Guild Wars 2

The Living Story in Guild Wars 2

Does this mean stuff will happen that will actually REMOVE current content in the game, such as Dynamic Events and Heart Quests, and be replaced by something new as aftermath by whatever upcoming Living Story events will take place?

The reason I ask this is because I am currently playing through Prophecies in Guild Wars 1, as the lore I obtained from some NPCs through out the Major Cities in Guild Wars 2 really made me feel like I missed out by not playing Guild Wars 1 first and thus sparked my interest in starting from the beginning. I am enjoying the original Guild Wars immensely BTW.

I’m just trying to figure out if I should just put my progress in Guild Wars 1 on hold so I can experience all the current content in GW2 before any potential changes happen that will make me miss out on Heart Quests and Dynamic Events in the 2 zones currently being affected by The Living Story, or if current Dynamic Events and Heart Quests will still be around and The Living Story just adding new content and changes on top of the original content, similar to The Lost Shores. I participated in the seasonal events like The Mad King and Wintersday, and the weekend event The Lost Shores, but I haven’t actually delved into a lot of the content in GW2 nor have I really got too far into my character’s personal story line just in case there might be some Guild Wars 1 spoilers.

If there are already multiple topics about this I apologize as I didn’t see anything in the search results that pertained to my particular question.

hearts and dynamic events really don’t connect all that well. there are several areas where things lead on to future events such as protecting a family home, seeing someone leave in despair then fighting said person when they went over to the enemy side whatever that happens to be. But there is no overarching story connecting the various hearts/events, beside dragons are evil and if you join them people will hunt you down and kill you.

Some hearts/events are connected, particularly in the early and high level zones. Of course, this isn’t true for all of them and there’s absolutely room for the world to change and grow. I look forward to seeing the evolutions and am quietly hoping that the impact on the world that things like F&F leave will be comparable to that of the GW1 Beyond content.

The living story is just a side story. It shouldn’t make any major changes to the game. The only content you would miss is that which was added in one step of the story and then taken away in the next.

If your goal is to witness every single dynamic event in the game however, note that originally they stated that they would add new events and disable old ones periodically to keep the game fresh. With that in mind, you will probably never see them all.