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No flying mounts please, but I wouldn’t mind a dungeon or area that revolved around flying be it the character alone or an airship like the zhaitan fight…. but please much more exciting than …. ugh that fight.
I like this idea I would definetly love to play a light armor Guardian with much more support and range.
Since the Zaishen are dedicated by lives to Balthazar, shouldn’t they be heavily influenced by him in terms of their skills? Tons of fire and what not.
http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Zaishen
Two of the images provided aren’t Zaishen or affiliated with them, not sure if you were implying that or not. One is Shiro Tagachi of the Imperial Guard in Cantha. The other is a Kurzick in Cantha as well. If you just meant to use those as armour example then ignore this part.
It is an interesting Idea none the less, but the problem I run into with this class is this:
1) The God’s aren’t helping the humans anymore and the Zaishen are 100% loyal and dedicated to Balthazar.
2) The Great temple of Balthazar were the Zaishen are from is located on the Battle Islands. With Bubbles the dragon, we really don’t know what has happened to this island chain.
On your 2 points
1) The Gods might not be helping the humans but that’s not stopping them from worshiping them and the idea of the zaishen is for a flexible and versatile combat master (note not arms master that’s the warrior) not directly linked to balthazar.
2) The battle isle are gone that’s much is known from the movement of the world article long ago. Regardless of this the zaishen can very well be alive still since they had ample access to the mist and could have escaped there facing imminent destruction and survived there the last 250 years along side innumerable ghost of warriors that fall on the mist taking from them and perfecting their style. (I say this because all PvP takes place in the mist).
I have tried multiple times to level up an Alternate character in GW2 to no success… Every time I get on a character that isn’t my main its just agonizing thinking of how long its going to take and all the things I have to repeat in a now mostly empty environment.
In other games there are various ways that your main character help your Alts other than in gold and crafted gear. A little extra help to get you though something that you have basically already done. I think GW2 is missing this and I see potential in the achievement system to make something new no other game has tried before.
The idea is basically to give bonuses to characters in your account based on how much you have in your achievements (and by extension your Main character). This could include some basic gear for leveling without having to depend on your luck on drops. Karma bonus at certain levels (10, 20, 30 etc) which also help you stay geared. It can also include a exp and/or karma bonus or a crafting bonus if you have your crafting maxed on your main.
All these bonuses could help alleviate the very tedious task of leveling an Alt in GW2. On your first character you don’t feel like you are going slow because everything is new. Even on a new character it can be ok for the first 30 or so levels while your story is different but past that when it starts getting slow it really starts to grind on the player.
So what does everyone think or what other bonuses can be given to your account for getting achievements ?
TL;DR Achievements on your main make you level up alts faster.
Sounds like a really good well-thought idea, and seems really fun too, since I’ve always liked martial-arts based classes in MMOs. And the fact that it can in some way tribute Guild Wars 1 is cool, since the Zaishen Order is an intercontinental guild in the original guild wars. But If I may be so bold do add, that the name Zaishen even though it has to do with Guild Wars lore, was actually a tittle and in my opinion too specific for a class, compared to the names of the classes in GW2. Something like Swordmaster, Warlord, Fencer, and etc. would fit more the GW2 style.
Zaishen itself wasn’t really a title since there was a Zaishen title track that would let you be a Zaishen [something]. Zaishen was mostly used to indicate you were a member of that guild.
Best thing about the Zaishen to use for a class is that we know very little about them, we basically know they were a guild that worshiped Balthazar and strive for betterment in combat. They achieved both of these through organized combat and training in their temples. They were also one of the few with direct access to the mist and the Tomb of Primeval Kings.
So 250 years later how could the Zaishen have evolved? Well here is what I think (would love to see the answer of other people). Upon the rise of Zhaitan and Orr we all know the Battle Isle disappeared from the map. The Zaishen Order escaped to the mist before their own destruction arrived.
So with their link out of the mist was severed they continued their operations within the mist and kept on surviving there. Present day with the Asuran opening more portals to the mist we find the Zaishen and they bring with them the results of their 250 year training and combat refinement withing the battleground of the mist. Remember in the mist there’s constant combat as the souls of great heroes and whole battlefields can be found there, and the Zaishen survived there for 250 years.
Now this doesn’t mean every Zaishen fights the same way, same as all the other professions the Zaishen can specialize themselves the same way you have hammer warriors and staff guardians.
TLDR; The Zaishen made their own combat art by surviving in the mist for 250 years until they were found again by us.
Kinda long post but a good read. It be nice if Arena net dig into their past lore and resurrect this central part of GW1 as a new class.
Seeing as there’s 3 adventurers 3 scholars a new soldier to finish the trios would be a logical next step.
Hoping arena net takes something from this post and make some awesome.