Guild Wars 2

It would be a nice touch if way before realeasing a specific villain in future living worlds is to add ambient NPC conversations about them. I really liked seeing that Asura chick from the Asura starting area show up as a boss fight. Also with the hero characters. Have people talk about them because it gets a little old and unbelievable to have heroes and super villains show up all of a sudden with no warning under the pretence of “Oh we’ve been here all along, hiding, plotting, also read my back story that isn’t introduced anywhere in the game.” Its annoying to hear from someone “oh hey there’s a story about where and why on the internet” then when I actually do I see a wall of text. I don’t care that much, didnt read it and am choosing to not care and hope this gets better later.

So Scarlet had a mentor and excelled at 2 colleges (or more) in Rata Suum. Great, add an NPC in the game who is sitting on a street corner telling children on this amazing Sylvari.who surpassed all expectations. Make it accessible and fun instead of a chore.

Want to introduce a new hero? Use one that’s in the game! Sword Master Bongo has two characters talk about him. Lord Farren and also some noble in the Vigil story. Use mentioned people in the lore and give them a body and a purpose.

TL:DR add foreshadowing and stories actually spoken as audible dialog in the world.

Additionally. You can add Story Teller NPCs to home instances that will tell you the stories of past living story content and make it audible. Don’t you remember how exciting it is to have someone tell you a tale or read you a story?

That is a good suggestion. I usually always notice the conversations NPCs have when I run by.

Personally, I have no idea who scarlet is, so it would be great to hear asurans or sylvari talking about her in the big cities, so at least I could listen in and have some idea.

My first reaction when the scarlet invasions happened was: “Oh… kay… who is this crazy kitten?”

Thanks for the support. And as much as I new was an aether blade mentioned her. Then POOF psycho plant lady/ Harley Quinn (just my interpretation, I know there’s multiple forum posts about that)

I recall they did have this for a few of the earlier living story stuff. There was an NPC from the priory in lions arch with a golem that had information about the living story factions and/or characters of interest. (such in flame and frost, it had info about the dredge and flame legion).
http://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/LOR-748_Field_Reporter

Great ideas………………

completely agree. Scarlet, a supposed genius and only non asuran to be allowed to train at the colleges, has never been spoken of before her arrival. Its just stupid.