Guild Wars Maguuma Jungle Tour 2

Continuing on with our tour of the Maguuma Jungle; today we're looking at the Silverwood, Ventari's Refuge, the Ettins Back and more!
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[@torreyrg42]

Fun fact: an alternate name for the silverwastes was "Arid Mamnoon" before the map was released... Source: dev tracker official forums.

[@ishrubbs]

Love these lore related video's as a player who never got to play Guild Wars 1. I was thinking about Quarrel Falls; to me it looks a bit like the oasis in Dry Top. They have many similarities, mainly being the calm haven in between (sandstormy) wastelands.

[@Jbills]

Love that reference to stonewood trees! I never noticed that until now!

[@choryllis6646]

I'll be honest, I've never played GW1. I hopped on board with GW2, but it still blows my mind whenever I watch your videos and see all the connections between the two. Thank you so much for posting all these Lore videos and allowing me to keep up to date with any connections that might be happening in game.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

aphftwb-tches No problem! That's whats fun, right?

[@choryllis6646]

WoodenPotatoes Totally! ^^

[@affey]

this Tour series in particular deserves the 'wait til 1080p' treatment.

[@LegendaryMythril]

i wish GW2's new areas had more visual/geographical references. this video is somewhat depressing in that there's practically nothing you can spot in GW2's maguuma that you could recognize from GW1. also, i seriously hope we get some lush jungle areas. it's something we're missing in GW2 badly. closest we have is caledon forest, but it's barely noticeable as a forest. i want something dense and with skyscraping canopies that the sun barely makes through, like the echovald forest was.

[@TEK427]

LegendaryMythril Agreed. I can understand if they wanted the jungle to dry up, but they could have at least made a large sink in the ground where the Lagoon was. (Not counting the skritt jumping puzzle)

[@LegendaryMythril]

TEK427 i think even lore acknowledgement through dialogue would spice things up. say, someone pointing out that the lagoon not only dried up, but formed a sedimented layer near its top leading to that massive chasm below. but the areas look nothing alike. 250 years or not, "elder dragons reshaping tyria" or not, mountains and valleys don't disappear so easily.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

LegendaryMythril Me too. I think they really dropped the ball a bit here in Gw2.

[@subarunyon]

WoodenPotatoes just a bit. I think the silverwastes is their best pve map so far game play wise

[@aRestless]

Oh god, this video gave me flashbacks of that fight you did solo against Hablion. All the struggle D:

[@WoodenPotatoes]

aRestless Doing the mission gave me flashbacks! Those first white mantle!

[@ANoBaka]

Well.. there -is- a ship in the skritt jumping puzzle.. And the goal is about summoning water .. so that does quite compute with the Lagoon thing in some way perhaps.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Miku Chan Lovely point!

[@ReapeX]

Miku Chan I thought about this when watching the video, its cool you did too :D

[@ReapeX]

@21:47 With close caption turned on it says "Just a car Happy Meal" instead of Justicar Hablion XD

[@ReapeX]

SomeOne1121 XD

[@choryllis6646]

ReapeX And then right after another guys says "hey mom pain for the school"

[@TEK427]

That Splinter Weapon. XD I had no idea about the stone tree! I sort of miss the lush, pretty sights in the Maguuma jungle. The place I'm really looking forward to in GW2 is seeing the The Falls. I wonder if we'll get a reference to Zinn's lab, since it's at the bottom of the lake (and we now have underwater combat!).

[@hiwulfy]

I totally forgot about that tree in Ventari's refuge...It kind of reminds me of how the pale tree is laid, how the roots of the tree make it hover, and then it stays above ground with it's roots. seems odd. cool to remember though.

[@yukiyoru345]

These lore/place videos are really interesting. Keep up the good work WP :3

[@IpoteticAMVsChannel]

Thank you WP for this, you are awesome !!!

[@imSnoover]

IpoteticAMVsChannel WoodenPotatoes is awesome indeed! These tour videos are amazing!

[@Rozonkomo]

Not sure if it's just the zoom or what, but I just noticed the face in the map in the lower right hand corner (12:56). Kind of looks like a boar's head being struck by a dark bolt. Neat.

[@etiennemarais]

Wow this takes me back... Such feels

[@davidwise5442]

4:15 I am "The Hidden Wise" and I really just need an enchant spear grip 20% if anyone has one and still plays, that'd really be appreciated. Keep up the great content WP ;)

[@josephnone3900]

WP, Quarrel Falls seems, to me, to be the spot in the JP where all of the sand piles are. So almost like the waterfalls turned into "sandfalls". I'm at work or I'd look, but isn't that area actually called "Quarrel SomethingOrOther"?

[@KoenRH2803]

these video's are awesome! They do make me realize that GW2 could be so much better if they changed certain things, for example if our main antagonists weren't dragons which are the most boring villains ever, just plain beasts without any motivations besides wanting magic and destroy stuff. it would be so much cooler to have a real enemy that we can actually relate to, which makes us question who's motivation is right, would love that stuff!

[@fornaxkingspear3731]

Great work - many thanks.

[@indoimran]

So many memories!

[@demelzal5052]

Oh the nostalgia :') thanks WP!

[@deekay3842]

Hey WP, i got a question for you. The maguuma jungle tour videos you are doing reminded me about the simplicity and unparalleled beauty of the GW1 maps. When i compared them to the GW2 maps, i realised that i miss the feeling of being far away from civilization, just exploring hard accessible areas and enjoying the scenes of the game . The GW2 maps sometimes seem a bit packed/crowed with npc and events. I was wondering if you also miss those simple GW1 maps, and if you do, do you think we will see that kind of map return in the future? A map with few events and NPCs might seem boring to some people, but i enjoy the tranquility of those maps and are a real joy to explore. What do you think? Thx dude :D

[@deekay3842]

Sorry for the creepy username btw xD haha

[@WoodenPotatoes]

IloveWP AndMV Ahabalove it.

