Augury

In my quest to become a Grandmaster Cartographer, I decided I should probably finish off one entire section of the map so I went ahead and did the Frontier Gate area even though I had been planning to do the Nolani Academy mission next. The Frontier Gate is the area that lies outside of the Ruins of Surmia, and as I suspected, there’s some not so insignificant portions of land that I missed when I first came through this area looking for Surmia.

I started the area by heading out from the Frontier Gate. I went North, beyond the northern wall, and then East, away from Surmia. As you can see I quickly came across some unexplored territory.

A little bit further inside of this area, I see even more uncovered land before me — Looks like I hit some substantial uncovered territory here.

Looking out from a different direction.

I explored some substantial areas for a total gain of approximately 0.2%, and then headed south. Here I am looking at a landmark.

Hope in ruins.

I ran around for a bit in the southern area of the zone, making sure I’d gotten all of the areas of land. There’s one rather substantial plateau of land that I never bothered exploring previously. This area netted me an extra 0.1%. Here’s a picture of me looking out onto it.

With construction like this it’s no wonder the Charr have no trouble overwhelming Ascalon.

Here’s the map after my explorations. I did a once-over after this again to make sure I didn’t miss anything else.

Total gain for this area: 0.3%. Not bad for one area, and certainly more heartening than the .03% gains I’ve been seeing in the missions lately.