Guild Wars 2

Does the personal story, post level 1 instance, begin at level 10 (end of first arch) or at level 2 (like today) after the feature patch goes live on the 9th?

Bruiser.4189:

Does the personal story, post level 1 instance, begin at level 10 (end of first arch) or at level 2 (like today) after the feature patch goes live on the 9th?

I am inclined to think its going to stay the same. There is no evidence to support that it is moving up to level 10. (but then again there is no supporting evidence that it will stay the same). Until we can get a clear answer from the devs, EVERYTHING is pure opinion and speculation. And the way people are on the forums, you’ll more then likely see the level 10 theory and how game breaking it will be.

Well it will be at lvl 10. Why? Because it has to be in episodes. And just think about new players who try to do PS 1-10. They would be frustrated and what Anet tries to achieve is the opposite.
And again all of us veteran players could complete PS 1-10 with a lvl 1 char. But Anet doesn’t care about us.

It will be at level 10.

This is how it is in china, and this patch is all about bringing the chinese features to the NA/EU game.

Please do not make us wait to do the personal story in entire episode chunks. Players should expect a challenge when running content under level. Not level-gating it means we can do it with our friends for the fun of a challenge.

It also divorces the game story even further from the world around us. Let us do our personal story starting at level 1 as best we can.

This feels like a veiled attempt at stopping keyfarming. It will affect the BLTC skin market. What happened to keyfarming being an explicitly approved activity?

It will be level 10. Key farmers could do it with experience and carefully chosen gear, runes, food and sigils, but a true starting person would get wrecked if they tried to do a level 10 story line, where you get the key, at level 4.

So if it’s in chunks now it makes sense to start it at level 10 so their chars’ level will match the level of the mobs.

To those saying, we did it. It’s different. They will get a notice that this chunk of personal story is ready for them to do as a set. If they get this notice at level 2 and try to do it, it will be too hard.

I really do not understand this change. There were nothing whatsoever wrong with the story as it was. You started from the beginning, right at the beginning, you got a bit of the story to do every few levels, and could usually do a few in a row if you wanted to and could cope with being underlevelled. You could then explore the world in parallel, with the story moving you on to new areas of the map every so often.

Now you get to do a chunk of it, then aimlessly wander about until the next chunk unlocks, and possibly sends you in the opposite direction to the one you were wandering in.

If they really do make it so the first chunk unlocks at lvl 10, then they will truly have gone insane.

Really makes no sense.

“It will be at level 10”

[Citation needed]

kthxbye!

I think we’re all assuming it will match what the Chinese client does, which is unlocks at lvl 10, because the rest of the “Levelling unlock” system is ported straight across from there. And also, we’re making that assumption because if we make enough noise about it now, there’s a small chance they might realise how stupid it is and change it before it’s too late.

pdavis.8031:

“It will be at level 10”

[Citation needed]

kthxbye!

So far there is plenty of evidence pointing to it being very likely.

You however have no evidence that says otherwise.

kthxbye

ConfusedDave.4271:

I think we’re all assuming it will match what the Chinese client does, which is unlocks at lvl 10, because the rest of the “Levelling unlock” system is ported straight across from there. And also, we’re making that assumption because if we make enough noise about it now, there’s a small chance they might realise how stupid it is and change it before it’s too late.

I can understand that, however what bothers me the most about all of this is that the level 10 unlock, and the death of the key farm are being talked about as its the word of God, and undenible fact. When the only “fact” we have is that there is a change to the story journal and how we can play the story.

So if we do want to make enough noise about it, please make sure that IF this is indeed true, then it would be bad because of x,y,z is known, and not as a misleading statement to draw more people to the cause.

Celestina.2894:

pdavis.8031:

“It will be at level 10”

[Citation needed]

kthxbye!

So far there is plenty of evidence pointing to it being very likely.

You however have no evidence that says otherwise.

kthxbye

Again it’s speculation, on both sides. The forums are also known for taking the most extreme possibility of anything as an attempt to prove that the game is basically dead/economy grossly inflated/new whatever will break the game.
All the evidence I’ve seen is conjectual and circumstantial at best. As I said, in my other post, unless we see confirmation one way or another, stating it as hard fact is misleading, especially to a new player who is trying to see what the game is about by browsing the forums before jumping into it.

It’s going to be Level 10.