Guild Wars 2

Apologies if I’m coming to this well after the horse is bolted, I haven’t seen any threads specifically addressing this.

I’ve recently started doing my personal story with a group of mates. Initially, we were all keen to help out in each others personal stories but party members other than the primary receiving nothing for participating is wearing a bit thin.

This is an issue because it’s a considerable time investment, our relative levels are now getting out of sync and everyone else is required to play catch up in order to progress a person’s storyline. We tried to solve it by alternating whose personal story we’re doing but because of our schedules, it’s very difficult to coordinate.

This seems like a very odd design. Is this working as intended? How have you guys solved this?

Yeah, it’s pretty awful. I was expecting some karma at the end. Or something. Right now I’m only doing this to help guild mates with problems.

Same. I thought maybe the karma/xp was bugged and wasn’t showing up in the combat window or something, lol.

I think Karma rewards would be a great addition for those that help out with PS missions.

Kitty La Boom Boom.4065 said:
I think Karma rewards would be a great addition for those that help out with PS missions.

Agreed! (karma at the very least – plus some coin would be nice)

True, Karma and XP for those helping out. And when it comes to Karma I think it should be rather generous as well cause it is fitting to recieve a lot of karma if someone helps out.

It basically runs contrary to the rest of the game. Whether it’s kills, resources nodes or events, everyone helps out because they get a reward. Everybody benefits in some way. With PS, only the primary benefits.

And while I don’t mind helping out because it’s all new and cool to me at the moment, after the 2nd or 3rd time through I’m sure I won’t have the same attitude…

One of the BWE’s had karma and exp rewarded for doing personal stories with friends, guess ANet did not like the idea of people rotating personal story quests and then leveling up that way.

Or it was just a bug, because obviously if you accept story progress when you are doing exact same story step than a friend yourself, then you are supposed to get rewarded even now.

I remember Colin saying they don’t like giving karma for anything other than Dynamic events, but there really should be SOME reward for doing this.

They should receive 1 black lion chest key for every helped storyline. :-D

I remember we’ve gotten some karma at the beginning, but that was changed very soon..