Guild Wars 2

Hello! Hello! I’m a bit surprised that no one started this topic of everyone’s favorite golem. Pretty sure most of you check the wiki and all, but something caught my attention:

Hero-Tron

This former Consortium golem has undertaken perhaps the biggest journey of all. After losing its job (its job being to berate refugees into getting jobs themselves), trawling the streets of Divinity’s Reach begging for coppers, offering to serve Scarlet Briar, being punished by the human authorities by being forced to collect money for the repairing of Scarlet’s damages, fleeing the law, and attempting to make amends by healing injured citizens during the initial invasion of Lion’s Arch, the Heal-o-Tron (formerly Job-o-Tron, Hobo-Tron, and Ho-Ho-Tron) finally found redemption aboard the Breachmaker, where it served a crucial role protecting citizens alongside Captain Kiel, using upgrades generously supplied by the Black Lion Trading Company. Will the Seraph now finally call off its manhunt? Result not available at this time.

As someone who never played Season 1 and had to watch Let’s plays and stuff. I enjoyed Job/Hobo/Ho-Ho/Heal-o-Tron’s arc. I also find it impressive how a gag character played a crucial role in the defeat of the main villain (don’t lie, you know he at least revived you at some point or another XD).

I really really hope he comes back for Season 2. Even if it was just for one scene I would be happy. I would be really happy if he gets to play a major though. Maybe he’ll try to heal the Pale tree? Hey I can dream don’t spoil it.

On that note what do you guys think? Will the golem return? And is he really going to be renamed Hero-o-Tron?

Lastly this is a “personal message” to any developer/lead writer/important person (if they read this that is). And it is MY suggestion I don’t want to cause an uproar or something. If Heal-o-Tron does come back I would seriously buy a mini of him. And by buy I mean the gem store for 400 gems. I know we have a mini Ho-Ho Tron but it would be nice to have him without the Christmas decoration IMO. Thank you for reading this

Maybe he will arrive to help the Zephyrites in the next season now that we know what happened. I really liked his story and would like to see him come back. And, yes, a mini please! Good suggestion, eduardo.

Ehhh, I find him a bit of a wearisome gag that’s overstayed his welcome, in my opinion. >.> I don’t dislike him, but he’s obviously there for comic relief and I think shoehorning him into a prominent role in the story would detract from the impact of Mordremoth’s attacks.

I think he should make an appearance at Halloween. Ghoul-o-tron collecting candy corn for something.

Taimi will fall out of Scruffy and Heal-o-Tron will jump in, becoming the head, and become Super-Hero-Tron!

Or, at least, I hope he gets an upgrade to a full body. Maybe he becomes the spokesperson for the Black Lion Company and Evon hooks him up with the coolest and latest tech. That might be cool.

Warning: spoilers ahead.

Currently, Hero-Tron appears to have a new job as an official representative of Lion’s Arch. As such, I will expect to see him again the next time Captains Magnus the Bloody-Handed and Ellen Kiel make a new appearance in the Living Story.

This could take a while, though, because Lion’s Arch is no longer one of the “great nations of Tyria” due to being in ruins. The best indication of this (temporary?) reduction in status is that no representatives from Lion’s Arch were present – or even invited – for the World Summit.

LA was never a nation though; it was an independent city-state that held an unusual amount of political power thanks to its prime location on the trade routes that gave it a disproportionate amount of wealth, but in terms of citizens and raw natural resources, it actually falls far short of what the racial capitals can provide.

Job-o-Tron, as he was first known, was never supposed to receive the development he received, according to (I think) Scott McGough, one of the writers. This was mentioned in either a Ready Up or POI video. He was developed because of player feedback, and is truly a product of the Living Story. Most of us like his story, and even if a player doesn’t like him, that player is aware of the changes he’s gone through. It would be a darn shame if he were left in the dust bin.

And YES! Another mini of him without the Wintersday lights would be awesome, especially if he were to spout some of his famous dialogue every once in a while, like some GW1 minis would make their monster noises (jungle troll for example). “Small-talk-initiated: Hot-enough-for-you?” Please, Anet?

I recommend you give him a house in Lion’s Arch, being the first ‘inorganic citizen’ after a vote by the council, and rename him to “Xenial-Tron” for short, so we can give him in he wiki a name that starts with X, “X-Tron” for short, so it works for whatever any other name you want to give him.

He could then welcome visitors to his house, and tell players he has joined the collection trend but isn’t much of a traveler himself, and ask for random stuff from around the world that isn’t too rare or too expensive (junk, karma items, cheap materials) and gives 5 weekly X-Tron Gifts in exchange.

He could then appear in other places, but his version while in LA would always be “X-Tron [Collector]”.

MithranArkanere.8957:

I recommend you give him a house in Lion’s Arch, being the first ‘inorganic citizen’ after a vote by the council, and rename him to “Xenial-Tron” for short, so we can give him in he wiki a name that starts with X, “X-Tron” for short, so it works for whatever any other name you want to give him.

He could then appear in other places, but his version while in LA would always be “X-Tron [Collector]”.

1. Thank you all for the feedback. I really appreciate it.

2. this idea sounds good buuuuut idk about the X-Tron. With the exception of Job-o-Tron, the golem has been called H 4 letter-Tron. And Hero-o-Tron (have no idea who came up with the name btw) sounds fitting since it starts with H and has 4 letters. If the devs were to implement this idea I guess his name would be “H-Tron [Collector]” at the very least. At least IMO anyways.

Thank you. Thank you so much!