GW2 Verdant Brinks Mastery Insights and Strongboxes Guide.Special thanksto Versepelles for the help in creating the guide.
Doing all 9 Mastery Insights and 5 Strongboxes in Verdant Brinks willgrant you 14 Mastery Points and 19 Achievement Points.
Contents
- 1 Mastery Insights
- 1.1 1. Verdant Brink Insight: Heartless Pass
- 1.2 2. Verdant Brink Insight: Creeping Crevasse
- 1.3 3. Verdant Brink Insight: Creaking Cavern
- 1.4 4. Verdant Brink Insight: Outside Noble Ledges
- 1.5 5. Verdant Brink Insight: Fumerol Caves
- 1.6 6. Verdant Brink Insight: The Corpse Grove
- 1.7 7. Verdant Brink Insight: Thistlevine Ravine
- 1.8 8. Verdant Brink Insight: Holdfast Hollow
- 1.9 9. Verdant Brink Insight: Canopy Over Pact Encampment
- 2 Strongboxes
- 2.1 Lethal Vantage Strongbox
- 2.2 Mellagan’s Valor Strongbox
- 2.3 Faren’s Flyer Strongbox
- 2.4 Glory of Tyria Strongbox
- 2.5 Thunderbreaker Strongbox
- 3 Acknowledgements
Mastery Insights
1. Verdant Brink Insight: Heartless Pass
From Shipwreck Peak waypoint, jump and glide off the clide due west andfly over to the protruding thorns. Rest to recover endurance, then glidenorth towards the insight.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
2. Verdant Brink Insight: Creeping Crevasse
From Shipwreck Peak waypoint, jump and glide off the cliff. You want tokeep dropping down and head west. The Mastery point is close to the HeroPoint but above it on the stone roof.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
3. Verdant Brink Insight: Creaking Cavern
Head east from Faren’s Flyer Waypoint and head towards Hidden Corpse.Once you are in the cave, you will need to use the bouncing mushrooms toget up to where the Mastery Insight is.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding, Bouncing Mushrooms
4. Verdant Brink Insight: Outside Noble Ledges
From Faren’s Flyer waypoint, travel counter-clockwise up the windingpath until you see a large horizontal vine veering off into the distanceabout halfway up the path. Jump onto the vine and head northeast toreach the insight.
- Masteries req: None
5. Verdant Brink Insight: Fumerol Caves
From Jaka Itzel waypoint, head west and into the mushrom cave. TheMastery insight location is near a patch of poisonous vine. You canglide to the mastery insight safely without touching the toxic vines.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
6. Verdant Brink Insight: The Corpse Grove
From Mellaggan’s Valor Waypoint, head north towards Blighted Depths. Oneof the roots structure has a fake bottom and you can drop down. You wantto open your glider immediately as soon as you start dropping or you mayjust barely miss the mastery insight point. Having Updraft will help butnot necessary.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding, Updraft helps but not required.
7. Verdant Brink Insight: Thistlevine Ravine
Go up the big vine right next to the Pact Encampment Waypoint, very easyto reach
- Masteries req: None
8. Verdant Brink Insight: Holdfast Hollow
At night, take a chopper up from the Pact Encampment Waypoint (choppersspawn when there is 20 minutes left on night). Fly to the LegendaryWyvern’s island, run across, then glide north towards a far-off updraft.When you hit that updraft, turn east immediately, and land on somedebris to regain endurance. In the same direction, glide towards anotherupdraft, which should throw you high enough in the sky to land on theairship to the west, where the insight point is located.
- Masteries req: Updraft
9. Verdant Brink Insight: Canopy Over Pact Encampment
This is actually the hardest Mastery Insight to reach since getting itrequire you to complete a jumping puzzle inside a destroyed airship. Youwill need bouncing mushrooms to reach this jumping puzzle (you can getit with updraft too by using the updrafts from Holdfast Hollow Insight).
- Mastery req: Bouncing Mushrooms or Updraft
You want to start at Shrouded Ruins Waypoint and climb up to Dust DancerPlateau. There is a bouncing mushroom there that will take you to agiant horizontal vine branch you can climb up to get to another plateau.The final plateau has a bouncing mushroom that will take you all the wayto the jumping puzzle entrance. You want to be out of combat when youjump on this bouncing mushroom as otherwise in combat or lag can causeyou to fail to reach the jumping puzzle entrance.
The jumping puzzle isn’t very difficult but a lot of involves walking onnarrow beams and doing a couple of corner jumps where you have to doinga turn mid-air. Having a mesmer will definitely help as you can dropportal on the tricky spots. The video below shows you some spots Idropped portal at for backup incase I don’t make the jump.–
Strongboxes
Lethal Vantage Strongbox
Head out from Shipwreck Peak Waypoint and keep gliding down. Thestrongbox is in an island above the mastery/hero point so you don’t haveto drop down too far.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
Mellagan’s Valor Strongbox
Go west from Mellagan’s Valor waypoint and jump on the bouncing mushroomto the west. This will bounce you up to a second island. Follow theroute south west and you will find another bouncing mushroom that willtake you up the strongbox.
- Mastery req: Bouncing Mushrooms
Faren’s Flyer Strongbox
Go east from Mellagan’s Valor waypoint and hop on an updraft.
