Translation and hidden message of the scribe backpack(s)

With the release of HoT ArenaNet added plenty of text in New Krytan and Asuran for us to translate. One you might not have been aware of is that the paper found on all scribe backpacks have a long message written on them.

Because these are impossible to read in game I decided to fetch one of the textures from the DAT and translated it.. looks like ArenaNet is on to me.. enjoy!

Translation

SCRIBING FOR BOOKAHS
Special first edition

Part 1: Paper

Any Scribe worth their salt knows that
low quality paper leads to ink bleeding,
diminished life span of the scroll and
increased risk of visual strain during use.

Universally a schematic written on poor
paper is more generally suited for
cleaning the viscous liquid excreted from the
airways of its intended reader.

New Scribes, of course, will not be able to
comprehend the intricacies of paper
creation, so the first section of this
lesson will, instead, cover the proper
procedures involved in the cleaning
of inkwells and quills.

If you've read this far perhaps
you do have what it takes to be
a Scribe. After all it is an
impressive feat to mine this
scroll from the archives.

Full map of Rata Novus

I've seen plenty of people speculate about Rata Novus and what it could've been. So I thought I might help a little by fetching the full map from the DAT and show how it actually looks like without the fog.

 

 

New back item from the November 4 update

I'm a bit late with my data-mining post today but I wasn't around when the patch went live and in the end there wasn't enough content to write a full post about anyway. Enjoy!

Upcoming features from HoT

So I thought I'd do a mini data-mining post with a bunch of items you won't find in your wardrobe. If I'm going to do a full data-mining post of HoT it will be at a much later stage. Also an important PSA for future posts: Anet decided to remove all gemstore related images from the DAT file so you won't get any sneak peeks of those any more.

Just something I had laying around for months

So as you might have noticed I do not always post everything I find (and I'm still keeping stuff under wraps because the expansion is still new and fresh). But I wanted to give you a single example of one of the bigger things I've found a couple of months ago that in my opinion could have negatively affected all hype and discussion.

During the first WvW beta ArenaNet copied their live client, added the new borderlands to it but somehow managed to also include a lot of tiles showing very early alpha versions of the HoT maps (this was even before we knew about it going to be 4 maps at all).

So, now I could've done what a couple of websites and YouTubers accused me of at time and post everything for a moment of fame and glory, but in my opinion that would've been a cheap shot at both ArenaNet and the community (Just compare the final version of the maps with these and you'll see they're vastly different and completely unfinished). This was one of the cases I decided to report directly to ArenaNet instead.

Now you may dislike or praise me for not sharing this but in the end it was the right decision.

Enjoy!

Images late 2014 / early 2015

• Maguuma Jungle
• Verdant Brink
• Auric Basin
• Tangled Depths
• Dragon's Stand
• Gilded Hollow
• Lost Precipice
• Unknown

Clock Tower First Person

Chak