This has spoilers! Now is the time to stop reading if you do not want spoilers about the story of Guild Wars2:
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Ok, first off, storyline. I am in Teamspeak talking to guildies and we all agree. One thing would have made the final mission absolutely the best mission ever. I’m going to re-write this as a fanfiction because the characters enterplay has so much potential here.
After Zhaitan fell, you descended through the clouds through mists and into the gaping hole Zhaitan fell into. Inside here, the true final expected fight happens. Destinies Edge stands over a gaping chasm along side the group of companions that progressed through the dungeon. It is now Destiny’s Edge and the players versus the wounded Zhaitan. Because of his wounds, he is now weakened and vulnerable to be killed.
The final arena to fight Zhaitan commences when he rises back through the crater he created in his descent. Zhaitan clings to the walls and stays to the center of the chamber while the combatants must move along the ledges and cracks in the walls to fight him. Tunnels in the walls also create avenues to reach alternative ledges or routes. Different vertical levels are a must. Zhaitan has multiple heads, multiple everything. He can attach high and low, far and wide. Positioning vertically is just as important this fight as horizontally.
Through the damage dealt, body parts begin to fall off. Zhaitan in his panic, claws away at the walls frantically at his aggressors. After focusing one spot, he launches his claws into a wall but gets stuck. While stuck the party begins wailing on him while avoiding his breath attacks. After enough punishment, Zhaitan’s main head blasts into the rock infront of him and breaks loose. But it is here that Zojja’s golem lifts Logan into the air and throws him at Zhaitan. Eir lets loose arrows at Zhaitan’s eyes to blind him and Logan slams his hammer as hard as possible into Zhaitan. Zhaitan fumbles through the hole he just created into a new underground chamber.
This chamber is a secret underground cemetery for Arah’s nobles so that in the death of a noble, his body will remain separated from the unclean commoners above. The chamber is massive and the corpses are littered across the ground from the wall. Mausoleums scatter the cavern and many graves stick out from the walls. This is the last stand for Zhaitan.
Here is where Destiny’s Edge and the heroes face off against Zhaitan, in a graveyard full of some of the most powerful humans that lived in Arah and near countless supply for Zhaitan. Zhaitan, severely weakened at this point begins to utilize the corpses. He has been reduced from all of his smaller heads to just one head. His wings are clipped except for one torn boney limb reaching from his right shoulder and he’s reduced to only two tails. He is dripping glowing, bubbling green blood from multiple gashes and wounds.
Through the underground graveyard full of tombstones and mausoleums, the players fight and fight. Zhaitan though, too weakened, cannot stand up to their might. It is here that he is crushed down in front of the mausoleum of the first king of Arah. Rytlock had positioned himself upon the structure and stood overlooking the vulnerable chest of Zhaitan. Caithe saw this and thrusts her hands into the ground not far from where Zhaitan lay. Roots burst forth all around Zhaitan and rooted his shaking and bleeding arms to the ground. Strength fading from Zhaitan, he watches as Rytlock leaps with his sword high. The grip in both of his hands and blade pointed directly towards Zhaitan’s exposed, bleeding, aching and beating heart, he descends with the air around him bursting into a bright white and orange fkittenohothin roars with flaming power. The cavern shakes and the air wails along with Zhaitan as the dragon of death finally feels the taste of sweet death embracing him as his body becomes alight with fire, spreading through his veins as Rytlock pours fourth his energy through his sword into the heart of Zhaitan.
It is here that the now corpse of Zhaitan burns into ashes that spreads to rest along ground around the cemetery. The entire area is coated in the ash of the elder dragon. Destiny’s Edge and the party struggle to see until it settles. They are all coated in the ashes, but they all are content. The battle has now finally been one against Zhaitan. The elder dragon is dead.
This i think would make for an ending that would require fans to need a change of pants. It also still allows for Zhaitan to be slain by a notable permanent character from Guild Wars2 to avoid the “killed by unnamed champion of Tyria”.
i just, i know why they ended the final dungeon how they did… and i can’t blame them for not doing more, but still there has to be more ><