Guild Wars 2

Cleansing of Orr done at level 70? …………………………………………………what? Finished at level 72, now I need to go 8 more levels until I need to play the next mission, and that one was previously played way before the Cleansing of Orr mission. WTH happened to the Personal Story?

They revamped it when they introduced the NPE. You’ll also notice “My greatest fear” (former plotline) got wiped out along with Tonn (if I remember his name correctly) and Crusader Apatia (spelling?)

There’s a couple of threads about this in the General Discussion, if you want other opinions. Suffice it to say, few people are happy about the change.

They thought it was less confusing this way. Don’t worry your little honey bunches of oats about it!

How is it less confusing? I just arrived in Fort Trinity and the next thing I’m doing is cleansing Orr. What happened to the whole invasion?

Things got rearranged to be “more understandanable” and less confusing, however it ended up doing the complete opposite.

Since they just shuffled parts and took some out with a big knife, instead of an scalpel, to fit a neat little and “easy to follow” distribution method every 10 levels, since appearently the old structure was “too confusing” (their words) for new players.

It is an hackjob and completly butchers the whole experience as soon as the pact stuff starts (or even before?)
A story which needed some fixes here and there, was cut to peaces and restored with only the cliffnotes, instead of the whole script.

The new rewards do not help as well. Simpley put. They messed up big time and most people want it to go back to how it was.

I don’t really blame them for screwing up, that happens. I do blame them for taking so long to fix it. How many new players have now had a worse experience because of it?

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The new rewards do not help as well. Simpley put. They messed up big time and most people want it to go back to how it was.

Actually I don’t have a problem with the new rewards. I’ve had some nice things from story rewards so far.

Rewards are different from the experience of the story.
For what it’s worth, I haven’t even done the revamped story so far, but I hate the fact that they took out the “greatest fear” arc.

Appearently my guardian will never cleanse Orr. Not because I refuse to do the PS (though this mentality was in effect ever since the feature patch that brought on the NPE), but because… appearently I must have done it already. Except that I didnt. I just finished the plotline with the tanks moving through to Cursed Shore, and next thing the game tells me is to go kill Zhaitan. That is the new order. Thats fine and dandy. Except that its the last PS episode, so cleansing Orr (which comes before that in this new order) will propably never happen.

Serves me right for waiting months for them to fix this mess. It just got worse.

On the bright side, I’m just one story dungeon away from never doing this botched story ever again.