Guild Wars 2

In character creation for Charr characters you choose a sparring partner and there is an effect in the story, they are a sidekick character for you, they’re in all of your story quests (or at least most of them) for 30 levels.

The equivalent character creation options for the other races however.. I have not seen them come into play. My mesmer never encounters lyssa, not an avatar, not a peep about such a blessing from any NPC… nothing.

Were these things just not fully developed due to time constraints, were they forgotten, are they something that’s going to effect future content, what’s the deal?

I mean my Sylvari is cycle of night… and she woke up during the day… so not even that miniscule detail.

Jeffrey, Bobby? anyone, could we get some clarification here?

They change up your home instance a bit but that’s it.

yandere.9176:

They change up your home instance a bit but that’s it.

what do they change in your home district?

For the Humans and Norn, you get a priest/shaman that has no dialogue at all except for the generic “Hello”.

And for Sylvari, your cycle leader stands around teaching saplings.

I’m fairly sure that this is something that was basically cut for time.
Which is really annoying.
:-/

I suspect that these options were originally intended to provide you with a mentor to do what the member of Destiny’s Edge does in the actual game.

Then they probably decided that they’d rather write and record a single set of dialogue using a Destiny’s Edge member (for whom they’d already hired a voice actor) than write and record 4-6 different sets of dialogues with different voice actors.

This way, they also get you familiar with Destiny’s Edge earlier, although it does seem odd that a Destiny’s Edge member would be so interested in you so early on (IMO, having a regular mentor would provide more of a sense of progression).

The Asura mentor also shows up in their home instance, though has nothing to say.