan Cartographer! (No Map Checks)

This title is pure BS, the fog system is crap, there are places in which even checking the 100% map and your map you don't notice the difference.

I'm at 99.9% atm, using also the Eredon exploit, of course without JQ and the Overlook, I've checked every map and spots and I can't see anything noticeable.

I'm sure that my 0.1% is somewhere in a place I already reached, and when I was there facing some wall my mouse was not pointed in the right direction and I missed it ...

I give up trying, there are 2 HUGE areas like Overlook and JQ which will easily give me much more than 0.1%, so I'll patiently wait to find a group for JQ or the next event.

I spent too much time chasing the bits created by some A.net a$$hole. I want to enjoy a videogame, not feel an idiot nerd.

Sry double post ...

Looong long time ago, but the link to the "full map" on post #1 seems to have got garbled.

It should be http://www.gothic-rose.net/Guildwars...Ytyrian_HI.jpg

OK, I've done, yesterday I was in JQ with 2 computers and my main character on Luxon side and a character of my 2nd accout on kurz side, spamming in my guild/alliance chat and begging all people in my f-list to help me enter the f***ing mission, when all of a sudden it started and 10 secs later I was GMC.

First of all thx to Livingston for the maps and especially for the commonly missed spots, without them I would have never been able to get this title.

But this only confirms how badly designed is Cantha GMC:

- you don't have any clue from the game of what you need to do to complete it

- the fog system is total crap and very misleading, for a lot of spots you never know if what you see on the map is fog or some cleared area

- some points are unfogged only if you go in 1 precise spot and with the mouse oriented in the right direction, otherwise you miss them

- areas that count for the title are closed or cannot be accessed by a single player (I believe to Livingston that they're not strictly required, but without them it becomes pure crazyness, it's like to say that you don't need a computer to handle the mathematical model of a missile because you can do the calculations with pen and paper)

- and many many other idiot things that only the mind of an a$$hole nerd computer programmer can have invented.


So the only viable way is to use an external resource like gwguru. And this is fundamentally wrong.


Now I need 1 more title to KoBD, I hope that Elona will be a different story, otherwise I'll go for sunspear.

Hi all. I have 95% cantha map and I don't know where I can find last 5% . JQ is hard to explore ;/. Anyone can help me and scan my map?
Thx in advanced .

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Has anybody noticed a change in % since the update that made the Undercity a separate area for mapping? My first four characters (2 Tyrians and 2 Canthans) are at 99.2-99.3% and had this area explored prior to the update. My Elonian is only at 98.6% and reached Cantha after the update. Comparing maps between characters only shows slight differences for the Imperial Sanctum area (oddly enough my Elonian has all of the non-exploitable area cleared).

I have cleared the Monestary Overlook with each character and only need the Jade Quarry area. Has anyone else noticed any discrepancies like this while mapping. I have also noticed that two characters exploring the exact same area will often be 0.2% different for the title - i.e. the party leader will be .2% ahead in the title progression than the other party members, even if they had unfogged areas first.

Hanok Odbrook
Real Millennium Group Guild
Truth * Knowledge * Peace

Im at 93.8% and need a hand with all bits i may have missed that arent PVP areas. Thanx.

he. i have been using your maps for reference, but now when I click on them I get an error message from the hosting site

Thanks so much for this thread! I kept it minimized the entire time I was finishing up Cantha, and it was VERY helpful.

My Tyrian character was able to finish using the open boardwalk this past weekend, and did not have to resort to doing any exploits.

I feel sorta bad for the Luxon team I was on in Ft Aspenwood, for .. sorta running around instead of protting the turtles, but the team won anyway, so hopefully no hard feelings.

Legendary Cartographer now!!! Thank you!!!

Wow, 100% that easily? I must have been lucky with JQ, beceause I don't even have half of mourning veil falls yet.

Another successful GMC using Livingstons Guides

Thank you Livingston for all the hard work on your guides and outings! You will truly be missed!

good guide there, i will use it, i only recently got my 60% title, aiming for grandmaster, but i have to go round everywhere with hench, and the enamies can be annoying while wall hugging, any suggestions??

=D

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Woooot!



Thank you soooo much livingston.

Dang, im so close :|

Could someone help me

i have been trying to get this title for about a mounth now.. (95,1%)
can i post my map here and and get someone to pinpoint the places i miss?
if so here is my map


thank you
Nihil

Thanks for all those maps in this guide! Just what I needed.

Thanks for the guide.
I did not use much, just hugged the wall and some more, but found one or two spots that made the difference.

And thanks for people submitting 100% maps.
Comparing made my exploration easier.

I know some people have problems with finding the missing spots.
I have some advice.
- Read posting #1 a couple of times.
- Look at the full screen map at #1 and compare those to your screen (minimap)
- Look at the posting #2 and clear all differences!
- It is possible to compare with the zoomed-out (whole) map and a graphics program (like GIMP), just like the Tyrian and Elona maps.
When you zoom to 200% you can see when there is a difference.
It's sometimes hard to notice the difference, sometimes it's fog.
However, there is a slight difference between fog and unmapped areas.
With a trained eye you can see them at 100%, but they are easier to spot at 200%.

This should get you to 100%.

I think someone is running a Canthan exploration service, don't remember who.

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i went mapping all day and got to 99.0% and i have a few questions.

first, refer to the first map. Everything circled in Yellow, i am not sure how to map those areas. if anyone could let me know i would be very grateful. next, refer to the second map, could anyone help me out by letting me know what i still need to get. i think i hit most of the spots circled in the first map other than jade quarry (sat in there for 2 hours... /sigh). again this is much appreciated. thanks in advance.