Fortress of Jahai: How to explore?

Vel

Vel

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Mar 2006

W/

How do I reach fortress of Jahai? Is this an explorable area that counts towards cartography %age? Please help.

- Vel

Tarus From Taros

Tarus From Taros

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

Yes it is explorable and counts towards cartography. There are two gates to the fortress. I am not sure what you have to do to get inside but I do know that currently i have 100% grandmaster cart, Protector of Elona, and all the quests done and I still cant get through the gate from Jahai Bluffs. However a friend of mine says the gate at Yatendi Canyons opened for him...so i'd check there first. It also requires a lot loss fighting to get to that one.

nkari

nkari

Frost Gate Guardian

Join Date: Jun 2006

I'm fairly sure that the fortress is just named on the map like the palaces of the princes are. They are not their own explorable areas, just a point of interest.

Geckoo

Geckoo

Academy Page

Join Date: May 2006

Spain

The Keeper Of The Seven Keys [KSK]

Me/

I also have 100% and explored both ways, from Jahai Bluffs and from Yetendi Canyons, both sides have a closed door and don't seems to have nothing inside. The maps i saw from the zone don't have more than i have, so i guess is not possible to cross the fortress ><

Tarus From Taros

Tarus From Taros

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

No, it is definatly possible to get inside. I just have no idea what one has to do to trigger it. I'm going to attempt starting from Canyons. I'll report my findings in a bit.

Pick Me

Forge Runner

Join Date: Feb 2006

Thornill, ON, Canada

THE CANUCK MONKS (TCM)

W/R

Is this the same Fortress on Noob Island? If so, then yes, its a city quest. You get to it by talking to someone in one of the other cities.

If this is not the city quest I'm thinking of, then never mind. I'm still on Noob Island and I'm at some city (I think its a fortress).

Cherno

Forge Runner

Join Date: Jan 2006

Stars of Destiny

E/

It's not Pick Me.

I was also having problems getting into the fortress in the zone where you get the banana scythe. I guess I have to get in there from leaving from Maddox Crevice corect?

SnipiousMax

SnipiousMax

Perfectly Elocuted

Join Date: Sep 2005

^ This is the fortress next to Jahai Bluffs that is swarming with Kourons.


But yes, to get into the fortress you are talking about you have to leave Moddock Crevice (if you took Magrid).

Tarus From Taros

Tarus From Taros

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005



Starting out from Chantry of Secrets down to the fortress I can make it past a few gates untill I reach this one. Spinning the camera around to look at the opposite side of the gate shows a portal there. This place is definitly not just for decoration. I have no clue how my friend got in there, perhaps it varies on favor or on heros or what have you.

Zexion

Zexion

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Apr 2005

Warrior Nation [WN]

N/Me

I think it is part of a quest somewhere in the game. Not sure which. This is what someone else told me. He told me his friend had been there.

_Zexion

Fates

Wilds Pathfinder

Join Date: Jul 2005

Kanuckistan

Mirror of Reason [SNOW]

R/

Lot's of people's "friends" have been in there, but no one actually on this board.

Tarus From Taros

Tarus From Taros

Lion's Arch Merchant

Join Date: Sep 2005

My friend had made it just as far as me, so he didn't actually enter the building I later found out. Regardless, there must still be a way to enter.

LoKi Foxfire

LoKi Foxfire

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Apr 2005

Florida

One Corgi Army {OCA}

R/Rt

Watch them make this be either part of the bonus pack or the elite mission. If it is, you know for sure they intended to include the elite mission during launch if they had met the deadlines. :]