Tips and Maps for 100% Tyria Exploration (No Map Checks)

If all else fails, post your maps here and get people to look at em

I switched between the zoomed in 100% map and my map and found about 1-2% in corners and cloudy edges i'd missed.
Then uploaded my map of the Shiverpeaks and was directed towards another 0.4%

Never underestimate Henge of Denravi, that place is massive! My 100% picture is taken near the 3 collectors after i found the very last piece in the hollow log next to the storage. So go check there now

Ok I am stumped. I will post a pic tonight when I get home, but I am sitting at 97.8% and only have lyssa's cave and the edges of Hell's precipice left to uncover.

I have gone through and walked edges of the whole jungle, northern kryta, fire islands, southern kryta, the desert, and the southern shiverpeaks, dragon's gullet, the falls, etc.

I have gone back through missions and got all the "trick" spots: Great northern wall char staging area, the area to the right before the last bridge during the escape. The off area of Frost Gate, the back area of Gates of Kryta, dune bonus, walked all around the edges of every city and I just don't see how I am going to get 2.2% from those last two bits I have left.

The only thing I can think of is the pvp arenas. I have the ascalon and yak's areas opened but all those other arenas that are shown on the OPs map are no longer available to people. Is this the big piece I am missing? If so, how do I go about finishing this thing up?

Again, I know it is tough without a pic to help and will try to get some put up tonight, but in the meantime I would appreciate any thoughts from anyone on big chunk areas that I might have missed?

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Your missing some of Nolani southwest
Bloodstone fen, bonus
North Kryta province, Exit out D"Alessio and go west.
Small chunk of Ice caves of sorrow, where Evinnia is in he cell.

You've missed that much of Hells Precipice its unbelievable. Basically do the mission as you normally would, once you've killed the 3 groups of Portal Wraths and appeared in front of Undead Rurik, just walk off. Theres a definate 0.2% that you basically 'skip' during the cutscene if you walk off the path. Then just hug the coastline near where the wraths were and theres a fair bit there too.

As for Ice Caves of Sorrow area, you need to huge the wall a bit more as you go round the fork in the road at the end. Also where the Mursaat Eles are you need to go explore there too (once they've gone obviously). The cloud is much thicker there than it is on mine.

In Ascalon you need to hug the river a bit more. That thick patch of cloud is a bit smaller on mine, hug the sides of Fort Ranik too. I also have slightly less cloud nearest Great Northern Wall, i think you can find that by hugging the wall near the Scribe in Ascalon City.
Your missing a fair bit of Nolani Academy, kill the charr outside and leave Rurik fighting 2 Stalkers and go for a jog west. Also when you open the gate, just leave Rurik alone and go down into the valley there and hug the wall, should be a good 0.2% on that mission.

Crystal Desert seems complete.

The cloud in Divinty Coast seems a bit dense too, you might need to hug the wall a bit more. The same goes for a small portion of Nebo Terrace, i think theres a small glitch in the grassy hills and you can walk up them a bit, dunno if thats the area that you have missing though.
Just below Bergen Hot Springs (you need to go from D'alessio Seaboard, theres a short path leading into the corner of the area that your missing, the edge there should be straight.

At the Tears of the Fallen/Talmark Wilderness portal theres a small patch of could, i think you can get slightly close to it and remove some of it.

In the Reed Bog you need to hug the western wall again, i think theres a bit of cloud there that shouldn't be.
Just East of Maguuma Stade theres a tiny bit that your missing too, you need to go in the water from where the boat is and look around.

I can't see it on the maps but make sure you have all of Gates of Kryta and D'alsessio Seaboard (make sure to hug the bonus area too). Theres a huge amount of map on the beach there that you could've missed. Gates of Kryta especially has a large beach covered in Drakes. Make sure you walk round all of Henge of Denravi too, that place is surprisingly big.

Hope that helps

Yes, Hells Precepice mission, go play at the beach (where the titan portals are as well the area you skip during the cutscene; walk back after that).

Bloodstone Fen doesn't lack the bonus area but a part at the very end (behind where you meet Justicar Hablion).

The general area Kessex Peak, Balck Curtain, Talmark Wilderness seems to have some missing spots.

It looks to me you're missing a big part of Mamnoon Lagoon.

Skyward Reach, straight south of Augury Rock is somewhat blurry, too.

If you could post the whole map, zoomed out and in 1280x960 I'm sure I could find some more.

redid the hells precipice mission and netting another .2, ran into the water and everything, was even able to reveal a bit more on the eastern side of that dang cloud.........but not enough to get rid of it
still need to find that 3%...........and right now I know I have a small (.1 maybe) of the prev mission bonus area by the southwestern side to completely reveal, the dinas area of riverside along with the eastern area past the bone dragon that squished me and the thunderhead keep northern area where the mobs spawn from, and that annoying corner of the 1st mission..and thats it-------and its NOT 3%.
I have redone most of the missions, I have been running the walls of all of ascalon, the shiverpeaks and re-ran thru most of kryta this week (even redid the twin serpant lakes area--now there an area to not do if you are a survivor, not to mention redoing ice dome, argh, with a 60%dp)....
I am running out of ideas and I have no idea HOW to copy my map let alone transfer it to another computer for posting (no I cant really post from my gaming computer as it is all in japanese!) I have been comparing the posted maps with mine (yes I have a good eye for that) and havent found much deviation (in some instances I have more revealed).....so I think I am at a standstill, disappointing but oh well.

