Guild Wars 2

chibishewolf.6730:

This is not my first toon on GW2, and I can say it still won’t be my last. However, what I can say is that I’m tired of trying to do “personal story” lines when they just aren’t do-able without a severe amount of frustration on my part. I won’t say I’m a casual gamer, elitist, or any other term every other person has come up with. What I will say is this:

I am in a guild that I enjoy playing with.
I enjoy doing the dailies in hopes of better gear.
I love to do events, dungeons, and leveling.
Crafting? So much fun!

The only thing I don’t like the way it is right now is the Personal Stories. I am currently playing through on a human thief, but my last character is a lvl 80 norn guardian. I am stuck in both of them only at personal stories. Before you get upset with me I am not saying they are impossible.

They are entirely possible in two ways: I can bug people to come help me constantly to get through the story or I can die, a lot, and keep rezzing inside my personal story infinitely and pray it wears the mobs down enough to make it okay. I don’t want to do either of these things. Oh, and from my reading a lot of people suggest just leveling up and coming back when I’m 80 or something? No. The suggested level is the level I should be able to do it at, not to mention the de-leveling makes that a worthless suggestion in of itself. I should be able to do a quest at the level it says I should, and if it claims to be my story-line I should be able to do it with just me.

Some other people have talked about how it should be easy when they almost always give you NPCs. I have a few minor things to say in regards to that: Are you kidding me? I have sat in downed states watching as I try to survive by the skin of my teeth as my NPCs stare at the mobs and maybe, just maybe, will swing a sword every once in a while.

Now after all of my complaining I only really wanted to share a few things that I think will make it better for the average person. Please don’t take offense by that term or take anything I say and run off with it saying how I need to learn to play. I can play, very well, except for this one thing.

What I would like to see happen:
Tone down the difficulty
Make the NPCs do what they are supposed to(act like a party member rather than a random towns person who picked up a stick)
Change the way personal story de-leveling works(not my ideal option, I want to do it as it was meant to be done)

Three things, really only two…and I don’t feel like any of it is too much to ask. If we could maybe just address the issues at all that have been brought up I would be happy. I know that there are a lot of people who are not having problems with the system how it is. Kudos and more to those players, I envy you. However, I just can not do it anymore. I don’t want to be so angry at a game that I can’t play it. So, I am sad to say that unless something changes with the Personal Stories, I can not play this feature in the game any longer. It is too frustrating, and I like the overall game too much to let this one problem drive me away from the whole game.

Sorry for the overkill on the text. Sorry if I come across as whiny or offensive to any. This was not my attention, I only wished to get my feelings known in the proper channels. If this is not in fact the place to pot this, I will be more than happily to move or remove it. Thank you for reading.

Sierra.

You might be at 80, but what level is the storyline instance? You’ll be downrated to that level, and if your armour and weapons are not at level 80 they’ll get downrated too, so you’ll die a lot. I found this out a while ago and have made sure I keep everything up to date before continuing a storyline, and so far I’ve only died a few times, and that’s mainly due to not having got the right strategy the first few attempts.

I just noticed GuzziHero says the same. It really does matter – if your armour is below par, you will die, simple as that.

Make sure all your equipment and weapons are at your current level, I’ve found to be a vital consideration. If you’ve leveled beyond the level of the storyline event, it’s easy to think that the event will be easy, but you’ll get downgraded when you enter the instance, and so will your armour – and you’ll die. If they are consistent then chances are you won’t, at least not once you’ve worked out the best strategy. I’m not a particularly good fighter, but since I’ve made sure my equipment is up to scratch I’ve had little trouble with any of the storyline events.

I’m standing there now – protective shield came up after we finished, no risen or catapults nearby. Guess the devs took notice!

Further to my last post – the simple answer to this appears to be to upgrade everything – armour, weapons, etc., to your current level. I did that and completed this quest in a single go with no deaths, and only 3 downs. And at about 40copper at the trading post for each armour piece (lvl 30 medium) it was hardly expensive.

I’m also finding this quest way too hard for the same reasons – the NPCs such as Caithe die too quickly to be any help, which leaves me trying to keep away from the troll while getting in the odd arrow shot. The usual result is that after 3 or 4 deaths (which I’ve had several times now) I have to go back to repair, and then do it all over again. While the game is great, this quest is, to put it bluntly, just aggravating. If the NPCs stayed alive to help it might be different, but as they always die in places where I can’t revive them it’s almost pointless trying to attempt it.