Guild Wars 2

I was chatting with a fellow gamer earlier, and he was having an issue with the Story Journal & the 200 Gem cost to play past storylines. I had not heard of that, so I re-read the blog on the latest release and yep there it was. I thought… ok I can see that, but wouldn’t have been a better idea to do that for past historic events such as Blood and Madness, Clockwork Chaos and the rest? I think it would be great to be able to battle Scarlet again.

I could see a storyline based on Asura tech where they build a machine for a different purpose, but turned out to be a Time Travel Portal and your toon would step into a random Historic event (or make it a menu choice. which ever).

As for the achievement points, If your toon has not completed or ever started, you would accumulate those missing points.

As of this post it would cost around 25 gold for 200 gems (give or take) to change your storyline. Personally, I wouldn’t mind giving up a few gems to step into the “Wayback Machine” GuildWars 2 style.

They want to, I believe. The issue is that most if not all of Season 1 was designed without the journal in mind. So it will actually take a large amount of work on Arena Net’s part to rig those assets for that feature.

Season 1 had a lot of open zone events that I do not think they could logically replay, periscopes, all of the alliance invasions, marionette, etc.

If you look at LS2 you can see the stories are being crafted to repeat. The new zone has the zone events built in, and in the other zones they are utilizing existing content, like the Vigil quest chain in Frostgorge. Lots more personal instances in LS2.

Thanks for the feedback, I figured this would be one hell of a job.

What I got from their blog post is that it is something they would work on and try to make possible. So I expect it to appear somewhere down the line… but when… who knows.

I can’t say I would be happy about having to pay 200 gems per episode to replay past content. If you “unlocked” it by playing it originally, you shouldn’t have to pay for another go round. I do think they will attempt to put as much as they can of LS1 back as repeatable content, though kitten if I know how best to do it.

Wait a minute, they are charging gems to play past storylines??