Guild Wars 2

Missions from GW1, in my opinion, do not differ a lot from what PS in GW2 came to be. If we were to understand that PS instances are, very much like Missions in the original game, frozen in time, there would not be a conflict.

The issue I take with this is the admission of “We forgot about it”. What? Seriously? Sometimes things have to be sugar-coated.

That tongue-in-cheek asura comment about how they added days to it… justify it a bit, for lore sake. Say that the progression of Tyria’s rotation has changed in 250 years and that the years are longer now, due to the… free flow of magic now that the ED are back, or something, which forced the scholars to add the days to the calendar. Some justification.

But we got nothing.

Ok, so how do we get this thread noticed by TPTB?

Who? I don’t have a connection to Faren, I don’t have a connection to Jennah, I don’t have a connection to anyone in Destiny’s Edge. Why? Because they did not bridge us to them.

The only character that I felt a connection to was the Vigil norn, Warmaster Forgal.

I think someone said it best, above: “missed opportunities”. I remember in my human story, I had a sister who I rescued rather early on. Where is she now? Why can’t she be involved?

I guess Jotun architecture makes sense. I found another “fragment” near Heimdall’s Last Stand. Same map.

I was wandering around Dredgehaunt Cliffs with a recently made character, and went to the Leaning Grade POI; I observed a stone structure and accidentally saw some patterns carved on it.

That got me thinking.

Please see attached file:

THIS.TOPIC.

Thank you OP. Tyria doesn’t take itself very seriously. ANet tries too hard to be funny, and it spectacularly fails to accomplish this.

Take for instance Zojja. Although I am a fan of Felicia Day, and at the beginning I thought she was a good casting choice, when playing asura I realized they had made a mistake. Felicia Day is too quirky, energetic. The ED threat is very real, very close, and mortal; yet Zojja is always making jabs (and puns) about this.

By comparison, and please bear with me for this, World of Warcraft has a very strong narrative. You see interesting motives for characters interactions: lust for power, pride, deceit, revenge… and there are factions and individuals pulling their own threads of one single conflict in very different directions, be it for personal gain or other goals. That makes the story and lore development much more interesting.

In Tyria, EVERYBODY is happy all around, getting together to fight dragons. There’s no conflict, no interests. In all seriousness, when I played the Personal Story that involved Trahearne cleaning Orr, it kept foreshadowing that the guy was creepy and knew Orr well (perhaps too well), insinuating that he may betray the Pact… but that is never delivered. Instead, he gets to be the hero, which is not that interesting. He’s not even a flawed hero, an individual who had shortcomings and we helped overcome them so he could be great. Nope. Just a do-gooder.

The only betrayal there was from ANet to us players. What happened to “This is your story”? I always feel like a spectator watching some heroes steel my thunder. LS has absolutely zero input from us. Ellen Kiel, Rox, Braham… there’s not a single instance that I can remember, from LS, that mentions our character as DOING something.

To Scarlet:

Please stop trying to channel Ke$ha. That’s lame.

Love,

Senryu Lothar