Guild Wars 2

You all who have done the personal story to the end and the death of the elder dragon Zaitan, what the NPCs sead basicly is It’s only clean up job that remains to clear out Orr, they also sead that other elder dragons were around but that’s besides the point.

Will Orr be a “happy” place in the future via living story that Anet been feeding us or are we still gonna fight Risen in Orr 2 years down the road?

Orr should change since Zhaitan died. grass should start growing, the humans should take back their land, and undead should be taken out the game!

I don’t think Zhaitan is actually dead. If he is, that is the most anticlimactic end boss fight of any game that I have ever seen.

Skan.5301:

I don’t think Zhaitan is actually dead. If he is, that is the most anticlimactic end boss fight of any game that I have ever seen.

He is dead for sure. Anet failed with this elder dragon but they learned their lesson i think and the next one should be epic.

It’s hard to say, but I’m skeptical that Orr will change dramatically. To make that work sensibly would require rewriting a large part of the story to reflect the Cleansing of Orr, and would require stripping three zones of content to replace with “new Orr,” and if the recent replacing of one Twilight Arbor path with the new Aetherblade path is any indication, that would be poorly-received.

It’s one thing to do that with a single dungeon path (noting, again, that it hasn’t been a very popular decision with some people,) but doing that to Orr would be a huge undertaking, and I think they’d sooner just introduce new zones than dramatically reskin and repopulate existing ones to that degree.

If it’s messing with your head canon that Orr is still a blighted waste after defeating Zhaitan, think of it as being in a period of reconstruction after the war. Orr was dead and underwater for 150 years before Zhaitan dredged it up, and under Zhaitan’s corruptive influence for another 200 years. That kind of damage to the land takes a long time to recover from, even if the source of the corruption is gone.