Guild Wars 2

I keep telling players in starting areas not to leave right after an event ends and wait for NPCs to talk or go somewhere else, but they zoom out right away either running or with waypoints. The following event doesn’t always pop fast enough for them to come back for those who run, and those who waypointed will definitely miss it.

Since people since to constantly ignore me when I tell them to stay, I though of making a song about it. Since people tend to remember songs better. It goes like this:

*Draws out magical lute*
*Clears throat*
*Skritt choir pops out of nowhere*

Based on Danny Elfman Mike Teavee

The most important thing
That you’ll ever learn
The most important thing you’ll learn
As far as events are concerned
Is never, ever leave
(Never, ever leave there!)
right after the end ends
(Never, ever leave there!)
Because if you leave, you may miss all of the stuff that follows that.

(Aaaah, aah! Aaah, aah!)
(Never, ever leave there!)
(Aaaah, aah! Aaah, aah!)
(Never, ever leave there!)
(Aaaah, aah! Aaaah, aah! Aaah, aah! Aaah, aah!)

(Oh-oh! Oh-oh! Oh-oh! Oh-oh!)

(Never, ever leave there! Never, ever leave there!)

An NPC puts stuff for sale?
Collectibles you’re missing there!
If you leave too soon you will miss
Events that follow those you did!
(Follow! Follow!)

You may be wondering how you friend
Has way more level playing the same.
(Playing the same! Playing he same!)
But it’s not the same, didn’t you know?
He sticks around and more events pop.
That’s were his experience’s coming froooooom!
(And then he levels up a lot)

*Musical Lute riff*

Regarding champion group events
Those that stay there until the end
(Until the end)
Shall get a little nice present
(Shi-ny! Shi-ny! Shi-ny! Shi-ny!)
Those that stay there until the end
Shall get a little nice present
Cuz they will get a champion bag.
And if you lee-ee-eeeeeeeave!
It serves you right!

Luckily skritt lose their speech impediments when you gather an entire choir of them…
Ahem….
What was I talking about?
Oh, yeah, yeah. Follow up events and the guide!

But the song didn’t work either! No matter how much I tell people not to leave or to follow the NPCs, if it takes more than 10 – 30 seconds, they impatiently run away. They also miss vendors that may spawn after events, like the one with the mushroom soup recipe after rescuing sylvari from the spider cave in Caledon.

So, TL;DR: don’t you think that the guide should point out any following event or NPC service like a vendor that pops after an event, instead pointing to unrelated faraway events and hearts right away?

If you re-wrote this in a less round about way it is actually a good idea. Wading though it was not pleasant.

Yargesh.4965:

If you re-wrote this in a less round about way it is actually a good idea. Wading though it was not pleasant.

Then my skritt philharmonic orchestra and vocal choirs would lose their jobs.

MithranArkanere.8957:

Yargesh.4965:

If you re-wrote this in a less round about way it is actually a good idea. Wading though it was not pleasant.

Then my skritt philharmonic orchestra and vocal choirs would lose their jobs.

This would be a bad thing because…..

You might want to edit your post, because it makes no sense the way it is now.

I keep telling players in starting areas now to leave, but they zoom out right away either running or with waypoints. The following event doesn’t always pop fast enough for them to come back.

Perhaps you meant, not to leave?

Not that your initial post was a model of clarity anyway. (I hate threads that start conversations in the middle and expect you to know what they are talking about)

I thought it was clever. It’s an interesting point.

Lol great song +1

Astral Projections.7320:

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Perhaps you meant, not to leave?

Not that your initial post was a model of clarity anyway. (I hate threads that start conversations in the middle and expect you to know what they are talking about)

I guess it was kind of forced. I came up with the song on TS with some friends. They told me to share it some way.

Since I also wanted to suggest for the guide to tell players to stick around for event chains I put both things together.