Talk: Crystal Overlook

This place is so awesome to explore. There's also way more bosses. I saw plage signet, scribe's insight, and a 'sin boss whose elite I didn't see. P A R A S I T I C

Location of Zehtuka's Great Horn ~Rud

Portal

Is it possible to use the portal to Tyria if you have Prophicies? --Kabraxis 16:16, 15 January 2007 (CST)

That is implied in the requirement that you have to have been to the The Arid Sea before you can use the portal in Crystal Overlook. -- James Sumners 13:53, 16 January 2007 (CST)

So what's the point of this portal? I just got to the portal thinking "Great I can just go straight to the crystal desert!" Nope.

It's to remind people Elona is not a seperate continent but a subcontinent that attaches to Tyria around the crystal desert (Like how Africa connects to Asia). Physically Elona and Tyria are connected and crystal overlook and arid sea are the two nearest points of reference between each playable area.

I had never been to The Arid Sea, and I could use the portal. The requirement to use it certainly has something to do with having been to the desert before (having The Amnoon Oasis on your map perhaps), but it isn't specifically traveling to The Arid Sea explorable. -- bcstingg (talk • contribs) 23:07, 13 August 2007 (CDT)

You have to be able to get to the desert normally by completing Sanctum Cay --Gimmethegepgun 00:59, 14 August 2007 (CDT)

Map triangulation

On the page of the Crytal Outlook there is a claim that the Elona and Tyria Map are too close together and thus overlap. This is incorrect. The height of the statue as seen from the Crystal Overlook is too small to be so close as the statue is very tall in the Arid Sea. Furthermore, when placing the respective maps of Elona and Tyria together in a graphical editing program as the author suggests, the coustline of the Elona Map extends into the dessert and cannot match up with the Tyria Map. The actual location of the Elona map is much farther south and thus both can't be as close as is suggested. --Faab 20:30, 30-januari 2007 (CET)

Why not post an image showing the two continents joined as they should be? -- James Sumners 14:53, 30 January 2007 (CST)

I have not made a composition as it should be, but rather a composition of the proposed connection. The real connection would place the continent of Elona much further south so that the coastline and position of the statue can correspond. it has become quite a wide image to get all the needed locations on it. -- Faab 30 Januari 2007 23:15 CET.

There's an even simpler reason it can't be the same statue. The statue in the Arid Sea falls over when you approach it. -- not logged in 8:58, 20-Feb 2007

i agree with the previous poster, as you probably all know there are fallen statues in more or less all areas of the crystal desert, so why not one in an area further south? --Konzetsu 23:50, 4 April 2007 (CDT) --Besides, i did the triangulation myself and the area the statue would land in is further north than in the posted triangulation, however, still not far enough to make the coastlines match. /doh sorry Faab, not awake yet...--00:07, 5 April 2007 (CDT)

The statue stands back up when you walk away from it again. It's obviously meant to be the same statue.Bob fregman 09:45, 14 July 2007 (CDT)

I swaer to god I've seen this area in Tyria. --SigmA 13:43, 14 February 2007 (CST)

The Alter.

Does any one think the alter in the Crystal Overlooks sulfurous wastes (where you can find Zehtuka's Great Horn) ominously looking like the Char Seering Alter?--Vulpes Foxnik 22:04, 30 June 2007 (CDT)

Timeline Paradox?

Is there any ways the time gap between the events in both campaigns can have any effect on this all? It's hard to believe they made a mistake like this.

Also, has the direction the statue is facing in both campaigns been taken into consideration?

And could curvature of the world effect this at all? I think it's plausable that Cantha is north of Tyria, and they're all connected in the middle due to global measures.

    -"...No doubt you've heard of the Great Zehtuka's exploits in the great southern continent of Cantha..." quoted from "http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/The_Great_Zehtuka" (sorry don't know how to link atm).  This would suggest that Cantha is somewhere South of Elona, and thus South of Tyria.  In addition to this, Jiaju Tai in Kryta also says "Cantha lies south (of Kryta), across the ocean ... past the ruins of Orr, past the islands of fire, past the crystal lands of burning sun, and beyond the clashing seas. Only the greatest sailors dare such a journey, I assure you." (http://gw.gamewikis.org/wiki/Cantha).  This again suggests that Cantha is further south than the other two continents.  While you may be correct in speaking of them all being connected, it seems that Cantha is on the Southern end of the world, rather than the North.