What I can say for certain is this season was an improvement from the last one. Bringing back Heart quests, allowing me to continue working on the Gliding mastery chain, but most importantly… the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in Guild Wars 2.
THIS!!
An adorable whelp! Now I had theorized this would eventually become your dragon mount in Season 4, but Melan and Nappie both say that’s “a different egg”. Damn. Guess that makes sense. Would be too easy.
But anyway, there’s a lengthy section (a trial) that is used to form a bond with her (yes it’s a her, because she ‘told’ you). A trial of trust, mainly. It leads up to working with your whelp to fight a boss; teaming up with her to kill it. …But said boss is ‘bugged’. Not bug as in the encounter is broken, but the boss has an attack that heals itself with who it
fights. Aka, me.. and my minions. Every time I tell my whelp to strike and damage
it, moments later the boss completely heals itself using our life force…. making it unkillable.
Thankfully, I found people having the same issue. And one of them said there’s a few areas you can move out of the fight (which makes my minions pull back away from the boss to stop ‘feeding’ it), and literally let your whelp solo the boss. The boss doesn’t affect
her, somehow. Though the process takes a good 15+ minutes until it finally drops to the floor.
Sadly that’s the last time you get to enjoy time with your whelp. But, they give you a device that you get to go back and see her.
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The rest of the season is about.. not one, but TWO Elder Dragons waking up after the defeat of Mordremoth. Ohh shit. Thankfully, one of your friends knows a way to possibly deal with this, but needs time to test the theory. But later on, said friend
discovers.. OSHI– they overlooked something! If the two dragons battled eachother, it would cause all out chaos (destroying the planet Tyria is on). So that’s bad. What’s worse is the device has fallen under evil hands.
So you gotta work with your friend to stop the evil guy (this is so hard to say without spoiling), and.. well, he escapes (because this leads up to the next expansion), but thankfully the planet is saved.
Yet it doesn’t stop there. The final episode takes you back to Orr. Thankfully it’s in a different part of Orr, but Zhaitan’s energy (even though he’s dead by your
hands) still effects the island. And I even got to defeat an undead dragon.
Thankfully the Risen there, aren’t as bad as what I went through on my road to Level 80.
You also get to explore areas of Tyria that were once inaccessible, so that’s cool.
The final boss was actually fun, and overall I felt the season had an improvement over the previous ones.