Guild Wars 2

Although I’m sure that ArenaNET are busy at the moment rebuilding Lion’s Arch in their own image, it’s fun to wonder what would work best for the city were any of us allowed to make it over. The attached image shows a quick sketch of what I think would work well.

Using the existing city ruins as a basis, wouldn’t it be interesting to keep the existing features but to resurrect the Black Lion Trading Post and the Bank, rebuilt to their former glory and the Mystic Forge back where it was originally located. The statue of the Lion would be reconstructed and a permanent memorial added at the old Asuran Gate complex to honor those who fell during Scarlet’s invasion. Docks would be constructed along the northwestern shore and a small community located there but the major reconstruction would take place on and around the island at Inner Harbor with the new marketplace center being located above the lake with docks and a small trading district in the styles of human, norn, sylvari, charr and asura style structures. As you can see, new roads would be built to link the new city with the old, and with the fort on the southern shore. Finally, the old lighthouse would be reconstructed as what would Lion’s Arch be without a nod to it’s past?

What would YOU do?

I’d build it up to feel at least as crowded and urban as DR. It’s just felt wrong for the world’s economic hub, in lore housing 40K residents, to be a few scattered buildings around a bay, barely a resort, while the one city of the world’s most dying, diminishing race soars to the skies with enough visible housing to convince a visitor there must be at least 100K in population.

what are you talking about, they already re-built lion’s arch
looks at attachment and drinks heavily
and arena net has their agenda booked “a year in advance” so once they get around the mordremoth sylvari glint things they will be building it in their own fashion
estimated time of arrival 2017
all the highrise architecture was taken out in the scarlet attack and they seem to be tossing all the games and trend merchants near the wrecked lion so i’m assuming they’ll put a festival grounds there and rebuild the original keep on top of the mystic forge