Guild Wars 2

I despise this quest with every ounce of my being. The mission itself is fine. Swim out and fight your way to the bone ship, swim back. Then, when the charges don’t detonate, Tonn swims back out to fix the problem and you fight krait onshore.

Spoilers ahead, you were warned:

My problem lies specifically with the way Tonn died. Control is taken away from the player and Tonn’s death becomes meaningless. You beat the ever-loving kitten out of the krait and then when it’s over you’re just standing around twiddling your thumbs and an NPC says “you have to hit the detonator, we’ll be overrun” or something to that measure, except that you’re not, and there’s no sign of hostility. You can swim around, roll around the island for 10 minutes, nothing happens.

There’s an insistence of urgency that doesn’t exist. And then when you hit the detonator, Tonn inevitably dies. I mean, it feels wrong, and takes the player out of the role of performing a necessary action, and into the realm of sociopathy. Why did we have to hurry up and hit the detonator. We could have waited another minute, two, five, ten, whatever, there was no sense of urgency, and it renders Tonn’s death both heinous, and unnecessary.

I propose adding actual urgency to the quest. I should be able to see a horde of 50, 100 krait in the distance swarming toward the island. I should have a reason to say “oh kitten, sorry Tonn, we can’t wait any longer bro!” Instead, I felt the quest was just a let down, and I’d killed an alloy, and a character I actually liked for no good reason whatsoever.

That’s all I really have to say about it, I just hope Anet does something to improve this quest. Tonn was a great character, and it would be nice to see his death as something meaningful, and not something utterly stupid and preventable.

That coupled with the fact that no one else ever died from taking an arrow to the knee.

Not kidding either. He died from a single arrow whereas I’ve been pinchusioned and come out perfectly fine. Of course I am also a Sylvari so I don’t have to worry about that pesky things called organs.