Guild Wars 2

Is the ability to play the living story quests for achievements supposed to be character bound or is this a bug? It seems incredibly ineffective to make players play though the living story multiple times to be able to work on these achievements if they play through them on the wrong class.

it is the same as personal story. So, character bound is not strange

It is a feature, not a bug…so you can play through the instances on different characters. All announced and explained before release.

Inculpatus cedo.9234:

It is a feature, not a bug…so you can play through the instances on different characters. All announced and explained before release.

You can also play through them if it is accountbound, since thats what the journal is for.

So in my eyes it makes no sense. You should just be able to play it the first time with and then unlock it for all characters and then you have the option to repeat it on all other characters if you want.

Ohhh wait, I have read the article about journal again and I found this:

https://www.guildwars2.com/en/news/introducing-the-story-journal/:

Achievements within story steps from episodes will operate very differently as well. Once one character on your account has completed an episode in their story journal, every character on your account will have access to a set of challenging achievements.

Let me highlight a thing here… “Once one character on your account has completed an episode… every character on your account will have access…” Am I reading it right? Doesn’t it sound like character-bound wasn’t intended?

^It does sound as though the achievements should be unlocked for all characters after completing the Story parts on one character. Not sure if the Blog is inaccurate…or it is not working as intended. /shrug

Is that why I’m not getting the achieves? I did the story last night on my thief. Today I’m repeating on my guardian to get shorter fights and less dying. I’ve successfully defended the 2 workers and destroyed all four Inquest equipments (the latter just a few minutes ago, after which I searched the forums for bug listings on it and found this thread) and neither No One Left Behind nor No Rock Unturned has shown credit even though the achieves show as unlocked in my panel.

I did destroy the last 2 equipments after completing that part of the story, so possibly that’s why on that, but I know the 2 seraph lived, I stuck to them like glue (unless they die later during the golem fight? I don’t think that’s how that works, though).