Guild Wars 2

So, is it worth to do either personal story, or living world story on multiple alts ? or just one is enough to get everything ?

Depends exactly on what you want from it and which story. Like for example with the one current meta that was added, IF you do HoT story 5 times with different characters, then you do the short mini collection to repair a sword, You’ll end up with 5 free ascended weapons. But if you just wanted those 5 skins, then you can do 1 HoT story plus the mini collection, then use unbound magic to change it to get the other skins.

I believe for silver wastes armor, you can just buy the pieces or find them, vs. running LW S2 again with other characters.

For me, i tend to try to run eveyrone’s personal story in the core game, but only 1 or 2 characters for LW and HoT story. Although for LW season 3, i just do the first part of the story to get access to those maps, then stop after that

Reasons for doing the story more than once:

1 – Each play through per char will give you 3 BLTC keys. There is an extra one for LS2 and 1 more for the HOT story.

2 – Free exotics here and there as well as all other rewards such as skins you may not have unlocked yet. The pact skins are a good example. So too are Auric for HOT story.

3 – You need at least 2 more play throughs if you want access to all 3 order weapon/armour skins. Keep in mind these are needed for various collections.

4 – A few achievements related to each race. I think you need to do the story for these.

5 – Exploring the stories and lores of each race and other options for those races. This alone is what got me into alt-ing and having at least 1 of each race. Oh btw this is how I discovered “key farming” years ago just after release of the game. I also believe I was the first one to bring it to this forum’s and anet’s attention. So yeah you all can hate me now lmao.

I am sure there are many other reasons but I think these are the most important/obvious and should be enough to let people decide if is worth their time to do the PS again.

Atm I am dividing my time between this game and a few others but when I do have the motivation to play here with the bulk of my time I am in the process of using up all my level up scrolls as well as tomes/etc to instantly boost a newly made char to 80. I am doing this for 3 reasons:

1 – a new form of key farming.
2 – A more fun way of unlocking skins (auric for example) as well as getting other goodies like exotics and dyes (dyes come from quest reward bags at a pretty good rate).
3 – Experiencing ALL the different quest options per race/order/misc option and seeing those outcomes.

I don’t consider it worth the time or effort to redo LS2. I have done it on all of my chars (9 perm) and believe me it’s not worth it. In general it took me 3-4 days per chars and it’s just so tedious and boring. But then again at that point in time all my chars had PVT gear (which I have now replaced) so maybe that was just my experience because of that. Sure you do get a Key part way through it but imo not worth it really.

Also atm I am currently running new chars through the HOT story. Compared to LS2 this is a very different experience:

1-2 days total to complete.
1 BLTC key partway through.
Free Auric skins as well as a couple of others (bladed and those order related backpacks).

I also save the boxes of exotic gear you can get from one of the rewards. Basically each 6 chars you run through the HOT story can give you a full set of Viper’s exotic gear or those other 2 choices.

I hope I have given enough info for you to decide.

PS – I did notice on my newest char and his play through of his PS he managed to get 30 or so Tier 6 leather from the PS alone. This was not from salvaging anything or from boxes. If I remember right it came in form of a straight up reward from a pop up on screen in 3 batches of 10 each. So this here could also be another bonus/incentive.

Unless you enjoy the story, I wouldn’t really recommend it. I make an exception for the first bl key as it is easy to get.

Of course, if you want to try out alternate paths, that may be something to pursue.

Also, the story is a pretty big chunk of XP when you’re leveling. This is devalued heavily by scrolls and tomes being tossed at you these days, but it’s still a reason.

For Living Story, there are achievements.

Odin the exiled.5764:

Depends exactly on what you want from it and which story. Like for example with the one current meta that was added, IF you do HoT story 5 times with different characters, then you do the short mini collection to repair a sword, You’ll end up with 5 free ascended weapons. But if you just wanted those 5 skins, then you can do 1 HoT story plus the mini collection, then use unbound magic to change it to get the other skins.

The first of those weapons is free. The other 4 would not be free unless you have a very weird definition of free that involves a bunch of gold(around 70g when I was checking a while ago).