Guild Wars 2

Starting at level 70 (“The Battle at Fort Trinity”), the personal story density increases to one story per (recommended) character level, with the instances taking us progressively deeper into Orr. As usual, a personal story rewards around 33% experience towards the next level.

At the same time, Orr is a region without renown hearts, and a large number of (meta-)events. Some of these (meta-)events even need to reach a certain stage in order to safely progress through Orr.

The problem I identify is that it is very hard to NOT level beyond the recommended level for my personal story past level 70. The reason for this is that the huge XP bonus for completing a story, in addition to XP earned during exploring and participating in the events along the way, are more than enough to level me up before I even reach the next personal story instance.
This means that the story rewards are potentially no longer appropriate for my level, and that there is a decent chance I already have better equipment than the personal story awards.

In fact, the only viable way for me to complete my personal story AT THE RECOMMENDED LEVEL at all, is to not craft between personal stories and to not do any additional exploring as I travel twoards my next story instance. The events (and occasional node gathering) I find along the way are already enough to level me to the point where I should be for the personal story.

The bottom line is that I do not want to actively avoid crafting and exploring Orr in order to enjoy my personal story rewards.

The suggested solution I offer is to reduce the experience rewards for the level 70-79 personal stories by half. It would seem more balanced that personal stories award half the experience if they have twice the frequency.