Guild Wars 2

I personally think there needs to be a way to replay the Personal Story for those who just like to try out the instances they haven’t chosen. Think of it this way: the item would come in the form of an hourglass and once that is activated, the player will have access to the screen where he can select his story choices, and be transported to his starting area except this time, since that character is already level 80, the grinding to 10 levels will not apply and he can just get on with the story if he wants to.

Just something to consider in the future, Anet.

And it would be swell if the personal story could be in the proper order and without the missing chunks. Otherwise it seems hardly worth shelling out for.

This shouldn’t be a gem store item, IMO, but yes it’d be nice to be able to replay the PS. I’m not sure how it would work though what with the character creation choices that affect the PS and whatnot, unless they leave that as unchangeable but still allowing you to restart. Also wondering if they’d let you start in the beginning instance when you first create a character as it’s part of the PS. Maybe that’s what they are working on when they said it’d take “a lot of resources” to fix the stuff that the restructured PS from the last feature patch broke.

Would be cool if they make some new “hard mode” achievements like with the story journal and rolled this out along with the season 1 LS story journal. At least I wish they’d do this.

I think replayable personal story is probably on its way at some point – based on how the chapters are arranged in the story journal now.

I dont think they would (or even should) let us make new choices (like a different order), but it would be cool to see achievements and hard modes added.

Paying money to play content you’ve already played sets an uncomfortable precedent for me.

Where does that slippery slope end? Do we start paying to redo dungeons too?

I would like to replay personal story episodes, but I’d dislike seeing them in the cash shop.

I’m also on board with those saying this is something we shouldn’t have to pay for as an additional thing. I would like to see replay-ability come to the PS, but I also understand that it would require some tweaking on Anet’s part since it’s not designed with replay-ability in mind.

Dark Jericho.8609:

This shouldn’t be a gem store item, IMO, but yes it’d be nice to be able to replay the PS. I’m not sure how it would work though what with the character creation choices that affect the PS and whatnot, unless they leave that as unchangeable but still allowing you to restart. Also wondering if they’d let you start in the beginning instance when you first create a character as it’s part of the PS. Maybe that’s what they are working on when they said it’d take “a lot of resources” to fix the stuff that the restructured PS from the last feature patch broke.

Would be cool if they make some new “hard mode” achievements like with the story journal and rolled this out along with the season 1 LS story journal. At least I wish they’d do this.

Having hard mode achievements, eh? If that’s the case, then I suppose it’d be fine if it weren’t made up for purchase

Vayne.8563:

Paying money to play content you’ve already played sets an uncomfortable precedent for me.

Where does that slippery slope end? Do we start paying to redo dungeons too?

I would like to replay personal story episodes, but I’d dislike seeing them in the cash shop.

Well, I picture it like this: the cost wouldn’t have to be steep. Like 25 gems or something. The benefit to that imo would be that it would save players the trouble of having to make another character from scratch just to play a different story. Assuming they make the story instances harder than before to compliment your level, THEN I think it wouldn’t be right to charge.

I’d be fine with this if it let us switch faction (Vigil, Whisper, Priory), yet keep access to all their items once unlocked.

iSmack.1768:

I’d be fine with this if it let us switch faction (Vigil, Whisper, Priory), yet keep access to all their items once unlocked.

Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your point of view), it’s things like Faction items, that will ensure if they ever ‘do’ allow you to replay storyline missions, they won’t allow you to make different choices.

I’d like to see them fix the personal story before they do anything towards letting you repeat it on a character. I’ve been stuck outside Vigil Keep as the risen siege it for a month because a character will not follow me and all my bug reports fall on deaf ears. I’m pretty sure there’s plenty of other missions that are bugged like this throughout.

Definately not a gem store item, But I would love to be able to play my story again, with achievements would be even better.

An absolute NO to this suggestion.

Anet should make the story of the game completely replayable, but not based on a gemstore item.
They should fixe the story system and make something better out of it, that works from A to Z like being made out of one piece and that doesn’t give the player like an impression of being like a shreddered piece that barely makes any sense anymore and that is incomplete, due to the whole Season 1 missing in between that isn’t replayable, cause of Anet needing first to redesign it, so that it fits under the new concept of the Season 2 gameplay mechanic…

And here I say.. when Anet is already going to redesign the Season 1, then they should directly put some more effort into it and change the whole story of the complete game into a much better quality story with these note points:

• Merge the personal Story and Living Story completely together into a new “Dynamic Story System”. There is simple no need to have two different Story Systems in this game, when everythign can work properly under just 1 System.

• Rechange the whole Story Segments of the old personal Story to work basically like a Season 0, changing all the instances into replayable instances, which should be chooseable from the Story Journal directly, without that players have to run to the maps anymore to the specific locations – just open Story Journal, choose your Season ,choose your Mission and GO, so simple.

• add to those changed Season 0 Missions also like in Season 2 achievements and rewards for replaying those Missions

• Reimplement a redesigned and to Season 2 adapted Season 1, which also offers replayability, achievements and rewards for completign those achievements

• Redesign the complete final Mission agaisnt Zhaitan, change it into a Solo Mission, not requiring anymore a party of 5 just to finish the game.

• Implement a Companion System, that lets us players use our Characters from our Account as “Heroes” so that we could play with them together those missions or use them as fill ups, if you find no other players.

• Implement a good incentive, for why a player should help out an other stranger player in their stories. Helping currently an other player is totally unrewarding, you get absolutely nothing for it, when you drag some inexperienced Newbs through their stories. Gettign rewarded at least with some money, karma and exp would be the REAl least reward, that one should expect from a reward for helping someone out in their story, or getting some helpful items, like materials based on the progress of the story, that one would get for example helping someone in their max level story missions, woudl reward the helper with some random T6 materials.
  Then would people at least have a good incentive to help other players in their stories and we’s see alot more peopel LFG’ing for helping other players, cause then you’d get finally rewarded also for your offered help!!

• Replaying the Story should come under a Rebirth System, that should reset certain decisions and the rewards, so that a player, that replays the story after a Rebirth is able to get the story rewards again for the next playstrough or other more valuable ones in regard of how often you’ve played through your story and it should allow the player to make different decisions to have the ability to change your story journal, if you want for example to change your order from priory to the vigil after the rebirth, the palyer woudl be able to do that and by making a different decision that leads to a story journal change, the game simply asks the player to confirm the new decision to override the old story journal entries if the player makes a new decision that would lead to different story journal entries.

When Anet should be going to fix this mess, then they should also fix it right and not half heartedly by just only revertign the NPE changes and adding a changed season 1.
No, I don’t see GW2 working for much logner time anymore udner the old concept of havign a split between PS and LS.
It would be much better gapless game design, if both systems would just get merged together and the best thing out of this would be, that the whole story of the complete game under that depthful redesign woudl just profitate the most from these efforts by gettign a much better and more consistent story telling, in which also the story would end in an real epic battle and not in a laughable pathetic 2 minute pew pew pew pew pew with some ship cannons where you just must say, that even some small 5 year old childs would have a much better fantasy for thinking about epic dragon battles, than this!

Why does it have to be in the gem store? No matter the amount, it would be ridiculous.

Yeah I think we can all agree that having this option as a gemstore item is a terribad idea..

Instead just let us replay our PS, and to make it interesting for the sake of replayability, y’know adding hard mode achievements, revamping some chapter rewards here and there, that’d be great too.. make the PS work just like the LS works now (but please without any paywall of some sort behind it).