So, about the Orders
There are times I don’t even remember which Order a particular character joined. I have to see if the Order Armorer will give me the time of day or not. Some mention in the Hero Panel might be nice (where it has a symbol for your Profession and your personality). Maybe give us an “/order” emote that lets us perform a special salute .
The point being, that yeah… if I don’t even remember what Order I belong to, they aren’t getting enough attention.
Build a man a fire, and he’ll be warm all day.
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
– Unknown Fire Elementalist
Set a man on fire, and he’ll be warm the rest of his life.
– Unknown Fire Elementalist
(edited by Hamfast.8719)
Thus far, the vigil and priory have had background positions in the living story. Way back in Halloween of last year, and during the southsun events, the Priory were on the scene researching the supernatural events going on. Vigil were as recent as Tequatl Rising, being that they’re the ones using the mega laser and are generic NPC’s around that area. I’m sure that if Anet does an actual expansion rather than living story, the orders and racial story steps will be prominent again.
Yeah but the Lionguard is the main focus. The priory was assisting them at Halloween. Other than tequatl SAB and the DR celebrations is all been about the lionguard for the most part.
I would definitely love to see more with the Orders. I know it’s harder as Whispers prefers to work from anonymity to have them be the main focus but it’s possible.
Best idea I can think of off the top my head is to plan a Tyrian Olympics sponsored by the Orders vs the races. It makes more sense as doing an Olympic theme with all rooting for racial cities could get a bit imbalanced. Between populations between the races played being possible to skew it more to a popularity contest. And that a Tyrian Olympic would ideally have you competing creating 5 sided games could prove tricky.
3 teams is easier to manage. Plus you can have treherne declare it as a morale booster. This also let’s you explain why when competing you can side with any order. Have it presented as a chance to see things from each others perspective. Create several activitesto compete in. But in each you rep an order and that order has distinct ways of operating.
Existing activites could be modified to match up teams based on who you are repping. Soyou could have vigil vs priory kegbrawl matches for example. And it all goes towards an overall global score that tallies wins across all the involved activities for each order.
There should also be bonus items available to those sworn to an order. So while you can save up rep tokens for all three orders and get items from each, you should be able for a bit more tokens get unique skins for your order. Or the very least make the tokens gained universal regardless of who you rep and if you rep the order you belong to that you gain something like 10% more tokens. Making it more efficient to rep your own order but not necessary.
A possible new event could be a race/scavenger hunt. The players all start in the center of a map and must spread out and collect items that appears randomly around the map. Each faction would have unique skills that would let them move thru the map and utilize short cuts the others couldn’t. There would be no direct attacking each other, instead they could buff others repping the same order. The terrain of course should be very treacherous possibly with various natural snares you would need help to get free if you got captured. This it becomes a choice of do I leave my team mate sick and hope I can get the next objective before the other sides and try to get the#1 collector reward for myself or do I divert to go free them so we have a better overall chance of being the winning team
Rewards given to the player and team with the most items collected so it becomes ideal to do your personal best as well as make sure your team wins.
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