Guild Wars 2

Hello to all, been a while since i’ve played but i joined back up to Guildwars 2 three days ago and have been finalizing my level 74 Necro.

Obviously not playing for two years there has been a huge amount of changes to the game, one of which is Lions Arch.. but when i do the story its still set in the old lions arch, is there any plans to address this as its quit a disconnect to play them, like a big one..

I understand this may seem small to many but to me this feels weird..

Another Issue is i’m not getting any loot dropping in my story missions is this some sort of bug or something else as they are quite boring to play with nothing to loot, and it makes making any money insanely hard to level up.. not to mention getting some new gears..

Thanks all on a whole i’m enjoying the changes apart from the above..

Loot is awarded at the end of each Story episode. You can make quite a few coins by selling materials (gathered or salvaged) while leveling up, if you so desire.

Many felt that it was quite ‘a disconnect’ to have the Personal Story episodes take place in New Lion’s Arch, so it was changed to better reflect the time the story takes place.

Welcome return, and good luck.

As Inculpatus said, the story missions are supposed to take place before Lion’s Arch was destroyed, so they did some work to make it show old LA when you do those missions.

The loot was on purpose as well. Not everyone liked it when they changed that, but it was one of many changes made at the time, and many have just grown used to it.

Old story missions will use the old Lion’s Arch but with a sepia tone if you’ve got high settings. You can turn off the sepia tone by turning off post processing, I believe. I would find it much much worse if the personal story from before HoT used the new Lion’s Arch. New Lion’s Arch didn’t even exist in thought until after those chapters were over.

Loot now comes at the end of the mission in loot bags that come up in the pop up after you finish a mission. Blame the players who would sit in a personal instance that infinitely spawned enemies and farmed.

It’s much better, imo, to have the old LA for this. When they announced the plan to implement that, there was much rejoicing! During the attack on LA, for instance, we were watching children playing and Tybalt selling apples in the midst of a raging conflagration. Talk about a disconnect … and now LA’s terrain is substantially altered, so the NPC pathing in the PS would have to be completely redone.