Guild Wars 2

Ariamaki.1703:

As a suggestion, other games such as The Secret World have fixed this kind of problem by producing duplicates of their story quests which are repeatable and replayable, made available as soon as the respective quests were done for the first time. It wouldn’t be enough to make up for the loss of rewards and the show of bad developer judgement, but it would be something.

I like that idea, Ariamaki.

The very same thought, that the Destiny’s Edge dungeons should also be playable with 1 – 5 players, had occurred to me too. I decided I wouldn’t say anything until the current mentioned update occurred, for fear it’d push the release back weeks.

Now that the thought is out there, I’d recommend that they go ahead and release the final stage adjustments to the Personal Story as suggested, then make the adjustments to the Destiny’s Edge dungeons. I’d really like to see that content, and I’d prefer not to have to get a pug and find out no one wants to wait for me to watch the videos…

Guhracie.3419:

It’s being changed. Personal Story Restoration sticky on this page has the info.

I.. Er… Thank you. So, there’s a sticky there, bigger than Dallas…

Lol, I’m embarassed, but there it is. Thanks. I’m a little older and wiser now…

qarinus.3869:

Almaden, currently Arah story mode, what you need to run for the last stage of your personal story, is a dungeon and not simply a story instance. It has, however, already been revealed that this will be changing. We don’t know when, but it will be a scaling story instance that can be completed with 1 to 5 people.

That information can be found here, at the top of the second post: https://forum-en.gw2archive.eu/forum/game/gw2/Personal-Story-Restoration-update

Qarinus, thank you very much! I’d searched a number of times trying to get info on that last mission, I’m amazed this article didn’t ‘pop’ in the search. You’re right, it tells everything one needs to know about finishing. I’d better slow down a toon or two, lest they miss some of the changes coming in the earlier chapters.

The article is 15 days old as of this reading, so it sounds like an active project, we just have to wait a little.

Thank you again, Qarinus. That was an excellent read.

I’ll add my own disappointment to this last quest in the personal story questline.

I had a geared level 80 friend of mine accompany me into the instance, and we got nailed on the first encounter. Reading about that, perhaps we could have let the NPCs carry the load, but it takes awhile to burn down the silvers, and they respawn.

We concluded, this is not fun.

Sure, Arenanet apparently figures that you OUGHT to use the random group generator to go in with a full group, but what if they’re in a hurry and you don’t get to take in all the videos?

The trials and tribulations of Destiny’s Edge alone was enough to urge me to do the random group thing. They did not have to FORCE me to do so in this last quest.

Disagree if you wish, I know somebody’s going to say “Oh, I could have soloed that, just had to have a friend to flip this switch…” But I say it was cheap, and not fun. The Personal Story generated a lot of letters telling me I could do group instances to see what was going on with Destiny’s Edge. That was enough. To force me to group at the end, with the mechanic of respawning mobs, was a fail.

I hope they change this in the upcoming HOT.