Guild Wars 2

Hey everyone-

I have been playing for about a month now and I really like the game! But…

I played a ele up to about 45 and was having fun but I was not enjoying the story because of the difficulty. Some quests were ok, but most seemed hard or over the top for no reason. So after some frustration I took a week long break, watched some twitch videos and decided to come back as a thief!

I am level 20 and really enjoying the thief But… A similar problem is happening. I am currently in a level 15 quest.. the quest involves killing 5 level 15’s at the same time… I have died 20 times trying to complete this and spent far to much time on it. yet again I want to put this game to the shelf..

I REALLY do want to play this game, and I REALLY do enjoy most if not all aspects of the game besides this issue.

This is a deal breaker, and honestly – if I knew that the story would be this frustrating I may have not bought it. I hope an option is made to change the difficulty of the quests or add a buff or something, anything!

Thanks

One last point- If its a personal story then how is each profession faced with the same mobs/team? If I am a ele then pair me with a warrior that lives for longer then 1 min or if I am a thief pair me with a ele that heals while I fight.

Obviously its a common problem and currently I am a unhappy customer. Hope this gets looked into.

the game SHOULD have hard things to do. If you are new to MMO’s and can’t kite or don’t have some much needed skills the quests aren’t the problem.

Edit : I’ve been doing PvE and the storyline in this and other accounts and i never put much effort to complete it.

Check that you are not under the recommended level. Also you may want to get better gear, if you post your build/gear etc we might be able to help you.

If you’re finding it too difficult, just PvE outside the quest chain for a bit, level up and get better gear. Even though you’re scaled down for the quest your gear isn’t which will make things much easier. I find them too easy sometimes when I accidentally over level before continuing my storyline :p

echokin.8295:

If you’re finding it too difficult, just PvE outside the quest chain for a bit, level up and get better gear. Even though you’re scaled down for the quest your gear isn’t which will make things much easier. I find them too easy sometimes when I accidentally over level before continuing my storyline :p

This. Personal Stories are too EASY now. If people keep making posts like this, the game will be child’s play and stupidly easy. Go level up, gear up, and then try again instead of complaining on the forums. You watched videos? Chances are the people you watched who did those were actually geared up or leveled a bit higher than the quest and you’re probably not.

Just to those crying out that Personal Storyline quests are already too easy: To be fair, some of the quests are bugged and clearly more difficult than they’re meant to be. As an example there was a certain quest in the Nord storyline that required me to level to twice the level requirement and also recruit two friends similarly leveled before it was remotely beatable. Even then we wiped about 5 times apiece. This was after a whole string of quests that I considered pushovers to beat solo. The difficulty does spike randomly and IMO it often seems to be unintentional and due to buggy implementation. My recommendation would be to report the quests that seem way too difficult and possibly they will be fixed, and in the meantime round up some overleveled guildmates and finish them as a party as they might be possible that way.

I have to agree with the OP. I have played every class except Mesmer (which my husband plays) and the personal story line quests are much harder than the level of the quest indicates. I can take on x number of mobs of y level in regular PvE content. BUT! As soon as I attempt to do a story line quest of Y level, all of a sudden the mobs are MUCH more difficult even though they are the same level as those I just got done handling outside the story line instance. This is poor design. The classes which have the best overall ability to do story line quests without much trouble are warriors first and guardians second. One should NOT have to level 5 or even 10 levels -higher- than the story line quest in order to have the traits and gear necessary to do the quest. Currently that’s exactly what one has to do (unless you’re a warrior or a guardian) which means you’ve already outgrown your gear item reward and it’s utterly useless. Nor should one have to complete the storyline by attrition and death after death while they take out one or two mobs at a time. The difficulty should match the level of he quests. The mobs inside a story line quest should NOT be harder than those of the same level outside the storyline quest and this is obviously not the case. The OP is definitely NOT alone in noticing this -and- in finding it utterly ridiculous.

The only thing you can do at this point is level FAR above the quest level before trying it -or- stand around begging someone to group with you and good luck.

i dont get all these “its too hard” topics…..

ive got a lvl 80 warr, 40 guard, 25 necro, and 11 engi and i still have yet to have as much trouble on these story events as people are claiming.

i mean yeah some are hard and challenging, which in my opinion is good, but ive never had to retry more then 3-4 times on any story mission :/

lol on my guardian i regularly have to do it 5 to 6 times to get it finished definitely now that i am at the lvl 75 storyline the mouth is whipping me up but good" I feed Zhiatan Zhaitan makes me stronger yay"

Really? It’s too hard? I usually end up doing the missions a level or two under the recommendation. Sure, I die a couple times, but it’s all in good fun

My MESMER has had no trouble with story quests. And mesmer isnt so good in PvE as other classes

lvl 75 storyline the mouth is whipping me up but good" I feed Zhiatan Zhaitan makes me stronger yay"

that was one of the few i never had an issue with lol i mean i did have snarl and whatsherfacekittenybloodlegionchick as well as the asuran assassin from the whispers, which definitely helped. snarl being a ranged fighter would just shoot down the little mobs trying to feed the mouth, and he never got killed cause he somehow ended up behind a pillar so the mouths aoe skills didnt hit him lol

Completed the Personal Story on my Necro, and rarely had an issue with difficulty. Currently playing an Engineer, lvl 33 and up to the lvl 39 story mission, only now is it starting to become hard, for obvious underleveled reasons.

I have a 30 Necro, 30 Gaurdian, 25 Thief, 80 Ranger and 20 Warrior. I can say I’ve had little to no issues with any class; the classes are designed to be able to play the PvE game solo. If you are dying take a look at what you’re doing wrong be it gear, builds, or even how you’re handling combat.

Elementalist and Thieves are both very squishy and you have to either kite effectively (Ele or Pistol/Shortbow Thief) or dodge effectively (Double Dagger Ele/Melee Thief)

On top of this, manage your CDs and use them at the appropriate times and less liberally; the game was designed with the solo player in mind. If you stop and think for a second instead of spamming you should be fine.