Mastery Insights
1. Verdant Brink Insight: Heartless Pass
From Shipwreck Peak waypoint, jump and glide off the clide due west and fly over to the protruding thorns. Rest to recover endurance, then glide north towards the insight.
2. Verdant Brink Insight: Creeping Crevasse
From Shipwreck Peak waypoint, jump and glide off the cliff. You want to keep dropping down and head west. The Mastery point is close to the Hero Point but above it on the stone roof.
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 to get up to where the Mastery Insight is.
4. Verdant Brink Insight: Outside Noble Ledges
From Faren’s Flyer waypoint, travel counter-clockwise up the winding path until you see a large horizontal vine veering off into the distance about halfway up the path. Jump onto the vine and head northeast to reach the insight.
5. Verdant Brink Insight: Fumerol Caves
From Jaka Itzel waypoint, head west and into the mushrom cave. The Mastery insight location is near a patch of poisonous vine. You can glide to the mastery insight safely without touching the toxic vines.
6. Verdant Brink Insight: The Corpse Grove
From Mellaggan’s Valor Waypoint, head north towards Blighted Depths. One of the roots structure has a fake bottom and you can drop down. You want to open your glider immediately as soon as you start dropping or you may just barely miss the mastery insight point. Having Updraft will help but not necessary.
7. Verdant Brink Insight: Thistlevine Ravine
Go up the big vine right next to the Pact Encampment Waypoint, very easy to reach
8. Verdant Brink Insight: Holdfast Hollow
At night, take a chopper up from the Pact Encampment Waypoint (choppers spawn when there is 20 minutes left on night). Fly to the Legendary Wyvern’s island, run across, then glide north towards a far-off updraft. When you hit that updraft, turn east immediately, and land on some debris to regain endurance. In the same direction, glide towards another updraft, which should throw you high enough in the sky to land on the airship to the west, where the insight point is located.
9. Verdant Brink Insight: Canopy Over Pact Encampment
This is actually the hardest Mastery Insight to reach since getting it require you to complete a jumping puzzle inside a destroyed airship. You will need bouncing mushrooms to reach this jumping puzzle (you can get it with updraft too by using the updrafts from Holdfast Hollow Insight).
The jumping puzzle isn’t very difficult but a lot of involves walking on narrow beams and doing a couple of corner jumps where you have to doing a turn mid-air. Having a mesmer will definitely help as you can drop portal on the tricky spots. The video below shows you some spots I dropped 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. The strongbox is in an island above the mastery/hero point so you don’t have to drop down too far.
Mellagan’s Valor Strongbox
Go west from Mellagan’s Valor waypoint and jump on the bouncing mushroom to the west. This will bounce you up to a second island. Follow the route south west and you will find another bouncing mushroom that will take you up the strongbox.
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 of the broken ship. This will allow you to land on top of the destroyed fleet. Keep running west on the fleet and you will be able to glide to the strongbox located on a floating platform.
Glory of Tyria Strongbox
From Faren’s Flyer waypoint, travel up the winding path onto the thorned branch. Look south and glide towards the strongbox.
Thunderbreaker Strongbox
From Faren’s Flyer waypoint, travel counter-clockwise up the winding path to the top. Glide from the northwest edge down to the strongbox.
1. Verdant Brink Insight: Heartless Pass
From Shipwreck Peak waypoint, jump and glide off the clide due west and fly over to the protruding thorns. Rest to recover endurance, then glide north 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 to keep dropping down and head west. The Mastery point is close to the Hero Point 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 to get 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 winding path until you see a large horizontal vine veering off into the distance about halfway up the path. Jump onto the vine and head northeast to reach the insight.
- Masteries req: None
5. Verdant Brink Insight: Fumerol Caves
From Jaka Itzel waypoint, head west and into the mushrom cave. The Mastery insight location is near a patch of poisonous vine. You can glide 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. One of the roots structure has a fake bottom and you can drop down. You want to open your glider immediately as soon as you start dropping or you may just barely miss the mastery insight point. Having Updraft will help but not 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 easy to reach
- Masteries req: None
8. Verdant Brink Insight: Holdfast Hollow
At night, take a chopper up from the Pact Encampment Waypoint (choppers spawn when there is 20 minutes left on night). Fly to the Legendary Wyvern’s island, run across, then glide north towards a far-off updraft. When you hit that updraft, turn east immediately, and land on some debris to regain endurance. In the same direction, glide towards another updraft, which should throw you high enough in the sky to land on the airship 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 it require you to complete a jumping puzzle inside a destroyed airship. You will need bouncing mushrooms to reach this jumping puzzle (you can get it with updraft too by using the updrafts from Holdfast Hollow Insight).
- Mastery req: Bouncing Mushrooms or Updraft
The jumping puzzle isn’t very difficult but a lot of involves walking on narrow beams and doing a couple of corner jumps where you have to doing a turn mid-air. Having a mesmer will definitely help as you can drop portal on the tricky spots. The video below shows you some spots I dropped 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. The strongbox is in an island above the mastery/hero point so you don’t have to drop down too far.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
Mellagan’s Valor Strongbox
Go west from Mellagan’s Valor waypoint and jump on the bouncing mushroom to the west. This will bounce you up to a second island. Follow the route south west and you will find another bouncing mushroom that will take 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 of the broken ship. This will allow you to land on top of the destroyed fleet. Keep running west on the fleet and you will be able to glide to the strongbox located on a floating platform.
Glory of Tyria Strongbox
From Faren’s Flyer waypoint, travel up the winding path onto the thorned branch. Look south and glide towards the strongbox.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
Thunderbreaker Strongbox
From Faren’s Flyer waypoint, travel counter-clockwise up the winding path to the top. Glide from the northwest edge down to the strongbox.
- Mastery req: Basic Gliding
