OK I’m pretty sure the title is a lie. It’s more than likely that WAY back at launch I took part in a world boss battle, but I have no recollection of doing so. Also, this is kind of a thrown together lazy Sunday post, so apologies for that.
The other morning I was in-game, doing hearts and working on “My Story” when a call went out that a World Boss group was forming for an event that took place in an hour. AN HOUR? I ignored it because that was forever away. But I was still playing when the call went out that it was happening in 15 minutes so I started move towards the “Commander” making the call.
You can join a Squad just by clicking on a Commander (which is another player who… I dunno how they become a Commander, but it’s presumably an experienced player). So I joined their squad. No idea how many players can join a squad but it seemed, y’know, raid-sized.
I was a total fish out of water. Another player helpfully suggested I use a ranged weapon (I’m playing a Warrior) but I didn’t have one, so I hung back and mostly helped to res fallen fighters and to clear out the riff raff mobs on the perimeter.
Want to know what world boss it was? I have no idea! Want to know what zone it was in? I don’t even know that. I was just in my own little world when the call went out. I never really know where I am in Guild Wars 2, just always working my way towards that green asterisk thingie that indicates the next step in your story quest. I have find that going from one to the next on foot rather than teleport, and doing hearts and stuff along the way, has kept me pretty closed to leveled up enough to just keep rolling along, but I pay NO attention to where I am.
Oh wait, I took screenshots! It was Tequatl the Sunless!
I’m not sure I did any damage to the actual boss. At the end was a chest that looked like a trophy and I couldn’t seem to interact with it (image at the top of the post is of the chest, quite elaborate, no?), but what made the whole thing fun was seeing so many more advanced players in all their shiny armor and fancy mounts and stuff. It was a real spectacle and very aspirational. I can’t wait to keep moving through the game, learning new stuff, exploring new areas… I’m pretty jazzed about Guild Wars 2 now!
“Like I have NO CLUE what is going on, but I’m having fun!”
That quote is pretty much spot on for everyone in every MMO at some point in time. It’s such a universal experience!
Logically, I no I have no time to get back into GW2, but man, these posts are making me want to.
I just cannot believe you’ve never done a World Boss in GW2 before! There are dozens of them! They are everywhere! There’s one in every starter zone. In almost the entire ten years I played there was always a World Boss Train running that you could join which would take you endlessly around all of them all day long (Although you would need to have opened the waypoints to port to all the zones…) They even sell a gadget in the Gem Store that tells you when they pop (It might even port you to the location, not sure about that…)
I wonder if you are just thinking of the really big ones, like Tequatl, The Shatterer and Jungle Worm, plus all the ones in the various Living Story zones, that actually require a degree of organization? There are several websites that give all the times and details like this one. They’re all good fun and most of them are very easy. I had years of amusement doing them. I almost fancy doing Teq again. He was always one of my favorites.
I don’t really know what qualifies as a world boss, so like I said in the post I may have done them in the past.
But are the orange events that require a group and have 1 big bad world bosses? Because if so, yeah I HAVE done those. But nothing like this where the boss just takes up the entire screen and there are, I dunno, 100 people fighting them? It was madness!
But also keep in mind this is only the 2nd time I’ve played a character past level 20 or so… 🙂