Guild Wars 2 wants you to kill something much more awesome at level 1 than rats.

Alongside of their manifesto video released yesterday, Guild Wars 2's Mike O'Brien wrote a blog entry entitled "Walking the Walk," declaring that Guild Wars 2 would be able to back up all the lofty claims they've made about revolutionizing the MMO game genre. Something that stuck out to us was what O'Brien revealed you would be fighting right off the bat as a level 1 character.

Mike O'Brien:

"Check out the scene in the video with giant hands reaching out from the ground creating a vortex of destruction. That’s an earth elemental, summoned by an enemy shaman as part of a multiplayer event near the start of the human story. You’ll probably fight it as a level 1 character. That’s quite a step up from killing ten rats!"

Is that a breath of fresh air to anyone else? I'm sure each an every RPG game player has killed enough rats to clean out New York City. Get rid of boring quest text boxes along with the level 1 rats while you're at it, Guild Wars 2. Thanks!