Guild Wars 2

So I felt something was missing in the expansion… The lack of new lore information. Most of the personal story felt rushed and incomplete. Big discovered were… Not so big. Not to mention that the maps feel like giant meta events instead of actual explorable maps.

So I’d like to suggest a new addition that uses the current heart system in Central tyria maps: Lore lines.

Lore lines are hearts that can be completed in a certain order, instead of being able to be completed whenever you want. In a map with, say, 15 hearts, these can form 3 seperate “lore lines”. 3 hearts will be starting hearts, which are simple tasks like other hearts, but with a story reasoning behind them. You speak to an NPC, for example, that wants you to gather Ley Line rocks. When you speak to her, she’ll tell you she’s trying to create a machine that measures the power stores inside of these rocks.

When you finish your first “heart”, she’ll give more information. Now you can access the second heart in this lore line. At the end of this lore line, you’ll have discovered new lore about ley lines, dragon magic and other good, interesting stuff.

I made an example in the attachment.

I feel that these kinds of hearts would be :
- Interesting and fun, since we are not doing random tasks, but actually learning about the world
- A way to earn XP other than meta event grinding
- A way to introduce small, new items that can be sold by the heart vendors
- A great way to introduce lore information that don’t have to be forced into the main story line

Please share your opinions. I’d love to see what the community thinks of this.

I suppose not many people like this idea…

The idea is interesting. Dont expect many people to jump on it so easily, as the fact that the lore is rather superficial and as you said: feels rushed.

I dont know if that is the right idea, but something at least a step in the right direction.

It has Ley Lines.

Jaken.6801:

The idea is interesting. Dont expect many people to jump on it so easily, as the fact that the lore is rather superficial and as you said: feels rushed.

I dont know if that is the right idea, but something at least a step in the right direction.

I don’t get it, is the addition of lore a good thing or not? The reason I want this is mainly because it adds more to do in the maps and it gives us lore info that we didn’t get in the story.

Nothing wrong with the idea, but it would work equally well using DE’s. I’m not sure why we need to introduce a new system, to which the current one can do just as well.

What it needs is to split the DE’s into meta and “lore/side stories”/ Perhaps the meta can stay orange coloured the other DE’s utilising your suggestion perhaps blue. These do not contribute to the overall meta, but still give appropriate lore and xp. Maybe even lore themed rewards which go towards lore themed collections.

Randulf.7614:

Nothing wrong with the idea, but it would work equally well using DE’s. I’m not sure why we need to introduce a new system, to which the current one can do just as well.

What it needs is to split the DE’s into meta and “lore/side stories”/ Perhaps the meta can stay orange coloured the other DE’s utilising your suggestion perhaps blue. These do not contribute to the overall meta, but still give appropriate lore and xp. Maybe even lore themed rewards which go towards lore themed collections.

There is absolutely no system that is going to be introduced. I’m sure you’re familiar with the hearts system in Central tyria… http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Renown_Heart

Let me re-phrase since I worded that wrong. I don’t see why they should resurrect a system they have publically said is abandoned in favour of focussing on DE’s. Hearts are also unrepeatable, so the system would need a re-design anyway.

DE’s would work just as well for your idea, which in essence is pretty sound. I’m all for side stories and exploration style events which flesh out more of the game’s lore.

While I’m all for a larger focus on Lore, this sounds really close to a quest chain which happily gw2 doesn’t have and doesn’t need.