Guild Wars 2

At some point in the video, I don’t remember which, the issue of “needing to go to other zones to level up just so you can continue your personal story” was brought up.

This is what killed GW2 for me. It completely interrupted the flow of questing to be stuck in a zone three levels behind your personal story quest, and 2 levels below the lowest nearby reputation heart. So now I have to go find some other zone and grind out hearts so that I can return to the story? I don’t mind if that happens once or twice during the course of the entire leveling up process, but it happened to me several times on my highest level character….who is 32. Seriously? You need to revamp your leveling process if that is constantly occurring.

On the topic of the personal story….one thing I would add to that, maybe even give it a separate number, the glaring lack of lore regarding classes. Seriously, I love GW2’s classes, I’m not bashing them, in fact I wish other fantasy MMOs would include some of the ones that I have yet to see done well outside of GW2, such as the Necromancer, the Engineer, and the Mesmer!

But there is a serious lack of lore surrounding them. I dig that there’s no race-class combination restrictions, but some of them that make zero sense with the lore we have SERIOUSLY need to be addressed. A few examples…

1. If the Charr supposedly distrust magic, why do they let Elementalists, Necros, Mesmers, Guardians, etc run around with no seeming reprecussions?
2. Norns are big into honor, right? Yet no one gives a crap if I run around as a Norn thief?
3. Sylvari are living plants. Their cities are a living tree with living plants serving functions that other cities would use tech for. So how in the world is it that they have necromancers? Or Engineers for that matter?
4. Actually, why the hell do ANY of the races let Necromancers run around??
5. What the hell powers a Guardian’s non-martial ability?

You get the idea.

None of these complaints should be taken as “I want race class restrictions”. I don’t. I just want some sort of in-game explanation for ones that seem to not make sense. Throwaway NPC dialogue. Maybe an occasional comment from a NPC city/town guard. Something.