Guild Wars 2

I dread making alts because I have to do massive chores to make them useable with groups.

1. Map Completion – My group is doing an activity, but my alt doesn’t have a waypoint near that location. So, I either hold up the group while I run across the map, or I don’t go. Also to make legendaries this is required.

2. Personal Story- I really don’t want to reenact the same personal story for each character.

Doing these things once is fine, doing them for each characters is tedious.

$$$$ If I made more characters I would BUY:
- Backpack slots for each character.
- More bank slots for each characters gear.
- More transmutation stones.
- More bonus packs.
- More character slots.
- etc….

edited for accuracy

1. Running through a map doesn’t take that long, about 2-5min depending on how big it is and how fast you run, and the more you run through the maps to get to an area where your group is doing something, the more Waypoints you get, the shorter you have to run when you want to do something with your group.

2. As long as one person in the group has done story then everyone can do Explorable.

3. You don’t have to finish the Personal Story to make Legendaries, you do however have to get world completion

Regarding personal story and legendaries, there are a few Points of Interest that you can only get during Personal Story.

Tuomir.1830:

Regarding personal story and legendaries, there are a few Points of Interest that you can only get during Personal Story.

Which ones?
I’m pretty sure you can get everything just by running around the map. All the story events are in the actual maps in locations that you can access regularly, the whisper headquarters PoI doesn’t count, the dungeon PoI’s don’t count.

An area of Fort Trinity that is only visited twice during the game, both in the personal story, has a PoI in it. Unless, of course, they’ve removed it since I last checked, I think people complained about it a whole lot more back in the day.

If you’re talking about Caer Aval (where you collect your Pact Weapon after finishing the story), you can enter that instance without doing the story, I just checked on my Asura who hasn’t quite gotten to Fort Trinity yet in her Personal Story

CapN Biku.6024:

If you’re talking about Caer Aval (where you collect your Pact Weapon after finishing the story), you can enter that instance without doing the story, I just checked on my Asura who hasn’t quite gotten to Fort Trinity yet in her Personal Story

Yes, this was something they changes a while ago because people complained so much.

Any story Poi can be gained by walking to that point and entering an instance, like in the main cities. You do not have to be in Personal story to gain these, dungeon Poi are not needed for map completion

So, turns out my information was seriously outdated, so I redact my statement.

Auger.1790:

I dread making alts because I have to do massive chores to make them useable with groups.

1. Map Completion – My group is doing an activity, but my alt doesn’t have a waypoint near that location. So, I either hold up the group while I run across the map, or I don’t go. Also to make legendaries this is required.

2. Personal Story- I really don’t want to reenact the same personal story for each character.

1- having the possibility to make map completition in each character gives you a chance for 2 more legendary weapons per character (due to giving that map component), and since you already know the locations with this new character you’ll b faster to get there

2- in story you get free weapons/gear that help you in leveling, actually advantaging the player who’s created an alt… also Anet already said they are planning to add a chance to hide storyline

the story is far from the same every time. I’ve 6 level 80’s and still finding steps along the way I have never done because of different choices made.
Even after having completed every achievement associated with the personal story there are still missions that I have not done.

No.

I want my alts to get the experience from exploring. It helps with leveling. And the personal story is only the same if you choose the same options.