Guild Wars 2

To start, I lifted most of this idea from reddit. So I take no credit, just passing on the idea.

tl;dr events dont really show you where they are in the event chain, give us some indication of where it is.

You start an event, kill these bandits or whatever, and you get free invisible money/loot. To someone looking to just level quickly, this is essentially what DEs boil down to. Of course this isnt true at all and I didnt even realize it till it was very late in the game. The thing is that DE’s dont really give you an indication of a story happening past “help me with this”. But if you stick around the events unfold and give out an actual, fully voiced, tale.

So what can be done about this? I propose a sort of “chapter” or “phase” or some sort of indication of where it is in its own little story. Is it the end? Did it just start? What should I know to stick around and who should I follow to keep up with the story?

For example, you stumble upon an escort quest. Most people would just protect the thing and move on. What if when you got the medal it says “Ch2 complete! Starting Ch3 in 5…4…3…” Or the DE event orange circle area turned blue to let players know to stick around?

You can even add a journal where you can keep track of your scores and story completion.

An example of this in action would be me in kessex hills right now. I did an escort quest for two guards to clear the perimeter of any hostiles. We caught a bandit and took him prisoner, the guards let him go and he ran off after implying that he is going to go do something. It never occurred to me that if I follow him another event might unfold. I had just assumed that he despawned somewhere like any other mmo.

This is an excellent idea

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robinsiebler.3801:

This is an excellent idea

Brought to you by A Kitten With A Keyboard

I think it sees the kly and t next to each other to make it a bad word.

I said this in another thread, and I will say it here… I would absolutely love to see something like this implemented in the game. I have, all too many times, traveled with an NPC expecting for the quest to continue. And then, after several minutes of travelling or waiting through conversations, I have found that there is no more except that the NPC turns into a merchant, etc. This is frustrating and it turns me away from following any others, and probably missing opportunities.

Please implement something like this!

When an event is part of a chain or has a continuation, it should have an arrow next to its icon, indicating is has a followup or something like that.

I keep seeing people leaving right after events end or way before they end, and I end up doing the next step all alone. And more often that I’d like to, the next step is a group fight against a champion.