Guild Wars 2

First and foremost, I’m not that great of a player. I’ve gotten better but I’m by no means great at this game.

I have done a lot of the dungeons in this game and all of them have been with pugs. The skill level difference of people in this game is astronomical. I think when you are given infinite amt of repawns in your personal story you really can get by sucking and still get through.

As you level up, these personal stories need to teach people how to dodge and survive… if you die… You have to restart over… you can’t just respawn and start where you left off and finish the story. Sure it is frustrating, but people need to learn how to play thier character and the strength and weekness of their character.

This doesn’t work. Here’s why.

There is a specific area during the level 60 quest chain where you end up having a AI army fight a AI Orr Army. During this encounter, your allied AI army will fail, and that leaves a mob of about 7-12 (Depending on if the second wave triggered or not) zombies chasing you around the field. Even with Run and Gun tactics, you will be overwhelmed at least once, after which you can run around the army and revive your own.

However, there is a near guaranteed Death during the mission in question, due to the lack of the AI army on your side. To have to restart that scenario, instead of going to the Waypoint and rallying your dead troops, is just going to be an exercise in futility.

Two things m8, I am very well versed/practised in my Profession, Combat Abilities, and combat tactics/techniques in this game & half dozen other MMO’s. My post was directed to Devs… Your response bears no validity either to me personally, or to the issues I brought up to them. And no… you do not have to respawn/restart over again, you have the option to comeback to a checkpoint and indeed, continue on from the exact point you left off at.

I will not trouble these boards in future when a ticket/bug report is obviously more warranted and better received.

Suggest you check back to some of the other personal quests folks have submitted posts on… Quite a lot of them address the same type spawn rate problems that I did.

Tks for the clarification/insights Sarah… Was going to retry the zone with a duo of heavy AoE hitters in group – it definitely appears to be a group instance needed to even up the battle field odds.

Is this the mission that happens in Lion’s Arch? Because if it is, it is eminently soloable! (hint, look around for siege weapons)

The story should be just that — focused on a STORY, on immersion and characterization and lore and twists and turns, friends and foes. Not on twitch skills. Certainly not on “punishing” people. Almost all of the game is already about bouncing around, killing things, looting stuff … I want the story missions, at least, focus on something else.

That said, I do think the game needs some way to encourage learning. The difference between open-world content and the first dungeon is just brutal. As are a few group events in the open-world content. There should be more of a middle ground between the “2-5 people can steamroll this on autopilot” and “grotesquely overpowered champion with various one-shot attacks, especially in melee”.

Chidawg.6315:

As you level up, these personal stories need to teach people how to dodge and survive… if you die… You have to restart over… you can’t just respawn and start where you left off and finish the story. Sure it is frustrating, but people need to learn how to play thier character and the strength and weekness of their character.

I agree with you, the personal Story is quite easy, also the battle that was mentioned is easy when the right strategy is used.
I also think you forget that the Dungeons are part of the personal story even though they are not mandatory.
That’s where the people get their skills from.

By the end of the personal story everybody will know how to use dodge and better use their skills, doesnt mean you need that while doing events in Orr. And if you don’t have these skills you won’t make it far in Explorable and will have to get these skills to continue…

That was how the game was set up I guess, the personal story is to tell your personal story first and foremost.
It fails partially because so much potential goes unused on the story telling side, however the difficulty seems approriate to me.

The problem in all my personal story lines is all the AI companions you have are useless. All the mobs make a bee line to me as some as i start shooting. I even have waited for all the AI to be engaged with each other but one shot from my bow and they all come after me.

I was coping well until the human circus
story level 28 -just cannot do it. Way too much (for me)
can`t use my skills ,only the ones provided. Very stuck so will have another go in a couple of levels time

@tommion in a couple of levels in time it will be the same (your level stats etc drop to 28"

. i solo’d every single personal story quest as a thief. and this did teach me how to play the game. when you hit “retry from a checkpoint” the boss you are on regains full health. i dont think this topic is relevant. people learn to play as the game goes on, instead of being like omg your bad say hey try using these skills to benefit the group and NOT say. GO BACK TO YOUR PERSONAL STORY AND LEARN HOW TO DO DUNGEONS THERE. because that makes no sense…