Guild Wars 2

Probably been mentioned a hundred times before but now GW2 is at a pivotal point in it’s existence I suppose it’s kinda relevant once more.

Living Story has been a driving force towards the expansion, and now I guess that’s all history now, right? I’m hoping now that it’s over that there could be a little more focus on completing the parts of the character’s biography that serve no purpose right now, and expand upon the character’s Personal Story somehow. In case you were wondering, these are the useless parts so far;

Asura’s choice of mentor
Human’s patron god
Norn’s most important quality (ironic, right?)
Sylvari’s cycle when awakened

Charr seem to be the only ones that make use of all their story, though I suppose the relation to their chosen sparring partner could be expanded upon. And not to mention the whole Charm/Dignity/Ferocity thing, what the heck happened to that?

And yes, I know that characters have living story every 10 levels or so, but even if it means working them in as level 1-10 content where there’s no story would be good, maybe in a way that helps introduce game mechanics to the player in ways the tutorial hasn’t? there’s a lot more content added in since three years ago after all.

As a Charr I would like to know what happen with my sire.

Greyfur.1082:

As a Charr I would like to know what happen with my sire.

That’s… in the story…

level 20 I believe: Sins of the Father — Charr characters are reunited with their father (either a loyal soldier, an honorless gladium, or a sorcerous shaman), and attempt to make their peace with him.

ANet has said they’ll be making adjustments to the personal story so that it makes more sense again. It’ll probably happen at the same time they rework traits.

Tyrannical.9348:

Greyfur.1082:

As a Charr I would like to know what happen with my sire.

That’s… in the story…

level 20 I believe: Sins of the Father — Charr characters are reunited with their father (either a loyal soldier, an honorless gladium, or a sorcerous shaman), and attempt to make their peace with him.

Depending on your father and choices in that step (I’ll refrain from spoilers), it isn’t resolved at all. In at least one version it really feels like it’s a loose end that’s waiting to come back into your story- and never does.

That’s true to one degree or another of all pre-Trahearne story. Nothing and nobody (other than your racial mentor) ever makes a reappearance. It’s particularly jarring because everyone post-Trahearne has come back, again and again.

To me the best way to deal with it would be to integrate the results of all your choices, both in your background and your personal story, into your home instance. The nice thing about that is for existing characters long since finished with the story, the changes could be added in cleanly with no need to redo the story or miss out on the opportunity for a mature character. Your home instance just becomes richer and more personalized based on your decisions from 0-80.

That having been said, naturally I know it would be somewhat silly to spend developer resources on solitary, rarely accessed content rather than more popular content. But if it was mandated to keep the personal story a more vivid part of the character’s world, that is how I’d choose to do it.

I wouldn’t be surprised if it was originally designed that way, but ended up being cut in favor of other development work.

Too late to do anything about that. IMO they did pretty good with the stories. Well except sylvari, which should have just had an NPC saying “you are a talking cabbage, now go stab things” and left it at that. They overcomplicated it.