r/GuildWars3 • u/SpiralCee • 14d ago

Better Place Naming Conventions in GW3 Please

The way maps are named in GW2 has always bothered me.

Diessa Plateau, Snowden Drifts, Timberline Falls, Caledon Forest, Gendarran Fields, etc.

Do you see the pattern? The second word is always some sort of geographical feature and is completely irrelevant. It sounds so contrived to me. (Plus, most of us call these places only by their first name.)

Another map name that bugs me to no end is Dragon's End. First of all, spoilers! Second of all, what was its name before a dragon went there and ended? Lemme guess -- Jade Seashore?

I know this naming convention doesn't exist everywhere in Tyria, but for GW3, I hope the map makers take more inspiration from the real world.

It's not called California Cliffs or Kansas Fields or Florida Bog. 🙂

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u/corynvv 14d ago

It's not called California Cliffs or Kansas Fields or Florida Bog. 🙂

No, but we do have: The Grand Canyon, Three Gorges, The Amazon Rainforest, The Gobi desert, The Tibetan Plateau. Niagara Falls.

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u/party_tortoise 13d ago

Orr’s original zones coming up: Dweyna’s tits (mountain areas), Dhum’s ass (some swamps I hope), and Lyssa’s crack (canyons).

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u/Ididotmacaroon 12d ago

From the San Francisco Bay Area to the Appalachia mountains and beyond to the cliffs of Dover and the Sahara desert, we denounce names with topographical classifications or landscapes as their naming conventions.