Inaccessible areas at level 20 key to 100% exploration?

Evil_Greven

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Edmond, Oklahoma

Cantina Cloud [ITE]

R/N

29 May 2006 at 01:23 - 1

Currently, I have 99.8% of Cantha explored. I've closely compared, at this point, my map and versus others. Has anyone gotten Canthan Grandmaster Cartographer without totally exploring the tutorial area & arena area? Both 100% maps I've found have a bit more in one of the two places. Thanks in advance!

VGJustice

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Jul 2005

Tyria, cappin' ur bosses

Boston Guild [BG]

R/W

29 May 2006 at 02:00 - 2

Well, it's possible to do it in Prophecies, so I'd bet that there's some tiny little spec you missed somewhere else. I'm double check around the Kurzik area. That place is a pain and doesn't show up very well. Also, did you get teleported by Shiro? I've heard that that area is worth a small amount.

Evil_Greven

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Edmond, Oklahoma

Cantina Cloud [ITE]

R/N

29 May 2006 at 02:32 - 3

I've checked like, everywhere. I have the same or more compared to the other maps. Additionally, I have more of the part where you get banished by Shiro (also, TIP: get 1 other live player and aggro shiro alternating who goes in first, but don't actually fight him, eventually both of you will be teleported) than the two maps I used as a reference. The section where you get banished by Shiro was worth .2% for me, also.

Leighwyn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Seattle

Limbo

Mo/E

29 May 2006 at 04:02 - 4

Have you compared (closely) with my own map that's around a couple of these threads? I'm at 99.6% and haven't explored ANY of the arena or monastery overlook (since I'm tyrian). It seems like you should be more than 0.2% ahead of me since you have quite a bit of those two.

Evil_Greven

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Feb 2006

Edmond, Oklahoma

Cantina Cloud [ITE]

R/N

29 May 2006 at 05:09 - 5

I'm looking over yours now, but in the meantime here's links to mine (I have Shing Jea Island and Cantha seperate to lessen file size)

Shing Jea map
Cantha map

Edit:
Wow I missed a *lot* Thanks much for the map, it helped tremendously. I guess the problem was that the other two maps were by Canthan characters, so they had that extra part and had no need to find the last bits. And yours is quite the same resolution that I run, which helps

Spots I saw on your map:
-just north of Zen Daijun mission on Shing Jea island, in the little bay south of the small island.
-north & northwestern tip of the Imperial Sanctum mission, where you gotta be banished to.
-Wajjang Bazaar, right above the 'B' in the name of the area
-tiny area in the Southwest corner of the Amatz Basin (Mission).
-small spot southwest of the little jade quarry on the west middle side of Gyala Hatchery (explorable)
-small spot in the southeast corner of Maishang Hills

Spots I saw on my map:
-just west of Tsumei Village, a part of the fogged mountain peak (no +.1 though *sniff*)
-northwestern most part of Tahnnaki Temple (crap!)
-eastern side of Vizunah Square (mission) (bah i thought i checked that!)
-something that doesn't seem reachable south of Vizunah Square (mission area) (undercity?)
-something i couldn't reach from Sunjiang District (i tried, honest, pain in the butt to get there too..hmm maybe through the tunnels) just east of Maatu Keep
-just north of the arena in Borleas Seabed (mission)
-just west and south of Tanglewood Copse in Arborstone (I have no idea how you got there)
-southwestern corner of the Nahpui Quarter (Explorable)
-north middle section of Ferndale o.O
-southeast spot on Ferndale on the boarder with Melandru's
-*3* spots in the Jade Quarry (gahhh noooo i have to wait again, but it makes sense I couldn't ever get on the Kurzick side)
-1 spot which doesn't seem reachable in Fort Aspenwood, north of the giant fish boat
-1 spot in the southeast corner of Fort Aspenwood o.O
-spot by in the north middle of Morostov Trail
-spot on the far northwest corner of Unwaking Waters (NOooooooooooooooooo I was just there capturing Ride the Lightning!!!)

Leighwyn

Krytan Explorer

Join Date: Jul 2005

Seattle

Limbo

Mo/E

29 May 2006 at 08:58 - 6

thank you VERY much for your detailed descriptions, they came in wonderfully and I'm now up to 99.8!!! which feels sooooo much worse than 99.6 did

Here's what I remember of those weird spots you were talking about...

-Correct about undercity (I hate that they put two zones on top of each other

-Sunjiang thing I cant quite remember, but I think I did get there from the tunnels (leave from the mission area if the gate allows it)

-Arborstone spot I can't help with, don't recall if it was mission or explorable

-Nahpui is in the Jades area of the zone, you run down some ramp toward a dead end

-I THINK i'm missing more on the eastern edge of Jade Quarry, so check that thoroughly when you're there again

-The Fort Aspenwood fish boat spot I think I got by turning around after entering from the luxon side, and running into some yurt thing.

-Unwaking waters spot was REALLY hard to get, simply because it was so hard to tell WHEN I had gotten it. I'd kill everything around there just so you get the time to run thoroughly along the wall.

Thanks again for the assistance, now if only you could get banished to other corners....

freekedoutfish

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Jun 2006

E/

08 Sep 2006 at 08:36 - 7

Yep. My tyrian elemental has 100% on cantha and tyria, and he obviously cant enter the area battle area.

Livingston

Jungle Guide

Join Date: Jul 2006

The Edge of the World

[L] [GET]

08 Sep 2006 at 10:21 - 8

Mate, there's no good reason to bump threads that are months old and that have already been answered very well. It only serves to confuse people.

Livingston