Guild Wars 2

I decided to run one of my characters through the personal story today and came across something really odd. In story step 7: Forming the Pact, after completing “The Battle of Fort Trinity” I went on to do “A Sad Duty”. This personal story piece makes no sense to me. It says my character went on a demolition mission with a character named Tonn. The mission went bad and Tonn lost his life. Apparently my character knew this Tonn very well but, I’ve never even met the friggen guy?

I’ve read that Arenanet removed some of the personal story for some reason, what is going on? Why would they deliberately break their main pve storymode?

IIvIIozzie.9250:

I’ve read that Arenanet removed some of the personal story for some reason, what is going on? Why would they deliberately break their main pve storymode?

That stage of the Personal Story was deemed too confusing to new players, and so it was thrown out when the NPE went live.

Honestly, stuff like this is what makes it difficult to trust Anet’s competence at this point. They removed the Greatest Fear arc, which is where you would have met Tonn, and reshuffled some of the later chapters in the September update.

If they were going to do something so silly, they could at least have had the concern to make sure the story still made sense instead of becoming a disjointed, broken mess.

I guess that’s asking for too much, though.

The personal story was fine.

But then, ANet made a “feature” out of it.

I really hope they stop producing feature patches, they are the worst thing that happend to the game besides introducing ascended gear…

The story was really disjointed to begin with, now it’s just absurd. Here’s another weird example of this strange storytelling: In story 7 “Forming the Pact: Against the Corruption” Trahearne leads our character and several NPC’s into the royal tombs of orr after doing research to determine that the royal tombs were deeply sacred. Now, we had just visited the royal tombs of orr via the pale tree’s vision in story 6. “The battle for Claw Island: A light in the Darkness”. Traehearne makes no mention of this at all, it’s only until my character reminds him at the end of the mission by saying "Wait….remember the vision that the Pale Tree gave us? An Orrian king spoke of “the Source.” Maybe that’s something that can help" Traehearne replies with “You’re right. The source of Orr…..Yes!” WHAT!?! Don’t you think if you were granted an audience with the pale tree and she gave you the gift of vision, you got to see and walk through Orr firsthand, were given the legendary sword Caladbolg and you actually talk to the last king of Orr you might remember that a little bit better? I suppose that’s a typical Tuesday for these characters.

I also like that in that same story mission Traehearne says before entering the tombs “If the dragon discovers our attempt, he’ll try to stop us.” and as soon as he’s about to start the ritual he say’s “Be warned: the moment we begin, Zhaitan will know. The corpses in these tombs will rise to fight us.” I like how he goes from not knowing for sure we would have to fight to knowing full well the coffins would open to reveal undead. On top of that you’d think he would have brought a slightly bigger force than just our character fighting all of the undead that arise, ya know, just in case.

darkace.8925:

IIvIIozzie.9250:

I’ve read that Arenanet removed some of the personal story for some reason, what is going on? Why would they deliberately break their main pve storymode?

That stage of the Personal Story was deemed too confusing to new players, and so it was thrown out when the NPE went live.

I heard it was because they wanted to split it into 8 roughly equal chapters, and the story was too long so they took out the Greatest Fear arc. I assume someone saw it as a self-contained section that didn’t have much impact on the overall storyline and missed the constant references to it in all the other chapters.

They’ve said they will fix it, but we don’t know when.

How long ago did they make this change?

They removed a piece and swapped some pieces around. Not broken in the conventional sense. Knee-capped I’d say.

IIvIIozzie.9250:

How long ago did they make this change?

In September, as part of the Feature Patch.

CureForLiving.5360:

They removed a piece and swapped some pieces around. Not broken in the conventional sense. Knee-capped I’d say.

The story is a mess. It’s not just references to things that didn’t happen. There are even characters we’re told were dead in one chapter and then we meet them later on. (And then of course they die.)

I made a complete list, which is in the main topic on this, or I could re-post it if anyone’s interested. It’s a long post though.

IIvIIozzie.9250:

How long ago did they make this change?

Long time ago.

Yeah today I did up until the sunken temple on one of my chars that was left over (level 40 since a year back, lol).

The story missions are ridiculous now! They make NO sense whatsoever in this new order. It wasnt all that good before but come on… this is just so much worse. Tonn is the best example. Anet you cant have Traherne cry over Tonn without even telling the story!

I also like how that sea person may be “alarming” to people, she has to be introduced in secret… and in the mission before she was right there, with you and your forces lol. Wrong order kitten .

Last red post on the main personal story post (https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/My-Greatest-Fear-Plotline/page/11#post4753614) said they were looking into a possible fix with no eta. I also believe that this is the most obvious proof that they do little to no testing before they release things to us.

This is also where I ask if Heart of Thorns is going to have a story line that makes sense and if they are going to “fix” the story later to not make any sense.

The cut the greatest fear storyline.

I have several characters waiting for that to be fixed.

I hope they also make personal story replayable, so those who missed it can play it.