Guild Wars 2

@OP: Your issue sounds like a soulbound one as Karew said, but I had a major rune of the monk that would only let me use it on my gloves (when almost all of my armor had unused upgrade slots).. any idea if higher level runes can only be applied to certain levels of gear or something?

Aseyhe.2948:

Thanks for that. I have 88 hours invested in a character that was affected by a different story bug. If I have to remake it to fix the issue, then I’ll do so begrudgingly, but it would be great if it could be fixed another way. I think that ultimately, you are going to need some functionality for fixing broken personal story — if not now, then when/if you extend the personal story in expansions. Telling people today that their week-old character’s story is broken is one thing, but saying the same in a year of a character with hundreds or thousands of hours invested — that will be a different story.

If only i could upvote this somehow haha.
Losing exp is kind of a pain, but the bug happened to people who were playing in groups… you can still experience the story by playing through the events with your significant other / friends etc. And if it really were that big of a deal for me I could just re-roll, I haven’t put that much time into the character yet. However it does seem prudent to develop some way of fixing issues like this in the future, when re-rolling a character means a much bigger investment.

Also, thank you for looking into this further Evan.