Guild Wars 2

I’m thinking right now, apart from the novelty value, these are… unfortunately, fairly useless. Looking at them:

1) Each zone has 1 beedog queen, hidden in a certain location which is off the main path (and with the exception of zone 1’s maze, players don’t even lose out on achievements by not finding the path to the queen)
2) The beedog queens take about 1-2 minutes to solo, slightly faster with a group
3) The reward is around 30-40 baubles

Now, obviously they’re pretty amusing, finding them the first time is fairly interesting, that’s all well and good. However, there’s issues with them. Firstly, they’re not part of any achievement, when it’s obvious they could be. Secondly, they have very little reward, to the point that in zone 2 by the time the player reaches the queen, they’d earn more baubles over time by restarting the zone to respawn all the dig spots.

In other words, they’re not rewarding, nor are they required. Once the novelty wears off, they’re just useless time sinks… and they shouldn’t be. I don’t know what to do about them in the long term; the amount of baubles required to make them worthwhile might be too many to get all at once, but it’s hard to reward anything but baubles from enemies in SAB. Maybe make them drop health potions or extra lives.

In the short term, giving them an achievement like “Minor in Apis Canis Studies – You have defeated all of the Beedog Queens in World 1” could be fun. Not sure if that’d be the correct latin. I’m no expert.

Beating a Beedog Queen should drop magic honey that transforms the players into beedogs. It you would have an melee attack, a spit to replace the sling shot, an attack that throws up honey in a ball that explodes to replace the bomb, a tongue attack to replace whip. They wouldn’t need the candle because their main advantage is that they are flying! They should not be affected by hazards they hover over. This would make fighting the beedog queen an alternative for players fed up with acid and those plants. The disadvantage is that the transformation should prevent you from using keys. You also would have to transform back to beat the frog boss, so you can pick up the shards.
Also whips should effect Beedog Queens. Would make it more challenging for this awesome reward.
Aaaaannd the achievement thing would have been good. Maybe have one called BEE the dog, where you have to transform a certain number of times.