Guild Wars 2

An idea to provide incentives for high level players to explore the wider world again.

What about named powerful boss monsters in the PvE world, which roam the world on complex paths which take them through various different zones. The paths could be programmed to change to make their movements unpredictable – even have a small chance for them to pass through low level zones to spice things up occasionally. Maybe even use some AI to vary the path depending on local conditions or dynamic events – perhaps a creature that deliberately avoids crowds etc These bosses should disappear from time to time and have random respawn intervals when defeated – maybe appearing a few times a week or less, more likely at peak times for each particular server.

They should ideally have novel combat mechanics and take require a large group to take down, somewhere between the level of champions and the dragons now. They should drop good rewards when downed i.e. minimum of tier 6 materials or rare items and chance of a named exotic weapon specific to that creature.

The idea is for these to be elusive and special – no-one knows where they will be apart from perhaps the general region of Tyrian they often roam in. They should be creatures worth hunting and a cause for excitement and lots of running around when one is spotted and the cry goes up in chat etc…

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They need to fix the loot tables for Champion mobs first. I’ve killed over 10 champions in the past week with no loot.

@declan -

I agree that loot overall needs to be revised. Champions should certainly have drops that make them worthwhile targets – ideally then we’d see players making the effort to visit the champions regularly and getting out into the open world. Traffic to all zones would improve and the world would be a much livelier place – there would be more people around for events too.

Loot tables are a priority – and I’d be surprised if Anet don’t address this in the coming updates. My suggestion is for an additional feature beyond the current loot tables, to add some extra excitement to the zones.

wouldnt be hard for someone to run to la and say “the big monster has appeared at ect” so i dont think your idea of drops for defeating it is realistic. but otherwise i like this and have mentioned something similar before.