Guild Wars 2

Firstly, I know theres already a topic covering the recent recap but regardless I want to say fantastic work filling the gap while waiting for season 1 to be playable.

However, I feel there’s an opportunity here to fill LOTS more gaps and nudge people into the subtle nuances of the worlds lore ALOT more and I am worried Anet will let it slip through the net.

I think historians and related NPCs should be an integral part of the world. Any massive change due to the living world, any known lore that isnt provided already in game and hints towards secrets. For instance, get the priory to send out historians to sites like the nightmare tower or even karka land… Give players background information on these changes so ANY players can see how much the world has changed since the start. Players, explorers and loremasters in particular LOVE detail and depth. This is a really easy and apart from VO work, extremely cheap way to give it to them.

Also, I can see them utilized in the different orders aswell. Have battlemaster’s dotted around the world (especially at world bosses) explaining tactics and mob activity to players. Have historians from the priory explaining past events and world lore (or at least what is known at that time). And even spymasters from the order of whispers explaining things about local friendly minor races, characters of interest and hinting towards mini dungeons and secret events.

EDIT: If you actively support players enough, content CAN be difficult. What kittenes players off on the event side of things is not knowing how to complete content without going onto the forum or another unofficial site. If you have a mega hard small event and explain the fight in game, noone can get kittened off if they dont have the skill or group co-ordination to complete it.

Personally, I would prefer these types of NPCs to be locked to each order aswell, so players have more reasons to complete multiple story arcs with alts. But thats just me and I could appreciate why anet might not like that idea.

Anyway, I thought the implementation (aslong as LW1 is brought back eventually) to be something the game has needed for a while and could really bring players back into the game world of tyria rather than wiki and woodenpotatoes provided lore.

Discuss!