Guild Wars 2

Lots of spoilers in here. Don’t read unless you’re done with Dragon’s Reach Part 2?

I just played through the Dragon’s Reach Part 2, and I did it as my very first character – my Sylvari elementalist. I am quite fond of Sylvari so I decided to pursue the Living World storyline as one. Little did I know that my Sylvari is the most callous, uncaring, non-Soundless Syvari ever. Consider the following:

1. My mother just got beaten up by a giant plant dragon and she conks out in front of me. The first thing I do? Check on the other leaders.
2. Rox pointed out that I wasn’t looking too good. Initially, I thought: “Oh here, this is the point where my Sylvari character expresses grief at the harm that the Pale Tree suffered”. How wrong I was. Apparently, my character was just confused over the trippy vision that the Pale Tree gave me.
3. Trahearne expressed more grief about what just happened more than my character did.
4. Taimi expressed more concern over the Pale Tree’s well being than my character did.

I’m quite disappointed over the dialogue options I had as a Sylvari. It made me feel so detached from what was happening. My character should have felt like crap right there and then at the sight of the Avatar of the Pale Tree lying on the ground, but my character just shrugged it off. A Nightmare Courtier would have expressed more emotion over the event (they’d be ecstatic)!

I think the disconnect that I am feeling here is that if I were Sylvari, I would have FREAKED OUT. Or at least been a bit more shaken.

Also, where the heck was Caithe after the dragon attacked (she was there when the leaders were coming into the summit)? Wasn’t she my mentor? Why did I get the whole Wyld Hunt chat from Trahearne instead?

EDIT: To be clear, I liked Dragon’s Reach Part 2. I just wish my character reacted more like a Sylvari would have.

I agree, I wish they did more dialogue for Sylvari characters to show any fear and uncertainty for how their mother will pull through from this attack.
Though when some people are afraid for the lives for those that they love, they tend to keep it more hidden than others on how they really feel. Not sure if this applies to some Sylvari, just a thought.
Also, wouldn’t some courtiers be distraught if the Pale Tree died? Not only would they lose a chance to spread their Nightmare to her and other Sylvari(though they may still have that chance with her alive or with her gone), they’d lose their mother. Remember that some still wanted to be in their mother’s heart(such as Cadeyrn, the secondborn responsible for starting the Nightmare Court just so he could be first in his mother’s heart as well as “free” her from the Tablet’s “shackles”).