Guild Wars 2

Okay… I really like the Living story thing…

Especially now this newer content, where mobs don’t just roll over and die.. You actually have to beat on them a lil’ to defeat them… Good going.

BUT….

Having to “Replay” the story, to accomplish the achieves? …. eh…. no thank you. Especially when you can’t “Skip” cut scenes and dialogues and the like.

What I would like to see, and this is just my opinion on this… so keep your flames in your pants…. Is for the Living Story to be completed ACCOUNT WIDE.

Do the first part on one toon, use a second toon for the next part and another for the next part… Or, just use one toon for the whole thing. ONCE COMPLETED, all subsequent play through are considered “Replays,” Giving the rewards they would have normally received. So folks can get to work on the achieves. And they can use ANY level sufficient toon they have….

For example, I have 8 level 80’s…. 1 of each class… I so far have completed this on 5 of them… 3 more to go. By the third toon, I was dreading it…. It would have been a lot nicer if, all these other toons, could have been working directly towards achieves, rather than just trying to complete the LS (Just for them) in order to go back later and do it all over again attempting achieves.

I dunno, maybe I’m just using to much logic on the topic… w/e.

There is however…. one thing that I’m definitely NOT digging… and I’m not alone on this as a number of others have mentioned it as well…

It’s the “well, you were kinda, almost, in the general vicinity of but not really near the damage ring, but we’re gonna give you the full amount of damage and all the condi’s piled on” effect….

That awkward moment when you completely dodged a red ring of AoE death, even get the “evade” monikers, but still take full damage and gain conditions from the attack… yeah… it’s like that.

I haven’t been able to find anything yet that said the mordrem’s (of all types) attacks, have an additional “splash” AoE effect that exceeds the red/orange impact zones…. If anyone’s seen OFFICIAL confirmation of this, I’d like to read up on it if you’d kindly link it.

Kinda gettin’ on my nerves a lil’.

well theres goo all over the place
its like engineers elixier gun nr4 no red circle still ticking dmg

elementalist every skill that leaves a fire path behind u damages
even if there are no circles

the red circle u see at the start is nice
when it goes away the glue stays

u have blocked dodged whatever the first tick of the glue
better get out of it or life leach condi or whatever still goes on as log as glue is on the ground (or fire is there)

same goes for the krystal bosses you have to destroy for guild challenge both devourers shoot flames towards their target and the flames stay there
it will damage you u better get away from it^^

just dont put all your trust into the circles

and keep your eyes open
(always helps its like the best advice i can give someone besides not to die…^^)

uhm now back to topic…^^

id be against account wide story jsut because this way i can grasp the reward with every character
also i like doing it with several races to see if someone says something interesting

however…
being able to get achievements when we o it our first time would be awesome
or at least make it like achievements are unlocked if you have done the episode on a character then its accountwide unlocked to do the achievement
its just… not nice^^

opened the first instance with all this speaking a couple of times for me and for the achievements… still a couple times
its just a massive timesink (if this word can be used.. nvm u get what i mean)
…grind.. thats what it is
sure u get ahcievemnt points for it but..
id much rather have gotten these achievement points when playing through with other characters…

another verry nice thing would be allowing us to get the achievements on our first time through
BUT
we can only see what these achievements are when were already through the whole episode
so that if were good lucky or found something interesting…
or did some auto attacks on miniature waypoints…
(i really know one who did that on his first time)
(btw this one was quite creative idea from u anet )
then theyd be rewarded for it
like.. theyve achieved something….^^

PS: nice idea with that “(half)hard-mode” in the last instance u may be able to put this one a bit more extrem back into the game
like twice or more times the enemies we have seen + condis tick 3x as long and one or two additional conditions if u get hurt by the dragons claw/breath attacks (which were reeeeeaaaallly easy to avoid sicne u had like 3seconds time and there were safe spots where … well..

we want some of those super hardcore achievements you have promised us
(u know these where u can prodly say : i have ACHIEVED something!)
like liadri…
i dont even come up with liadri 8 but.. cmon please^^

I’d personally rather get the 7x rewards (especially those kitten zephyr lockpicks)

You guys both should go back and ‘RE-Read’ what I wrote, regarding rewards….

“….ONCE COMPLETED, all subsequent play through are considered “Replays,” Giving the rewards they would have normally received…..”

But perhaps I didn’t make my intentions clear on the matter. So to clarify, you’d STILL BE GETTING the rewards, but you’d also be working on the achieves as well, after having completed the story the first time through.

I hope that makes my intent more defined.