Strange new boxes in Asura Home Instance

These boxes were added in a recent patch next to the Candy Corn Node, and I was just wondering why.

Since you are making minor changes to the home instance, would it be possible to get a merchant in the Asura Home Instance? Every other instance has one already.

Thank you

Pretty sure there is no Merchant in Dreamer's Terrace.

These are specifically for the new Home Instance Garden Plot. They weren't added for decoration (alone).

@"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:Pretty sure there is no Merchant in Dreamer's Terrace.

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Reinalle acts as a merchant along with repairs :)

Really! She sells regular Merchant items? Never knew that, and I go in there every day.

Thanks for the info.

@Donari.5237 said:

@"Inculpatus cedo.9234" said:Pretty sure there is no Merchant in Dreamer's Terrace.

I’m pretty sure she’s only a regular repair NPC that can buy items from you but has no inventory to sell. Which is better than nothing but she’s not a merchant.

Ahh, well, I was aware of the Repair NPC. Thanks, JaFW.

I just assumed they were there to stop bots being able to easily run between the nodes. (No idea if that's been a problem but it was my first thought when I noticed they were blocking the shortest route between nodes and had collision.)

Oh sorry -- I never buy regular merchant items so for me a "merchant" is someone I can sell my crap to so as to get it out of my bags.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:These are specifically for the new Home Instance Garden Plot. They weren't added for decoration (alone).

Ah, ok. Yea I haven't got the garden plots as of yet, so at least now i know.

The garden plot is actually a platform that hangs over the wall that is added when you buy a plot from the gem shop.https://imgur.com/a/Zf0bn

The boxes the OP is talking about seem to be just for decoration, as they are still there in the same spots with the garden plot added to the instance. The boxes might have been there a long time and we just never noticed until now.

@"Charrbeque.8729" said:The garden plot is actually a platform that hangs over the wall that is added when you buy a plot from the gem shop.https://imgur.com/a/Zf0bn

The boxes the OP is talking about seem to be just for decoration, as they are still there in the same spots with the garden plot added to the instance. The boxes might have been there a long time and we just never noticed until now.

They are definitely new. I harvest home instance almost daily and almost always in Rata Sum, they were added along with the plot deed.

Thanks for the images, great to see how it would look, I've been thinking about getting a deed!

@"Charrbeque.8729" said:The garden plot is actually a platform that hangs over the wall that is added when you buy a plot from the gem shop.https://imgur.com/a/Zf0bn

The boxes the OP is talking about seem to be just for decoration, as they are still there in the same spots with the garden plot added to the instance. The boxes might have been there a long time and we just never noticed until now.

The ones marked in the OP's image were just added with the same patch. I remember being annoyed that they got in the way of my usual route to farming my home instance and watching the platform 'fold out' from the boxes (sort of) when I acquired them. It was a pretty cool effect that was tied directly into the boxes marked in the OP's image.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:

@"Charrbeque.8729" said:The garden plot is actually a platform that hangs over the wall that is added when you buy a plot from the gem shop.

https://imgur.com/a/Zf0bn

The boxes the OP is talking about seem to be just for decoration, as they are still there in the same spots with the garden plot added to the instance. The boxes might have been there a long time and we just never noticed until now.

Whoa! That sounds cool. I wasn't in a home instance when I used the garden plot deeds. Today was the first day in a while I went to the Asura home instance. Even if the boxes were there for a while, I probably wouldn't have noticed them anyway.

I only have around 10g at the moment, so I guess I'm too broke to pay attention. LOL

So that is why the __ are there. Figures only an assura would stick stuff right in the way of a walking path.

@OneYenShort.3189 said:So that is why the __ are there. Figures only an assura would stick stuff right in the way of a walking path.

Yeah, that annoyed me too.Over time, the most inconvenient-to-farm instance (BC, with too many tents, angles, and heights) has become more convenient (all the core trees in one spot! the metals close to each other, mostly). In contrast, the formerly easiest-to-farm is getting more burdensome (don't get me started on the jade shard node: putting it opposite the stairs from other nodes is ok; parking it in the most remote possible corner behind the stairs is just mean).