Guild Wars 2

Currently there are two half lighthouses in Lion’s Arch. The old one (that was destroyed during the karka-attack, and they are building a new one right next to it.

With some climbing you can still get into the old lighthouse and the npc’s are still there telling the story:
’ This lighthouse is the only surviving structure from the original Lion’s Arch. The rest of the city and its citizens were destroyed by the tidal wave created when Zhaitan raised Orr fril the depths.’

First off all it’s odd they didn’t remove the npc’s or changed the dialogue. Now it is as if they don’t know the thing collapsed on their heads. But guess Anet was a lil bit lazy here.

Secondly I’m rather curious why they make a totally new lighthouse instead of restoring the only remaining building of the original Lion’s Arch.

Any thoughts??

Personal opinion the idea to destroy the lighthouse in the first place was a bad one… just saying. Most likely though construction will be continued (or finished) with the end of Wintersday

I kind of like the idea of building a new lighthouse (perhaps one that’s better equipped to house modern technology!) and leaving the ruins of the old one to preserve what’s left of the original, as a historical structure. They could even house a little ‘Old Lion’s Arch’ museum in there, for those who aren’t able to take a swimming tour in the harbour…

They probably should change the NPC dialogue to reflect the decisions made about the lighthouse by the authorities, though. Maybe we’ll see that when we get a completed new lighthouse.

Well the old lighthouse is still standing. It wasn’t totally destroyed, so their dialogue still makes sense.

No, the base is still there, the light house portion is gone.

Well it’s still kind of standing, even if it missing the top half. Truthfully I didn’t even notice since I don’t remember what it looked like before and I missed the event with the crabs.

Here’s a screen shot of my female norn in the early beta’s right next to it. There’s very little of the lighthouse portion left.

In addition to the post above, this is what is left of the lighthouse, with my charr engineer, a few days ago.

The NPC also states that the lighthouse went through multiple renovations. So to her this may count as just another renovation.

And about 1/3rd of the lighthouse is till standing, folks.

Yes, but the portion of it that is a Lighouse is gone. All that’s left is what would have been the watchman’s house (basing off of the way lighthouses generally work.)