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Agrias34
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I've been wondering this for a while now and haven't really spotted it anywhere in any sources.
I'm planning on playing this game entirely with a friend, we play every game together and was wondering if I make a Sylvari character, and he makes a Norn, then we decide to meet up and level in the Sylvari zones, when he gets his personal story-line quests, does he have to travel and go all the way back to the Norn zones, through lion's arch again and everything just to do his personal story quests?
That's my real concern is that it will break our progress and take up a lot of uneccessary time to travel back and forth every 2 levels when you get a new story line quest.
If anyone has some deeper information on all this, please share, or we'll most likely have to end up making the same race if we want to play together for the most part.
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He can teleport to the norn areas instantly..
make them! or just don't do the personal story.. or only do it when the other is not on.. you got lots of options. Me personally i would compromise and each of you make a character of each race you like with perhaps differn't classes and play through two characters.
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I takes seconds to travel to other waypoints in the game. During the betas, I never found it to be an inconvenience to travel back and forth every couple of levels. Also, you can do the quests whenever you want even if you're above the level of that phase; it just scales you down to it.
Really, it should be a non-issue.
Yes, he has to teleport back for his story. But you can teleport with him and can guest on his story as well
It can be a fun change of scenery and you'll also get rewarded for it (not with items, but with experience and gold, if I'm not mistaken). You'll also get to see the choices he makes and stuff like that
I think you only get karma points when you do someone else's personal story... You do get some exp if you kill some of the enemy in the story itself, though...
someone already said this before, but I would like to clarfiy this.
Yes he has to go back to norn area to finish his story, but he can teleport to waypoints in the norn area from anywhere in the world. So you do not have to walk through lion arch again if he picks up waypoints in the Sylvari area, he can just teleport using waypoint between Sylvari and norn area or anywhere instantly.
Waypoint travel makes playing with friends/guildmates of different races or levels a breeze. Getting the waypoints is the only "chore", but even that is pretty easy with the shortcut to Lion's Arch via The Mists.
Personal Story takes place in instanced areas of game world locations and you have to travel to those places to do each segment of the story. I prefer this, because it keeps you connected to the game world and the instancing feels much more natural than in other games that have used instancing to tell the story.
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Well, there are the waypoints you can use to travel instantly back and forth which shouldnt take long at all. Also you can do the personal storyline quests together.
Or if you felt like it you could even level up all the way to 80 without the personal storyline, then come back and do it all in a row, and youll be set to the appropriate level automaticaly since you are scaled down to the specific area, say if its a level 7 quest and you are level 80, your stats and etc. will be set to level 7 so its still a challenge!
No it would not
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So it seems the best method thus far offered would make sense to just do your own personal story every 10 levels or so. I didn't know you could teleport to a waypoint in the norn zones directly from the sylvari ones etc. I thought you had to go back to Lions Arch first, then teleport from there to wherever, idk.
We'll end up working it out, I'm just trying to get a little more insight on it before it all starts and get stumped. Anyways, thanks all for the input, was very helpful +1.
No it would not
eh to each their own I guess. Imo you can't be the hero/villain id you are getting helpGames:
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Why not?
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This seems to be an example of someone trying to make MMOs into a single player experience, probably because it's what they're used to.
You can visit each others starting area, and as you explore you get experience, so doing both areas is just fine. You can teleport back and do your PS anytime, it downlevels you if you're too high of a level so it's still challenging and fun. You should find out it's really not a problem at all.
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No it would not
eh to each their own I guess. Imo you can't be the hero/villain id you are getting helpThis seems to be an example of someone trying to make MMOs into a single player experience, probably because it's what they're used to.
No. Imo the personal story is designed to be a single player experience with an mmo. I consider gw2 to be 4 games in one: single player rpg, pve mmo, spvp fantasy rpg, and Rvr mmo.Games:
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Every personal story event requires you to travel to the location where the that event commences. Some of them will be in your race's starting city, others will be around an appropriate level area of the starting zone. How it persists past level 20, most of us do not yet know.
Luckily, you can teleport back and forth instantly, although in the very very beginning when you have next to no money, straight teleportation from one race's zone to another might see a bit pricey. Once you delve into the game's economy a bit, teleportation costs become trivial. Until then, porting to your own city, then to Lion's Arch, then to your destination city may prove a bit more lucrative.
As others have suggested, every gameplay mode is essentially optional. If he wants to see his personal story, there's no reason he couldn't do so on his own time when you're not playing together. Even if he gains a few levels out of it, this will not hamper your ability to play together in any way. Alternatively, you can both take a break from what you're doing in your main questing zone and then go work on his personal story together every 10 levels or so.
rember do to sidekicking down you do not have to jump back all the time.
you can say do your story up to say lvl 20 and they go do his up to lvl 20 or more then go back and do some more on yours this way you are not jumpping around all the time