[Story-focused player wanting to get back into GW2; replay as a new character through the Personal Story or try to continue from where I left off many years ago in the middle of Hearts of Thorn?]

I recall last time I quit simply reading through the story history was more than enough to refresh my memory.  Actually, if I remember right you can even replay some of that content as there was "hard mode" achievements or something around some of it.

 

Downloading the game after being gone a while as well... thought I heard ArenaNet was shutting down or pulling resources from GW2, then I hear they're planning another xpac, cool  :)

 

For me, I know I completed up to all the xpac Path of Fire stuff, but any story that has come out since then is going to be new to me

[Simpler Outfits]

@Lordblacknail.3652 said:I would love to see much simpler outfits, such as Gwen's Attire. Not everybody wants to look like Elton John.

It seems to me you lived your life like a candle in the wind..

[The ONE thing wrong with Sandswept Isles]

Ah hah, so it is RNG... was following the Dulfy guide and it doesn't mention the Artificial Diamond being RNG so I thought I was doing something wrong after 2 pre meta storm runs and nada.... bleh.

[[Suggestion] Stop making Story Bosses Hard (LS4 Spoilers)]

Let's put it another way... I found becoming a GOD killer quite a bit easier than killing a genius child's toy robot. What?

[[Suggestion] Stop making Story Bosses Hard (LS4 Spoilers)]

Have to agree with the OP on this one. To the people stating they like the challenge, isnt that where challenge mode could come in to give you those extra thrills?

I can think of at least a dozen challenge mode challenges that were easier than this story mode fight... thats an issue to me (and Im speaking as someone who does both).

[Please save progress inside story instances in case of lost connection!]

@Zedek.8932 said:Excelsior.

The question is, however, why are you being disconnected? I have a regular consumer connection via Cable and I don't disconnect "randomly", no matter to what server.

The more interesting question is why are we only disconnected during story instances, most often at the very end when a cutscene or reward is about to be given? Happens to me quite a bit, but only for stories. I agree with the OP, please SAVE progress and give us a short period of time to reconnect and resume the instance.

[Official Mount Adoption Feedback Thread [merged]]

Agreed. I don't spend a dime on Black LOL Box keys nor will I spend a dime on RNG Mount Skins. Just put them up and let us buy them - hey, you'll even get better metrics out of it this way .. "oh, 300% more people buying electric raptors - get the designers on more lightning skins!"

[Story Instances Cause the game to drop Connection, usually at the end of the story?]

I've tried all the tricks posted in the dozens of other threads - repair the client, append the client port to the short cut as a parameter, port forwarding for the three ports in FAQ to my now static ip.

The only thing that has given me a somewhat stable experience so far is I switch from high appearance to high performance when entering every story instance. I have a pretty high end PC that has no problems running this game on high appearance, but for whatever reason letting it run on high performance seems to let the instance stories play out without disconnecting me .... at least for the last 10 or so stories I've gone through so far.

[Story Instances Cause the game to drop Connection, usually at the end of the story?]

Why does this seem to happen 2-4 times with every story instance yet never happens while not in an instance? If this is the user experience (there's apparently dozens of threads on this exact issue when you google this error) I might need to contact my CC and tell them to reverse the charge since you've sold me a broken game.

"the game client lost its connection to the server please wait a few minutes before restarting the client and trying again. code=7:11:3:191:101"