Guild Wars 2

The Path of Legends

First of all, sorry for my bad English D :
And im not sure if this is the right place to post this, so my bad if its not.

So a few days ago I was talking with some friends about the scavenger hunt that was mentioned so long and now doesn’t seem to come anytime soon.
So we ended up making just for fun ideas on how a precursor could be obtained other than luck or tons of gold… bellow is what I ended up coming with (this is just something for fun nothing more).

The path of Legends
Game Update Notes – someday in the future

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Explorer Jones can now be found in the center of Lion’s Arch showing his latest discovery.

A Group of 20 individuals have stolen the Legendary exhibition of Explorer Jones while he was making a presentation at Lions Arch.

Assist Explorer Jones in pursuing the individuals and recover the stolen weapons.

Gather your allies and be ready to face the meanest, daring, crazy and even flamboyant thieves that Tyria has to offer.

A 2 times per account only quest to obtain an account bound precursor has been added, talk to Explorer Jones to start the quest. The resulting legendary will also be account bound on creation and soulbound on use.

Added 20 unique boss fights for the quest.

So the idea is go to the center of Lion’s Arch and enter a story instance where you will meet Explorer Jones and witness how 20 thieves steal each one a Legendary Weapon. Following that Explorer Jones will ask for your help on finding information about the location of up to 2 of the thieves (the 2 being the ones you want the precursor)

(This is as an extra that a friend suggested: In order to start the quest and prove to Explorer Jones you can find the weapons you must have finished the story quest, show that you, just like him love to explore (100% world complete), to prove your strength (dungeon master title) take or put any other requirement that might seem fit)

Once you find the locations you need to find a way inside the hideout, Explorer Jones will help you with that as long as you bring him the needed materials (can be existing ones or new ones made for this quest scattered across Tyria).

A full party will be needed for the fights and also to make it so that people that have already finished the quest get an extra for helping people that haven’t some rare unique loot from the boss can be dropped. Plus after finishing the quest for your 2 precursors you unlock the other boss fights so you can go and have a go at them for the unique loot or fun)

So far i just came up with 1 idea for a fight since i did this on work break XD and again this is just an example i did for fun. At the bottom is a quick sketch of the boss and the area you fight him on)

Mexx of the Storm

An asura that has a thing for the weather. You fight him on a round platform with a big orrery on the center and 4 floating platforms with small floating steps that leads to them (you can fall off the platform, if that happens you will spawn downed at the center of the room near the orrery).

Mexx wears a custom made asura T3 light armor.

Mexx is an Elementalist and at the start of the fight he will wield a Staff and use most of the skills a staff elementalist use(only they hurt more). As the fight goes on a random “Natural Disaster” as Mexx calls it will occur:

Water: Mexx will gain a huge regen buff while the player will be affected by weakness. (It will start to rain)

Fire: All the party will be affected by a Burn debuff that will tick for quite an amount of HP. (The screen will be brighter)

Air: An X amount of tornados will spawn that will knockback for quite a distance anyone they hit. (A mist will cover all the platform)

Earth: Mexx gains a shield that makes him invulnerable. (cracks will appear on the platform)

To stop these “Natural Disasters” a player that is NOT being targeted by Mexx must go the floating platform that Is causing the effect (can be identified by the symbols on each platform) and turn it off. (if a player is being followed by Mexx and tries to jump on the platforms he will push you down from it even if you have Stability)

At half health Mexx will go to the orrery and take out Meteorlogicus and will use a mix of Elementalist scepter skills and all the off-hand skills of an Elementalist.

At that point the “Natural Disasters” will stop and instead the Orrery will begin to move casting a beam of light that covers from the orrery to the end of the platform moving clockwise and a bunch of smaller beams of light moving counterclockwise (imagine the stairs on the Uncategorized Fractal only these ones move more slowly but causing the same amount of damage).

Once defeated, Mexx has a really small chance to drop a custom made Asura T3 headpiece scrap that is used on the mystic forge with an Asura T3 headpiece to get the same headpiece Mexx uses.

Again that is just an example on how one of the boss fights would go and what he might drop as an incentive for people to keep killing him and help other players that haven’t done the quest.

The other bosses could perhaps drop other “Custom made T3 pieces of their respective Race that adds a unique look to the T3.

Once you have defeated the 2 thieves you decided to track return to Explorer Jones to receive your 2 previously selected Account bound Precursors.

As an extra Explorer Jones can tell you a bit more on the history of each of the legendary weapons so that the lore can be expanded.
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Long read I know, but thanks a lot for your time in reading it if you did.

Quotes:
Earth, Fire, Wind, Water… ehm heart? I don’t need no stinking HEART!
Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!
Isn’t she beautiful!
Let’s play mary go round!

Below is as I said before a rough sketch on Mexx.

Not bad, I do like the idea of defeating bosses something prestigious items.
Did I get it right, and you have to kill every boss to get precursor of your choice? Or just the corresponding boss of the precursor? Only 1 boss seems a bit little.

