Guild Wars 2

I have to say, Runescape has some of the best quests out of all the MMOs out there. I have only recently bought GW2 and while the main story line is nice and all, it lacks in content and ‘fun’. Upon hitting max combat level, there is very little incentive to play the game (100% map completion and acquiring a Legendary is tedious) while the same cannot be said about Runescape. The reason why Runescape has succeeded for over 10 years is because of its fluid, dynamic, exciting quests. One such example that I have thoroughly enjoyed is ‘Monkey Madness’ (google it). I completed this quest in 2009 and to this day, it is still my benchmark for all MMO quests.

Please take the time to research Runescape quests and know that I am not here to hate on GW2 but to simply improve it so that I can permanently enjoy it.

P.S I’M ONLY LEVEL 62 CURRENTLY AND WHILE I AM ENJOYING THE MAIN STORY LINE (I’M STILL AT LEVEL 30 BECAUSE I ENJOY EXPLORING AND MAP COMPLETION) I AM GETTING THE FEELING THAT ONCE I COMPLETE IT I’LL FEEL VERY BORED. ALSO PLEASE ENLIGHTEN ME ON SOME LEVEL 80 OBJECTIVES.

First off all to prevent most troll’s Runescape doesnt have a great name among the gw2 community and it is unwise to reference to that.

On the other hand I think I know wghat you mean. You want more side story-quests-lines that go through the progress of having multiple goals that needs to be done in a sequence. There are some personal story lines that feels like that.

Norn level 10-20 story line: during the last moot you passed out and you have no memory bout what you have done. Now you have to help a char warband and backtrace your footsteps of that night.

level 60-70 line: someone dear has been killed and you are being blamed. cross Tyria to find evidence of you being inocent.

Actually I agree that more of these chains should exist.
(although i do hope the game is never turned anything like runescape. but that is for totally different reasons).

While I’ll leave Runescape as a distant memory to back in the day when I was around 13 and first introduced to MMOs. (It was my first) I will say that the way the game handles quests has always been a good one. The game does not have near the amount of quests as most MMOs BUT (and this is a BIG but) every single quest is unique in it’s own right! There are no tedious farming quests, escort quests, etc. Every quest is original and different and some take a long time to justify the lower amount of quests. It’s a quality>quanity factor that I feel many more MMOs should look into. I’ve personally only played the free Runescape back in the day but I completed every quest and it took me a good long while despite only 30 or so quests (Not to mention the near 300 I never experienced from the paid content) and not one quest in my opinion resembled that of a standard MMO and every one of them was fun and unique!

So while, as I said, I would not go back to playing RS simply due to it’s younger community and focus towards younger players (Not to mention I’ve been spoiled by GW’s graphics) looking into some of these very unique quests, even if not many were added at a time, could be a great way to add some more leveling and end-game content to Guild Wars that pulls it from the traditional MMO crowd. Maybe it could be introduced a quest or two at a time with achievements for completing them and on a monthly/bi-montly scale similar to the Living Story. (Except these quests won’t go away.)