Guild Wars 2

I think heralds have very little purpose in the game. We already are plenty informed in the mail we get during updates which makes it less of a need to consult my herald. However I think some implementations could expand their use. First off I should say that since hmm november, ive been very up to date with all the monthly patches, interviews, blogs. So much so that I actually feel like a dev. But its the only useful way to attain information. I think it would be cool if we learned about this in game. For instance, there is the southsun cove patch comin up tuesday. Perhaps we could have learned about this may 14th patch not online, but through a herald, who expresses it in a more “in-game” appropriate way. I don’t exactly know how that would be. But I think from a players perspective that would really add to the immersive experience of gw2.
What do you guys think?

I stopped paying attention the Heralds early on. I’m probably missing something I could benefit from but being new I have not figured that out yet. The last one I talked to was yesterday in Lions Arch. Some robot that just said a bunch of stuff that didn’t even seem to make sense.

I agree that heralds are lacking a lot of purpose other than guiding people who accidentally erase their mail, but I also really enjoy how information is be given from a bunch of npcs rather than from just one herald (though I’ll admit this information was rather limited in Flame and Frost). I would prefer that heralds act more like historians who provide lots of lore information that players would potentially know if they knew the lore, yet could get less lore savvy players involved if they so chose. An example for Flame and Frost would be providing background information on the Flame Legion and Dredge. So while heralds provide lore information, npcs directly affected by the living story would tell more specific information about what is happening in current world.

Edit: Also this should be in the living story section rather than general

Ye I didn’t find them useful at all for the Living story. Especially since I found out exactly what to do from the mail I got. Oh well f&f was Anets first living story chapter so maybe they will learn from their mistakes, like they improved on wintersday. So we’ll see.