LOVING the music for this expansion, BUT -

LOVING the music for this expansion, BUT -

in Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns

Posted by: La Goanna.8142

La Goanna.8142

First, big shout out to McClaine, Lena and LePard for giving us such an amazing ost for HoT! So many of its songs are stuck in my head – I almost always leave the menu screen running for a bit before playing because the main theme is just that good, and the music for zone sections like Tarir City is absolutely beautiful. Really looking forward to hearing more of your work in future living story episodes and expansions to come.

However, there’s one major suggestion (or critique?) I have , regarding the final fight at dragon’s stand,:


After beating the story and loving the music that plays during the Mordremoth boss instance in the dream, I found the music during the Mouth of Modremoth event in the open world to be very underwhelming. It’s a good track with a good beat, but it doesn’t come off as orchestrated to me and it doesn’t fit the sheer scale of the dragon or the intensity and atmosphere of the fight itself. Zhaitan’s fight had an amazing orchestrated track from Soule – as did Mordremoth’s Dream Form in the final story chapter, but I was dissapointed to hear that Mouth of Mordremoth from the open-world fight wasn’t on on par, or on the same scale with such epic tracks.


So during my second fight with the Mouth of Mordremoth, I kept getting a little underwhelmed with the said music that was playing in the background, and decided to mute it for “The Shadow of The Dragon” music from season 2 instead. The result was much better; it made the fight so much more intense, epic and memorable. If I could make a suggestion without trying to coming off as too snarky or stuck up here – I think it would be better to swap the current track with the track mentioned above, or the orchestrated track that plays that plays during the Mordremoth story battle. Either or would be a much better choice for such a great fight, while the current track should be swapped for one of the earlier phases in the map event, like the 3 blighted trees before the final battle. I think the playerbase would end up loving what is already such an amazing fight so much more, too.

(edited by La Goanna.8142)