Guild Wars 2

Map exploration is a fun activity to do to see wonderful sites, different challenges and of course gives us interesting information or its history and meaning behind its existence.

Unfortunately, the part of gaining certain information and history is not currently present within Guild Wars 2.

Main problem I have is the Points of Interests.

They bring up questions every time I find them like: What makes these points interesting? What significance does it have? How is this place important enough to be a PoI? What history does this place have?

Unfortunately, we can’t find the answers we are looking for. (And yes , I am well aware that some players may recognize certain places if they played the original Guild Wars. But there are just as many players like myself that may have never played the previous game, won’t be able to understand the significance or reference of the place in question)

But I do have a remedy for this problem. The Points of Interest should have an update similar to the Renown Hearts, where as you find the Point, you get an icon on top of your map. If you click on it, it will open a window that looks similar to the Story Journal entries in its design, with a concept art style picture of the place at the top and a page or 2’s worth of historical information of the place. The information can then be reviewed at anytime as many times as a player would like within the Journal itself.

This could be a great opportunity to add some lore that the game really needs to further add some definition and character to the world we play in.

I hope that ArenaNet can consider this idea for future updates, patches and such for later development of the game. Thank you.

I think this had been suggested before, though, this isn’t exactly bad. +1.

Some of the POI’s hold special significance to GW1 players. (e.g. Old Lion’s Arch fountain)

Some of them you can work out the significance by talking to nearby NPC’s (e.g. Aliyah’s haunt.)

Some of them are pretty self-explanatory (e.g. Jormag’s tooth.)

But, that said, I do think your ideas about having a “lore journal” that provided little tidbits on the different POI’s as you explore is a neat idea and something worth considering if the devs have time.

TheMaskedGamer.5708:

Map exploration is a fun activity to do to see wonderful sites, different challenges and of course gives us interesting information or its history and meaning behind its existence.

Unfortunately, the part of gaining certain information and history is not currently present within Guild Wars 2.

Main problem I have is the Points of Interests.

They bring up questions every time I find them like: What makes these points interesting? What significance does it have? How is this place important enough to be a PoI? What history does this place have?

Unfortunately, we can’t find the answers we are looking for. (And yes , I am well aware that some players may recognize certain places if they played the original Guild Wars. But there are just as many players like myself that may have never played the previous game, won’t be able to understand the significance or reference of the place in question)

But I do have a remedy for this problem. The Points of Interest should have an update similar to the Renown Hearts, where as you find the Point, you get an icon on top of your map. If you click on it, it will open a window that looks similar to the Story Journal entries in its design, with a concept art style picture of the place at the top and a page or 2’s worth of historical information of the place. The information can then be reviewed at anytime as many times as a player would like within the Journal itself.

This could be a great opportunity to add some lore that the game really needs to further add some definition and character to the world we play in.

I hope that ArenaNet can consider this idea for future updates, patches and such for later development of the game. Thank you.

Normally I would agree, but keep in mind the quality of the GW2 writers. I don’t think they have what it takes to write a good journal.

They should have a picture and lore for the POI…

Eventhough I’ll personally never read it…

but some other people that care about lore may care about it.

/wiki [insert name of PoI]

Not saying it’s perfect, but an option is there :x