Guild Wars 2

I had a great time with the personal story, even with all its poor Alzheimer-suffering characters (oh, it’s that guy I spent 4 missions and some close moments with, and now he’s… happy to meet me…). But the end rewards are still far too low, even with the update that updated the treasure bags to “probably not blues” and gave one extra unique rare.

Here’s what you get:
- 1000 guild influence (nice! Now that’s what I’m talking about!)
- 1-2 WvW siege plans (Wv… huh? That’s a different part of the game.)
- an account-bound token for a unique weapon skin (not too shabby, although – rare items? Really? Not even one exotic?)
- 3 “treasure bags” that contain 3 random junk greens and probably a .0000001% chance at something better (lol, lol, lol, oh wait you’re serious?)
- lots of XP and maybe some tiny amount of copper I didn’t notice (not really worth anything)

The personal story took me about three and a half months to complete. The main problem is that I also participated in an event that took 3 and a half hours to complete, and it gave two junk rares and two junk exotics (with a tiny, maybe 1% chance to get a precursor worth 400g). That is a bit of a disparity. The personal story takes a long, long time and pretty much requires a max-level character, and it can only be done once per character. Where is the danger in upping the reward to the point where you feel like the reward was even close to the effort you put in?

Personally, I think the level of reward should be more along the lines of: one account-bound token for an account-bound precursor of your choice. It actually makes a lot of sense because then the personal story would be required for a legendary as well (it currently is not, unlike almost all other parts of the game) and people wouldn’t be going nuts over precursors anymore. I know they serve an important function (massive gold sink) but it still seems like that’s the level of reward it deserves. I will be quite surprised if the promised “scavenger hunt” for precursors takes more time and effort than the personal story.

Here is more like what I would have expected:

- 1000 guild influence
- an account-bound token for a precursor
- 3 “treasure bags” that contain 2 random junk rares and 1 random exotic
- lots of XP and maybe some tiny amount of copper I didn’t notice

And honestly what would have made the most sense, even ignoring the precursor stuff:
- an exotic weapon of your choice, with stats of your choice
- two exotic trinkets with stats of your choice
- 3 treasure bags with random rares or exotics
- guild influence and XP/gold

I just don’t see how this would have imbalanced the game. And obviously implementing it now would require a huge one-time shipment of rares/exotics/precursors out to all the people who’ve finished the story, and that would have some short-term ramifications to the economy – but it would recover, just like it did after the karka event.

Seriously, the ending of the story is great, but the loot is really, really terrible. Even post-fix.

Sorry, forgot the other most important thing I expected to receive: a title. The in-game cutscenes even specifically mention giving you a title (and not just “Commander,” but something long and frilly), but you never actually get it. I assumed this was bug.

If I can get a title for carving like 25 pumpkins, surely spending 3 1/2 months is worth something? And unlike the other (needed) changes, this won’t unbalance anything in the economy.

I just have to agree with this.
Also, I haven’t finished the story yet, but given my RNG jinx, I will surely have blues instead of greens from the treasure bags (like almost everytime when I open a chest).

I like the story, but if I kill a dragon in the end, I’d like to feel powerful too.

Totally agree, cannot believe the rewards for how painful the story quests are, the rewards are just non existent in my eyes, after playing Gw1 and getting an awesome item at the end what the fluff happened with GW2 a rare and a few bags of trash…. seriously..

Op has it exactly right, give use something worthy of the work involved and having to deal with trahearne does deserve a precurser in my opinion.

Indeed the story only worth while leveling is experience.
At most times, if you also do dungeons while leveling, you won’t need the items.
After you hit 80, the story is only good to motivate you to explore Orr, to complete Arah story mode, and the best thing I found about it is the removal of the current story step from my upper right corner of the screen.
With my 2nd char it’s even worse. I hit 80 at the step of level 70, and the story is totally worthless.

I don’t see a title as a reward since all characters should have it eventually, which will make it also pointless and none unique.