Talk:Giant's Basin

Karlos wrote: "I think you have the wrong lake?"
 * I got the info from the "Description" of Divinity Coast (Location). I don't know where Talrath Stormcrush got that text from. Is it from an in-game source? --Tetris L 21:49, 29 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * I assume he got it from the description on the travel map ("M"). --Tetris L 22:15, 29 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Note that Giant's Basin is also mentioned in the description of Beetletun. I'm pretty sure that Giant's Basin is the center one of the three big lakes north of Kryta and Maguuma.


 * I'm pretty sure that the game points at the eastern one of the three as Giant's Basin. Here is a screen cap I just took. If you take the road from Lion's Arch to the Ascalon Settlement, you will get to this fork in the road after you pass through the plain filled with Caromi Tengu patrols. If you look here you will see that at this fork, the sign points to the Ascalon settlement being NORTH and Giant's Basin being NORTH East (look at the character's compass). On the other hand, I cannot find any sign to "Giant's Basin" in the watchtower coast. The game's signs point at Giant's Basin being the eastern lake. --Karlos 17:40, 30 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Hmmm ... lately I started talking to the NPCs some more to get background information. They got some interesting things to tell sometimes. I'll chat with NPCs in Ascalon Settlement, Beetletun and Watchtower/Divinity Coast. Maybe I can find out some more and clarify this question. --Tetris L 17:48, 30 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * Fine, but in the mean time, the game points east. --Karlos 18:54, 30 Aug 2005 (EST)
 * I noticed yesterday that in the kick-off conversation of The Ascalon Settlement Damaris mentions that the Ascalon Settlement is "not far from the Giants Basin". This would support your interpretation that it's the eastern lake. Frankly, I don't know. --Tetris L 19:08, 23 Sep 2005 (EST)
 * I believe what happened is that the one who put the signs and wrote that dialog is different than the one who made the descriptions for those outposts. OR that those outposes were meant to be on the basin and were then moved. Either way, I am more comfortable with the basin being the eastern one for now. --Karlos 21:08, 23 Sep 2005 (EST)


 * Question. Whats to say that that whole area between the lakes wasn't underwater as well? What if it was one big lake, a single basin. But part of it dried up and now its two lakes. So Giants Basin could be the name of the whole area. And does the word Giant in Giant's Basin possibly refer to the Norn? They supposedly live in the Far Shiverpeaks, which are to the North of Tyria as we know it. Urock 00:51, 6 June 2007 (CDT)

Resetting indent. With regards to Damaris stating that the Ascalon Settlement isn't not far from Giants basin, more specifically she is stating that Giants Basin is the great salt water lake just beyond swamp. While this doesn't really help by itself you have to take into consideration that she is probably using them as guideposts towards finding the Ascalon Settlement. While one could easily just follow the arrow on their compass, she is suggesting one possible rout, and there are several, to get there. The other rout she hints as is through the Tengu. This evidence more strongly indicates that it is the eastern lake which is Giant's Basin when you take all other information into consideration. Plus you also have to consider that this is a salt lake that we're talking about. Salt lakes only form where there are no outlets. I dont remember exactly what the map looked like before the GWEN update that increased the size of the prophesies map. Since the update though it would seem that the middle lake in question isn't even a salt lake to begin with. With that in mind it should clearly be that the eastern lake is Giant's Basin. The only evidence that seems to counter it are the descriptions for Divinity Coast and Beetleton. While it is more probable that their descriptions were simply an error you do have to take into consideration that this is only a videogame. Stuff like this happens. It's a minor inconsistency that doesn't really disrupt gameplay. And in the end, isn't that all that really matters? If you really want to know the truth, go ask somebody who made the game, present all the accumulated evidence and then ask them which one is the real Giant's Basin. Even if they dont respond, I'm sure that things will be made clear in GW2. If they dont just sweep it under the rug that is. Born to Mes 00:31, 3 December 2007 (UTC)

Real Basin
On the updated GWEN map, above the three lakes, there is an actuel basin and a lrger lake above it. I am 99% posative that this is Giant's Basin and 75% sure the Giants as well as the "mysterious invaders" the watchtowers were built to repel are the Norn.--68.192.188.142 09:16, 19 July 2007 (CDT)