Guild Wars 2

Due to the fact that a lot of people think opinions = constructive criticism, I’d like to ask everyone here to post responses that actually have substantial feedback to them. That said, I believe that there is no incentive given to players to complete their personal story, by that I mean that there is no in game value for completing it, there might be personal value, but there is no actual value in financial terms. I do believe that they need to give some substantial reward for following their storyline, otherwise people will not do it. Maybe get exotics, or money, or bags, or minipets. Anything really. Right now blues and greens aren’t cutting it, and it gives me no reason to do the story again except for my own personal interests within the plot. But in the end people need something at the end of the journey to make it feel worth it.

Well ill contribute in this thread saying that exploring an area lvl 70+ gives a better reward than slaying an ancient dragon wich was destroying and corrupting tyria.

also lets say, that i completed personal story before they “fixed” loot yet i havent receive my “proper” reward wich i dont consider 70+greens a proper reward tho, but i kinda lost hope that there will be a retroactive reward.

There are plenty of financial gains to be had elsewhere in the game, in my honest opinion. I find the personal stories to be a reward for themselves. I typically dislike MMOs because they lack any real narrative or ability to engage the player into any kind of a story. I have found the personal stories so far to be very well done, overall. I can actually think of some single player RPG developers out there (Bethesda cough) that could learn something from ANet. Are they as good as of the the old Black Isle Studios games (BG2, Fallout 1&2, Planescape: Torment), or perhaps the Witcher series? No, I don’t think so. But, they are still very good, and an unexpected gem in the MMO genre.

I have to say it’s just difficult to get to the story. I personally had a lot of trouble getting around Orr maybe cause I refuse to fight anything and maybe I’m just bad at pseudo- stealth. I got to the gates of Arh to fight Zitan and they were locked. I am not sure how you open them, but it looked like you need more than one person to do it or the promande had to be taken which can’t be done solo.

I thought the personal story was going to be soloable this includes getting to the markers. So I deleted the character and I am never doing personal story again or to the least where I can actually solo the thing for reals this time.

You will have to anyways if you want to continue to Act 2 of the Personal story. Also for that unique looking weapon you can only get once you beat Act 1 once Anet adds that on October 28

POI in Fort trinity -> Dev already said it was unintentional, they will fix it.

End loot -> Dev already said the they are bringing back GW1 style rewards (if you haven’t played GW1, read here http://wiki.guildwars.com/wiki/Droknar%27s_Key )

My Norn has all the bragging rights when he get’s back to Hoelbrak. Boasting around about the impossible deeds done yon and yonder and such. Yup.

So in a nutshell, the “quest” rewards are getting fixed, regardless once I get there (lvl wise) I know I will continue the story because I am not doing the storyline for loot. Not saying I don’t like shinies, that’s always a bonus.