Thread: Empty maps in 2.0(and new maps in general)

Sounds like fun. Always enjoy map exploration. just hope its not tuned like GW1 map exploration was. I liked GW1. but running down a side of a rockface to get .001 percnt of the map exposed wasn't fun exploration really.

Also gives mea good reason to run around grabbing the current aetherytes now. so i can have that done before i get to do it again! wee!

Originally Posted by Jynx

To add my own personall opinion to this I hope the maps are damn hard to fully explore! I want challenging areas to explore. Who is with me on this one?

This is funny I have been trying to get my aetherial gate achievements today and if its fake difficultly like 6-7 lvl 70-80 mobs all huddled up then no.

But if its something interesting then yes make it challenging by all means, if jump is in 2.0 from the start then maybe something with platforms etc to get to hard to reach places..

I can't wait to go exploring in 2.0 and uncover all the maps, this is what I was hoping they would add.

Originally Posted by GabbaGabba

please give us the spells sneak/invis :\ and add mobs with true vision also....i miss being able to explore an area with those spells and not have to worry too much about getting agro, unless of course the spells wear off

Unlikely we will get the spells, but they could add the potions and salts.

oh and add mobs that agro to spell casting, like those elementals

Elementals are pretty rare in this game outside of leves, I don't see the point for this one really.

I very much doubt aetherial gates will exist after 2.0, considering the area's will be zoned now each zone will probably have its own aetheryte and that's about it.

Originally Posted by Jynx

For the most part those aren't even hard solod all my gates and nodes with as little as 3 deaths and only due to me being impatient.

I don't mind high ranked monsters blocking my path as long as with patience and knowledge I can get past them. Can't say I'm keen on platforming my way through areas...

Well I spent almost 2 hours trying to get one gate today and ended up given up because there was no way past the monsters at Lasthold in the black shroud.

What you find fun I find damn right stupid.

Of course you aren't keen on platforming :P, are you one of those who didn't want jump added by any chance ?

Originally Posted by Jinko

Well I spent almost 2 hours trying to get one gate today and ended up given up because there was no way past the monsters at Lasthold in the black shroud.

What you find fun I find damn right stupid.

Of course you aren't keen on platforming :P, are you one of those who didn't want jump added by any chance ?

I"m gotten a majority of the nodes and while I can understand your frustration what challenge would there be if they made all the "Exploration" areas easy as pie to get. Would you really feel like an achieved explorer if you found all the nodes with little trouble lol. The point of achievement is to be challenging it's not something everything can get, sure some people can get more of one achievement then the other but overall things like explorer achievement is for those who are willing to take the extra mile to get past the strong enemies that block them from achieving their goal.

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lol so I've started to "explore" again, when you realize the tricks behind certain mobs it can be pretty fun. The red clippers won't aggro if you walk behind them, as long as they don't see you moving you can get past them just gotta be patient and experiment XD.

Originally Posted by Airget

I"m gotten a majority of the nodes and while I can understand your frustration what challenge would there be if they made all the "Exploration" areas easy as pie to get. Would you really feel like an achieved explorer if you found all the nodes with little trouble lol.

Yea because it would still require a vast amount of time, what we have right now is not difficult it is insane.

There is a small window of opportunity to get through to some gates and its all based on luck... luck as usual, luck should not be the deciding factor on how difficult a challenge is. (at least not in my opinion)

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lol so I've started to "explore" again, when you realize the tricks behind certain mobs it can be pretty fun. The red clippers won't aggro if you walk behind them, as long as they don't see you moving you can get past them just gotta be patient and experiment XD.

Actually crabs are sound aggro, you can walk in front of them behind them or anywhere around then as long as you are walking they won't aggro.

The ridiculousness is when you get:-
Drake - Sound based
Raptor - Sight based
Boar - Odour based

All in the same tiny corridor, there is no way of getting past them, drakes still have ranged attacks so can one shot you without any problem.

This is my problem, now if the monsters were level 60 I would have no problem, but you don't stand a chance against something 70-90.

For me challenge would be fighting your way through to a gate with a few like minded people.

Climbing a cliff like Attowa chasm in FF11, finding your way through a maze like in eldomine necropolis, jumping up platforms etc, there are many better ways to incorporate challenge without relying on cheap tactics.

I loved not knowing where I was going in FFXI! It was great, because you had to quest/buy/farm some of the maps and until then you had to remember where the hell you were going. It made the zones seem a lot bigger, LTP was GIANT to me when I first started playing lol!

I hope the exploration/reveal is about the size of your casting radius, anything smaller and it'd be a pain...