Guild Wars 2

This is what I’m missing in GW2: a faced villain like Palawa Joko or the Lich King… not another faceless leader. We don’t know (at least not outside of the PS) a Jotun-leader. We haven’t seen a Flame-legion leader,…

there is Faolain. This is a good example of what I’d like to see, but there is still potential here: introduce her (and other villains) to the open world too. The best chance to bring in decent lore and meta-eventchains, which would feel pretty epic. I think if people have more context to why they battle this boss, it would be even more intense.

We had Zhaitan, a characterless dragon. We had the Mother-Karka. I have to say King Thorn was huge! That was something really interesting – a lore-masterpiece. You had those really good scavengerhunt where you came to know his origins. Truely a worthy villain. I loved it.

It would be nice to see such a thing in the future for not-holiday related stuff. If we get generic Ice- and Fireelementals without any context to a villain I’d be disappointed, since Anet did some great work in the past in that department. I want a new Svanir

I dunno – could be really fun to run into Gaheron Balefire. Him and his crew on one side, Jormag’s boys on the other.

Problem with Zhaitan was they tried to go with the “eldritch abomination” route but forgot that to make one convincingly menacing you need to show the player their might, or their malice. Take this for instance:

This moment in Mass Effect is what sold the Reapers as a threat. Even something you can’t conceivably interact with directly like a Reaper or Elder Dragon should be able to show you how or why it is to be feared. Zhaitan lacked that as a villain, coupled with a lackluster final battle against him.

Despite the fact the patch was a complete failure I agree the Ancient Karka was a better threat than Zhaitan in terms of build up and when the fight with it arrived. I hope Arenanet learned from their mistakes with Zhaitan and proceed to fix this issue with antagonists and villains moving forward.

Now if only we could make Trahearne take a long walk off a short pier.

Why not make Trahearne the next villain?

Ok maybe not, but I could help myself there…