Guild Wars 2

Hey guys,

since there is no sub forum for user suggestions anymore and all the threads discussing this issue pointed to posting it in “General Discussions” I hope this suggestion won’t drown in all the things that are submitted. If there is a better place for this suggestion, feel free to move it (@ mods). Nevertheless, here we go:

I’ve just watched WoodenPotatoes’ newest video on YouTube. He talked about how nice it is that certain characters move around without most people noticing, because there are no patch notes referring to those movements. Further on he mentioned that implementing a short backflash video or text regarding the past story updates while downloading and installing new patches might make people more aware of what is happening at the moment.

I want to share another idea that struck into my head after hearing this: A timeline.

In the character selection screen, there are already two tabs on the upper right side: First, one that contains your almost finished achievements and your progress during the current living world content and, second, your trophies (?) like world completion, order participation and legendary progress.

So what about this: add another tab that contains the whole living story! A timeline starting way before 1327 N.E. and add certain markers at remarkable dates with important information of what has happened back then.
Something like this:

https://imageshack.com/i/0cmp9kj

I’m not really good at photoshopping/painting, but I hope this image is good enough to get my idea across. I didn’t really think this through (and there might be problems regarding story parts that were not experiences by everybody, yet, such as the fight against Zaithan), it just came to mind and I wanted to share it. I’ve seen similar things on other websites, though, and calling the character selection screen of guild wars 1 back to mind: it’s actually the same technique.

Hope you guys enjoy and have a wonderful day / night, whatever.

Kind regards.