Guild Wars 2

I’d be all for this, though in all honestly quite a few points of interest are interesting if you’re a Guild Wars 1 player. Same with area names.

There are places I recognize that are pretty much straight from Guild Wars 1 and only marked in Guild Wars 2 with a POI.

Vayne.8563:

I’d be all for this, though in all honestly quite a few points of interest are interesting if you’re a Guild Wars 1 player. Same with area names.

There are places I recognize that are pretty much straight from Guild Wars 1 and only marked in Guild Wars 2 with a POI.

I’m glad that people who played the original GW can get a kick of nostalgia after finding them. But for those who couldn’t experience the first game, would appreciate this kind of feature.

TheMaskedGamer.5708:

Vayne.8563:

I’d be all for this, though in all honestly quite a few points of interest are interesting if you’re a Guild Wars 1 player. Same with area names.

There are places I recognize that are pretty much straight from Guild Wars 1 and only marked in Guild Wars 2 with a POI.

I’m glad that people who played the original GW can get a kick of nostalgia after finding them. But for those who couldn’t experience the first game, would appreciate this kind of feature.

As I said I’m all for it.

I could go for this, too. My brother is the big GW1 player in our house and I’m always running to him asking “hey, did you have such-and-such a place in GW1?” and the answer will usually be something like “oh yeah, I killed some guy there”; so a little bit of history would be nice.

I’d be all for it with some refinements.

Each PoI has the information, and it gets added to a journal (we can do those now, clearly) which can be reviewed. When you reach each PoI, you get the notification in the lower-right with a little page icon to let you know something’s there. It will be a picture of the area with a small paragraph of text blurb . . .

But by talking to relevant NPCs you can expand on it. Completing a PoI’s data turns the icon in the journal gold so you know you learned everything that can be learned. Give a small Karma/XP reward for doing that, or maybe an NPC who will reward you for “bring back nice stories of your travels”.

“I heard once about this human who traveled all of Tyria, and the other lands as well. A fearless, peerless traveler who would bring joy to anyone he met along the way. It is good to know there are still people like him even after the Dragons awoke.”

That’s actually a really cool idea.