Btw, you may have put more thought in this than Anet on any of their bosses.

Yup each boss would have a really small chance to drop a unique item, the idea i had was something that would add something extra to existing armors to make them stand more or make them more unique.

At first i tho of just defeating the corresponding boss of the precursor but i like your idea of having to beat the 20 bosses. The hard part i was thinking off for that quest was the gathering of the items to enter the boss lair, but again its just ideas.

This is absolutely brilliant. Pure gold here. Well thought out first boss fight. Requires teamwork. Doesn’t cheapen legendaries/precursors because of their requirements. Encourages friends to play together, or members of the community helping each other out. I hope to Dwayna that the Devs see this. This is a must and would be so much fun. Hell they could even throw Scarlet in it and call it a Living Story and I would do it.

bobomb.5209:

This is absolutely brilliant. Pure gold here. Well thought out first boss fight. Requires teamwork. Doesn’t cheapen legendaries/precursors because of their requirements. Encourages friends to play together, or members of the community helping each other out. I hope to Dwayna that the Devs see this. This is a must and would be so much fun. Hell they could even throw Scarlet in it and call it a Living Story and I would do it.

No. NO SCARLET.

Other than that the idea is fantastic.

Thx for reading it : D Tbh i wanted to put “Scarlet was the one that send those thieves for the legendaries” just to troll : P
This next one was mostly coz my friends told me “How epic can a fight be against someone using a legendary like the Quip or Moot” so challenge accepted.
Again, sorry for my bad english.

Maurizio DiGiacomo Fully Energized
(Special Guest: Disco-Tron)

Maurizio is the Younger Brother of Marcello DiGiacomo (some might remember Marcello from Queens Gauntlet and more recently from this Christmas Event).
He LOVES Disco. And is the one who stole “The Moot”.

The fight takes place in a Square Disco floor. In front of the entrance is a small “Stage” where the Moot is encased in a Glass Displayer. Above you there is a huge disco ball.
Maurizio stands at the center of the floor while his partner Disco-Tron is on top of the stage.

At the start of the fight Maurizio is invulnerable and will not attack and just dance while asking Disco-Tron to light the floor. At this point the party should just focus on destroying the Glass Displayer where the Moot is located (which is powering the lights on the floor). While you do that Disco-Tron will start to light Random floor lights (thinking in like 2/3 of the floor lights) after a few seconds a beam will come out of those lit floors that will instantly down any player caught in them. Maurizio meanwhile will still be enjoying the light show and music.

Once the party breaks the glass all the floor lights and the disco ball will go off and Maurizio will grab the Moot, at this point the party can start to damage Maurizio (Disco-Tron will no longer light random Floor lights). Maurizio will mostly do simple melee attacks but will also have 2 charged attacks that players should be careful of.

Just like the Crusher in Arah path 3 he will charge a frontal cone attack(only this one is larger) that will down any player.

A charged point blank AOE that will down any player near Maurizio.

At around 75% health Maurizio will ask Disco-Tron to turn the Disco ball back on.
The Disco light will target 2 Random players every so often and after a few seconds a beam will hit those 2 players and any other player near them. To avoid this 2 Glass pieces from the broken glass displayer will spawn near were the Moot was before, the piece of glass will protect the one carrying it but not other players around him/her.

At 25% Health Disco-Tron manages to somehow “Fix” the floor lights.
At this point players need to pay attention to what Disco-Tron says while still having to deal with the Disco ball and the one shot charged skills from Maurizio.

When disco tron says “Disco-Tron-thinks-the-(random-color)-lights-are-ok-now”

A few seconds after that the lights on the floor will turn back on (most of the floor will be filled with the color Disco-Tron said) any player that stays to long on the mentioned light color will be immobilize for 10 seconds making you a nice target for the Disco ball or the charged attacks (condition removal FTW)

When Disco-Tron says “Disco-Tron-suggest-you-not-to-run-to-the (Random color)-light-A-S-A-P”

A few seconds after that the lights on the floor will go back up with random colors all over, the player must go to the color Disco-Tron told them not to go and after a few seconds a beam of light will come from the rest of the Floor taking away a good chunk of the players Health.

Since I think I’m writing too much right now I won’t put more of the ideas I had for
Disco-Tron says part.

The fight will continue like this until Maurizio falls.
Maurizio will have a small chance to drop a Disco-Tron mini or his Disco outfit set.

Quotes:
Disco-Tron
“Disco-Tron-loves-disco”
“Disco-Tron- insert- Disco-Comment-Nr-54-here”
“Can-I-be-honest-with-you-for-a-second?”
“Disco-Tron-does-not-like-Disco”
And to be honest no idea what some of Maurizio’s quotes could be.
But as an extra: You get an achievement for dancing with Maurizio on the first part of the fight
Again thx so much for your time if you read it all. Below is again a very bad and rough sketch of Maurizio, Disco-Tron and the area were you fight them.