Guild Wars 2

Just finished the personal storyline for my Asura Engineer yesterday by slaying Zhaitan. Now while I definitely like the storyline and don’t mind that one’s character isn’t your standard hero saving the world singlehandedly there was one small letdown: The rewards you get for completing the story.

My rewards:
1. 3 storage boxes which give random items: Two identical sets of pirate gloves (green quality) and a green pair of shoulderpads (heavy armour that I can’t even use for the skin)
2. A token you can exchange for a weapon skin
3. A voucher you can hand in for 1000 influence for your Guild
4. A bunch of WvWvW schematics

Comments:
1. The odd: I can understand how these boxes give random items but I would at least have expected yellow quality stuff, considering you need to be level 80 to finish the final missions. Even if you already have better (my Engineer is fully orange level 80 itemized) at least some yellow items would have been nice as a source of globs of ectoplasm. 3 green level 80 items, of which 2 are completely identical and 1 item isn’t even useable by my class is a tad disappointing.

2. The good: A nice reward, since GW is all about the looks of your character since the stats are all the same on the high end gear, both crafteable and those acquirable through dungeon tokens.

3. The social: Sweet. Nice to see something that benefits the whole Guild, so no complaints there.

4. The brainfart: Wtf? I get WvWvW rewards for something that is exclusively PvE based as an accomplishment? No idea what you were thinking here ArenaNet. As luck would have it I like and play WvWvW quite a bit but if I didn’t I about one third of my reward for completing the personal story would have consisted of things that are essentially useless to me.

So in the end a bit of a mixed bag. I love the voucher for influence and the weapon skin, but don’t understand the WvWvW gift. And a bit of a pity that some of the intermediate missions of the personal storyline brought me items that were more interesting than the final one which should have been the epic conclusion.

I had rewards very similar to those you describe, I didnt have high expectation of reward so I wasnt disappointed, my main motivation was to finish another aspect of the game.

Better rewards would however encourage players to revisit the quest to help those that are stuck looking for a party so they can finish their personal quest. It would be really lovely to see players actively looking for those that have got to Victory or Death and forming parties for them to walk them through the quest so they can all get high level rewards rather than the current frustrating situation of players reaching Victory or Death then spending a week trying and failing to get a party together while spitting teeth at this nonsensical and silly switch from solo to group in their personal story.

At the very end, you do get your selection of a pact weapon, which have some very nice skins (even in the weapons themselves aren’t that impressive).

I think the WvW stuff is to enourage you to follow a new goal and try something new. (…I still don’t want to, tho)

Just finished my personal story and I was disappointed that you went through all that trouble just to get a weapon that is so incredibly terrible you want nothing to do with it.

Yeah, nice skins, for sure but is that it? You just killed the ultimate baddie and did a huge favour for Tyria and you’re rewarded with this? They definitely need to be retuned. Or at the very least offer a few more weapons with other stats than the ones currently in shop.

Thraxas”

I had rewards very similar to those you describe, I didnt have high expectation of reward so I wasnt disappointed, my main motivation was to finish another aspect of the game.

Oh don’t get me wrong, I played the story for the story and not for the loot. But still, completing something as big as the personal storyline, it would have been nice to have received something that was a bit more lasting than 3 green items.

A nice title, maybe a unique minipet etc would have been a nice reward. Then again finishing it does give you access to a rather unique set of item skins so……