Guild Wars 2

Hi all,

If you can’t take rants, please leave now.

I just want to address my concerns about the personal story here.
ArenaNet always advertised that Guild Wars 2 was also for the more casual players, player that cannot go on for hours because they don’t have the time.

Today I logged on and started leveling a bit, when I heard that a dragon(lv65) would spawn in 35 minutes. I thought I had enough time todo a personal story lv62. I got in and the following happend:

-Talk to several NPC’s
-Go to a cave
-Kill some mobs untill x area
-Nothing at x area, go to the next area and kill mobs on your way
-Theres people at the area, but now you have to defend them because there’s 4 waves of Undead(about 10+ each wave, playing on my own…)
-Last wave had also a few veterans in them.
-After the waves, you find out theres more people to be rescued
-Go in cave, kill more mobs untill you reach the people
-Escort the people to the exit, killing many mobs
-Exit is blocked, escort them to another exit, killing many mobs again
-There’s a boss at the exit, kill him and his 6 veteran mobs.

This took me about a hour… way to long and not entertaining to be honest. I liked the personal stories untill about lv55 where Lion’s Arch got overrun by undead. Fromout there things got too much the same. It’s all about killing packs of undead, nothing more. The personal stories take way to long to be entertaining, noone enjoys killing the same mobs for a hour.

Also it isn’t rewarding. Doing this at level 65 scales you down to 62, which makes you weaker. But the rewards don’t scale up. I gained about 5% exp from killing mobs, and another 25% exp from the quest, and some crap lv62 green weapon.

Anyway, I ended up being frustrated about the personal story, and it extending each time when you were thinking: finally, the end. I’m fine with killing mobs, but don’t spawn them in packs of 10-20, on your own.

After all I missed the spawn of the dragon by about 20 minutes, the next spawn is at 2:40 my time. Guess what I’ll be doing then? Sleeping.

The next time I’ll just sit and wait for the dragon to spawn, as it is too dangerous to do something else because you might miss it.

See this as a sort of rant, but also take this as a suggestion. Look into balancing the Personal Story at higher level, and please give us back the fun meter you had in the beta. This wansn’t fun at all, the same goes for the previous Personal Stories.

For anyone wondering, the personal story quest is: Forging The Pact

I liked this quest, and I don’t recall it taking me an hour to complete. What profession were you?

lv 65 Human Ranger with Shortbow and Longbow.

I can perfectly fine solo any mob/veteran anyway on the maps, it’s just that the undead in the personal story take too long to kill, and they spawn with way too many.

The story itself was fine, and I did enjoy it somehow, but I don’t enjoy killing loads of mobs which are hard to kill(HP wise)

I can see your point. I ran Longbow on a Warrior (which is probably a bit more PvE friendly), so I had the benefit of high AoE damage, but I did get downed and died a couple of times, particularly when Trahearne decided not to help (and stood nearby off to the right somewhere) after rescuing the first group and we had to defend against the first few waves.