Map Starting Points and "Intended" Map Order
Here is a screenshot of all the map starting points. You'll find these same markers if you open your map in either Lion's Arch or Mistlock Sanctuary, or click Show Global Starting Points in the script menu while in a core map.
I want to make an important disclaimer here: Do not feel obligated to complete maps in this order, if you have your own preferred order then, by all means, follow that. If you have certain maps already done, obviously the order here doesn't matter. This is not the end-all-be-all map order.
With that in mind: All the cities start from their respective portal in Lion's Arch and Fields of Ruin starts from the Divinity's Reach portal.
If you want to follow the "intended" order:
- Lion's Arch
- Rata Sum
- The Grove
- Divinity's Reach
- Hoelbrak
- Black Citadel
- Metrica Province
- Brisban Wildlands
- Caledon Forest
- Queensdale
- Kessex Hills
- Gendarran Fields
- Harathi Hinterlands
- Bloodtide Coast
- Sparkfly Fen
- Mount Maelstrom
- Dredgehaunt Cliffs
- Wayfarer Foothills
- Snowden Drifts
- Lornar's Pass
- Timberline Falls
- Frostgorge Sound
- Fireheart Rise
- Diessa Plateau
- Plains of Ashford
- Blazeridge Steppes
- Iron Marches
- Fields of Ruin
- Straits of Devastation
- Malchor's Leap
- Cursed Shore
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