Guild Wars 2

I’m playing far rarer than before, because I just can’t connect to it. I don’t really like Sylvari and I don’t really like how everything was tied back to one Sylvari antagonist.

Really though there’s lots of things that in my opinion are currently wrong with the living story. I guess I just wanted to went out.
1. As I already stated, one theme stays for too long. The Queen’s Jubelee, TA revamp, these two nightmare living stories. Please give me variation! I can’t connect with sylvari, so why not mix it up a bit? Give something for norn lovers? For asura lovers? For charr lovers?
2. Everything kind of springs into existence. Instead of an update every two weeks, why don’t we get in between updates that update the map and actually make it seem changing? The tower of nightmares felt like this: “tiny hint”, “tine hint” “BAM THE WHOLE MAP WAS CHANGED!”
3. It lacks personal involvement. My character doesn’t get to choose what she says. It doesn’t really connect to my character. It doesn’t involve the server or the community as a whole even.
I get that you can’t make all of our choices seem relevant and unique, but isn’t there any way to branch it? Even in the small 1 living story instance you could give a player some sort of choice. And that choice could lead to some sort of different outcome with a different mini reward. Sort of “choose your own path” kind of thing. And unlike in the previous voting living story, don’t encourage us to do all. Don’t even allow us to do all. Maybe allow us to re-choose the path partway trough, but do force us to pick one. It kind of adds to the character development.
Either that or do a voting between servers again. I don’t even care about what. It brings a role playing element, it brings involvement, it brings life.

And my last point. Does it all lead anywhere important?
It has been a year and a half and I’m not thirsty for pink items and fake time gates, I’m thirsty for lore. Old lore, new lore, old lands, new lands, DRAGONS, something. This thirst unsatisfied and growing, coupled with a prolonged living story theme that I can’t connect to, just makes me more and more reluctant to log on.

This is just a feedback thread. I’m aware that some people won’t share my opinion and they’re in their rights not to do so. They can share their opinion and we can have a discussion about it. I just felt like getting it out there

I’m in with the Sylvari Antagonist…
But I’m not with plant-themed stuff.
For any race, there are thousands of possibillities with clothing…
For Sylvari who want to stick to their leafs in clothing and weaponing there isn’t so much choice. 4 sets for each armorclass. Every other race has A LOT more!
Only a few weapons, and yet there are only 3 Fitting backpieces, and SADLY they’re not even dyeable.

There are only 2 townclothes for Sylvari, the Standard one and the cooker’s Outfit… Compared to all the other stuff… that’s NOTHING.

So stop whining and make your choice out of what you have, and that’s more than 5 times more of a choice than Sylvari Players have.

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When I say “plant themed stuff” I mostly mean the story itself. For one thing the items are not even that plant themed. The new helm looks like it belongs in SE, most of the armors that came out do not have anything to do with plants.
HOWEVER there are plant stuff in the game where it shouldn’t be. For example asura tiered karma weapon skins are plant themed. Why? No clue.

We did have Flame and Frost, which is norn/charr -driven.

Xae Isareth.1364:

We did have Flame and Frost, which is norn/charr -driven.

which was one living story compared to how many do we have about Scarlet by now?

Clockwork Chaos had her reveal,
That stretched out into the new TA,
That stretched out into the two living stories going on at the moment.

Xae Isareth.1364:

We did have Flame and Frost, which is norn/charr -driven.

It was by far, the most boring Living Story update to this day. (Not including the dungeon we got after 2 weeks, cuz that was awesome). Practically for two weeks we were running around looking for rocks and fixing signs…

Okay… Sylvari have asura themed Tier weapons too. Maybe because both races reside in maguuma jungle, or anet did just Forget to fix this.

As for the Story… oookay I’m with you too. I couldn’t stand Scarlet from the beginning on, but since she (or rather Anet) ruined TA for me, I even hate her. And there’s no way she could ever reverse that again. Also, it’s always the same. rolleyes Oooh Scarlet did it! And what? OOOOH SHE RAN OFF AGAIN… How surprising!

I cannot even take her serious. Honestly, if Anet tries to give mor depth to the Sylvari race there is a really nice theory out there regarding Mordremoth and the Pale Tree, that’d do a lot better than Scarlet. Even another Dragon would…

As for the Tower itself (excluding Scarlet) it is just one of These Content patches that brings out all the egoism of SOME Players who ruin the fun for everyone else. And even while I hate being egoistic, I’ll NEVER climb up that stupid Tower again and just stay at the chest, using the WvW bank to get my daily key for good. (Or having Access to the instance)

Mirta.5029:

Clockwork Chaos had her reveal,

Correct but beyond that there was nothing plant themed about the content itself.

could do with some corrupted ice equipment.

Xae Isareth.1364:

We did have Flame and Frost, which is norn/charr -driven.

Which Scarlet explicitly claims credit for in this latest patch. But I hear you, that one was pretty sweet when it stood on its own before the rest of this business started.

I’m sick of the Sylvari-themed everything. Sylvari main Antagonist, Sylvari Main character in primary story, Sylvari Dungeon update, Sylvari Nightmare tower, Sylvari weapon sets, Sylvari are the best at crafting & 2nd most intelligent race & immune to corruption & are possibly dragon minions.. blah blah blah….

They are the 2nd least player-chosen race yet Anet is infatuated with them. Even though Charr being the least chosen is a good reason for them to not focus on things like awful clipping & stuff on Charr.

We did have Flame and Frost, which is norn/charr -driven.

I’d hardly call it norn/charr “driven”. I’d say they added 2 minor characters (instead of using existing, established ones ones for some random reasons) & have done nothing significant with them with them since.

And the next update features more sylvari stuff -.-

Mirta.5029:

And the next update features more sylvari stuff -.-

Huh? There are new fractals, none of which are Sylvari-themed (Aetherblade Facility, Molten Facility, and the Thermanova Reactor), and Scarlet doesn’t even appear to be anywhere in sight. What Sylvari stuff?

Electro.4173:

Mirta.5029:

And the next update features more sylvari stuff -.-

Huh? There are new fractals, none of which are Sylvari-themed (Aetherblade Facility, Molten Facility, and the Thermanova Reactor), and Scarlet doesn’t even appear to be anywhere in sight. What Sylvari stuff?

“The Nightmare Continues: The Tower of Nightmares, which has occupied players for weeks, is headed for collapse, but the fight isn’t over yet. Players can continue their battle against the vile Toxic Alliance to destroy the foul structure and prevent its evil from spreading.”
http://www.mmorpg.com/gamelist.cfm/game/473/view/news/page/1/read/29156/Guild-Wars-2-Next-Updated-Called-Fractured.html

That’s not really part of the new update, though. That just means the Tower keeps going at the same time as the new stuff comes (presumably because it isn’t going to be destroyed fast enough at the current rate on the progress bar).