Guild Wars 2

I just want to say wow. Guild Wars 2 was beyond worth waiting for. Absolutely loved the first when I was a kid playing Prophecies, was blown away by the stories and the content I’m still downing and aiming towards.

Just one thing was a let down for me amongst all the greatness;
Killing Zhaitan.

Lorewise, the encounter is amazing. I absolutely loved the whole fight as you defended the bridge while they charged the cannon to shoot Zhaitan.
But really…all we have to do at the end is shoot a cannon for 5 minutes, spamming our 2 key? His minions are 100x harder to kill in comparison to that. He literally just sits there and takes it while our fingers go numb, lol.

I’m not bashing you guys at all, looking at it lorewise the fight is amazing. But I was expecting/hoping for a hand-to-hand situation with the dragon. If not that, then more mechanics to the encounter to present a sense of challenge and fun.
The only challenge in the whole area to me was shooting down the lesser dragons and trying to keep up with the swarms of mobs on the ship that came at the same time.

I hope with the next encounter we have with an Elder Dragon, it will be in that way and if not, an equivalent to make up for how easy Zhaitan was to slay. I would think this is what a fight with an Elder Dragon should be like;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PfYJ-CJACA&feature=player_embedded

No, I’m not asking for a copy/paste of this encounter. This is just a given idea to what I and probably a lot of others expected in a sense, regardless how monstrous Zhaitan really is or any of the other Elder Dragons.

Again, amazing job on this game. Well worth the money I spent on the CE and expect more epic lore, encounters and content in the future.

Agreed. I just completed story mode Arah last night, and once we got past the power core nonsense I was both surprised and impressed by the way it played out. It felt really epic and exciting.

Right up until we got to kill Zhaitan. I would have tabbed out at that point and gone to make a cup of tea, but I couldn’t get my cannon to auto attack :s

Yeah, everything was absolutely brilliant. Up until you kill Zhaitan. :| Just kinda redundant and I feel it was a passive trolling of Anet, haha.

For me it was the most boring thing I’ve ever experienced in gaming. Ever.

It was like the dungeon was deliberately over-simplified, too easy and padded so much that Darksiders 2’s fractal padding seems like a quick runby. The whole thing was a bug-filled waste of time and the ending was so anti-climactic that I almost fell asleep in my chair. They didn’t even add sound effects or anything at all to hide how boring it is to have 5 people bashing “1” for several minutes before some lump of playdough falls down after dying of old age.

VakarisJ.5619:

For me it was the most boring thing I’ve ever experienced in gaming. Ever.

It was like the dungeon was deliberately over-simplified, too easy and padded so much that Darksiders 2’s fractal padding seems like a quick runby. The whole thing was a bug-filled waste of time and the ending was so anti-climactic that I almost fell asleep in my chair. They didn’t even add sound effects or anything at all to hide how boring it is to have 5 people bashing “1” for several minutes before some lump of playdough falls down after dying of old age.

Given a new release, all the bugs were to be expected.
I wouldn’t bash the whole encounter like you did, I think it was great. Just not the actual fight with Zhaitan. More could’ve been done with it than just spamming a single button.

OllieXTrick.9643:

Given a new release, all the bugs were to be expected.
I wouldn’t bash the whole encounter like you did, I think it was great. Just not the actual fight with Zhaitan. More could’ve been done with it than just spamming a single button.

I don’t think we’re on the same page regarding “a new release”. You’d expect them to run QA first, apparently, they skipped that step and went straight to shipping.

When I first heard about the fight, I was expecting something similar to this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LtKh7e2ESBc I still can’t believe that was Zhaitan, Arena-Net said the elder dragons were enormous and one was even mistaken for a mountain and nearly impossible to kill. Zhaitan was just slightly larger than a champion dragon and we killed it with fireworks in an anti-climatic way. It kind of kills any feel of accomplishment.