Guild Wars 2

Alright, it is fairly simple. As far as I was concerned personal story across the board was more fun when we weren’t doing “the main plot” Asura dimension breaking, or circus arts with human etc. were fun! strange interesting stories. The vigil, whispers and priory non-main quests were fun too.

So what am I trying to say? why not more? living story is to some extent that. However here is my idea, Take the Orders great ideas! fleshed out well, and so awfully underused.
Why don’t the three orders have mission boards? this is my idea.

Each order would have individual mission boards/info guy. Depending on what order that character is, he/ she can only accept such tasks. The missions don’t have to be instanced, they could be escort missions or bounties(some of which might be instanced) that would activate and spawn(it not instanced) when you arrived at the location.
The missions themselves could reflect the orders. Find a relic if it is the priory, the vigil might be more of escorts and bounties. Whispers could be spying, assassination, theft. These are just some mission ideas off the top of my head, I’m sure there are plenty others. However those I just mentioned could be solved un-instanced or instanced without the need for voice actors or a convoluted story.

What would the reward be? Well I would say token rewards toward The Orders armory/weaponry, but not the Rare but instead Ascended(considering ascended got boosted) if it had only been 5% boost I would have said exotic here =_=
And there can be a limit to 1-3 missions a day. The missions could even be recycled.
Could even have titles related to the orders for once"!

Further story ideas, allow the personal story to be revisited on something along the lines of hard mode, and make it really hard.

Lions Arch could even have a mission board. I don’t know, I love events. But it doesn’t make sense that the orders don’t have mission boards or send you on missions occasionally.

But it dident get boosted, third post on first page is the source.

https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Ascended-Gear-Anet-please-fix-this/first

ColinJohanson

Game Director

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Just want to clarify since I saw this come up a couple of times in this thread and we haven’t actually released our full official patch notes for 6/23 yet….

Ascended Gear will be staying 5% better than Exotic Gear. Gear beyond the tiers we already have are not going to be added and our existing tiers won’t change, they won’t be our main end-game form of progression for your characters/account for all the reasons we’ve covered before – it isn’t what we think Gw2 is about.

Masteries is being added to PvE to help provide this system as our form of progression for PvE moving forward, and the WvW ability system exists for WvW and will be what we use to expand WvW in the future.

To more directly answer some of your point….We are adding a system that lets you change the stats for your ascended gear (weapons and armor) next Tuesday – which will cost a combination of 10 spirit shards, piece you don’t want anymore, 5 ectos, and an exotic insignia of the stats you want to convert to. Legendary Gear will remain the gear that can freely change stats any time.

-CJ
(Edited to clarify weapons and armor)