Guild Wars 2

I am at that awkward stage of having to choose an order in order to progress in my personal storyline. (Pete Brady’s voice is haunting me…) I am having a hard time choosing between Order of Whispers and the Vigil. The priory is out (and if you know Iowerth, this probably counts as a pun). Here are the relevant details:

General information:
Race: Sylvari
Class: Engineer
Level: 46

Factors favoring Vigil:
1. Character is played as a “demolition man.” Favors ferocious personality trait. Favors battle over games and scavenger hunts. Traited predominantly explosives with grenades.
2. Vigil weapons (especially the rifle) look better than Order of Whisper equivalents.
3. Vigil has a cooler insignia (flaming eye) and color set (black and silver).
4. If I select Vigil, then I presume future storyline quests will be more combat oriented, which I would prefer.

Factors favoring Order of Whispers:
1. The character is an adventurer. Engineers are not sneaky, like thieves and rangers, but they are crafty and are masters of improvisation.
2. The character has dark persona with a Halloween-influenced name and color scheme.
3. The character was born under the cycle of night.
4. The Order of Whispers medium armor set is much cooler than the Vigil set. In fact, I believe this is the set one sees at the engineer creation screen.

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Join the Vigil. You will see plenty of head-on confrontation there. Engineers fit well into all of the 3 orders. The Vigil makes use of your “offensive” side. The Priory play more to the “inventor” side of being an engineer (if you play Charr one of your warbandmates recommends you join the Priory because they have the most powerful atillery). However as your personal story progresses you don’t really delve into neither research nor investion much, you basically play Indiana Jones and try to protext your over-eager mentor. At the Order of Whispers your mentor actually IS an Engineer. It’s somewhere between the other two orders… I’d describe it as the “improvisation” side. You will not feel “out of place” there, but as I said in the beginning, the Vigil really sounds like the best choice for the kind of personality you want to play your character with.

cough slight spoiler cough which order you are in only decides the next 20 levels or so of the personal story, they all lead to the same place… that said, I’d suggest Order of Whispers because you like their armor and that is something you can carry with you after the order part of the story is over.

As long as you understand your decision is permanent. Most people complain that they prefer the look of certain order armors so look in to that before deciding. From the aesthetics point of view, Virgil = military, Priory = scholarly, Whispers = spy

http://www.gw2armor.com/

Thanks for all the responses!

This is so hard, though I am leaning toward OoW. The character is basically an 80’s metalhead with artillery. Sort of the male equivalent of Kate Beckinsale’s character in Underworld. The Vigil is a military organization. I cannot see my engineer taking orders or commanding troops. He’s too chaotic for that. If OoW was more clearly about assassinations, then the choice would be easier. The mentors for Vigil and OoW are both well developed and interesting. Since the orders’ gear is not the best-looking in game, and there are no order-specific titles, it seems to me that the choice should be guided by role-playing and pragmatic considerations (e.g., who has easier or more interesting quests).

Okay, I think we have a winner. I watched the cutscene for each of the three orders. I think my character is going to ask Riel Darkwater to marry him. (Sorry Iowerth, don’t be jealous.) The cutscene for OoW was amazing! “Send the dragons back to Hell.” Definitely my style.

Thanks again everyone for your suggestions and help.