Guild Wars 2

Tybalt. He was too awesome to die.

I can confirm this is happening, and it is preventing players from completing their “Dive Master” achievement.

The problem with that idea is that all the elder dragons are corrupters and simultaneously the most powerful things in the whole GW universe. Remember that the reason the elder dragons were asleep for 11000 years wasn’t because they were beaten back, it was because they won and ran out of food as a result. The first thing Zhaitan did when he woke was demand Orr to rise, and Orr and all its dead rose to serve him. To have this unfathomably powerful thing get shot down by fricken laser beams and 22222 spam from one airship is just weak.

I would like “Legendary Guide User” for the title.

The real reward for completing your personal story is that the UI for it goes away in the top-right of your screen. I complete it on all of my characters simply for this reason*.

*and the 2 Flame Rams.

Yes I agree. One run through zombie land is plenty enough for me. I never want to see another risen again. :P

This won’t end well

Trahearne…

“Commander, halp, I can’t tie my shoe.”

That is all.

I have to agree with this ^ :::::SPOILER:::: I forgot to mention the personal story where you have to follow the ancient priestess around. There is one champion abomination that pats around, he literally one shots your friends and then you. I managed to kite him on my warrior for about 5 minutes before taking him to 5% when I made a mistake and got one shotted as well. I think something should be done about this, because up to the Orr point, the personal stories are pretty enjoyable – nothing too out of the ordinary, but still more than I expected from any MMO.

Also I’d like to add – Hero characters, like our Tree friend, should not be extremely week. He literally can’t handle a normal mob by himself. God, if he really led the pact and the player didn’t exist..

Please stop killing everyone, and kill Trahearne instead

There, fixed your title.

I also was disappointed to find that finishing my personal story required dungeon completion. The PS has been a really fun…sometimes challenging…experience and it was really building in a cool way with those last few segments. Now…hmmm…well, I guess I just move on to something else. While I enjoy playing out in the world with people…and there are incredible opportunities for that, six + years of Blizzard has left me a bit down on organized dungeon groups…so I just avoid them.

That said, I respect that this is a decision made by the developers and I expect that it was vetted and discussed rather rigorously before doing this. I don’t like it…but I understand and accept that I do no have to like everything. I also understand and accept that by refusing to do dungeons, I am foregoing a good bit of content. The decision is up to me and the consequences of that decision accrue to me…so be it. But…and this is a really big but…you might have warned us ahead of time.

I have spent considerable time on the PS…only to drop it now before the end. The one saving grace is that I know better than to start it when I begin my new character. This is, again, a decision that will remove one more piece of content for me. But the implications go beyond that. We now have the Living Story…which seems cool enough and something to get excited about. Is this going to end up in a dungeon as well? Based on what I have experienced with the Personal Story and the lack of any information to the contrary, I am concluding that it probably will involve a dungeon and will now just stop bothering with those snow and dirt covered objects.

My desire isn’t that they change the arrangement now…probably not practical. I just hope that they recognize that not everyone plays dungeons (even though they may well enjoy playing with lots of players out in the world) and giving us a heads up on activity lines that will end up in dungeons will help us make better decisions about allocating our play time.

I couldn’t agree more. It’s hard to explain, and impossible to exaggerate, just how cheated I felt when I realised that, after working solo so far through “my” story, I was being robbed of any chance of doing so through the end content. Because I’ve cracked every PS instance so far with my own sweat and toil, and I most definitely don’t want, say, to watch the very personal climax of all my effort as a de facto passenger (while some over-powered, over-equipped group of complete strangers sweep all before them and hand me the result on a platter). Sorry – I’m supposed to be the hero, it’s supposed to be my story, and by the end of the PS I believe I’ve earned the right to the satisfaction of finishing it for myself. There are times for grouping – but forcing it on the end of the PS is not one of them.

I would like to see more Cats….
Cats please!

What I mean is More Charrs and less Mice and Plants…. =)

Before someone hops in here and admonishes you for playing a “Social Game” solo, allow me to support your position. I am still astounded that you can “play the game your way” for 99% of the ‘Personal’ Storyline and in the last 1% needed for completion, you are required to NOT play the game your way.

So now I have 3 × 80s all whose personal story line stops at varying points in the 70s of the Personal Storyline, because I got that far and found out I had to do a dungeon to complete it. When I found that out I thought, you have got to be kidding me. I have to join a party and do a dungeon to complete MY Personal Storyline? Progress halted on all characters…Next.

How do you do Dungeons and Fractal for all that easy money you may ask?
Simple, never did a dungeon or fractal, nor do I care to.
Sure I got hosed for the first 6 months of Monthly Achievements because of that and when they took those requirements OUT of the monthly’s for March, I finished it in 4 days.
What about sPvP thou?
Nope, have not done that either.
Ok, but what about WvW?
Well yeah I do WvW, but only to get the last 5 POIs I need to complete the Blue map which we have not occupied for 8weeks now.

So will this hurtle change in a future update?
I don’t see how.

My advice, it’s a really great game with a few really big flaws…hey, nobody’s perfect. Just go on playing the way you want within the parameters of the system and have as much fun as you can, without getting arrested.

