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Suggestion for Living World map icon

Posted by: GretchenRPH.1954

GretchenRPH.1954

I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature…perhaps the mechanic of the Living World storyline map marker that leads you to the next step just doesn’t have a lot of conditional code in it. Maybe the regular personal storyline does the same thing.

I went from 16 to 80 on my main in Labyrinthine Cliffs during the Festival of the Four Winds. My personal storyline is lagging far behind because pretty much when that ended, well here we go with the new Living World stuff.

Maybe the pathing assumes anyone who is level 80 and doing these chapters of Living World has finished the personal story and unlocked all the zones, but the Green Star that was going to lead me to Fort Selma in Kessex Hills took me across a few zones (I think I started in Rata Sum and had gone to Timberline to do that part) but it ran me to a set of 3 portals in Fort Trinity/Straits of Devastation, which were behind a locked gate that apparently unlock if you’d done the personal storyline to 80.

I am not sure how complex it would be, but maybe the pathfinding on these quests that take you across Tyria, it could re-route you around portals or access you haven’t unlocked. There must clearly be some character flag associated with whether this gate is open to you or not. Mind you it was fun to rampage and forage across 5 zones but hitting that closed door was a bit frustrating. Now I’m coming at it from the Divinity’s Reach side, and know that the quest pathing is sort of mechanical.