Guild Wars 2

It would be really cool if the Warband Support elite included characters from your character’s personal story, instead of the generic characters it has now. I’d love it if mine brought in Reeva (the sparring partner I picked at the beginning of the game), the first personal story arc characters that join your warband like Luccia, and so on. The player doesn’t really get to see the warband members much after the beginning of the game; it would help emphasize that they’re really a part of the character’s world.

I can’t help but agree with this. Having generic NPCs is boring, and really, how hard would it be for them to just use the models of the people we know? Throw in a few voice lines, and everyone ends up really happy.

I mean, you could even throw in just the sparring partner choice and a generic NPC (or two) and that’d be fine. It’s just… purely generic NPCs? Eh. Eh, I say. It’s unimaginative and not what I’m used to from ArenaNet. I tend to expect more vision than that from them.

I agree. It was a tremendous disappointment when you ended up with “Iron Legion Soldier” and “Iron Legion Marksman”.

Make it summon the sparringpartner only, and make him/her to be equal to the two currently summoned.
Heck, I’d use it just for Dinky’s oneliners, even if it sucked from a gameplay point of view.

I assume this is for game play-purposes, not to make things too profession-specific.

I agree. It should be from your warband, I would LOVE to see my Dinky. I’m pretty sure if they did do this, they could balance it for certain sparring partners and legion choices.

I can see why they didn’t do this (suddenly a personal story question would affect your combat and become part of min/maxing and be impossible to change) but I’m still a bit sad they didn’t do this. I’m pretty much done my personal story now and I miss kicking tail with Dinky by my side and having him make me choke on tea with his comments

Eh, they could balance it if they wanted to.

And it would be completely awesome, and thus entirely worth it. I mean, you don’t see any other race player pining for their past characters like you do with charr players. I want Dinky, and Maverick, and Euryale, and Reeva, and so on to turn up when I use that skill.

It’s just so easy to miss them. They’re such outstanding characters. And I’d just have that ability for their one-liners.

Every character that joins my war-band seems to be immediatelykitten weak, as in, deal little to no damage and go down the moment they get hit once or twice. And this is versus generic ghosts….. Why would i want them as nothing more than a one hit wonder meat shield later on in the game?

I was highly disappointed that this skill doesn’t summon Dinky, I mean I never get to see him after I go off with my order and I thought he’d be a part of my story for the rest of the way.

I actually thought that Warband Support would summon the NPCs you had gathered to your warband, or at least your sparring partner. Disappointed…

I agree, warbands should include members

Could you imagine, though, if twenty Charr characters grouped up and, all at once, summoned Dinky? I’m sure that’s the reason we are stuck with “Unnamed Legion Member 1 and 2”.

Agreed! I’d really like to have Reeva watching my back again.

Zanjarah.9731:

I agree. It was a tremendous disappointment when you ended up with “Iron Legion Soldier” and “Iron Legion Marksman”.

Make it summon the sparringpartner only, and make him/her to be equal to the two currently summoned.
Heck, I’d use it just for Dinky’s oneliners, even if it sucked from a gameplay point of view.

Nonsense. I’d love to have Soure Doomsday at my side, or Elexus Shredskin! Clawspur may be badkitten but I wouldn’t want to go without the rest of my ’band either.

Yeah I was dispointed that you just get 2 generic Charr rather than your actual war band. I assume this was for balance reasons though.

I’d be willing to bet that that’s actually what they had originally planned to do with the sparring partner; same thing for the other races, who all have biography questions that are under (or just plain not) utilized; they were all probably meant to alter your racial abilities in one way or another.

Not entirely sure why that idea would be dropped, but I imagine a possible reason for warband support, in particular, would be the question of what happens if someone over-levels their personal story, and has access to the ability while actually doing personal story quests that involve your sparring partner. Would you then be able to have two Reevas running around with you, or whatever?

Randin.5701:

I’d be willing to bet that that’s actually what they had originally planned to do with the sparring partner; same thing for the other races, who all have biography questions that are under (or just plain not) utilized; they were all probably meant to alter your racial abilities in one way or another.

Not entirely sure why that idea would be dropped, but I imagine a possible reason for warband support, in particular, would be the question of what happens if someone over-levels their personal story, and has access to the ability while actually doing personal story quests that involve your sparring partner. Would you then be able to have two Reevas running around with you, or whatever?

Because 15 people running around with Reeva or Maverick or Dinky wouldn’t make sense. It’d be nice for it to be warband members from the personal story but because so many people will have chosen the same Warband member it would break the bounds of any form of continuity the game may have between player-characters.

I think it’s a good idea. I dunno about everyone else, but joining an order was a massive kick in the balls for me. I felt a sense of familiarity/belonging with my little group – which the storyline then tears away – forces me to join one of three orders(none of which I particularly liked), and effectively writes my warband out of the game entirely. (My “sparring partner” sits in the Heroes Canton with a whopping 3 boxes of dialogue, I can’t even talk to them!)

Whenever i’m out exploring, and my character says: “Can’t wait to tell my warband about this place!” I can’t help but think: “You don’t have a warband, you abandoned them!” XD For all my future characters, I’m just gonna drop the storyline quests around level 30; they’ll ask me to pick an order, i’ll zone out without choosing and then just leave it at that.

If I could summon them with this ability, then maybe I wouldn’t feel as if i’m totally abandoning them? xD

Randin.5701:

what happens if someone over-levels their personal story, and has access to the ability while actually doing personal story quests that involve your sparring partner. Would you then be able to have two Reevas running around with you, or whatever?

They could disable the ability for every storyline quest prior to joining an order.

Llethander.3972:

Because 15 people running around with Reeva or Maverick or Dinky wouldn’t make sense. It’d be nice for it to be warband members from the personal story but because so many people will have chosen the same Warband member it would break the bounds of any form of continuity the game may have between player-characters.

I like Euryale/Clawspur… and Reeva, (everyone likes Reeva.) >.>;

Simply have the NPC name show up as <XX Legion YY> for everyone other than the player, much in the same way that WvWvW names show up as <XX Invader> or <XX Beast>

Felidire.2861:

Llethander.3972:

Because 15 people running around with Reeva or Maverick or Dinky wouldn’t make sense. It’d be nice for it to be warband members from the personal story but because so many people will have chosen the same Warband member it would break the bounds of any form of continuity the game may have between player-characters.

I like Euryale/Clawspur… and Reeva, (everyone likes Reeva.) >.>;

Simply have the NPC name show up as <XX Legion YY> for everyone other than the player, much in the same way that WvWvW names show up as <XX Invader> or <XX Beast>

+1 for a good idea.

Yeah, incredibly disappointing. It would also be cool if you could name them yourself.