A very neat little trick :)

I'm probably not the first to realize you can do this, but I'm probably the first to extensively exlpore with it.

The trick is you can cross over almost any non-locked portal without zoning, thus allowing you to explore the parts of the map that over-lap. There is no real advantage to this, it's just a lot of fun. Plus you get to see some of the underlying textures on the maps which is neat.

It's pretty easy to figure out how to do it, so I'll let you guys figure it out for now. If no one can figure out how I'll post how tomorrow.

Pictures:
(I only took pictures of towns, you can also explore over-lapping exlorable areas)

Lion's Arch... half of it anyways


Desert Town


Floating above a desert floodplain


Sleepy tutles


If you figure out how to do something actually usefull with this little trick, whsiper me in-game.

Been there, done that.

Interesting. I am not sure of this but i think in some other MMOs like WoW or L2, doing such things and posting SS in forums can get their account banned.

Dont ask me the reason of this, since i am not sure about this myself as well. Otherwise nice find.

well, it seems ok in GW, I want to know how

There is nothing there... its just a copy of the map so it overlaps slightly so it doesn't look like a big empty space when you look past a portal.

And it's not exploiting some kind of bug or glitch in the game... perfectly legit. Anyone can do it anywhere on any map, so I don't see how it can get you banned, because it's harmless.

I want to know how too

Interesting, i have no idea, gonna keep checking this thread for info

Wouldn't that get you a 100% cartographer title or something? I'm confused =(

No, because these are all places you can visit normally anyways, and I don't think exploring past a portal would get you any map exploration.

Also, the maps end ubruptly so you can't just walk out forever... there are still invisable walls and stuff blocking you in the normal perimeter.

People have been doing this for well over a year. And the dorks try to trick people into following them.

Actually you're wrong. This really wasn't possible until this weekend.

There is one spot I know of where you can simply walk around the portal, at dragon's lair, but as I said I can cross over any portal I want... (as long as I start in an exlorable area... that's a hint.)

Dragons Lair bug, is so oldddddddddddddddd. ffs.

I know that... and thats why I mentioned it because Kinght Saber seems to think that you can simply do it with all portals like you do with that one...

Trust me this is not like Dragon's lair... there wont be anyone around for you to "trick" into crossing over portal like you do at dragons lair because you can only do it from an explorable area.

can this trick be done in Cantha too ?

Yea see the tutle in the background of one of them? That's cavalon.

Oh yeah ?

I figured out something useful. This is how you do it... Oh wait... It's easy, you can go ahead and figure it out yourself...

He won't be banned. There must have been a half a million screens of this sort of thing when it was first discovered 9 months ago.

Die and command your hench to go past the portal, then look from the hench's point of view. Someone should definitely report this bug to anet. Not me though, im too lazy.

Add rebirth to the hero's skillbar and use it, too. I guess that'd take you out of the boundaries. Didn't try it myself, but I think it would work (if you can order the hero out of bounds, as you say)

Become an x/A, use the Hench commands to move your henchmen past a portal, then Shadowstep to their position