Guild Wars 2

Hi,

Just wanted to say that I was very disappointed by Guild Wars 2 when I reached the last personal story mission and found out that this last mission is a multi-player dungeon. The whole personal story was solo-playable so far so why must it end in a dungeon?

I really liked the story mode so far and I would love to play this last mission but I can’t because I’m one of the people who really hate it to play a dungeon with some random players because I made some frustrating bad experience with it. Other players wants to play the dungeon in their own style and speed. They just rush through it to farm the rewards. They are annoyed when someone doesn’t skip the cutscenes or when someone is simply a newbie because he hasn’t played the dungeon a dozen times. Or they kick me from the party right away because I don’t understand their heavily abbreviated “clan speak”.

Nothing against multi-player. I like PvE in Guild Wars 2 especially because of the multi player aspect. It’s great fun to play on maps with real other players instead of using Henchman or Heroes like in Guild Wars 1. It’s also ok to have dungeons specially designed for small parties. But the personal story is a personal thing and in my opinion it should not end in a mission which CAN’T be played solo.

Maybe this can be changed in future updates? I would love to see a “Play solo story” button in that last dungeon which scales the difficulty (and the rewards if necessary) down to a single player. Or maybe some capable NPC Heroes could be automatically added to the party when not enough real players are present. Something like that. I would really appreciate this.

You just need to pay/ ask someone to do the first panel puzzle and then it’s soloable.

Put “Arah story including video watch” in the lfg tool and you will find your party.
Btw.: do the same with the catacombs, all tell a part of the story.
And do it before the 9.9. To be able to make the rules of the party as dungeon owner.

you don’t need to worry, there will be plenty of people just like you doing the story,
noone is pro or elitist about it

Another thing to know is that dungeon story mode gives poor rewards compared to exp mode. I don’t recall ever seeing people rushing through story modes for the reward; the story mode has sometimes been a requirement for daily achievements, but Arah story is way too long for people to do just for the daily achievement. Most people do Arah story simply to complete the personal story or to unlock exp mode for the more lucrative paths.

If its the cutscenes that you wish to watch, simply state your intent to watch them and you should be fine. I feel that making the last mission a dungeon does take away from the gaming experience a little; if the same was done in my other favorite games like Halo, Mass Effect, etc. sure I’d be upset, but with GW2 I keep in mind that this is a MMORPG and it’s likely intended to benefit the multiplayer aspect of the game.

You’re best off joining a casual guild and making some friends. Let me tell you, dungeons are a lot more fun for me with friends than with pugs. It’s even nice to chat sometimes while I’m soloing.

I duo’d it once with a friend who was at the same point in the story. Do you have any friends?

I think the issue is that even if you find a party, there is a 1/5 chance basically that you won’t get to watch the story with your character as the leader

And that is really disappointing

Granted the end of the story sucks anyway so…

Blue Magnolia.5207:

I think the issue is that even if you find a party, there is a 1/5 chance basically that you won’t get to watch the story with your character as the leader

And that is really disappointing

Granted the end of the story sucks anyway so…

The player opening the instance (going to the gate and clicking “Story Mode” in this case) will have his or her character in the cutscene. If you want to see your character, you simply have to be the one doing this. Note that this might change starting September 9th with the changes to dungeon instance ownership.

Also, as others have said, just mention in your LFG post what type of players you want. Works fine for me.

I’ll add my own disappointment to this last quest in the personal story questline.

I had a geared level 80 friend of mine accompany me into the instance, and we got nailed on the first encounter. Reading about that, perhaps we could have let the NPCs carry the load, but it takes awhile to burn down the silvers, and they respawn.

We concluded, this is not fun.

Sure, Arenanet apparently figures that you OUGHT to use the random group generator to go in with a full group, but what if they’re in a hurry and you don’t get to take in all the videos?

The trials and tribulations of Destiny’s Edge alone was enough to urge me to do the random group thing. They did not have to FORCE me to do so in this last quest.

