Guild Wars 2

So HoT takes place after the death of Zhaitan. The core game’s personal story is about killing Zhaitan. If I make a new character after purchasing HoT will my Revenant, a class didn’t exist until after Zhaitan’s death, have to do the core game personal story or will HoT characters get a new personal story based on Mordremoth?

I’m about 99% sure they did not make a new personal story for a single new class.

Your PS has nothing to do with your class, anyway. It’s never mentioned. It’s first and foremost a racial story. So, let me correct myself, they’d have to make five new personal stories – one for each race. That sounds like a lot of work for little to no reason.

So probably yes, you will “have” to do the normal PS steps. Though you don’t have to do anything. If that’s a part of the game you’re not interested in, skip it.

It actually has been crossing my mind a bit as well. I know the personal story has got nothing to do with the class you play, but I feel not changing something to it would be just a bit off. Even with the living story seasons it felt (on new characters) as if you were just reading the same book for the tenth time or sth.

Now, with HoT coming it would definitely feel like Been There, Done That. When creating any new class you would have to defeat Zhaitan, but at this stage, with HoT, it’s just to much replay. Zhaitan is a part of the history of GW2 now (unless some unexpected plotchange would show up).

It would actually be pretty nice to have a new personal story line, that evolves around Mordremoth, and guides all players that have HoT towards its basic story line. Maybe an addition to the PS, or just a total new line (remind me to finish my PS soon btw). But I definitely like the idea, and if they really are doing with HoT what I hope they do, it won’t be that much of a surprise to me

That’s the Living Story, though. It’s an instanced story that explores the events after Zhaitan’s death, with the player as the central character.

New players coming in now won’t even know what they are doing in the Maguuma Wastes and how they got there unless they play the “old” personal story and LS 1.
Granted, they won’t know about Lost Shores or Scarlet, but then they also won’t know there used to be a different Lion’s Arch, so that doesn’t really matter.

A Dev said that they won’t make a different Personal Story for the Revenant, so yeah, it will be weird.

Technically this is true, and it might be strange to go through the story to the point where

If that one part was changed for revenant characters, it should work out fine. It might still be a bit confusing though if there’s other history references somewhere in the game (in HoT in particular) to the birth of the class – since those references might not align with what revenant characters experience in their story.

Given the origin of that class it might not be impossible to have a new background story for them – same story for all revenants regardless of race, which could take place within the mists. However this would be problematic in that the personal story is actually tied to leveling up the character.. and taking part in the events of the world story – and you don’t want to do the whole leveling from 1 to 80 in some mist instance.

It would still be possible – perhaps starting the story ( tutorial area ) within the mists, and coming out to the ‘regular Tyria’ after that. Then instead of normal personal story instances, having the personal story instances as breaches into the mists – and perhaps taking part in the events from there. It might be too much work, but on the other hand it would give a new perspective to the early events of the world.

Perhaps it could even be spun somehow so that the theme of the story would be something that takes place after the events that led to birth of the class, and the events within the mists would be (at least in part) glimpses to the past events that already happened (during the fight against Zhaitan). That could be pretty cool.

They said that the Revenant won’t have its own personal story as the personal story is tied to race and not profession (so it’s probably not even possible to separate it out and give that profession its own story). You’ll just have to glaze your eyes over any storyline problems that comes from having a profession appear after the story line you’ll be doing.