Guild Wars 2

Imagine a city like Ebonhawke were a world boss lays siege to to the town and over the course of the 20 min fight many parts of the town are leveled and maybe more based off of what you do and how you approach the fight. Have the boss travel to different parts of the town randomly and players will need to react by closing gates, using burning oil over the gates, caterpults and various other things that people use to do in seiges.

A dragon boss would be iconic but not sure if it would work with the mechanics so well. Having him land on roof tops and coming down in the streets and climbing the gate would be one way of making them work.

After the fight there are several event chains to rebuild the city that do not involve combat. Once done the boss timer starts and you have 3 hours or so to do other objectives in the city.

The objectives could be anything and maybe something similar to the speedy reader achievement, mini games, jump puzzel or just other events that take you inside and outside of the city.

Something else I want to mention is how dull the new zone is without vistas, hearts, skill points and PoI. It’s great looking with nothing to do there. In Ebonhawke and the major towns it was alot of fun grabbing everything that first time around.

Side content that doesn’t involve combat is a nice break and with something like this you can provide that with the reward of the most epic fight in the game.

You know, I was wondering about that in the Lost Shore.

I think this sounds like a brilliant idea. Have the dragon’s forces running through the street as well. Maybe have players need to guard mortars and stuff to bring the dragon down ect ect.

Well if they stick by their lore – a leveled Ebon Hawke would stay leveled for a time. Unles the statue in LA has been repaired from the Mad Thorn King already and I’m too blind to notice it.

I’m sure that Anet has a lot of one-time events in mind, perhaps this is one we’ll just have to wait and see since 1 a month will likely be their norm at max.

And if you’re not talking about it being one time – then you’ll have to scale back the epicness of your post to where the town doesn’t get affected so badly and the rest of the events and etc can still go on.