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@Tobias: Got it, thanks for explaining it.
Story itself gives you a good portion of XP needed for the next level. It doesn’t have to be 10-level chunks. Heck, if something was OP before why not, I don’t know, lower the difficulty?
That should be way easier.
Nothing more than agreed.
It’s not quite clear why should it be split like that. When you just create the character, you’re in the story mode. Before, it would continue as-is, and allow you to pause whenever you want. Story was always there. You could pause it if you didn’t want to do it right now, but it was up to you.
Now your short front story is immediately cut out. You’ve fought Earth elemental grabby hands, you got injured, and then…. nothing. Narrative stops. You wander around aimlessly and there’s nothing story-related to do. You have to do random harts and do something else to level up to get to 10/20/30… and story then pretends that you didn’t go away for several days to level up.
When I just bought GW2 the story was the most awesome part and basically did guide me through the whole game, before I got into wvw and other things later
Now it’s all drawn out and tries to slow you down arbitrarily to “level up” and stretch out the time needed for story, which is not fun.
Yup, that’s how I feel about that too. Before you could continue story whenever you wanted. “Oh, are you low level yet? Well, it’s up to you to face it and have hard time or have a break to get the proper level.” Now, you are just forced to do something else just because the game thinks you aren’t ready or prepared to progress, and not even giving clearly any other objective or telling you clearly what’s your next step (yes, I mean the PS going poof from screen when you aren’t allowed to do it yet).
Stop dumbing down stuff, let people decide by themselves.
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Personal story-wise, “chunked” mode is disappointing, because of the large gaps. You play a few story steps and then it goes away for a while, and other than “new things near you” and dailies nothing shows up in the right top corner. That familiar green star disappears completely. Wen I’ve finished first chunk it was very weird. “That’s it? Where did the story go?” (and then read in the Hero panel that it “continues at level 20”). I guess it’s just impatience speaking in me, as story (and leveling up) gives cool loot and I always wanted to do the next step sooner
No, that’s just the lack of “user friendly” brought by the NPE (that’s ironic as it’s meant to be more intuitive and user friendly). That was one of my first annoyance when I heard about NPE stuff, in that case it feels like “is it over already? Where did story go?”. It’s weird to get the player used to that green star leading them to the next step and then seeing it gone all suddenly…
Even if that answer is "we’re not going to revert or re-include the missing steps", then at least we have some solid information to make a decision on whether to proceed with the PS or continue to wait.
Yes, some info about what are the plans is nice. I have put my Personal Story in hold until something is done or said about that (just now I was just a few steps from getting it completed...) :S
When character is lower level, some trait unlocks (especially if you’re doing EOTM) result in a funny situation. "You have unlocked this trait! Want to open your traits panel and select it? [ disabled yes ] [ NO ]"
Yay, the "wonderful" (nop) NPE kicking in... *sarcasm mode off*
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