Guild Wars 2

I am creating a Sylvari engineer who will personify the destructive and chaotic elements of engineering. I am having a hard time choosing between “White stag” and “Shield of the moon” for his vision. I am somewhat familiar with both storylines. WS would involve tracking a supernatural beast and ultimately dueling an honorable villain, whereas SotM would involve tracking down and slaying another Sylvari’s lost love. I think that SotM is probably more fitting for my character given the dark theme, grim ending, and reference to “moon” (a symbol of the night) in the vision’s title. However, references to “faith,” fortitude," and “healing” in the vision’s description are a bit off-putting. Since I have not chosen either vision previously, I have nothing to use as a referent other than the information I have seen online. Any suggestions from others who are more familiar with these visions would be greatly appreciated.

With my sylvari engineer that I made on launch day, I went with shield of the moon. I had no idea of how that story would play out, but I was pleased. I wanted to go more with a crafty, charismatic james bond (frond? brb, new character name) type, since the story eventually has you sneaking around in a couple places. It does have a dark ending, and your character will reflect on it. Like you said, there is an element of healing and compassion. In all, I don’t think it’s the best for a more mad scientest-esque engineer

You might just have to gloss over a lot of the story as far as how your character takes it, at least for the first 10 levels or so worth of story. Pretty much all of them try to do away with chaos. I feel that the White Stag line goes most directly against chaos and destruction though, so probably not the best.