Guild Wars 2

As I play through the game and am working towards map completion, occasionally certain events pop up for people to do as groups (Champions of the Sun in Caledon Forest is one) and occasionally these events have NPC’s that announce something in the chat and out loud to what I believe is to gain the attention of players in the area.

Note: Wall of Text below. You can read the BOLD words to get the gist of what I’m saying.

Now here are the issues:

1. They announce way too far from what their events should be announced. Example: In Caledon forest the Champions of The Sun Meta Event for fighting Xolotl. Xolotl announces herself way too far away. Caledon at one point seems to be split where the Dominion of Winds wall shows up. At that Hylek village across the water from the crafting area is is where I began to hear her announce the event when she is actually closer to the end of the zone! I understand the purpose of announcing the big events to draw players in but from almost halfway across the zone seems OVERKILL which then leads me to point 2:

2. They repeat themselves SO kitten MUCH: Ugh I could get over the fact these NPC’s seem to have hidden loudspeakers throughout the zones if they didn’t repeat themselves so much. I actually stopped mapping in Caledon Forest for awhile because I heard Xolotl ‘yell’ “Prove the sun shines through you! Face me in another form!” so much it actually began getting stuck in my head. Another example is the Charr event to collect cannonballs. I learned during the beta weekends to dread that area because of hearing, “Have I told you how much I hate skritt?” so much and to this day that charr is still annoying.

My remedies:
1. Reduce range of these “shouting” NPC’s.
or
2. Reduce the amount of times they announce. If we are hearing them the orange event box will show up so I dont think we need to hear “Prove the sun shines through you! Face me in another form!” and, “Have I told you how much I hate skritt?” that it begins to annoy the players.

TL;DR:
The Problem: Some NPC’s in events speak too loud from too far away and some announce the same thing over and over.

The Solution(s): Reduce range or frequency of hearing these NPC’s very repetitive scripts or both.

Thank you ArenaNet for an otherwise wonderful game!