Guild Wars 2

Lutharr.1035:

Should have made him a Yorkshireman!

If he was a Yorkshireman like Sharpe, that would have solved all issues people have with him.

Well, today’s patch notes did not mention a fix. I hope one comes along soon, it has been quite a while now and it is a critical bug preventing progress.

I am already level eighty so almost all rewards will be useless now.

Nothing wrong with that but I do think you may be in the minority.

Personally I can not stand him, bring back Rurik. Now that was a character I could like.

I found the game was truly my story right up to the bit where Trahearne was introduced then it effectively became his story and from then on I was his unwilling sidekick. Arena Net are not bad at writing, but they often neglectful of the player character and lack consideration for the effects of npc/player interaction.

Trahearne was written as the players best buddy, yet nothing he does or says ever puts him in such a position. He fought with the player character yet never proves his prowess, often relying on the player character to do the dirty work. He leads the orders yet never proves his ability in command, constantly asking the player character to make every decision and lead every important and dangerous mission. Such a character needed to be written quite differently and required several opportunities to prove himself to the player, such as Rurik or Thackery from Guild Wars one.

Unfortunately they went the Kormir route, which is to this day widely disliked. It is quite a bizarre choice really, Arena Net even acknowledged back in the day the faults of this approach when people started complaining about her being a glory thief. When Thackery from Guild Wars Beyond tried to steal Gwen people reacted in the same way, but Arena Net fixed issue with missions that made us appreciate his character and actually root for him.

Arena Net are capable of doing it right as we have very many likeable characters through our personal story (Unfortunately they are always taken from us after one or two missions) so it boggles the mind as to why they wrote a pivotal character like Trahearne in such a way.

We are meant to be hero’s, the saviours or Tyria, due to thoughtless writing with the Zaitan story arc we are reduced to nothing more than glorified henchmen.

I would love to hear from an Arena Net writer on this subject.