Immediately do a 180 deg turn so you can get to the updraft on top ofthe broken ship. This will allow you to land on top of the destroyedfleet. Keep running west on the fleet and you will be able to glide tothe strongbox located on a floating platform.
Glory of Tyria Strongbox
From Faren’s Flyer waypoint, travel up the winding path onto the thornedbranch. Look south and glide towards the strongbox.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
Thunderbreaker Strongbox
From Faren’s Flyer waypoint, travel counter-clockwise up the windingpath to the top. Glide from the northwest edge down to the strongbox.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Versepelles for the building the guide and providingit with images, writeups and videos.
Archived Disqus comments
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Dulfy
Those are ads from disqus comment system. I can filter out someof them if needed.
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kosmosrl
Thanks for the guide. Will there be a video guide for thestrongboxes?
Dulfy
Yup it is up now
LadyStark
Thank you very much! I began to search mastery points three daysago, but I was unable to take all of them.
Connor R
Awesome! Thanks for this, Dulfy!
Zamat
Thank you!
Nethermyr
Hi Dulfy. Would you know where else we can get Tyria mastery Points(Red) aside from the ones in the achievements (complete allacheivements in a story to get 1 point)?
Harry
They are bound to achievements, but to a lot of achievments. Youwill get all the mastery points for full tyria before youcompleted even half of the achievs 😛
Nethermyr
Alright 🙂 thanks!
Ardenwolfe
Thank you, thank you, thank you! This helped me so much!
Leon Sparrow
What weapons are they in the vids?
Mike Wheatley
Are these account bound?
Dulfy
Yes
Whatever
Kudos to you Dulfy, nice guide.
Ciireng Kriuk
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StoneyB
Thank you for the guide, Dulfy and friends. Out of curiosity, willthere be a guide for the harder-to-find POIs and Vistas?
Myth
For anyone having difficulty with Canopy over Pact EncampmentInsight. Here is a cheeky little skip that may or may not work allthe time.
You do have to get inside the jumping puzzle still, but once you aresomeways inside switch instances and chances are the game willgraciously plant you right in front of the mastery point at the top.I don’t know how reliable this is but I am guessing the surfacesinside the airship are generally too small for the game to place youon when re-entering the instance so that the highest point rulekicks in. Personally I was on top of the first gear in the puzzlewhen I got the popup for empty map.
Mark Platts-gooch
This still works as of 10/02/2016. I tested it a bit and the barat 09:56 of the video seems to be the lowest point at which itworks. Just stand on that bar as close to the wall next to thegear as you can. You can go to the character creation screen andreload your character, or use a method of changing instances.Both work.
appdevman
Perfect thx bro
Thankful
Thank you Myth! As of 2015/12/30 this still works. I went in until Ihad to jump across from one long bar to the other, stopped near agear and changed instances. I was pleasantly surprised to come backright next to the mastery! \^_\^
J
As of May 2017, this still works! Saved me a lot of trouble 🙂
maximus
there is a portal in the jumping puzle guide\im just saying i went to dulfy becouse i couldnt make a jump and itplaces a portal
Dulfy
I placed the portal there myself as a backup if I fell.
maximus
sorry i was a buit grumpy when i posted this ill try todelete post
Paul Engleson
Hey Dulfy, I just tried to get that 2nd Mastery Point Lethal VantageStrongbox video but the Mastery Point was not there why I’d that? Inever tried to get that Mastery Point before since I never knew itexisted
Emil E Milev
The Verdant Brink Insight: Canopy Over Pact Encampment point wasdesigned by a lunatic who needs to be locked up and heavilymedicated.
Javier Patag
Try what I did. I posted an alternate route here in thecomments.
Javier Patag
Dulfy, for the Canopy over Pact Encampment Mastery Insight, I foundan alternate route that may be easier. At least it cuts off half thetrek through the shipwreck jumping puzzle. You will need the UpdraftUse and Bouncing Mushroom masteries to do this.\First, get to the Verdant Brink dive goggles. You can do thus bychopper at night like you recommended, or by following the normalroute you take to this Mastery Point.\For the latter, follow the same route up from Shrouded RuinsWaypoint to the start of the shipwreck jumping puzzle. From thatspot, you can get to the bouncing mushroom that throws you to thediving goggles. I recommend climbing the beam into the airship,jumping from it and gliding to the mushroom.\West from the diving goggles, locate a nearby updraft. Glide to itto get extra altitude. Then turn towards the shipwreck jumpingpuzzle with the mastery insight. You’ll need to aim for the spotindicated in the photo below.\From that spot, jump-glide into the shipwreck. It’s not too hard.You should land at the spot shown at 10:47 of your video, skipping alot of tricky jumps in the puzzle.
hiccups
Thank you so much, DULFY! Great guides. I would be sooo stuckwithout you. I really appreciate all you do for the GW2 community. 🙂
Miguel Narváez Lengua
I didnt got all masteries from strongboxes, just 2 of them and itwas my first time. do you have any idea?
Tilveran
This guide was useful again to find the Holdfast Hollow insight thatserves as an electrum infusion point for the Aurora II collection.The in-game map and clues had me looking in completely the wrongplace—Dulfy to the rescue!