The reward that you get for completing that LAST 80 storyline, is just not worth worrying about.

Moving on…

Cute… Then after the guaranteed rare (why don’t give us directly 1 ecto or 22 silver instead? O yes, because that way we need to buy Black Lion Salvage Kits… And btw, good move nerfing the ectos drop from kits, now it can happens to exotics don’t even give one ecto.) the chest will be back giving loads of useless green and blue crap.
Good move ANet, good move.

It’s an excuse to take some time before the messenger runs into camp. And to introduce/reintroduce npcs that have been in various peoples personal stories. Both the norn and the sylvari, at least.

Presumably they go on to singlehandedly produce hundreds of airships and choppers, the mech suit from the Priory version of Orr, and all the weapons and armor of the Pact.

They should have introduced the bankers who pay for all this super tech without the means of generating revenue instead.

All my toons are blank drones with prerecorded “personalites.”

Err … my main one is entirely charm-based, but she’s about as charming as a stone lizard!

I like replaying it with newbies just to see their reactions.

summed up for anyone that’s curious….

Mash button
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Mash button
Mash button
Mash button
Mash button
Mash button
Mash button
Mash button

Zhaitan is dead.

People dance.

Traehern takes all the credit.

GG

Really A-net? Really? I’m at a loss for words.

You forget the part where Destinies Edge bravely marches towards the sunset, while the player character watches them, slightly sad and disappointed.

SPOILER ALERT

When Tybelt died, I flipped my desk. He and I were like bros for life. He loved apples, I loved apples. We just clicked. He deserved a lot more, and he pulled a kitten move by sacrificing his life, and leaving me alone with Trahearne… I would have opted to leave Trahearne behind so I can get sloshed on some apple cider with my good bro after the battle of Claw Island. Hell, I would have prefered to have Deborah (human character's sister, who is actually alive) come and lead The Pact instead of that self-righteous stick...
I mean… Trahearne’s a necromancer… but only uses necromancer skills ONCE as far as I’ve seen (lvl 71 Necromancer, currently). He mentions minions a few times, but, only once he ever uses them. I used mine ever chance I got during the personal story and, hell, they managed to stay up a lot better than his Flesh Golems. He’s as expendable as his fodder.

1 pound logs
very very cheap
very very cheap

Jeffrey Vaughn.1793:

Play story mode of the dungeons. They tell the story of Destiny’s Edge.

And that was one of the problems with the Personal Story. If the story of Destiny’s Edge was going to be so relevant to the Personal Story then it should have remained as part of the Personal Story. In point of the fact, the culimination of Act 1 is going to meet Destiny’s Edge to try getting them to help stop Zhaitain and during this quest Destiny’s Edge falls apart and the story basically says that it will be the player’s job to get Destiny’s Edge back together. But then for no adequately explain reason the personal story completely forgets about the end of Act 1 and immediately sends the player to military school at one of Orders for some of the most pointless filler material I have seen outside of Bleach or Naruto that was nothing more than a huge deviation of the storyline up to that point in time.

For the storyline to be consistent either the player should have been working towards getting Destiny’s Edge back together or should have kept on working with the representatives of ALL the orders to figure out a plan for stopping Zhaitain. Making the player go from seeing Destiny’s Edge fall apart with the suggestion that they are the only one who can bring it back together to joining an order was completely discontinuous and bad storytelling.

Furthermore, this created a huge discontinuity problem with the last quest. When the player finishes the second to last personal story, they and the rest of the Pact are getting ready to board the airships in order to fight Zhaitain in the air. Then for some completely unexplainable region they descend into a cave in the middle of nowhere where they meet Destiny’s Edge (who according to the Personal Story had broken up and never got back together). But if they were getting ready to board an airship to face Zhaitain why did they descend into a random cave in the middle of nowhere? Furthermore why was Destiny’s Edge in a cave in the middle of nowhere? The whole thing made absolutely no sense. I am not even going to address the utter ridiculousness of leaving Logan behind instead of just cutting the ropes from the airship while on the airship and then having Logan pull a magical airship out of his kitten and magically catch up to you at the very last second (honestly I am getting pretty sick and tired of everything always being at the last second. Can’t we just have a nice and clean war where everything necessarily falls into place naturally like a well orchestrated battle or symphony?)

Either the personal story should have left Destiny’s Edge out completely or should have had the player working on restoring Destiny’s Edge instead of becoming the pack mule for an order.

Yup Dungeon grinding gated content game.
Treadmill is alive and well.
It is just another clone and does nothing unique and so on to the next game.
Maybe just maybe they wont lie to people in the prelaunch about their intentions with the game to get money from them.
And another Dev goes on the banned list to not buy from.

Thanks for playing see you next time.
PS they stated this in Nov 15 so really is nothing new. I have the same opinion then as I do now.
Now is the time for the fanboi rally – Tally ho all

And Tybalt hit me right in the feels. ; _ ;

Why did this have to happen? We could have thrown in a random lionguard that no one cares about. Tybalt was my bud.

Every time someone fires off yet another mount thread and refuses to use the search function, Dwayna kills a baby Quaggan.