I like the fact that GW2 forces you to learn an encounter. But sometimes I wish that the learning curve was not that steep. For example, it was only at the end of the battle in the Queens throne room as part of the Durmond Priory quest to safeguard the queen from the undead, with all my armour gone did I finally manage to learn how to use the stupid priory device properly.
Mostly, as a necro I’ve been okay with the personal stories and have been able to do them at my level if I’m prepared to change my build. But that story is one of the few where I actually quit for a couple of levels rather than just retry from checkpoint. Partially it’s the new abilities and having to figure out what they do while the enemies are wailing on you in a confined space – I was kiting like mad but that wasn’t quite enough in a small room. But it was also that the friendly NPCs in the room died almost instantly. No wonder the humans are under threat if Thackery and the Seraph are that squishy!
I spent the entire time of those extra couple of levels looking for skill challenges so I could buy Signet of Undeath and do a mass res on them when the inevitable happened. That wasn’t ideal because of the long cooldown but it bought me enough time to use those new abilities to pick them off one by one.
I wrote in another thread about this very same storyline, that it seemed so weird that there was no follow-up and the whole plot thread was dropped abruptly. My human character is level 50-something so I don’t know what will happen later. Even so, it feels like you need some kind of extra quest or reference to your home choices after you’ve started following your faction storyline, and it doesn’t happen.
Krytan necro commoner, worshipper of Grenth who never found her sister and joined the Durmand Priory.
Sieran was great, as was Zojja during the opening acts of the Asura story.
I liked Sieran as well. She wasn’t presented to us as ‘here is the great heroine’ but as someone who was flawed – but flawed in an entertaining way.
One thing that really bugs me is that I selected the human option that I never found my sister’s body. Then, once that side of the plot is resolved, it’s straight on to the next branch involving my faction choice. While I quite enjoyed my faction quests, it seemed weird that my character didn’t have any more apparent curiosity about how her sister fared, or what her supposed best pals at the inn were doing either. It felt quite odd and disjointed. I never felt there was any character development with either Petra or Deborah, and that’s hardly surprising when I hardly saw them. Yet they are supposed to matter to my character.
Granted that’s a risk of branching storylines, but maybe one or two side quests, at the very least a trip home at level 40 might have made it feel more natural. So you’d still have those different choices but with a little interweaving. This is a world where waypoints and Asura gates are everywhere, making such travel feasible.
I liked my faction companion better, but I’d agree that a too-speedy death felt cheap and detracted from any further sense of the relationship between characters actually developing.
I have Norn warrior and Human necro both in the mid40s level-wise, and a Sylvari ranger somewhere in the teens. All of those are keepers.
I’ve also created a Charr Ash Legion Thief but she’s only about level 2 right now. Last slot will be Asura but I’m undecided on profession – possibly Ele but I may well change my mind again.
You can’t change your hair or body shape without rerolling. You can only change the appearance of gear through dyeing it in the H screen. If the character is low level enough, you may as well start again with a new character. They may introduce a makeover feature eventually as they brought one into GW1 (costing real money) but I wouldn’t expect this to happen soon without any announcement.
i was pretty sure i saw a necromancer with a scythe today. it might have just been the visual of a staff but it looked really cool
Our no.1 staff attack skill looks like a scythe when cast, but out of combat it goes back to looking like a normal staff again.
I guess its my gear then. My gear sucks but don’t know where to get better gear. Haven’t done crafting so i guess I gotta figure out how that all works so I can gear up better. Also need to find better weapons but I don’t know where to find good monster drops yet. Any ideas? Also need ways of getting good money too.
Crafting is a good idea, so is doing the renown heart events for your level, as quite a few of them will have reasonably good armor, weapons or accessories. And since you’re paying with karma points, you won’t need money for that.
Same here. I made my female Charr with the height slider set to minimum as she’s a thief. Even so, the horns and feet don’t entirely show on the character screen. By contrast I can see the whole of my max-height Norn with a gap above her head.