Guild Wars 2

In my opinion finishing your personal story should be epic and the reward should be a soulbound or account bound precursor for the legendary. People would still be required to level up two crafting lines. And the people who leveled by crafting or WVW would have incentive to complete their story line. I have 3 level 80’s and only 1 did the story line because the current incentive is lack luster.

Ok, but then gift of battle needs to be only acquirable via RNG in the mystic forge.

Too easy. Running a character through the personal story is much faster than farming the gold to buy or luck out on the forge for a precursor. Much worse if it’s account bound since you can make temporary alts for free precursors for your main. Even if the legendaries created from them are account or soulbound, the higher demand for t6 mats will throw a monkey-wrench into the market since most players probably have completed their personal story on at least one character.