(Sorry if this seems out of place or has already been discussed – my attempts to find a better forum and/or previous topic on the issue proved fruitless)
Hey all, first-time poster here! o/
I’m ashamed to say that I’ve never finished the personal story on any of my characters, despite having three 80s now. Part of the reason was that it was so broken up by level, so I’d have to go 2-3 levels without a story update, and by the time I was the right level, I was doing something else, so I just sort of fell behind. For this reason alone, I fully support the move to having the arcs every ten levels, since the increased flow can only help the pacing of the story itself – if not necessarily when you hit each point in it during the leveling process.
Given this, I decided to finally get some progress in it on my Guardian, my current main. I reached level 70 and was expecting the arc where you save Fort Trinity and then did the quests that you picked in the Pale Tree’s vision earlier, since I’d gotten to that point on my Warrior and my Elementalist already.
Instead, I’m doing this arc that I’d never done before, which was focused on cleansing Orr. It takes place in the Cursed Shore at level 70, though they got around that by doing these “Airlifts” with the Airship. The thing is, it involved NPCs that I’d never met before – notably, Sayeh al’Rajihd, who treated my like an old friend despite having never met her. It referenced events that hadn’t happened yet, such as Ships of the Line spoilerZott Dying. Later on, my character mentioned all of the Eyes that she’d killed, despite never having killed any in-story.
It was a really epic and awesome series of quests, don’t get me wrong, but it just felt horribly out of place. Worse, my next quest (Temple of the Forgotten God) introduced me to Sayeh, as if we’d never met before, and the quest takes place in the Straits of Devestation.
To me, it seems like it’d be better if the level 70 quest chain from Against the Corruption until The Source of Orr was moved to level 80 to take place after the Order Plans quests, and the Temple of the Forgotten God through Further Into Orr was moved to level 70.
This would give a huge advantage to not introducing characters or events before they’re supposed to happen, though I’m kind of sad that it looks like the “What you fear most” arcs from A Light in the Darkness are gone.
Thoughts/Suggestions/Flames?
(edited by Falco.9250)