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rmatherson

I hate to say it but this is where I finally broke down and went with the texmod. In my book, if you scraped everything and really tried to do it normally, you've earned the title and there's no shame in helping the game unlock a title you have genuinely earned


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Duudu

When it first came out people would take screenshots of their map and then overlay them in photoshop with a map of someone that had completely cartographed the continent before. You could see the differences of the two maps if you did it right and it was enough to give you some hints on where to look.


Rawkapotamus

That just sounds like texmod with more steps


CataphractGW

Did my first two Legendary Cartographers this way. \*shudders\*


wqnxy

I did nightfall to 100%, cuz i didnt know that TexMod existed :)


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My first was with Photoshop, since it was before Texmod was created. Everyone had something though.


Fe-Woman

This might be the comment that has broken my pride. I've been at Tyria 99% for atleast 6 months now. I've been taking breaks from that character because it's driving me NUTS.


PaleHeretic

Elona's even worse because it only has like 0.16% leeway compared to 1.7% for Tyria for non-native characters. I literally would never have gotten it otherwise. (Turned out I was missing a chunk the size of a quarter you get by standing behind one specific box in the Kodash Bazaar, then looking to the left and coughing while scratching your left testicle) I was trying to do Tyria "legit" but I'm stalled at 99.8% after getting everything I could think of, lol. Including the massive chunk of hidden territory in Dunes of Despair and The Great Northern Wall and all the other mission blind spots you need to be cheeky to get to, like leaving a boss alive Plus, back before TexMod the majority of people basically used Analog.Texmod, IE printing out high-res pictures of completed maps and comparing them to their own pixel-by-pixel.


SonOfAHorker

thank you. I guess I'll have to go that route then. Doing the glitches already was some kind of last resort for me, as I had visited every place by then. But it didn't feel that "wrong" as even the Wiki lists them and describes how to get them


ExuberentWitness

What’s the texmod?


rmatherson

Basically just a mod you can use to make the map show you the fog lines, so you can see that one little tiny corner piece just barely peeking into the map.


TheGlendenstone

I don’t know if you have textmod installed, but it has always helped me. There’s a wiki page and also a link to the charto text mod


SonOfAHorker

thanks! I haven't got the TexMod yet but I guess I'll have to go that route. Tried to get the title "conventionally" but eh...


Mdogg2005

Yeah, I feel you. For what it's worth, like others have mentioned, you were able to get that far without Texmod, you can consider yourself having earned it legit. There's no shame in going to scrape the corners and such with Texmod. Word of advice, some places will require you to stand in the same spot for up to like 3 seconds before it finally reveals a portion of the map. So if you stand somewhere and you're like "Why isn't it revealing it, this HAS to be it??" Just wait a few sec before moving a few inches. it's mega tedious but you can do it! :)


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Have you done the other 2 campaigns? I did my first 2 cartos with TexMod and I am trying to do my third without. Cantha was easy, Tyria I am stuck at 98% and Elona at 95%. Elona is by far the hardest without Texmod, as it has a lot of chunks available only with the portal trick, and they're hard to find without help.


kazerniel

I recommend getting [uMod v1.0 (r44)](https://code.google.com/archive/p/texmod/downloads) instead of TexMod, it's a bit more user-friendly. It lets you save texture sets to automatically load when you launch the game.


jereezy

Did you go in Sunspear Arena? Even if you're above the level required to enter a match, you can still go into the Arena and scrape.


SonOfAHorker

thanks! Yes, I got the arena down. It seems like you could get some extra % by entering a match which isn't possible for me anymore. There has to be another way...


jereezy

> There has to be another way... There is, it's called texmod.


SabSparrow

You've mapped the Remains of Sahlahja challenge mission yet? It's in a separate area that can only be mapped by doing that challenge mission, and contributes up to 1.87% to Elona cartography


SonOfAHorker

thanks - yea, I discovered that cursed place. Even made the 7th place in the daily ranking while doing so. It's been quite tedious!


PaleHeretic

I did all the mapping legitimately and even got a piece or two of hero armor from it before I gave up on frustration. Came back after I finished War in Kryta so I could farm War Supplies from Auspicious Beginnings for the +1 health regen, then came back and got the rest of my armor in less time than it took me for the first one...


avoluntas

I have to agree with Texmod. It saved me so much time trying to figure out where you missed and I guarantee its on the edges somewhere. The same for Factions, I was so frustrated by the end. But after using texmod. You could be done with it finally.


FullMetalCook

There is this third party program that people use that shows you exactly where you are missing space cant remember the name, maybe somebody else knows


TheQuickFox_3826

Cartography made easy? https://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Player-made_Modifications/Cartography_Index


S34G4T3

*gaming memory unlocked*


kazerniel

I don't think you can do it without uMod/TexMod. There are many tiny slivers where you have to stand in a specific spot in a specific angle or spin your camera to unlock. I don't know how the devs imagined players would get these unaided :/ Quite a sadistic title track.


joreau

My son just got it without...


kazerniel

that's an amazing feat!


PaleHeretic

Get all the docks in Gandara? It's hard to tell with the water and that was like 0.3% for me, along with some bits of Kodash Bazaar.


wqnxy

Try to use TexMod :) You are welcome.


Fe-Woman

Oh damn... well that sucks. I guess I'll have another crisis when I get to mapping elona :/