Guild Wars 2

I was looking through some old screenshots i had taken and ran across one of the Fort Trinity Zeppelin and thought, “how cool would it be if that thing actually moved?”

Then i thought, “how cool would it be if it could be a shortcut between cities as a mobile instance with a low overflow threshold and aerial combat against harpies, dragons, and the like?”

You could have room for up to 3 full parties manning battle stations aboard a zeppelin going between Divinity’s Reach and the Black Citadel, and along the way they get attacked by an enemy swarm.

Man the harpoons!
Break out your rifles, bows, and turrets!
Get ready to ward off the foes as they try to board the vessel!

The zeppelin could even have an HP bar, and if it gets destroyed then the players get (safely) dropped off at some halfway point.

Or there could be a progress bar. When the bar is full, the ship docks at its destination. If the ship is destroyed, then the survivors land at some point between their Outset and Destination based on the percentage of the progress. It could be one in whole increments of 10%, 20%, 30% and so on.