(edited by Dante.1508)
Why am i a Sidekick to a NPC?
Silly noob! Have you played any other mmo’s? The ones I have, (including WoW) has you side kick with NPC’s. Also Traehern is and will continue to play a major roll in the game in up coming content release. Enjoy the game and stop bein so critical. =D
“Always tell the truth, even if it leads to your death.”
Traehern really isn’t that big of a scene stealer. He’s a compatriot, for sure, and plays an important role, but isn’t by even a small shot the main contributor (you) for the fall of Zhaitan. Also, very clearly, if you are complaining about Traehern, you didn’t play Nightfall with that infuriating, credit-stealing, scene-hogging, dead-weight, good-for-nothing Kormir, one of my most disliked characters ever. That was back before Arenanet realized that you should be the hero of your own story, not dead-weight baggage who does nothing, then steals the credit for all your hard work and ascends to godhood.
“Maim. Rinse. Repeat.”
Traehern really isn’t that big of a scene stealer. He’s a compatriot, for sure, and plays an important role, but isn’t by even a small shot the main contributor (you) for the fall of Zhaitan. Also, very clearly, if you are complaining about Traehern, you didn’t play Nightfall with that infuriating, credit-stealing, scene-hogging, dead-weight, good-for-nothing Kormir, one of my most disliked characters ever. That was back before Arenanet realized that you should be the hero of your own story, not dead-weight baggage who does nothing, then steals the credit for all your hard work and ascends to godhood.
Ya I guess the reason why I don’t have much of a issue with Trahearne is that compared to Kormir, he actually build up his entire life for this very moment of cleansing Orr while Kormir never had this kind of story.
Trahearne:
Ever since the day he was born everyone kept telling him his Wyld Hunt was impossible. He spent all his years studying Orr and despite how many people keep telling him what he is trying to achieve is impossible he never gave up trying to find a way to Cleansing Orr. He made many allies and earn the respect of each 3 Order through his journey before GW2 story began. This part of the Personal Story finally brings a end to that long journey he has spent his entire life trying to achieve from the moment he was born.
Kormir:
She was the leader of the Sunspears disappeared for a moment of the story then returned after we saved her. Throughout the story she does help us and suddenly was given the power to become a god suddenly with no real build up to that plot of the story.
Silly noob! Have you played any other mmo’s? The ones I have, (including WoW) has you side kick with NPC’s. Also Traehern is and will continue to play a major roll in the game in up coming content release. Enjoy the game and stop bein so critical. =D
Very funny, the whole point of the personal story and of this game was to get away from the way World of Warcraft does things. When a “The Elder Scrolls” game has a better way of dealing with the original poster’s issue, something is wrong. I don’t buy the whole, “we can’t write a nameless character in to lore,” when Dovahkiin is remembered by everyone and is part of the lore, despite the fact a lot of people had trouble finishing the main quest in that game. In this game, regardless of your path, personal story ends after you join an order, then the story is the same for everyone…
The main reason I haven’t finished my personal story is the fact my character’s story was hijacked by a random person. Oh, and I am glad I wasn’t Sylvari, since he takes your sword…
“LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR AS YOURSELF”
He is a glory thief, just like Kormir.
She was also much disliked at the time of Nightfall, for almost exactly the same kind of reasons. Complaining may not fix the issue, but might prevent the Arena Net writers making the mistake a third time.
“I am Evon Gnashblade and this message is acceptable to me.”
He is a glory thief, just like Kormir.
She was also much disliked at the time of Nightfall, for almost exactly the same kind of reasons. Complaining may not fix the issue, but might prevent the Arena Net writers making the mistake a third time.
I wouldn’t count it, they didn’t learn from Nightfall, and they’re poised to make the same mistake again with the “chosen one norn” when the Jormag chapter kicks in.
Better question. Why does Traeherne even exist? They have a book and a huge backstory to famous people in each race that are way more interesting than this guy, yet they get relegated to dungeon story mode? Destiny’s Edge should be the glory thieves if anyone, at least that would be a story worth watching.
The many different ways I can spell Regnilond xD
Guardians of the Creed [HATE]
Yak’s Bend
Guardians of the Creed [HATE]
Yak’s Bend
Yeah, Destiny’s Edge would have been much more tolerable – and it would have allowed for every race to have a figure to look up to during the latter portion of the personal story. It’s a real shame that Destiny’s Edge was effectively thrown to the side due to a very forced bout of ‘conflict’ that just came across as childish. Logan and Rytlock whining at each other got old pretty fast, yet more unusual was Zojja’s hatred for Eir. They would have been much better suited to leading the war effort in Orr, considering how they’ve already got plenty of experience in dealing with the minions of the Elder Dragons and the Dragons themselves.
Trahearne could still exist, he’s an interesting character – but one who just wasn’t suited to getting such a huge role. It’d be better if he acted as an advisor of sorts, perhaps briefing Destiny’s Edge and the united Orders on the various horrors of Orr.
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I wouldn’t even mind Trahearne leading the Pact as his in-character role, if he had more of a supporting role in the plot itself (like General Soulkeeper, for example) instead of being the star.
My problem wasn’t that he was leader – we were led by NPCs the entire plot, and most of them were fine – but rather that the leader seemed more central to my story sometimes than I did myself.
I agree with the comment that it should have been Destiny’s Edge, it was actually what most people, including myself were expecting. With so much hype created for the group due to the numerous trailers focusing on them specifically and even a book giving detailed background on their exploits, it was a bit of a shock when they only made a cameo appearance in the personal story. It really boggles the mind as to why the Arena Net writers decided on an anxious, meek Sylvari who is so lethargic he makes the player do all the work instead. What was wrong with Logan or Rytlock? People like those characters not only because they positive traits one can admire, they actually decide and do things.
Regardless, Trahearne was most definitely a bad decision on behalf of the writers, no amount of additional background or tweaks could ever save the character. Unless he becomes a villain in a later expansion, I think it the only way forward for him, otherwise it is best he be swept under the carpet, so we can ignore he ever existed.
I would still love to hear from a writer on the reasons behind the making the Sylvari the central focus of the personal story and why they wrote him as an unlikeable glory thief. It was either intentional and there is some reason for it as yet unseen or it was unintentional, which can only really be attributed to careless writing.
“I am Evon Gnashblade and this message is acceptable to me.”