Guild Wars 2

(Before posting, I did attempt to find a previous thread by searching “Profession Lore” and flipping through several pages to no avail)

For the vast majority of players out there, choosing both a race and a profession for their main is absolutely the two most important choices (I would imagine) since you spend so much time developing him/her.

With that being said, I feel as if the lore and story (which I find to be an ArenaNet strength) surrounding race is satisfactory but what about the profession!?!?!?!

I don’t doubt that there is some profession specific stuff but I’m talking about adding a full branch of the story line devoted to your profession where you are simple engrossed in the lore around it.

Just imaging the story arcs for each profession is tantalizing. For the necromancer, can you imagine being slain defending Grenth’s shrine from the Sons of Svanir only to be summoned before his throne in the Underworld, challenge his champion and assume control of an undead army to seek revenge on the Sons of Svanir.

Or for for the ranger, finding the source of a poison that has turned all of the Veteran Oakhearts in the area hostile because the Grawl tried to tame them and curing it through scavenging for Melandru’s Legendary Tear in the most remote region in the (in game) world.

I would love to hear anybody else’s ideas on a story branch/arc devoted specifically to a profession. I think lore is definitely a strong point for ArenaNet but I hope they add something that really pushes you to experience the meaning of your profession.

Except, that you have to make 40 different Profession specific storylines because there are 5 different races in 5 different locations across Tyria. You can’t have the Ranger quest only in the Shiverpeaks where the grawl are poisoning the oakhearts, and you can’t just have any Necromancer be summoned to Grenth’s Domain because only one of the races even cares about the god’s existence. The Charr Necromancer might even Attack Grenth on sight.

I would love to see Profession specific Quests though, after the Personal Story or alongside it so five million different versions don’t need to be created, but it has to be a job that only that Profession can do. A Ranger can’t do the Thief quest, and the Thief can’t do the Ranger’s Quest, etc.

And completing the quest either way gives you a skill point and some loot, but,..Apparently since all MMO’s have traditional Quests except Guild Wars 2, its Bad.

Dynamic Events, good. Quests, bad (well, according to developer interviews from 2010 atleast)

Another thought it that it could be a dungeon or a series of dungeons similar in nature to those of Destiny’s Edge.

I like the idea, but what I think you’ve come up with is a bit exclusive, is what Chrispy was pointing out. It would be interesting to play profession specific PS, but they’d have to be unfocused on the gods. You mention Grenth and Melandru, but only the Humans would really LIKE to do stuff for them. Also, given the fact that the professions changed since GW1, they aren’t gonna tie perfectly to the gods anymore. Who is the patron of Engineering?
Something more racially unbiased would be cool. Like you mentioned, helping cleanse a forest of Oakhearts would be cool, and is not racially specific, meaning Anet would only have to make 8 stories instead of 40