Raise the Banners: Mandatory multiple characters???

Isn't there any other way to complete the collection beside making 2 other characters and completing the entire game over again?

Don't think so. It's just like the three order backpacks and their meta-achievment from HoT.

Edit: of course, "entire game" here meaning PoF, no need to do other stuff.

It still means I'd have to get a character to 80 right? Seems like a lot of work just to be able to see the loot.

It still means I'd have to get a character to 80 right? Seems like a lot of work just to be able to see the loot.

Yes you have to get a character to 80, PoF story requires a level 80 character. The only way to unlock the other back pieces, is to complete the story with a different character, and make a different choice.

As for if it is a lot of work or not, it mostly just depends on your account. This is a game made for alts, and having multiple alts. There is also the fact that level up tomes are easy to come by (even more so for those that have been playing longer).

Either way, it was meant as a medium term goal, for those that wanted it.

Yes seems like it. I've been playing since release and I have only one character. Alts aren't my thing so I guess I can't get that anti-RP achievement.

You can level them with Tomes of Knowledge, just do the story to unlock the collection and get the necessary items and then delete them again.

For additional simplicity you could make them the same profession and build as your existing character and transfer over any account bound items you have (which includes all ascended weapons and armour) so you don't need to get new gear or learn a new way to play.

@Dreossk.5938 said:It still means I'd have to get a character to 80 right? Seems like a lot of work just to be able to see the loot.

It's just a skin. There are other (and easier) ways to obtain ascended backpacks. Admittedly, it's a bit hokey to include character bound requirements for account-wide achievements, but it's not particularly new to MMOs or GW2.

For me, what's more annoying is that there are also certain bounties that have to be done by the same character, but the game offers no way of reminding you which characters are eligible. (Even the summary of the story doesn't include which advice you offered to Amnoon.) The intermediate backpacks are account bound, so you can't tell from that either.

Obviously, @Dreossk.5938 won't have a problem with this; this is an issue for people who like doing the story multiple times.

@Illconceived Was Na.9781 said:

@Dreossk.5938 said:It still means I'd have to get a character to 80 right? Seems like a lot of work just to be able to see the loot.

The game does offer a way of reminding you actually. Head over to Amnoon and look at the banners hanging around the city. The city actually displays the banners that was suggested during the story step.

There are two right next to the WP and two more if you head towards the bank NPC.

There are also changes to ambient NPC conversations but that is not as useful since you have to stand around waiting for them to talk.

This structure is pretty much exactly the same as the HoT Order backpacks. A choice of three options, each starting a partially character-bound process to get an ascended backpack, with a followup collection to get all three.

@Dreossk.5938 said:Yes seems like it. I've been playing since release and I have only one character. Alts aren't my thing so I guess I can't get that anti-RP achievement.

How is having one character a strict requirement for RPing?

@Khisanth.2948 said:The game does offer a way of reminding you actually. Head over to Amnoon and look at the banners hanging around the city. The city actually displays the banners that was suggested during the story step.

Brilliant work-around. Thanks for the tip :)

Still, it's silly that to bind the collection to a character without making that clear somehow in the UI... and to make it easy to see which is eligible. Hats off to @Khisanth.2948 ; thumbs down for ANet for this one.

By Dwayna, your telling me you've played this game since launch and haven't even used all of the free character slots you have!?