Guild Wars 2

I have a lot of characters. A mean a lot. I love making characters.

As the dungeon system stands now, you have to unlock explorable mode on every character, no matter what level you are. Today we went to do Crucible of Eternity, which I need for my legendary, on my mesmer, my preferred character for running dungeons. The problem is no one in the party had every done the story mode on the character they were on.

I had done it on my engineer, but I don’t prefer to run explorable modes on him. Had I entered, I couldn’t leave to switch characters.

I think that beating a dungeon on any character should unlock explorable mode for the account. Instead of making an explorable mode run, I ended up making a much less rewarding (and less enjoyable) story mode run, just to unlock it for next time.

Not a big deal, but considering that you once you get the achievement for doing a dungeon it’s account bound anyway, why not unlock explorables on an accountbound basis.

It’s not like if you don’t enjoy dungeons there’s much point in doing story mode again on your second, third and twelfth characters anyway.

As someone with 9 characters I would certainly like to have the unlocks account bound but just doing that without giving better incentives to replay story mode would be bad for the game. People new to the game would have an extremely hard time finding a group for story mode.

In my opinion the real problem is that there is no incentive to replay the story mode on the same character. Even if you really liked the story how many times do you need to see it on the same character?

If there was actually a decent incentive to replay story mode your party probably would have just treated that as another run and this thread wouldn’t have been created.

+1 for the story mode account bound, or at least make it so that it rewards 60 tokens only once, so it wont be farmed like a 4th path.

You need to finish story only once for each character...The teams which find themselves with no entry to explorable mode should just do story... I laugh hard when I find myself in this situation and the rest of my team says they would rather leave than complete the story xD

There is also a secondary and less important issue of having to remember which character has which dungeon unlocked. I know someone who has a spreadsheet to keep track. That just doesn’t seem right.