[@merlynster]

I'd always assumed that Ventari's Refuge corresponded to the location of The Grove in present day Tyria... The more you know~

[@WoodenPotatoes]

merlynster Nope! The guy moved and founded a new place with Ronan later!

[@tonepursuit7110]

Really does feel like they shrunk some locations. Probably to funnel players to different hearts easier. I've always felt that GW2's maps were really small.

[@StrikerJaken]

Tinfoil on. WP knows a bit more and teases us with white mantle glory... tinfoil off Good video, keep it up

[@Rattlepiece]

All in all Guild Wars 1 seems like it was made with a lot of attention to detail, handcrafted and a great sense of scale. Guild Wars 2 has detail but it feels a lot more generic and less inspired.

[@TheMegatrux]

Jungle tour 3 plz :D

[@wou129]

any 1 noticed that the golden forgotten city stuff is also found in vizier khilbron's tower

[@LY554YT]

Jungle Tour 1 made me re-install GW1 :D Kamadan was a bit of a shock.. it used to be full of afk-ers and trade spamming "Q9 Voltaic Spear" sellers. I think I saw like 5 people the whole time I was there. Kinda wish some of that FoW armor could have been left in the Hall of Monuments for my GW2 guys to find. I wonder if ANet knew about the plan for the Sylvari when they initially dropped the hint in GW1, where you found Ventari *spoiler?* planting the seed that would be the Pale Tree (I think). Did they know then that they would turn out to be Mordremoth's minions? Because I was under the impression that Ventari grew the seed and he kind of "made" the Sylvari the way they are by imprinting his ideals on the tree as it grew. I guess that could be why they are different to the way they should be now. Confused :/

[@mongislort6440]

Any more news on the elementalists?

[@AwsomeCookieDew]

Hi wp! If u play hidden arcana story, the abbadon statue is inside the library, if u dance infront of it u die, just like in gw1 :D

[@JorikPar]

AwsomeCookieDew he knows, he made a video were he did it in the background

[@Avaruusmurkku]

21:49 Medic? Is that you?

[@WIMMine]

This east/west shenanigan (east is to the right damn it!!) reminds me of the Grimrock 1 puzzle where WP read the compass just a liiittle bit wrong. What is it with you and directions Tatoes? (And sorry for bringing that old thing up ;D)

[@WoodenPotatoes]

newspaperZombie I hit my head :(

[@SidekickSam24]

WoodenPotatoes I get east and west mixed up sometimes too. I can't explain it.

[@xiahwhatever]

I miss the original white mantle. I feel like gw2 doesn't really have an evil faction that actually feels threatening.

[@adrijenie4105]

I never play gw1. But i think the story of gw1 is superior compared to gw2. It have more tension

[@crazyindynathan]

Centaurs hanging around trees aren't really that uncommon considering the religious connection between tree and centaurs in Elona. wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Ancestor_Tree

[@ScoozyKerrea]

Hey WP, ventari's refuge it's location is gw2 is now near an area in dry top that is swamped with mordred and vines. Do you think there might be any special mordrem presence there? It's seems as that might be an exit through dry top to another area.

[@Tsukamy]

Is that me or Exalted, are kinda "new" Mursaat, who changed their mentality. For the moment, they didn t show us any "blood" rock ( in gw1, named jade rock, but with a red color, like blood xD). Maybe it s mainly changment about their magic, I don t really know...

[@polywicca]

wp you had stated you have a beefy system can you drop the details on it? I upgraded to the I7 5820k

[@Grulnork]

Hey wp, do you think it's possible that we will live in peace with one of the elder dragons? The idea of elder dragons being this generic evil may get boring don't you think?

[@nicholasfry6283]

Im assuming that 6 bloodstone shards, and 6 elder dragons is not a coincidence?

[@JamesFordMDL]

Nick Fry now that it seems that the forgotten freed glint and made the bloodstones, there could be something in that. Although that leaves questions about the central keystone.

[@JazzLafayette]

Nick Fry It's possible there's meaning here, but unlikely. There are only four (non-keystone) bloodstones, and each is tied to a school of Tyrian magic (aggression, destruction, preservation, denial). On the other hand, each of the six elder dragons has been said to have two "spheres of influence" over the world, none of which align directly with the old schools. Zhaitan could manipulate death and shadow, for example. Still, you could make the case that each sphere is some permutation of one or more of the bloodstone magics.

[@Bupkiss]

Dang its been so long since I played Gw1, what helmet is that on your warrior? I don't remember it at all lol, I remember the kurzick armor you have but the helmet is stumping me.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

DivinedTides It was from one of the festivals! Tengu helmt, I think?

[@Bupkiss]

Oh cool, thanks for the info :)

[@CiminoJuan]

Hey wp what kind of leveling do you enjoy more? Gw 1 or 2, I remember getting to lvl18 just in the factions starting area.

[@ShoppingStew]

I almost got to lvl 20 in pre searing, but couldn't handle the death levelling. I still got the lvl 19 toon sitting in there xD.

[@Quarter360]

Tachi Owner Shoulda waited. They added quests that allow you to get higher lvl enemies in pre.

[@CiminoJuan]

Go for the title man!! Just one more level.

[@WoodenPotatoes]

Juan Andres If gw2 had a better system for finding skills and real quests and lore to learn it would have the best of both worlds. But in general I think Gw2 leveling is more fun. Leveling gear is boring and a mess, though, too.