Am I Missing Out? Bored by Guild Wars 2 Quests but Love Everything Else

[Abe]

I'm a new player i often find myself getting bored with the quests in Guild Wars 2, mainly because of the long dialogues and excessive messages to read. I usually skip through them, as they can feel overwhelming and detract from my enjoyment. However, I do really appreciate the cutscenes, as they add a nice cinematic touch. Overall, I’m more into exploration, crafting, participating in dynamic events, doing dungeons, and much more. Does anyone else feel the same way, or am I missing something by skipping the quests and ignoring the messages i receive through the mail?

[SimplyRedie]

Messaggio originale di Mentato:

Messaggio originale di SimplyRedie:

what even is this logic? Its plain wrong. I did story at 80, post-expansion exotic build. Its still boring. Power level has nothing to do with story being a chore.

It is boring and a chore, point is if you are strong enough, you won't get bored by it.
Same as lifting the weight: it is tiring by intention, but you won't get tired if you have sufficient physique.

no, its still boring. Now its double boring. Cuz its still slow and now you one-shot everything.

[FrozenMoonsoul]

Messaggio originale di Mentato:

Messaggio originale di SimplyRedie:

what even is this logic? Its plain wrong. I did story at 80, post-expansion exotic build. Its still boring. Power level has nothing to do with story being a chore.

It is boring and a chore, point is if you are strong enough, you won't get bored by it.
Same as lifting the weight: it is tiring by intention, but you won't get tired if you have sufficient physique.

I can't help but point out that when weight-lifting, you don't have to wait for someone to stop blabbering at you between each repetition. For large chunks of the GW2 story, you do have to wait for someone to stop blabbering at you. That's the boring part.

[Finkleschtein]

Do you mean the personal story in core Tyria (up to level 80 campaign)? If so, I always just skip it. The story gets better once you get into expansion content, heart of thorns, path of fire, and so on.

TLDR: You can skip the personal story in the basegame and just level to 80 and do the story quests of the expansions which are at least twice as good. Just watch a summary or something on youtube to get the story/lore before starting the dlc story.

[Abe]

Messaggio originale di Finkleschtein:

Do you mean the personal story in core Tyria (up to level 80 campaign)? If so, I always just skip it. The story gets better once you get into expansion content, heart of thorns, path of fire, and so on.

TLDR: You can skip the personal story in the basegame and just level to 80 and do the story quests of the expansions which are at least twice as good. Just watch a summary or something on youtube to get the story/lore before starting the dlc story.

Yea I was referring to the core story I know I could just skip it and use the boost level up thingy to reach level 80 right away but I wanted to understand the game and get used to the class skills and mechanics as i level up so I decided to give it a try Anyway I've already completed the personal story starting with Living World Season 1 and I can see an improvement Hopefully as you mentioned that the story gets better

[SimplyRedie]

Well, I leveled most of my characters on events and discovering the map. I've done personal story after years of playing

[RotherHans]

Messaggio originale di Abe:

thank y'all I'll finish the core story first, and then focus on the content I enjoy. Whenever I feel disengaged, I'll return to the story quests,

Hah, that sounds like frikken homework.
Just relax, dude.

THIS IS GUILD WARS 2!
You have all the time you want, as long as the server are running.
Which will be for quite some time, as the sales numbers show.

Just have fun and smell the pixels from time to time.

[Finkleschtein]

I cant stand the personal story in core Tyria. For me the quality stepped up from Heart of Thorns because they skipped the dialogue cutscenes and went with chat bubbles instead. Do what you find fun imo, else you'll burn out.

[ebaG-gamma]

You are definitely not alone in feeling that the base game's personal story is tedious.
GW2 definitely expected a lot more patience and attention from its players in 2012 than is the norm in 2025.

I think it's also plausible that the more you begin to not pay attention and skip through things, the less engaging the whole thing gets. The actions you do yourself are often not sufficient in conveying what is going on, so you end up not knowing why you are even going where you are told to go and do the things that are asked of you.
Basically, the more you skip the worse it gets.

The appeal for many people who like the story (with all it entails) are the many story and lore interconnections and references.
Story in a broader sense exists in GW2 in a few different ways.
There is of course the personal/instanced story and story mode dungeons … which I would consider the core of the "story", but the lore and broader narrative is also told or shown through:

• ✴ dynamic events ← even more so in all expansion content
  
• 🔭 Scouts
  
• 💛 NPCs and their tasks
  
• places of power (hero challenges)
  
• optional NPC dialogue in and out of instances
  
• NPC chatter
  
• written documents throughout the world
  
• lore articles on the wiki
  
• the three real-world published novels

And then there are even the lore callbacks to GW1 that most new players miss out on of course.

Glad to read that you made it through core. The improvement in presentation is gradual, but I believe you've got the biggest slog behind you.