Guild Wars 2

I am increasingly seeing a disturbing trend where you have people running around in full dungeon sets from X dungeon who have never done story mode. Yesterday I signed-up for a CoE explorable group where nobody but myself had done story mode. Not realising this and being on a semi-unreliable connection, I asked one of the others to start the dungeon because I didn’t want to D/C and get the party booted.

Long story short, the party managed to get the dungeon stuck in story mode and we ended-up doing story mode (with me switching to an alt who needed story mode). Happily, my server now has four more people (and my alt) who can now trigger CoE explorable. But really, skipping story mode seems to have becoming a thing because story mode doesn’t offer tokens.

So here is my suggestion, first time you do story mode. You get 100 tokens. This gives people an incentive to do story mode. Repeating story mode will get you 10 tokens or some nominal amount. Although I doubt anyone would farm story mode given those are usually longer. But people who take the time to help guildies or even strangers should get some reward for it. But what do you guys think?

It’s a nice thought. My main has all the dungeons unlocked but recently I’ve been trying to get my 3 alts through story modes as well. It’s not going too well. Actually, I just went through 8 zones looking for people to run TA story and I got 1 person that was interested.

Like you said it’s not like everyone has all the dungeons unlocked either. Usually when I run CoE I have to use my main despite wanting to run it with another character because I’m the only one who can start it.

Another solution would be to let explorables be unlocked for all of your characters once you’ve done story though that doesn’t solve the problem for people just starting out.

Just don’t have a completely irrelevant story mode required to unlock explorable mode…