An instrumental version plays in the last part of the final personal story mission, quite fitting and tear jerky since Orr has finally been cured of its corruption."Fear Not This Night", a beautiful and uplifting vocal version of the Sylvari Grove's theme.Awesome Music: With a beautiful soundtrack for the game's original release, Jeremy Soule strikes again! The post-release music has been fantastic as well, with suitably epic instrumentation for your adventure.Mercifully, it only spans a good 10-15 minutes with a good group. It sure doesn't help that you'll be repeating this fight many more times, due to the daily rewards being fairly generous. The final boss(es) of the Icebrood Saga may be even worse than Zhaitan as, instead of fighting Jormag and Primordus directly, you instead fight their "champions", Ryland and Braham, until they're knocked out, then fling yourself in front of either elder dragon and spritz their face with a little magic beam a few times until the game makes you repeat the process and they ultimately take each other down, themselves. Fortunately Anet are slowly working on improving the bosses and have already massively reworked the Shatterer encounter to be a serious challenge again. Others, like the Fire Elemental that appears in the Thaumanova Reactor in Metrica Province, are more dangerous, but not designed to scale to the MASSIVE parties of players that gather to fight them- the Fire Elemental in particular is infamous for having a long and tedious preparation stage that takes over ten minutes (not hard, just long), only to die in 30 seconds or less. The Shatterer was a particularly Egregious example, since almost every player just congregated on a small hill on the right side of his head and bombarded him with stuff until he died, because he could neither move nor turn his head to attack that area. Some world bosses are just too limited in their scope to be any threat to any reasonably cautious force of players.Although to be fair, the idea of "facing Zhaitan directly" is borderline absurd because he's the size of a small mountain. While initial bugs in the encounter that prevented him from attacking were fixed you still never feel very invested in the battle. For such a hyped up Big Bad, the fight against Zhaitan is an incredibly impersonal battle where you never get to face him directly, the final phase of the encounter having the players bombard him from afar with artillery while he spews poison breath attacks and undead dragon tentacles all over the ship.Human characters of the Street Rat origin don't act as if they care much if Quinn gets killed by Two-Blade Pete, after the initial rage wears off anyway.
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