Where wil episode 5 be?

Just curious what other people are envisioning, and please leave more detailed guesses if you have any - I’d love to discuss where the rest of the season could be!

IMO the story of the last episode makes it hard to guess where we'll be going next. We're chasing Kralk and he's found his way into the mists so he's popping in and out of portals all over the place. So it could be almost anywhere. I assume we'll be staying in Elona/Crystal Desert because that's the setting for this chunk of the story, but it could be anywhere within that.

Dominion of wind! One hopes.

@Danikat.8537 said:IMO the story of the last episode makes it hard to guess where we'll be going next. We're chasing Kralk and he's found his way into the mists so he's popping in and out of portals all over the place. So it could be almost anywhere. I assume we'll be staying in Elona/Crystal Desert because that's the setting for this chunk of the story, but it could be anywhere within that.

I agree, but also think the whole season will stay in the desert as it has so far. I know sun’s refuge won’t get major updates again, but it is possible one or both maps could be within connecting distance of that, which would be kourna. Either way I imagine we’ll keep getting parts of the brand that’s already there.

@phs.6089 said:Dominion of wind! One hopes.

Very much so, but I’d rather it be in an expansion so it can also come with playable tengu and lots of story

Best guess is that the next episode is west of Kourna/Jahai, and the final episode is centered on that big purple mountain.

My main guess would be Sulfurous Wastelands as we close in on Kralk's leaving point into the Mists. Less likely, but still possible, is Blood Legion Homelands if we decide to look for a way to power Aurene up against Kralk or look for some kind of weakness from where it slept for centuries.

What if where he can pop in and out of the mist is tied to where the brand is. He can't just pop in the middle of unbranded territory and has to travel manually over land to brand it first. If that's the case, I would have him return to Ascalon.

@Eloc Freidon.5692 said:What if where he can pop in and out of the mist is tied to where the brand is. He can't just pop in the middle of unbranded territory and has to travel manually over land to brand it first. If that's the case, I would have him return to Ascalon.

That’d be cool too

i have to say gate of torment that is the next realm to gate of maddness

@Sonja Teh Trapper.7012 said:i have to say gate of torment that is the next realm to gate of maddness

Where is that?

@Sonja Teh Trapper.7012 said:i have to say gate of torment that is the next realm to gate of maddness

Gate of Torment is within the Realm of Torment, so I guess in the Mists.

If you're meaning Mouth of Torment (the way to get to the Gate of Torment), that's within the current map of The Desolation.

I guess we could get a map that's actually in the Mists...

@Tanner Blackfeather.6509 said:

@Sonja Teh Trapper.7012 said:i have to say gate of torment that is the next realm to gate of maddness

Anet said they weren’t planning that though. I have no doubt we’ll periodicslly get new story instances in the mists like we have in the past, but probably never a whole LW map

cantha.

if not this game is dead to me.

;)

The Hall of Heroes, and we will move from the Primeval Kings's tomb in Desert Highlands. It's supposed to be this giant light we can see in the Shattered Observatory and in the chapter: Legacy- A Star to Guide Us (during escaping from the Brandstorm).

I accidentally picked the crystal desert XD

Cantha - just because it would be the greatest swerve of all time.

I'm hoping for snow or rain. Non-kralk thunderstorms would be great. My favorite place in any mmo is still Dromund Kaas.

I have enough of seeing deserts and canyons. I want to be surprised again like I was with sandwept isles. Why not discovering north of harathi hinterlands, south-east of siren's landing, west of crystal oasis... I want some temperate jungle or island type map, they could promise great stuffs! Remember labyrinthine cliffs, caledon forest, metrica province! Why not the return of norns? Dunno like a hunting ground?

But I'm all for the giant stigmatized volcano at the end of the branded scar. So much potential.

@Fenom.9457 said:

@Eloc Freidon.5692 said:What if where he can pop in and out of the mist is tied to where the brand is. He can't just pop in the middle of unbranded territory and has to travel manually over land to brand it first. If that's the case, I would have him return to Ascalon.

Purely mechanically it would have the benefit of adding an Ascalon map to the LS maps -- the LS maps are fantastic spots to do quick regional dailies and we haven't got one in that area yet. Not that I'm looking forward to it, I don't care for the Ascalonian map color palette for long-term play, but it would be helpful.

They can't create the whole map into the mist, since she needs to be located somewhere on our overworld map. It doesn't mean that we aren't going into the mists. It just need to be instanced just like glint's lair echo in living season 2, jahai mists in season 4. But then what is the type of mad king lab map? WvW? It's clearly another map than overworld. Also fog everywhere on map..

@hugo.4705 said:I have enough of seeing deserts and canyons. I want to be surprised again like I was with sandwept isles. Why not discovering north of harathi hinterlands, south-east of siren's landing, west of crystal oasis... I want some temperate jungle or island type map, they could promise great stuffs! Remember labyrinthine cliffs, caledon forest, metrica province! Why not the return of norns? Dunno like a hunting ground?

But I'm all for the giant stigmatized volcano at the end of the branded scar. So much potential.

Labyrinthine cliffs is AMAZING! Anything like that would be awesome

@Donari.5237 said:

@Fenom.9457 said:

@Eloc Freidon.5692 said:What if where he can pop in and out of the mist is tied to where the brand is. He can't just pop in the middle of unbranded territory and has to travel manually over land to brand it first. If that's the case, I would have him return to Ascalon.

Well, if we got a map in the Blood legion homelands they are at least on the map much more green than Ascalon.

@Dante.1763 said:

@Donari.5237 said:

@Fenom.9457 said:

@Eloc Freidon.5692 said:What if where he can pop in and out of the mist is tied to where the brand is. He can't just pop in the middle of unbranded territory and has to travel manually over land to brand it first. If that's the case, I would have him return to Ascalon.

I could see the mountains above fireheart/blazeridge steppes (the border of blazeridge mountains and blood legion homelands) being retconned to be more Ascalon landscape, and have the blazeridge mountains region not go as far north

Not entirely sure if this is too north to be considered crystal desert but I hope the area between Fields of Ruin and Desert Highlands will be filled eventually. Both maps even have blocked off entrances.

@Fenom.9457 said:

@Dante.1763 said:

@Donari.5237 said:

@Fenom.9457 said:

@Eloc Freidon.5692 said:What if where he can pop in and out of the mist is tied to where the brand is. He can't just pop in the middle of unbranded territory and has to travel manually over land to brand it first. If that's the case, I would have him return to Ascalon.

I could as well, when i was looking at the map for my post above i was wondering why the mountains where so green, theres almost no transition between the two colors.