Return to the Crystal , what are you hoping to see?

12 years ago I was mesmerized by a statue of a female warrior off in the distance. As you moved closer the statue disappeared like a mirage. I didn't know if this was intentional or not, but I stood there watching it phase in and out. I later found out it was called the Lonely Vigil.

I can't wait to see if the Lonely Vigil is a new POI with some lore explanation!https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Lonely_Vigil

I hope we get some old crystal desert catacombs or maybe an old city beneath the desert from the times when it still was a sea (like Atlantis, with Abbadons secrets. holy shit that sounds awesome :D). I know the later one is less likely, but the first i feel is a must.

well clearly we're gonna have to see some of the forgotten ones and maybe the lair of glint, its not like we all tried to steal the egg back in Guild Wars 1

Thirsty River, Margonite structures, the Forgotten.

Since it's only be talked about in lore articles before, I hope to get to see the Mordant Crescent; corrupted Sunspears under Palawa Joko's command.

Well, we've already been to Glint's Lair, so I don't know that we'll be going back there.

This isn't something old, but I'd like to see the dam Palawa Joko built to redirect the Elon River. It's visible on the world map, I don't know if the maps we'll be traveling in the expansion will go there immediately, but that has the potential to be one of those grand, impressive structures along the lines of the Great Northern Wall or Divinity's Reach and its associated dams.

I want to see the Garden of Seborhin, too. It was already pretty visually impressive in GW1, so I can only imagine the field day they've had redesigning it for GW2.

if there are any, ruins of the sunspear sanctuary, but i highly doubt it

The bone palace

I want to see forgotten.

I'd also like to see the Zephyrites. I know they aren't a GW1 thing but they were one of the my favourite additions to GW2 lore and with their displacement after their ship blew up, I'd like to see at least a faction of them settle down somewhere in the desert, hopefully relating to Glint. They had contact with Glint prior to her death so presumably they spent some time in the desert. There is also the question of what happened to Glint's body (I'm of the understanding some of the Zephyrite magic comes from her body). The exulted were a total disappointment for me, but a group of Zephyrites carrying on Glint's legacy could be interesting. They are also involved in Holosmith lore so maybe we will come across some?

The Lonely Vigil is so cool, I'd love to see it again. Personally I want something weird for each new mount to reach. Islands so far out that the Skimmer is the only way it's efficient to get to them, hidden places that only the Springer can jump high enough to reach, something totally buckwild that you need to zizag around with the Jackal to find, that sort of thing. There's a big emphasis this expansion on exploration, and I really hope that our main mode of exploring rewards that.

Would be nice to see a new dungeon in the Crystal Desert and yeah I know they are pretty much done with them..... one can dream though lol

I'm fairly sure the remains of the Lonely Vigil are in-game in PoF, in the Crystal Oasis you can find the helmet and hand half-buried in the sand.

@chromadef.7403 said:if there are any, ruins of the sunspear sanctuary, but i highly doubt itFrom what I remember the Sunspear Sanctuary was in parts of Koruna. With the release of PoF, we'll be too far north to visit. But it's not to say we can't revisit in Season 4.

To answer the question, I'm interested in how the Mouth of Torment has faired. I wonder if it has closed since the Realm of Torment is no more.

The mouth of torment, definitely. The Lonely Vigil (which we were able to walk on in GW1, so it was definitely physical in some way). The Hidden City of Ahdashim would be amazing.

@Killerbot.8645 said:I'm fairly sure the remains of the Lonely Vigil are in-game in PoF, in the Crystal Oasis you can find the helmet and hand half-buried in the sand.

I think that's different because the lonely vigil is far south of amnoon.

I hope to see some vast open sandy spaces and not just canyons and mixed themes crowding a map.

I'm actually hoping to god I get to see these guys once again. Those scary looking Scytheclaw Behemoths. Those things were monsters and I could only imagine how scary they might be in Guild Wars 2 at night during a sand-storm!!

https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Scytheclaw_Behemoth

@Eternal Is Sektor.9034 said:

@Killerbot.8645 said:I'm fairly sure the remains of the Lonely Vigil are in-game in PoF, in the Crystal Oasis you can find the helmet and hand half-buried in the sand.

250 years

@Killerbot.8645 said:

@Eternal Is Sektor.9034 said:

@Killerbot.8645 said:I'm fairly sure the remains of the Lonely Vigil are in-game in PoF, in the Crystal Oasis you can find the helmet and hand half-buried in the sand.

Yes but in the recent lore stream they highlighted the point that they have their own internal map and went to lengths to make the monuments in gw1 line up close to same area in gw2.

Things I am hoping to see:

Sulfurous sands/junundu wurmsFissure of woe/domain of anguishsome form of or maybe lore reference to ascension/the forgotten/margoniteslocations relating to order of whispers/sunspearstie ins to the destiny's edge book/the spear that almost killed Kralkatorriklore reasons for evolution/demise of the dervishes/paragons

@Xiahou Mao.9701 said:Well, we've already been to Glint's Lair, so I don't know that we'll be going back there.

This isn't something old, but I'd like to see the dam Palawa Joko built to redirect the Elon River. It's visible on the world map, I don't know if the maps we'll be traveling in the expansion will go there immediately, but that has the potential to be one of those grand, impressive structures along the lines of the Great Northern Wall or Divinity's Reach and its associated dams.

I want to see the Garden of Seborhin, too. It was already pretty visually impressive in GW1, so I can only imagine the field day they've had redesigning it for GW2.

of course we should go back to do remeber that the wee little dragon is her own spawn returning there could assists in the goal of learning more, and it would be nice returning there

@Eternal Is Sektor.9034 said:

@Killerbot.8645 said:

@Eternal Is Sektor.9034 said:

@Killerbot.8645 said:I'm fairly sure the remains of the Lonely Vigil are in-game in PoF, in the Crystal Oasis you can find the helmet and hand half-buried in the sand.

Doesn't really say much, the placement of the Lonely Vigil was already inconsistent in GW: Prophecies and GW: Nightfall

@MikeyGrey.2496 said:Things I am hoping to see:

Sulfurous sands/junundu wurmsFissure of woe/domain of anguishsome form of or maybe lore reference to ascension/the forgotten/margoniteslocations relating to order of whispers/sunspearstie ins to the destiny's edge book/the spear that almost killed Kralkatorriklore reasons for evolution/demise of the dervishes/paragons

the Dervish armor is around on armorstands everywhere but yeah that style of attacks and such i would love to learn more on why it seems deadbut that mountain you have to walk into and fight youre shadow self wouldnt suck to bad to revisit now

The portal platforms, functional or not,the cavern where we fight the doppelganger (although I guess it's a dead cave now, since our ancestors finished the trials, but maybe it's just a hero challenge or something now)

I expect to see Augury Rock with the trials of ascension. But i hope to see the realm of torment again.

@Amaimon.7823 said:The portal platforms, functional or not,the cavern where we fight the doppelganger (although I guess it's a dead cave now, since our ancestors finished the trials, but maybe it's just a hero challenge or something now)

the place was/is magical and with how the story goes it seems heading back in history is whats winning "the war" for the mortal realm so clearly to go there has to be a must atlest its a safe spot