Disagree if you wish, I know somebody’s going to say “Oh, I could have soloed that, just had to have a friend to flip this switch…” But I say it was cheap, and not fun. The Personal Story generated a lot of letters telling me I could do group instances to see what was going on with Destiny’s Edge. That was enough. To force me to group at the end, with the mechanic of respawning mobs, was a fail.

I hope they change this in the upcoming HOT.

Almaden.6782:

I’ll add my own disappointment to this last quest in the personal story questline.

I had a geared level 80 friend of mine accompany me into the instance, and we got nailed on the first encounter. Reading about that, perhaps we could have let the NPCs carry the load, but it takes awhile to burn down the silvers, and they respawn.

We concluded, this is not fun.

Sure, Arenanet apparently figures that you OUGHT to use the random group generator to go in with a full group, but what if they’re in a hurry and you don’t get to take in all the videos?

The trials and tribulations of Destiny’s Edge alone was enough to urge me to do the random group thing. They did not have to FORCE me to do so in this last quest.

Disagree if you wish, I know somebody’s going to say “Oh, I could have soloed that, just had to have a friend to flip this switch…” But I say it was cheap, and not fun. The Personal Story generated a lot of letters telling me I could do group instances to see what was going on with Destiny’s Edge. That was enough. To force me to group at the end, with the mechanic of respawning mobs, was a fail.

I hope they change this in the upcoming HOT.

It’s being changed. Personal Story Restoration sticky on this page has the info.

Almaden, currently Arah story mode, what you need to run for the last stage of your personal story, is a dungeon and not simply a story instance. It has, however, already been revealed that this will be changing. We don’t know when, but it will be a scaling story instance that can be completed with 1 to 5 people.

That information can be found here, at the top of the second post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update

qarinus.3869:

Almaden, currently Arah story mode, what you need to run for the last stage of your personal story, is a dungeon and not simply a story instance. It has, however, already been revealed that this will be changing. We don’t know when, but it will be a scaling story instance that can be completed with 1 to 5 people.

That information can be found here, at the top of the second post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update

Qarinus, thank you very much! I’d searched a number of times trying to get info on that last mission, I’m amazed this article didn’t ‘pop’ in the search. You’re right, it tells everything one needs to know about finishing. I’d better slow down a toon or two, lest they miss some of the changes coming in the earlier chapters.

The article is 15 days old as of this reading, so it sounds like an active project, we just have to wait a little.

Thank you again, Qarinus. That was an excellent read.

Guhracie.3419:

It’s being changed. Personal Story Restoration sticky on this page has the info.

I.. Er… Thank you. So, there’s a sticky there, bigger than Dallas…

Lol, I’m embarassed, but there it is. Thanks. I’m a little older and wiser now…

Yeah. I’ve never done that last step because it required a group of 5 and I usually solo or play with my sister.

Thanks for the link. I have had the game since release and have yet to finish my personal story because of the last instance.
I guess I just have to wait for the patch, at least the end is in sight now.

And here I thought this was being necroed to show that ANet really does listen, and while it may take them a VERY long time to act on an issue, they do get around to it.

Blude.6812:

Thanks for the link. I have had the game since release and have yet to finish my personal story because of the last instance.
I guess I just have to wait for the patch, at least the end is in site now.

Or, you know, you could just find a pug doing it and do it. It’s not like it’s even a hard dungeon, it’s just long and boring.

Kal Spiro.9745:

And here I thought this was being necroed to show that ANet really does listen, and while it may take them a VERY long time to act on an issue, they do get around to it.

Blude.6812:

Thanks for the link. I have had the game since release and have yet to finish my personal story because of the last instance.
I guess I just have to wait for the patch, at least the end is in site now.

Or, you know, you could just find a pug doing it and do it. It’s not like it’s even a hard dungeon, it’s just long and boring.

Thanks, haven’t used lfg for the instance or even joined a pug. I’m one of those players that just solos. The few dungeons that I have done, I solo’d.