Guild Wars 2

Champion Arboreal Spirit: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Champion_Arboreal_Spirit

Overgrown Grub: http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Overgrown_Grub

These two Eternal Battlegrounds bosses have really cool and unique mechanics, yet hardly anyone bothers with them anymore, because of the large amount of time needed to defeat them and the very low rewards. So they just sit in their parts of the map seeing barely any gameplay. It’s been like a year since I’ve seen an organized group attack either of them.

I’ve learned how to solo the Champ. Arboreal Spirit as a ranger using movement-impeding conditions, using my pet to aggro, and timing dodges carefully, but even then it takes an hour and can only be done without being attacked by enemy players.

I think it would be a lot more fun if both the Spirit and the Grub were mercenaries protecting Speldan Mill and Umberglade Mill, respectively. A server would have to defeat them to take allegiance like any other mercenary and they would make capturing those camps so much more challenging. Currently it only takes one experienced player to capture a camp—this would add a new and rewarding element. A third boss could be added to Golanta Mill in the Lowlands area.

Or, if that idea doesn’t interest people, how about changing the mechanics of these two NPCs so they actually have an interactive effect on zerging gameplay?

I also think the rewards for both bosses should be substantially increased and/or changed to a sliding scale such that the rewards are greater the fewer players were involved in killing them.

If you put them at speldan and umber… you gotta get another champ out to a green camp to even it out. I like the concept… right now everyone avoids them like the plague so they are relatively useless.

Arboreal Spirit and Overgrown Grub are what you do when you’re bored as kitten in extremely unbalanced matches. It is like the absurd cherry on top of the sundae of absurdity.

Chaba.5410:

Arboreal Spirit and Overgrown Grub are what you do when you’re bored as kitten in extremely unbalanced matches.

yEAH SOS has been afflicted with that issue for a while…

I think this is something they could do if they decide to keep the current WvW maps around (they mentioned we won’t see these maps for a while/if ever once the new maps are released, due to needing a rework). I really like the idea of havoc/roamers being able to capture buffs and alliances for their server. The only time I killed the tree champ was when my guild was bored and decided to do it for laughs, so it would be nice to have a reason to kill it more often.

What I really want to see, though, are quaggans back in WvW!

No one bothers with them because we don’t want more pve in wvw

Maybe killing one could grant a short buff of something or even being able to hold an extra +5 supps till you spend it or if it ‘must’ be on a timer; say, ~15 mins?

Just my 2 cents.

The only use for those two is to troll either Bravost/Blue keep with the grub or Spirit in speldan, the fact that both are HP sponges is pretty good for this purpose.