Is there a way to make them shut up?

[EpicName.4523]

The NPCs...I am doing Seasons of the Dragons and this means finishing every story mission all over again. NPCs just talk too much, especially if you redo certain mission all  over for achievements. Someone told me that in season 4 you can skip dialogue, but not in season 3. Is that true and how to do it?

[Randulf.7614]

I don’t remember any dialogue is skippable after the personal story. If there is a way, it would be with a skip cutscene button, but live dialogue was designed not to be skipped due to weird bugs in the coding stretching back to GW1where skipping caused unexpected random effects

[Orack.4825]

Cut dialogue sound and put a video/music in background ?

[Inculpatus cedo.9234]

You don't have to do every Chapter  in 'Return to...'.  Just the selected ones, and often just the end of the selected Chapter.  Use the purple stars. 

[EpicName.4523]

I guess you can't skip dialogue then. Very unfortunate...

[Movie.2943]

19 hours ago, Aznarb.6347 said:

Cut dialogue sound and put a video/music in background ?

This is exactly what I have been doing with redoing the LWS. That and spamming the dialogue buttons. 

[mercury ranique.2170]

The original type of dialogues in the personal story for the core game had a lot of critisism as it was artificial. They stated back then it could not be changed as the npc's also need to change place during such a dialogue. It could be skipped cause the npc's could just be instant moved to whereever they needed to be for the next bit. In expansions and living world they changed it to be dialogues in the real world. This was much more fluid, but the NPC's still had to relocate and as it was all done in open world, instant moving was not possible. That is why it is not possible to skip the dialogues in living world and expansions.