Guild Wars 2

In the video he shows throwing boats, doing a swooping tidal wave dive.

Question: Does he physically move in space, or is it just some new animations and his body is physically stationary or sometimes just not able to take damage (like when he swoops)?

He stays stationary, but does have a phase where he takes off into the air and you need to defend the mega-cannon and batteries charging the mega-cannon. That said he does seem pretty interesting for a stationary boss.

If you want to see the fight here’s the link
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AVuhltsBoM

Bread.7516:

In the video he shows throwing boats, doing a swooping tidal wave dive.

Question: Does he physically move in space, or is it just some new animations and his body is physically stationary or sometimes just not able to take damage (like when he swoops)?

It’s not a boat, it’s the asura lazer gun and it only happens on failure, I believe. As for the sweeping tidal wave, if you fail to defend the batteries, you will indeed witness this. Damaging him will be the furthest thing from your mind at that point.

hm, looked at the video. seems one of those fights that are interesting the first time and would never repeat again.

imo stationary scripted bosses arent really fun.

Though it seems to be a huge improvement from the current auto-atk > alt tab bosses right now

Dragons should fight in an area for a period of time then fly off to another area and leave us to search them out. Stationary battles are boring.

zerotwo.4731:

Dragons should fight in an area for a period of time then fly off to another area and leave us to search them out. Stationary battles are boring.

That would be great. Just like in Scarlet. The dragon flew to […]. Lets all warp in there

Or perhaps he keeps moving and requires players to chase him down while avoiding terrain. Periodically turning to engage us.

Show me Your Moves!

Finally a world boss that feels like a real world boss. Jormag was decent when compared to the current Shatterer and Tequatl who we could kill without moving an inch but if this is a sign of things to come for the other world bosses I say bring it!.

I do have 1 question for anet tho. When you say “chance” to get an acended weapon are we talking an actually chance like say 1/15 or we talking the dreaded Precuror chance….

with the ascended chest drop rate in FOTM i’d say like around rare exotic chance. not precursor, something more like cobalt or genesis.