Guild Wars 2

I feel the developer’s got lazy on the story of the Revanent
They should have started the class in the Mists with a past hero (Jora for Norn, Pyre for Charr, Ronan for Sylvari, Vekk for Asura, Kerian for Humans)from GW awakening the characters
Have them meet Rytlock and Glint’s spirit send them off tof meet the sports of their fighting skills.
Then send the characters to their race starting area’s in a historical play until the reach HoT.

As for older GW2 character’s they needed to take a portal to the Mists and talk to the spirit of Glint to unlock their abilities

I wouldn’t say lazy. It would have taken a major recoding of how chars start out. Right now all chars, regardless of their profession start out with the same story instance and then proceed along it, but not by their profession.

To do what you’re suggesting, they’d have to recode the way chars start, separating the Revenants from all the other professions, give them their very own starting instance and their own individual starting story line. That’s not something even remotely minor. It would require a recoding of all 5 races and all 5 racial story lines to add 5 new starting instances and 5 reworked personal stories.

whatever is it that Rytlock Brimstone was been doing in the mists, it is something that has great potential for a good mini-expansion/lore/adventure. I hope it is not wasted. It could even turn into a new fractal map.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I wouldn’t say lazy. It would have taken a major recoding of how chars start out. Right now all chars, regardless of their profession start out with the same story instance and then proceed along it, but not by their profession.

To do what you’re suggesting, they’d have to recode the way chars start, separating the Revenants from all the other professions, give them their very own starting instance and their own individual starting story line. That’s not something even remotely minor. It would require a recoding of all 5 races and all 5 racial story lines to add 5 new starting instances and 5 reworked personal stories.

They did it in the first Guild Wars series with each expansion when you went to an older map and did story you received a message “you are viewing past events”

Biermeister.4678:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I wouldn’t say lazy. It would have taken a major recoding of how chars start out. Right now all chars, regardless of their profession start out with the same story instance and then proceed along it, but not by their profession.

To do what you’re suggesting, they’d have to recode the way chars start, separating the Revenants from all the other professions, give them their very own starting instance and their own individual starting story line. That’s not something even remotely minor. It would require a recoding of all 5 races and all 5 racial story lines to add 5 new starting instances and 5 reworked personal stories.

They did it in the first Guild Wars series with each expansion when you went to an older map and did story you received a message “you are viewing past events”

It didn’t separate out by profession. All professions that got that message. With that mechanism you would have every profession going to the mists and learning how to be a Revenant.

The game currently doesn’t separate content by profession. It would have to be coded in.

Not the point. If they were going to give Revenants a personal story, then they would have to give every other profession a personal story, as well. And where does that leave the race-specific personal story arcs?

It just doesn’t make sense.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

Not the point. If they were going to give Revenants a personal story, then they would have to give every other profession a personal story, as well. And where does that leave the race-specific personal story arcs?

It just doesn’t make sense.

Definition
Revenant: “One that returns after death or a long absence”
So it does make sense to have a class personal story. They are the most unique class since Nightfall and Anet should have explored that area.
Seems looking at other threads they missed a lot of stories

I wouldn’t say the devs are “lazy” to not have done it. Given what they have to work with, I’d say it’s the right choice.

Also, I’d say that this is one of those character elements that they’re better off not telling us about. Let US decide how our characters became a Revanent, or an Elementalist, or whatever. Darth Vader was cool, until we learned all about his past. Some stories are best left untold.

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I wouldn’t say lazy. It would have taken a major recoding of how chars start out. Right now all chars, regardless of their profession start out with the same story instance and then proceed along it, but not by their profession.

To do what you’re suggesting, they’d have to recode the way chars start, separating the Revenants from all the other professions, give them their very own starting instance and their own individual starting story line. That’s not something even remotely minor. It would require a recoding of all 5 races and all 5 racial story lines to add 5 new starting instances and 5 reworked personal stories.

It almost seems like the amount of work one would put in when releasing an expansion and introducing a new class to the game….

Yes, I am being a cynical kitten . But really all of HoT took a ton of work. It seems to me, you introduce a new class. It should have some new story behind it.

BloodyNine.7504:

Just a flesh wound.3589:

I wouldn’t say lazy. It would have taken a major recoding of how chars start out. Right now all chars, regardless of their profession start out with the same story instance and then proceed along it, but not by their profession.

To do what you’re suggesting, they’d have to recode the way chars start, separating the Revenants from all the other professions, give them their very own starting instance and their own individual starting story line. That’s not something even remotely minor. It would require a recoding of all 5 races and all 5 racial story lines to add 5 new starting instances and 5 reworked personal stories.

It almost seems like the amount of work one would put in when releasing an expansion and introducing a new class to the game….

Yes, I am being a cynical kitten . But really all of HoT took a ton of work. It seems to me, you introduce a new class. It should have some new story behind it.

It should have a story behind it. However because the game currently has no way to tell separate stories that are profession specific then it has to be in a non profession specific story, which is the Living Story. That’s the place where the Revenant’s story of how they came to be needs to be placed.