Guild Wars 2

Wonderly.1324:

Genevieve.1468:

Okay, I just finished my story, and was completely disappointed with the loot that i got. I feel like after more than a year of hard work, i should have received all exotics, instead of all greens! What was up with that anyway? My character is level 80 and requires better weapons than stupid greens. To really get people interested in completing their stories, you should also include one Legendary of their choice. I also did not receive a final chest after destroying the Zhaithan Elder Dragon for my story; THAT really irritated me! I got no gold, no rares, no exotics. Completely upset by this. I also think i should have gotten a new title, like Story Completer or something. Plus, from what i can see, there wasn’t even an achievement award by completing my story. All of this was just completely bogus and severely disappointing. (& yes they can fix this, by simply mailing us better loot, and giving us a title)
One more thing: if I cannot sell or recycle old armor (that I paid a lot for & am simply not going to destroy), then what good is it? Its also soulbound, which is so bogus. GW2 really needs to allow us to recycle these items.

You’ve brought up several issues I’d like to address. I will start by agreeing with you that a title or an exotic for completing the personal story is not an unreasonable request.
Now to address the deeper issue of your disappointment, I would say that your expectations did not match the developer’s intentions for the personal story. It’s not meant to be difficult, and it’s not meant to give good rewards (as you’ve discovered). I wager that it was designed for immersion into the world and enjoyment of the lore. If you want difficulty, run high level fractals. If you want good rewards, run dungeons. If you want both and even better rewards, speed run dungeons, and sign up for DnT’s PvE dungeon speed clear tournament- the reward is 1,000 gold (among other things).

I strongly believe that completion of the personal story should definitely be incloded as a component of creating a legendary weapon. However, asking for a legendary or a precursor would invalidate the purpose of legendary weapons and the personal story. Legendary weapons are meant to be a symbol of your journey across Tyria, a huge investment in effort and time in the game, and items of extreme prestige and exclusivity. In order to have value, there has to be a standard that not everyone can meet. I understand that it’s frustrating you can’t meet those standards, but that’s a fact of life. You have other things to take joy in, like two beautiful children who love and depend on you.
As an optometry student, I’m not holding a career job like my friends so I don’t have as much money to spend as them. They put in time working, they have access to resources I don’t because I have made other life decisions. That’s just a fact of life. If I can be rich without working, that would be really unfair to my friends who work hard, just like it would be unfair if they had all the knowledge I gained from hours of studying without any work or sacrifice.

I think there is a good debate btwn whether completing the story is hard or not. For me it was, at times, very difficult, and I would need to bring in other ppl to help me. For the dragon, of course, as one example. But I used to get stuck at certain points because (at the time) my character wasn’t a high enough lvl. Leveling the my character to lvl 80, I found to be very difficult. So honestly, if I feel like if I worked kitten this, then I feel like a precursor is worth it, but if not, then at the very least an exotic. Or possible an ascended or the recipe for an ascended (just a random thought). Anyway, my point is that yes, I did work hard, and deserve something better. I don’t know what “speed run a dungeon” means, or “DnT’s PvE dungeon speed clear tournament”, so more info on that would be welcomed.

Thanks again everyone for input!

Yes, sorry! I did get a Pact weapon. However, since I use exotics, I had forgotten about that. From the chests in completing the last story, I did not get anything else besides greens. One rare just doesn’t make sense for lvl 80 characters.

Mojo Gris Gris.5941:

It may be cold comfort, OP, but the armor/weapons that you “can’t do anything with” can probably be put in the mystic forge. You’ll at least get a random item instead of /destroy. Unless they are back items – those really kitten.

Mojo Gris Gris.5941 – Thank you for suggesting the forge. It may not be solution I want or would have preferred, but it is something!

Rasimir.6239:

To be fair, completing the story does award you with a rare lvl 80 weapon of your weapon type of choice, but unfortunately those weapons have stats that are next to useless for most builds (healing power, precision, vitality). They do offer an exclusive skin and (if you’re lucky) some ectos from salvaging .

No Rasimir.6239, you are completely wrong…I did not receive a rare lvl 80 weapon of my choice….that would have at least helped the loot. ALL I GOT WERE MASTERWORKS…GREEN WEAPONS!

Exactly! I felt completely robbed and like ’what’s the point of even playing’. Inculpatus cedo.9234 – you are right; I didn’t think I even got an achievement, but its so small its meaningless. Legendary items, I don’t care how common they are, they are so amazing and awesome looking, that they would totally still be very desirable.
Remember, I also feel like armor I cant sell should be recyclable, because I’m not just going to destroy it. I know there are some items that I cant sell that are recyclable, but there are a few that I cant do ANYTHING with, and its REALLY irritating :P

One legendary for each story completer would not crash the market, but even if it did, I don’t really care because they’re too expensive anyway. Maybe asking for a legendary is too much, but a precursor or legendary should happen for story completer. IF I didn’t have 2 small kids to take care of, I’m sure I could have gotten it done in a few days or so. My biggest issue here is that all the weapons I received were greens, not even rares; they SHOULD have been exotics. A letter of commendation does nothing for me. & whoopee! 10 Anet points! Again, that does nothing for me.

Okay, I just finished my story, and was completely disappointed with the loot that i got. I feel like after more than a year of hard work, i should have received all exotics, instead of all greens! What was up with that anyway? My character is level 80 and requires better weapons than stupid greens. To really get people interested in completing their stories, you should also include one Legendary of their choice. I also did not receive a final chest after destroying the Zhaithan Elder Dragon for my story; THAT really irritated me! I got no gold, no rares, no exotics. Completely upset by this. I also think i should have gotten a new title, like Story Completer or something. Plus, from what i can see, there wasn’t even an achievement award by completing my story. All of this was just completely bogus and severely disappointing. (& yes they can fix this, by simply mailing us better loot, and giving us a title)
One more thing: if I cannot sell or recycle old armor (that I paid a lot for & am simply not going to destroy), then what good is it? Its also soulbound, which is so bogus. GW2 really needs to allow us to recycle these items.