Guild Wars 2

I feel the Living Story quests needs a side progress bar on the UI like Dailies and the Personal Story line.

I had a friend online that knew nothing about the Living Story line, achievements or progress.
He’s playing a low level Sylvari and hasn’t gone near a main city or Norn/Charr areas in the last few days so knew absolutely nothing about the Living Story or the F&F Prelude Achievement.
(he thought the mail message was to do with his Personal Story)

It seems if you haven’t read the forum or news feed on the site you could possibly not know about this new story line or that it has a limited time to complete.

Its a bit ironic that to find out about new stories in Tyria that are meant to be immersive you need to break the proverbial fourth wall and read about it on the forums.

Tribune Brimstone and I have commissioned two soldiers to act as city heralds. They are positioned near the Plains of Ashford exit and Lion’s Arch asura gate, and are knowledgeable about worldwide events of interest to the charr nation. If you’re traveling outside of the Citadel, Lion’s Arch has also hired heralds. Stay informed and speak with them regularly.

All races have something similar.

If you don’t read the mail, then I’d say that person isn’t worried about immersion anyway.

The problem with the Living Story mail is that it has the same Icon as the Personal Story. I had two friends think the mail was part of their Personal Story and so paid little attention to it, thinking they would deal with it eventually in the Storyline. They had no idea that this Living Story event is likely temporary.