Could you post a full, zoomed-out map? It could potentially help. Here is my list of things I saw (note that it may overlap with others' suggestions above)

Your desert is missing spots in Thirsty River (south and west borders)

Mineral springs IDS cave (very northeast) is missing

Lots of spots on Iron Mines (northeast, as well as western border [mostly southern part of it])

Frozen Forest northern border

Area between Ice Caves end and Ice floe, almost immediately west of the "boat" thing, seems to be lacking

Southern area of Ice Caves mission

Southeast corner of Ascalon [pockmark flats]

NW area of fork ranik (look closely at my map and yours)

Area barely south of Ascalon City, the east "coastline" of whatever that liquid body is there.

Eastern "mouth" of the Surmia tar river thing, and more of the north tar lake

SW corner of GReat Northern Wall zone

Your Diessa looks more complete than mine at the northern edge, I'll have to check that out on my map

Redo Nolani, both the southwest area (not the fort, the other southwest) and the northwesternish area

Yay found another spot I need to reveal more of, in the en-rout-to-gates-of-kryta zone! Thanks

Eastern edge of the Ice Caves zone, deldrimore bowl

Guess I need to do Kessex Peak again.... /sigh

Weird Peninsula Thing of Stingray Strand can show more

Tameek north edge

Northern edge of Nebo Terrace

Very NW corner of Divinity mission (sucks)

Hell's Precipice mission

[your bloodstone / wilds image wasnt fullscreening for me so i didnt look at that one]

here is my map.........I dont have the viewer you do (nor will my computer savvy-yet afraid to download new thing hubby allow me to get that imageviewer you recommended)........let me know what I need to get besides:

that dang southwestern part of the 1st mission,
a small part of the frost gate mission,
the northwestern part of thunderhead keep area,
the tiny area on the west of the top pirate isle and the small bit on the west of the west isle in the bonus area,
the dinas area of riverside mission and small part of the east coast there,
and a small dot in the dreadnaughts drift area (by the wurm, not sure how I missed that since I had to cap in that area).

I am sitting at 97.2 right now and have been running around cities for the last hour or so.

cosyfiep: I did with your map what remmeh suggested here. You find the result attached to this post.

White spots are where you're missing something. Note not only the obvious parts like Frost Gate or THK, but also west borders of Anvil Rock and Mineral Springs, small spots in Ice Caves, bonus area of Dunes of Despair, etc.

The white spots at Lornar's Pass are where I am missing something, by the way.


Cherno: I did the same with your map, but the result is less satisfying. Also, the image quality is not as good as I had to resize, because of your rather unconventional screen resolution. You still can see two or three small spots. Mostly you're missing the PVP areas, though, which is bad luck.


For both of you: Those maps do not show everything that is missing! Like I mentioned before: There are probably still a lot of small corners all around the zone borders. I know, looking for those sucks, but that's how all of us did this.

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My Zoomed-Out Map


Talus Chute northern Edge

Frozen Forest, north and south edges

North edge of Mineral, about 2/3 of the way across (moving L to R)

A spot on the SW island of Gates of Kryta mission

Northern edge, middle of the zone when you exit Bloodstone Fen

SW corner of Wilds, in the orangey weird stuff

NW area of Divinity Coast

Various spots of the zone between Ice Caves and Beacon's Perch, mostly on the eastern edge, but also a spot in the interior and something in the SW corner

Ice Caves zone, SW edge and North-middle edge.

Borlis Mission, above the pin for it. This may be in other zones, since it's near the edge of borlis.

Frost Gate, a couple spots. One around the NW area (but southern edge, if that makes sense), one in the Big Dark Spot in the SE corner area.

Lornar's Pass, areas around the first "necking" point near the end of Frost Gate. Both areas are on the eastern side, at the entrance and exit of the skinny part.

Three spots on the western edge of Snake Dance, one the very SW corner, one the very NW corner, and one sort of opposite the entrance to Sorrow's Furnace.

Very north and Very east of the Lowlands (forget first word, the Grenich Courhouse zone). The north one is inside the town, the eastern is sorta middle of the edge.

I will upload my 1680x1050 res image so you can use the technique outlined in this post for seeing these spots yourself.

A small request to those who have uncovered 100%, could you post a zoomed-out .bmp of your world map? Or if anyone has posted one already, please direct me to the link. The lossiness of .jpg tends to get in the way of difference-layering in Photoshop.

BTW, preferably unlabeled (i.e. shift+printscreen) and in 1024x768.

Thanks eightyfour-onesevenfive I will repost with a different resolution tonight. I didn't pay too much attention to the resolution because I didn't realize you were going to do that for me. Appreciate it! What exactly should I be looking for there though? Red areas or anything that isn't black?

Man they are way too picky about these little itty bits of wall hugging grey.

I thought the PvP arenas officially didn't count?

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