I have spent 1100hrs in this game and nothing has been epic yet.
This, just this.
The story feels really cheap in GW2. The personal one is like a joke but without laughts. Hearts and events are only a poor excuse to save in making proper quest.
You can say anything about WoW but you can expend hours only reading quest history and enjoy it like a book. There the only time you have a “history” you can read is the personal one and is bad as hell.