Bug Report: Thread Market Stairs Blocked

Yeah, I was able to get it to 100% on the map w/the candlehop stuff, but I'm still miffed as a completionist that I can't get up there and clear the icon/see what was there.

I thought I had the same issue but it turned out I was missing one Candlehop instead. Once you complete that quest Docktown will be at 100%, the missing key icon in Aelia‘s dungeon isn’t necessary. Maybe that helps! 

Disappointing for all us completionists who didn't know how to get through the locked door in the one window of time they gave us and didn't know we wouldn't have any more chances to try.

I'm not able to 100% it and the only thing that appears unexplored on my map is the locked door that I can't get to north of the Thread Market. I hate this.

Yeah, the percentage is generally based on the number of chests and statues you have found rather than land mass revealed, as far as I can tell.

The stairs are still blocked, but I was still able to 100% the area. There's a locked door (noted on the map) way down, past the stairs, but I guess it doesn't have anything important. 

This was added after the first patch. I think it was intentional on the part of the devs. That area was likely to be a "one off" area where you can visit it only once and never return. Since they made it part of the main Minrathous map rather than its own little sub-map, they need to put a physical barrier there to stop people from returning.

Same. I just went back to get to a locked door and I can't get around the NPCs.