Guild Wars 2

The Living Story is nice, but it has so far been completely disconnected from the lore and the main player story. Why is this? The game has been out for over a year and not a single thing about the main story has been advanced. All of our unanswered questions still linger.

While Scarlet, Kasmeer, Marjory, etc are interesting in their own right, they feel like distractions and though I play every single Living Story arc all the way through, I often wonder why. My character’s standing wasn’t advanced (in fact, the fact that I’m one of the high ranking members of the pact is completely ignored!). Nothing was learned about the Elder Dragons. I still don’t know why Queen Jenna has no shoes.

I did not play GW1, so I had to go through a very quick crash course of the Lore as I started playing in Beta and I fell in love with it. I love the Gods. I love the White Mantle. I love the Mursaat. I want to know about what Scarlet has found about the Internal Alchemy, but I also want it to tie up loose ends in the story or raise new questions about the original lore.

With this new update about the krait coming up, I’m really holding out hope for some relation to the deep sea dragon or Mursaat but my hope is wearing thin. With no expansion on the horizon, I’m beginning to wonder if we ever will see what is beyond Tyria.

Queen Jennah has simply discovered that shoes are overrated, and lives her life barefoot. Think of how much money she has saved the kingdom, not having to buy her shoes for every occasion! ;-)

Seriously though, there are at least a handful of us devs who practice a barefoot lifestyle. I’m sure some people will always think it’s “weird”, but at least around the studio, it’s become just another facet in a diverse workplace.

Also, it was mentioned in an interview they’re going to start merging them. First evidence of that would be Tequatl. We will see.

To be fair, they did touch on a few loose ends originally, the dredge and the flame legion. I still hold to the belief that the LS runs after the PS mainly because Smoldur called me the Pact Commander after all :P I just find it strange that they refuse to touch on certain other loose ends, or decide that it’s necessary to bundle all loose ends that they do touch into one knot (She-who-shall-not-be-named).

i personally dont want the two to mix, presumably, the ps will continue with the other elder dragons/continents if they are released, if they start combining personal story with temporary content, new players would be very confused..

The two stories are separate so that a player can pursue either, neither, or both at any speed they like. The living story also has no requirement for any character to have done anything so it is immediately a bad fit for the personal story that has stages of progress. By design, a player can create a new account tomorrow and play the latest living story update.

Eluveitie.1290:

Queen Jennah has simply discovered that shoes are overrated, and lives her life barefoot. Think of how much money she has saved the kingdom, not having to buy her shoes for every occasion! ;-)

Seriously though, there are at least a handful of us devs who practice a barefoot lifestyle. I’m sure some people will always think it’s “weird”, but at least around the studio, it’s become just another facet in a diverse workplace.

Also, it was mentioned in an interview they’re going to start merging them. First evidence of that would be Tequatl. We will see.

I………… I don’t…….. Welp.

Tequatl had no ties to the active story that I noticed aside from having Rox wandering about. Unless I missed something horribly

I don’t see where a new player just joining the story wouldn’t be interested in new developments as well. Maybe it’ll be out of order for them but it would be more intriguing. Also, I think keeping around players that already play is just as important if not more than catering to new players.

Well, there you go – Rox and her endless trails. Tequatl got a mysterious (oh wow, like they never use that technique) revamp with supposedely lore ties. Which most agree must be more tied to the PS than the LS – aka Scarlet.

Eluveitie.1290:

Well, there you go – Rox and her endless trails. Tequatl got a mysterious (oh wow, like they never use that technique) revamp with supposedely lore ties. Which most agree must be more tied to the PS than the LS – aka Scarlet.

So mysterious we almost have no idea why or how this happened!!