Guild Wars 2

(I may have gotten the events in the wrong order; this is just to illustrate a point)

So I’m in Caledon Forest, me & a dozen others help the little Asuran fellow capture the escaped experiments. I hang around and he gives something to an assistant and I begin an escort DE – except everyone involved in the previous DE has already ran off.

So we go on the escort to the Ruins, a few people join me, we complete the DE and… everyone else runs off. I stick around, and there’s a DE to collect some data cores. Others join in, we do it and… they run off before a DE starts to escort a big Mossheart to a research facility. Along the way some people join in, we get there and, of course, they run off, just before a DE starts where the research facility is attacked by Skritt.

There’s nothing to indicate that there are still parts in the chain to continue. Fine, you can stay around and interact with the NPCs to see if anything’s going on, but there’s been plenty of times when I’ve stuck around after a DE elsewhere to see if something will happen and it doesn’t. I escort a pack bull to a quarry in Kessex Hills, not long after the quarry is attacked by centaurs. Are the two related? If I do the pack bull escort again, will the attack happen again or would I be wasting time sticking around when I could do something else? That’s so incredibly frustrating.

Can we have a little indicator stay above an important NPC to indicate that something is going to happen next? Or perhaps the text in the top corner could say “Forthcoming event: (event name)”, or something. Anything.