Guild Wars 2

So I’m coming back to the game after a long break. Of my friend and I start new characters and one of us leaves our races area to group with the other will that stop our story progress or mess us up at all?

The only thing that stops your story progress is you not doing the story, or starting another story line. You can go to any area you have access to at any time in the game without worrying about losing your story progress. When you go back to it you just pick up where you left off.

You can go anywhere you like, do the story any time you like, with anyone you like. There are two restrictions and one caveat as follows:

• Your character must be at least at the relevant level to start each story (and progress it if someone of the same race starts it).
• You and your friend must be in the same region (NA or EU), although you can be on any world/server.
• And the caveat: if you & your friend are of the same race and ready for the same story, be thoughtful before agreeing to accept progress after the completion of a mission in which the player character must make a choice — accepting means your character makes the same choice (and potentially, retroactively accepts some previous choices). This only affects a handful of people, so the short of it is: pause before “accepting” anything in this game.

It won’t mess up your story progress, but you also can’t progress your story in another race’s zone – you’ll have to go back ‘home’ to do your story.

You could take turns: do one person’s level 10 story then the other, or if one of you is less interested in the story you could just skip that one, it’s up to you.

Awesome! I appreciate the responses.