Guild Wars 2

Let’s see Kralkatorrik was briefly controlled by Snaff’s device.
Zhaitan was defeated by a huge ship with a big laser which traced dragon energy.
And since the lairs of each dragon are corrupted and uninhabited by anyone except their minions, why can’t we do this more simple?
The Asura have also created gates which grant instant travel between spacetime, so you’re not going to tell me creating a bomb is a problem for them are you?
So yeah why not have the Asura create something like a thermonuke with a few megaton yeild, equipped with dragon energy tracers and blow the hell out of the dragons?
Seriously who cares about fallout? Those places are uninhabitable anyway due to the dragon corruption, so no need to worry about innocent bystanders.

Edit: Wow some of you are really not smart so I will explain:
When I mentioned “Asura Gates” I just ment even with our own technology we can’t make things like that yet we have things like nukes. So in other words nukes should be a cinch for the Asura.
And I did not mean sending the bombs through gates I ment “missiles” ones that would be set to locate the elder dragons using the dragon energy tracers.

LS 2 finale: “Ok, all the dragons are dead, you can go home now.”

Servers shut down a week later.

In other news, a hobbit riding on the back of a giant eagle caused a volcanic eruption that destroyed Mordor. From an interview with Gandalf the Gray, “clever little man, why didn’t I think of that?”

Doesn’t someone have to set up an Asura gate at the location first otherwise it’s not a 100% chance you’ll get the bomb to the proper place? You might just end up waking/angering the dragons if you don’t detonate the bomb in the proper place.

How would you beat Bubbles? Build an Asura gate under the ocean and shove a bomb through it too?

Also, wasn’t Primordius located in the Great Depths beneath Tyria? I’m pretty sure exploding a big nuke there wouldn’t be a great idea.

tolunart.2095:

LS 2 finale: “Ok, all the dragons are dead, you can go home now.”

Servers shut down a week later.

In other news, a hobbit riding on the back of a giant eagle caused a volcanic eruption that destroyed Mordor. From an interview with Gandalf the Gray, “clever little man, why didn’t I think of that?”

I saw that movie: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1yqVD0swvWU

Ayrilana.1396:

How would you beat Bubbles? Build an Asura gate under the ocean and shove a bomb through it too?

Well, yeah. That is actually quite appealing.

It beats the hell out of grinding for lost bandit boxes to get super-rare recipe drops.

Dragons are cute.

How do we kill Zommoros?

why didn’t the pact just carve a plant sample from the mordy tentacles, develop a herbicide that would kill the tissue, mass produce it and inject things directly into the plant systems? its not like things are hiding in dark crevices of the planet, those tentacles are everywhere

Korossive.7085:

Dragons are cute.

How do we kill Zommoros?

I’m all on board for this one

I’m sure that bombing the Dragon areas would have some sort of negative outcome in regards to the world’s Ley Lines. Defeating the Dragons, who have the role of consuming excess magic is one thing but blow holes in the areas where the Ley Lines exist might prove to be dangerous.

Afterall with all the Dragons dead, who knows what would happen with all that built up magical energy. Or rather with holes blown into the earth, what would happen with magic spewing out of the ground. Maybe all that magic might cause some sort of large scale corruption, like a plague that spreads across the world.

At least by being somewhat cautious in eliminating the Dragons, they could preserve the Ley Lines and find alternate methods to maintain the magical balance in place of the Dragons. Blowing stuff up is a little too unpredictable just like how in our world, the effects of a process like fracking may lead to some serious long term problems. Or how dropping the first Atomic Bomb was mapped out in theory, but no-one was completely sure what would happen in practice.

Plus you have the political environment, there may be some renegades who want to blow the Dragons up. But you’d have some cooler heads suppressing that. There probably will be some strange coalition of Charr and Asura who try to blow up the Dragons, but I suspect they’d be on the far fringe.

pretty sure sauron could see for miles and he had dragon riders, so that cute lotr meme of eagles + volcano is funny but moot

“why didn’t the pact just carve a plant sample from the mordy tentacles, develop a herbicide that would kill the tissue "

’cause Mordremoth is good partners with Monsanto. GMO-herbicide resistant vines wink

Herr der Friedhoefe.2490:

Ayrilana.1396:

How would you beat Bubbles? Build an Asura gate under the ocean and shove a bomb through it too?

Well, yeah. That is actually quite appealing.

It beats the hell out of grinding for lost bandit boxes to get super-rare recipe drops.

Thankfully it wouldn’t affect the rest of Tyria too much. Well other than irradiating some Tuna – http://what-if.xkcd.com/15/

Sure we nuke the Dragon Lairs with enough magical Energy to kill the Dragons. What can possibly go wrong. Well first the Dragons are balancing Magic in the world, before killing them all we should find a way to balance Magic ourself or it could get very ugly for Tyria.

Second, the Lairs of the Elder Dragons are most likely above or near a Ley Line Intersection and we know that messing with them has always consequences. Poking in one as awakened Mordremoth who is hundred of Kilometers away and I don’t have to mention Thaumanova. If we nuke such a place with a Ley Line Intersection we could cause a catastrophy which effects the whole world and could render magic go wild everywhere on the world and which could be worse than EDs eating most of the magic and killing all sapient races in the process

We do use big guns when taking down dragons. The Claw of Jormag is shot from the sky by those big guns then robots carry bombs to it and finish it off. As far as I know we don’t have an exct location on where these things are unless we see them so how do we aim at their lairs?

Yes. Why don’t we blow up all of Tyria, Cantha, and Elona and walk away from the game. No more wars, no more fighting. World peace achieved and there is no need to play the game anymore.

Snap. * drops mic and walks away *

Bombing anything that is the storage house of a massive amount of magic is a terrible idea. That is, if you enjoy your character having the right number of arms and legs.

That moment when you realized in your Personal Story that “The Pact” had tanks, mechs, machine guns, attack choppers, and bazookas, while you are running around stabbing things with a sword or some really weak-kitten magic….yeah…

You’re doing all this simply because it’s the only thing left worth doing until an expansion comes along in 2056 or so, no promises though. There’s always the store if your characters need shopping, Anet would be thankful if you did.

Why assume nuclear bombs are even possible? The Tyrian universe is dominated by magic, matter and atoms may have a completely different structure than the structure they have in the real world.

In Tyria, the size bomb you reference by referencing nukes, may not be possible.