Guild Wars 2

I just stumbled across this post by Colin, that discussed using Fractals of the Mist the way the Bonus Mission Pack was used in GW1. For anyone who didn’t play GW1, the bonus mission pack was additional content that gave players the opportunity to reenact 4 key historical events in guild wars lore, through optional missions. It makes sense that fractals would take this role in GW2, because the closest thing to those bonus missions is the Urban Battlegrounds Fractal, which transports players to another key event in guild wars history.

I think it would be really fun to have a fractal that transported players back to Orr before the Cataclysm. Every time I run around the current Orr, I wish that we could see all of the massive architecture still standing. This might give us ways to learn or see more about Orrian culture as well. I think Orrian history might be more memorable to GW2-only players than Ascalonian history. I imagine there could be a number of ways to make an Orr fractal, whether it has to do with the cataclysm itself, something related to the temples of the human gods, or even something related to the Third Guild War.

I’d love to hear other people’s thoughts on this. Goor or bad idea?

Yes, I’d always imagined how would Orr and Arah look like before the Cataclysm. Especially after the release of Fractals and the Urban Battlegrounds, I envisaged a fractal level right before the Charr marched on Arah. The player would assume the viewpoint of an Orrian soldier fighting the Charr in the city’s streets. I’ve heard somewhere that at least three searing cauldrons were to be used to bring Arah down, so the end of the mission would be to destroy one of the cauldrons/ the Charr shamans controlling it. After hearing from Dessa that the Fractal is stabilized, and shortly afterwards escaping from it, we would get a cutscene showing Vizier Khilbron, from atop his tower, together with the scepter of Orr, finishing the final preparations for the Cataclysm, or even triggering it.

If something remotely like that were to be implemented, I’d shed tears of joy.