Guild Wars 2

Since personalities have all but disappeared from the game, can we just have it reflect in our animations instead? Have a more aggressive stance for ferocious people (fists clenched, feet apart, back straight), a proper stance for dignified people (hands behind the back, feet together, back straight), and a relaxed stance for charming people (hands on hips, feet apart, slightly slouched).

Seems a bit pointless to have new characters continue to pick their personality when it doesn’t do anything anymore.

Of course I don’t expect this to every fly (since it will triple the number of idle animations and probably necessitate a mechanic to categorize animations by personalities), but just had to voice it out.

What gives you the impression it doesn’t do anything anymore? It’s true that you aren’t getting the different answer options in any of the latest updates, but that doesn’t mean it might not show up at some point, and it still is used by new characters up until level 80 in adding to the respective stats.

Zaklex.6308:

What gives you the impression it doesn’t do anything anymore? It’s true that you aren’t getting the different answer options in any of the latest updates, but that doesn’t mean it might not show up at some point, and it still is used by new characters up until level 80 in adding to the respective stats.

So basically what you are saying is that the OP is right. It’s not being used any more (it only works in old content, in the personal story). And that’s a worrying decision, because it makes it seem as if the devs have decided to longer take personality into account. And the fact that they’ve also hidden the personalty system, reinforces this idea.

Zaklex.6308:

What gives you the impression it doesn’t do anything anymore?

The only thing personality and personality-shaping dialogue did was determine which of the ten possible personality titles/icons were displayed in your Hero window, so removing that title/icon literally means personality does nothing now.

It’s true that you aren’t getting the different answer options in any of the latest updates, but that doesn’t mean it might not show up at some point, and it still is used by new characters up until level 80 in adding to the respective stats.

I think the dialogue options are only there because it’s too much of a hassle to go back through all the lines and dialogue trees to scrub personality out when it’s easier to just leave it in as flavor text. I also seriously doubt it’ll ever come back, given the lack of official replies to threads about personalities.