Guild Wars 2

You’ve quested, killed and traveled up a down Tyria, slaying enemies of all sizes, and all factions, you reunited the 3 orders under a single banner, for a common cause. You find yourself in Arah the cursed city, ready to face the ultimate battle, under the command of your Marshall who’s wyld hunt lead him here, to take a stand against the Elder Dragons; for the Charr, for the Asura, for the Humans, Norn, and Sylvari, for the lesser races, for you, for them… for a future… for Tybalt!

You step in.

And you fight through mob after mob, slay grievous enemies; giants, gorillas the size of churches, lesser dragons, hordes of risen, this is a legend in the making, the lyrics for songs that shall echo through eternity!!!

You get to the Mouth of Zhaitan, the anticipation builds inside you. This is still a lesser evil than the one you must face, this is the prologue to climax, the first thunder in the storm. Your strength and knowledge makes you dodge and attack, kite and jump, heal and support, tank and draw, all your life through 80 hard earned levels was to lead you here; this arena, this build, these weapons, this PuG…This was meant to be… and suddenly after much effort, the mouth falls, as your spirit rises.

The adrenaline rush, the last mobs, and suddenly you see him, soaring through the clouds, as beautiful as your worst nightmare, you can’t do anything but wow yourself, as he looks exactly as you imagined an elder dragon, and more.

Suddenly, he claws himself to a structure and screams a scream that would make the gods themselves water their breaches, the majestic song of a fable come to life.

Then…..

you just hop on a gun and shoot the thing down easier than Duck Hunt in Nintendo…

The End.

- I really want to say that it is a beautiful dungeon, and really lives up to the personal story in a 95%, except for the final fight with Zhaitan. It was wayyyyyy too easy, and requieres no skill whatsoever.

For the rest i rally want to congratulate you people for a beautiful game, and a story that caught me, and made me wanted to play, I got really sad when Tybalt died, and the whole way the story is strctured made me wanna learn more about gw2 lore.

The next Elder Dragon… make me hate him, I plea to you.

I see you press 2 to Zhaitan recently. Welcome to the club.

Have fun with Lupus.

They really dropped the ball on this one, haha. I wonder who designed the fight and how in earth the team approved it. Obviously unfinished and rushed to release the game my guess.

Lol

Maybe, the legends were wrong about this zhaitan. They thought he was a menacing elder dragon only to find out he was just a lvl 1 pansy. He fooled everyone. Oh and duck hunt was harder. You actually had to aim in that game.

Hmm. I guess I had a far different reaction to this dungeon. I thought it was well done. (I’ve done it twice now with two different characters and was satisfied both times.) The need for heavy arsenal seems to be appropriate. After all, my other option is to have my army of clones kamikaze leap off the ship and pray that Mind Wrack takes him down. Of course, I’m a Norn, so I’m pretty sure my beseeching Dwayna is futile.

Despite my disagreement, cheers to the OP. This was a great read!

I must say, when I finally did Arah Story I was a bit underwhelmed. Granted, I had 100% world completion, slayed many dragons, done hundreds of fractals and other dungeons. The fight just seemed underwhelming to me. Maybe if I had done that fight before doing higher level fractals it would have seemed tougher.

And the rewards.. meh. A ‘rare’ quality weapon. Wow.. I outgrew those like many playing hours ago. I was just happy to get rid of the personal story quest thing in the upper right of my screen. That was reward enough.

I enjoyed most of Arah story mode, but yes, the infamous “press 2 to kill Zhaitan” portion is anticlimactic and horrible. Who came up with that idea?

All the Elder Dragon fights will be the same thing, shooting them with some super weapon and not actually interacting with them.

My favorite line i always say after this fight: “Gz you just killed an undead elder dragon with fireworks.”

The biggest letdown is that Zhaitan has no character. He doesn’t speak etc. and there is no ‘Endfight’. It woul be nice after he fell down that you land on the floor and there is the real fight. They really should look into how to present a good endfight. The even seven year old Guild Wars: Nightfall had a better endfight.

I suppose the Flame and Frost storyline will give us Kralkatorrik (or sth like that … kitten ) , so PLEA to have a better endfight plz!

Personally, I refuse to believe he is actually dead. If the elder dragons were that eady to kill, they lose all sense of menace.

They really should redesign that fight, or add a part to it. Okay, you just knocked him into the ground…now defeat him while he sends hoards of undead at you. Oh, and if a party member dies, they’re taken control of by Zhaitan and used against you unless you hit them with a few purifying weapons provided by the Priory.

THAT would be more epic.