Guild Wars 2

I just played the Buried Insight mission and while the majority of it was a lot of fun – exploring the lost city – there was a part that was very poorly handled: “Find the Elder Dragon Research”, which is about step 3.

After struggling with it for a long time, I looked up a video and discovered that all I had to do when the “Find the Elder Dragon Research” step came up was wait 5 seconds and talk to Taimi again. Really?

The mission is described as “Find the Elder Dragon Research” and there is NO indication of where you’re supposed to look. There was no green star or green circle. So I explored the explored the entire city, from top to bottom. I dived underwater, explored the passages and climbed what was obviously steps and platforms intended for climbing. There was a wall that seemed to be designed to glide over and when I did I found myself in the “Decayed Hive”. Only, there was nothing to do there, nothing to activate and no exit. I had to get out of the mission and start all over again.

Here’s the problem: when you tell a player to find something, and provide a map with structures that are clearly intended for climbing, and provide no clue where to look, how can you expect them to know that they have to talk to a npc?

As I said, the actual story wasn’t too bad, just poorly instructed. I don’t know if my problem came from taking the instructions too literally, but how are you supposed to know which instructions are or are not literal?